This Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD) 2025, on March eighth, the worldwide theme is ‘Speed up Motion‘, emphasising the urgency in advancing gender equality. On the present charge of progress, it’s projected that full gender parity won’t be achieved till 2158, roughly 5 generations from now.
This theme requires swift and decisive steps to deal with systemic boundaries and biases that girls face in each private {and professional} spheres.
Within the European deeptech sector, gender disparities in funding have led to a major financial shortfall. A current research estimates that €198.8 billion in potential development is misplaced because of these disparities. The underfunding of female-led deeptech startups not solely represents a gender problem but in addition a considerable missed financial alternative.
In alignment with the ‘Speed up Motion’ theme, we current our annual listing of 100 outstanding ladies shaping the European startup and enterprise capital panorama. These leaders are founders, traders, and business pioneers who’re actively working to shut the gender hole in expertise and funding. Their achievements strengthen the innovation ecosystem and encourage future generations to pursue management roles in STEM, entrepreneurship, and enterprise capital..
Listed here are Europe’s 100 most influential ladies in startups and enterprise capital in 2025—trailblazers who’re accelerating progress, investing in change, and redefining the way forward for innovation.
Agate Freimane: Common Accomplice of Norrsken VC the primary influence VC within the Nordics, and among the many first in Europe. Agate is a trailblazing lady within the VC house and is keen about impact-focused startups. She began her profession working in finance in London and New York, earlier than co-founding the edtech charity Shiny Mentors.
Alice Albizzati: Founding associate of Revaia, a Paris-based agency centered on European sustainable development funding, partnering with mission-driven entrepreneurs. Alice has participated within the financing, structuring and oversight of greater than 35 development corporations all through her profession. She additionally sits on the boards of Deepki and Hublo.
Alice Pelton: CEO and Co-Founding father of The Lowdown, the world’s first evaluation platform for contraception. It’s now the UK’s main contraception and sexual and reproductive well being platform, utilized by 1000’s of girls on daily basis to make knowledgeable selections about their on a regular basis well being. The corporate helps lead a brand new technology of interval empowerment.
Aline Vedder: With a PhD in Neuroaesthetics, Aline is an investor with a formidable monitor report. She is Principal at LakeStar and beforehand labored with Munich-based Acton Capital Companions and Ananda Impression Ventures. She is keen about influence funding, leveraging her data of psychology and neuroscience to establish robust leaders and groups.
Alisée de Tonnac: Swiss entrepreneur who co-founded Seedstars World, a worldwide startup competitors protecting 85+ rising and growing markets. Alisée now serves as Seedstars World’s CEO, having been featured in Forbes, Le Monde and Wired.
Alix de Sagazan: Co-founder and CEO of AB Tasty, a worldwide chief in function administration, experimentation and personalization options that permits corporations to validate concepts, whereas maximizing influence, minimizing danger and accelerating time to market. She can also be a board member of The Galion Challenge and an investor with Galion.exe and Facet Capital.
Ana Barjasic: Entrepreneur, angel investor, and coverage adviser. She established Connectology, a boutique company specialising in finance entry, funding readiness, and behavioural science. Amongst her important roles, she serves as a Board Member of the European Innovation Council, advocating for entrepreneurs from Horizon Europe’s widening nations.
Angelica Kohlmann: She based Bloom Diagnostics in 2018 to allow folks to take management of their well being by way of tech. After finding out for her PhD in medication, Angelica labored in most cancers analysis earlier than shifting into the pharmaceutical business and at last the VC house.
Ann Mettler: As Vice President at Breakthrough Vitality, the climate-focused funding fund based by Invoice Gates, she is driving essential funding into transformative applied sciences. Ann beforehand served as Director-Common of the European Fee’s in-house suppose tank. Her work continues to create pathways for girls in tech and enterprise capital.
Anna Brailsford: Co-founder and CEO of Code First Women a social enterprise devoted to reworking tech by offering the abilities, house and inspiration for girls to develop into profitable builders and future tech leaders. It’s made up of over 20k ladies, representing 58 nationalities.
Aude Guo: Co-founder of Innovafeed, a startup that picked up one of many largest funding rounds in 2022 with a feminine chief. Based mostly in Paris, the corporate is reinventing how we strategy vitamin by constructing a round and zero-waste agri-food chain that displays bugs’ position in true, creating a brand new way of life with greater high quality, sustainability and resilience.
Audrey Tsang: Non-Government Director of femtech celebrity, Clue, Audrey was the CPO earlier than taking over the shared accountability of main the corporate. Beforehand, Audrey led merchandise and groups at Pinterest, HotelTonight, and Yelp. Based in Berlin in 2013, Clue is taking the world by storm because the science-backed chief in FemTech, serving to over 12 million folks.
BaoY Van Cong: Accomplice at Goal International, a global funding agency primarily based in Berlin investing in European & Israeli tech corporations. She is among the leaders of the agency’s development stage funding observe and focuses notably on the edtech, shopper and software program industries. She has participated in key offers akin to Lepaya, Crisp and Elopage.
Briehan Burke: Briehan Burke is a Common Accomplice at Eager Enterprise Companions, the place she performs a essential position in figuring out and supporting high-growth startups throughout deeptech, AI, and enterprise software program. With a eager concentrate on fostering numerous management, she actively champions entrepreneurs and underrepresented founders.
Carlota Pi Amoros: Co-founder and Government President of cleantech Holaluz, voted probably the most valued power firm in Spain. Carlota has grown a various workforce of 700+ folks over the past 12 years, with a 50/50 gender divide.
Caroline Noublanche: Founding father of Apricity, the world’s first digital fertility startup. The app matches sufferers to world-class fertility specialists and permits them to do as a lot of the IVF remedy from their houses as doable. Caroline works intently with a number of the main fertility researchers to raised perceive the elements affecting fertility.
Caroline Plumb: Group CEO of Gravita a full-service accounting agency providing skilled monetary recommendation to rising companies throughout all sectors. Caroline has a monitor report of constructing and promoting profitable companies having co-founded and bought the recruitment consultancy FreshMinds after which constructed the fintech enterprise Fluidly, which was bought in 2021.
Charlotte Baumhauer: In her position as Funding Supervisor with SquareOne, Charlotte is actively backing European tech corporations which are positively influencing the world by way of local weather tech innovation. Previous to this position, she labored with McKinsey, the place she was a part of the operations observe.
Chelsea Slater: CEO of InnovateHer a college programme for 13-17-year-olds and consults with tech companies on inclusivity. The imaginative and prescient is to equip younger women with the self-belief, confidence and expertise to pursue a profession in tech, while making the business able to take them on. Previous to this, she was the co-founder of Liverpool Woman Geeks.
Cindi Lindsborg: Head of Enterprise Help and Enterprise Improvement at Tyréns AB and former Head of Scania Ventures. She is an skilled chief and administration guide, with a concentrate on technique, digitization and innovation. She is particularly skilled in approaching digital transformation and constructing robust, world groups.
Claire Novorol: Educated physician, paediatrician and now co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Ada Well being, a Berlin-based world well being firm constructed by docs to enhance human well being by reworking data into higher outcomes. It’s now counting over 13 million customers and is on the market to 60 million customers in whole, and performed over 31 million assessments.
Claudia de la Riva: Serial entrepreneur, and keen about discovering and constructing options that enhance welfare, high quality of life and the event of individuals. She is the present CEO of Apolo Children which is an thrilling edtech startup primarily based in Barcelona. Launched in 2020, the corporate motivates kids by way of internet-based autonomous and on-the-go studying.
Cristina Bentue: Co-founder and COO of IriusRisk, taking a small startup to a 150-strong workforce throughout three continents. She is also behind completely different initiatives and programmes to encourage extra women in STEM. An more and more highly effective voice within the cybersecurity house as each an entrepreneur and tech chief in addition to a mentor.
Cristina Fonseca: A Common Accomplice at Indico Capital Companions, she leverages her background because the Co-founder of Talkdesk—one in every of Portugal’s most profitable tech unicorns—to help high-potential startups in AI, SaaS, and DeepTech. Cristina’s dedication to empowering entrepreneurs and fostering innovation in Europe’s startup ecosystem has made her an influential determine in each the funding and expertise sectors.
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill: Olympian was an entrepreneur. In 2019, she based Jennis, a femtech startup aiming to enhance data round ladies’s well being and coaching, drawing on her personal experiences on the facility of hormones and simply how little ladies perceive about their cycles.
Danila De Stefano: Founder and CEO of Unobravo, an organization that’s constructing an empathetic, clinically backed and accessible end-to-end platform for psychological well being. Based in 2019, They’re already market leaders in Italy with over 1 million periods accomplished, over 2500 psychologists at work, greater than 80K sufferers and over 120 workers.
Deepali Nangia: A part of the UK Authorities Taskforce for feminine entrepreneurs engaged on related adjustments to make it simpler for feminine founders to get funding. She’s a associate at Speedinvest, with a concentrate on investing in underrepresented and underfunded founders. She additionally co-founded Alma Angels.
Diliara Lupenko: In 2019, Diliara co-founded Impress, the Nº1 chain of orthodontic clinics in Europe with the intention of digitalising medical work and creating nice orthodontic remedies with the affected person on the core. It raised the most important Sequence B in Southern Europe of €123 million in 2022.
Ekaterina Almasque: Common Accomplice of OpenOccean VC, and a number one voice inside European enterprise capital. She is on the board of IQM, the European chief for superconducting quantum computer systems, in addition to a number of different corporations. ‘Put money into Ladies NOW’ report calling for motion from the European Fee.
Eleanor Kaye: Board Member of Newton Enterprise Program, Eleanor is on a mission to stage the taking part in discipline for folks from sometimes missed backgrounds – guaranteeing that the following technology of enterprise traders represents the world we reside in.
Erika de Santi: Co-founder & Worldwide Enlargement Director of WeRoad, a Milan-based startup specialising in group journey journey for millennials. It’s offering a service tailor-made to a technology that’s usually discovering themselves travelling solo – however searching for hyper-connected, personalised and enjoyable experiences. It’s one in every of Europe’s fastest-growing journey operators.
Eva-Valerie Gfrerer: Based in 2020, Morphais is a agency primarily based in Berlin and invests in distinctive founders, unbiased of their background. Morphais was launched by Eva to place the concentrate on the founder to construct world-class corporations. A behavioural scientist and entrepreneur at coronary heart, fascinated by predicting human behaviour with knowledge.
Fariha Shah: An angel and VC associate investor, a startup mentor, and variety & inclusion ambassador (speaker and media contributor). At the moment, Fariha is the Founder and CEO at SHAH Make investments and Accomplice and investor with 50 Companions Impression. She was additionally the co-founder of Golden Bees.
Dr Fiona Pathiraja: Accomplice at Crista Galli Ventures, a fund that invests in Seed and Sequence A levels in European well being tech, has labored within the NHS for over 15 years. She has firsthand seen the necessity for innovation and tech-driven options to deal with mounting healthcare challenges. She is dedicated to selling healthcare innovation.
Francesca James: Francesca is the founding father of the Nice British Entrepreneur Awards and group. With a background in publishing and occasions, Francesca is keen about telling the tales of entrepreneurs to help and champion their endeavours. Based in 2013, they acknowledge the laborious work and provoking tales of entrepreneurs.
Gina Domanig: As CEO and Managing Accomplice of Emerald, a number one VC companies centered on CleanTech, she has been instrumental in funding breakthrough options in power, mobility, and round financial system. Gina’s management has helped numerous startups scale whereas selling gender inclusivity in funding.
Grace Beverley: CEO and Founding father of TALA and SHREDDY, and a famend podcast host. At 23, she topped Forbes’ 30 underneath 30 in retail and e-commerce, ranked twenty sixth amongst influential on-line creators by The Sunday Instances, and was featured in Glamour with Emma Watson and Rihanna as one in every of ‘the ten superb multi-hyphenates to be impressed by’
Hélène Falchier: Accomplice at Portage Ventures, Hélène is an early-stage investor devoted to backing the following technology of revolutionary, impact-driven corporations, notably within the monetary sector. Hélène has been influencing the fintech house throughout her distinguished profession, serving to empower extra feminine illustration on this house.
Hélène Huby: Founding father of The Exploration Firm, one in every of Europe’s fastest-growing house tech corporations, and former Head of Innovation at Airbus Defence and Area. Based in 2021 her startup has already secured €47.3 million aiming to form sustainable, scalable, and inexpensive house journeys made in Europe.
Inka Mero: Inka is the founder and managing associate at Voima Ventures, a Finnish deep tech fund that’s on a mission to resolve the large world challenges humankind is dealing with by way of science, entrepreneurship and capital. Inka is keen about purpose-driven startups and the way they’re utilizing digital tech to form a greater future.
Itxaso del Palacio: Common Accomplice at Notion, a prime European B2B SaaS VC, beforehand served as an Funding Accomplice for M12 in Europe. Her notable investments embody Yulife (life insurance coverage), Orus (SMB insurance coverage), Sure.co (forex danger administration), Onfido (id verification) and Beamery (recruitment CRM).
Jacqueline Ruedin Rüsch: Founder and CEO of Privilège Administration SA, a wealth administration agency, additionally initiated Privilège Ventures SA to again entrepreneurs. She then began the Privilège Pupil Ventures Initiative, an educational yr program educating college students to develop into enterprise capital traders or entrepreneurs.
Jacqueline van den Ende: Entrepreneur and investor. She based Carbon Fairness in 2021, a fintech platform that not too long ago raised over €100 million searching for to energy the world’s most impactful local weather expertise options with retail capital. Beforehand she was a associate at Peak Capital and an investor at HAL Investments.
Jane Reddin: Accomplice, Platform and Expertise director at AlbionVC. Based mostly in London, AlbionVC helps to construct the way forward for enterprise and healthcare. Jane helps spend money on the most effective founders by assessing their management potential and advises the management groups to help and speed up the speedy organisational scaling of corporations.
Janneke Niessen: Founding Accomplice at CapitalT, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and variety advocate. Her experience lies on the crossroads of expertise, expertise, investing and variety. She is a outstanding board member for a number of organisations and is usually referred to as upon by the federal government for recommendation.
Jenny Saft: Co-founder of Apryl (acquired by Progyny), an worker fertility advantages platform that permits corporations to help workers on their path to parenthood. Jenny additionally operates as an investor with Nucleus Capital and Atomico, seeking to help impact-driven ventures. Earlier to this, she labored with the likes of Adyen and Fyber.
Jessica Holzbach: Founder & CEO of Pile(acquired by Vivid Cash), the primary Neo Treasury in Europe. It presents treasury merchandise for high-growth startups to benefit from their cash, preserve it secure, and diversify throughout a number of banking options. She can also be a board member at Fürstlich Castell’sche Financial institution and an occasional angel investor.
Joanna Torngren Redebran: She turned her curiosity for funding right into a enterprise thought, aiming to facilitate development throughout Sweden’s tech ecosystem when she based Nyfikna in 2021. The agency is turning into one in every of Sweden’s most impactful business-angel networks aiming to help early-stage startups.
Julia Bijaoui: Founder at Frichti, Local weather Home, and Selar. She is a serial entrepreneur wit huge expertise throughout many sectors. Previous to embarking on his entrepreneurial expertise, she was the Technique and Working supervisor for Birchbox and a enterprise developer with JolieBox.
Julia Hawkins: Common Accomplice at LocalGlobe & Latitude. She takes a specific curiosity in well being, artistic industries, mobility and fintech. She has backed corporations akin to Yulife, Vira and Fertility. At the moment working with LocalGlobe and Latitude, she seeks to depart a constructive influence and finds healthcare to be her primary precedence.
Karoli Hindriks: Founder at Jobbatical. In 2020 she was named by the EU Council as one of many 8 most inspiring ladies in Europe. She based her first firm at 16, formally turning into the youngest inventor in her native Estonia. She additionally led the launch of seven tv channels in Northern Europe, together with Nationwide Geographic Channels and MTV.
Katharina Unger: She is the CEO and Founding father of LIVIN farms, a startup revolutionising various protein manufacturing with insect-based applied sciences. Below her management, the corporate has secured funding and gained world recognition for its contribution to the way forward for meals. Katharina’s entrepreneurial journey exemplifies the facility of female-led innovation in FoodTech and BioTech sectors.
Katrina Walker: After working as a knowledge scientist in each the general public and company sectors, Karina launched CodeOp, a venture-backed social enterprise centered on addressing the gender disparity in tech by way of technical coaching and game-changing partnerships with native and regional governments in addition to NGOs and corporates.
Kerry Baldwin: Managing Accomplice of IQ Capital, a deep tech early-stage VC primarily based in Cambridge and London. She co-founded IQ Capital in 2006 and is among the UK’s most skilled VC traders with over 24 years of deep tech enterprise capital expertise. She joined Enterprise Applied sciences in 1998, investing within the first wave of UK deep-tech corporations.
Kinga Stanislawska: Because the founding father of European Ladies in VC, Kinga Stanislawska is a vocal advocates for gender range in enterprise capital. The intention is to extend the variety of females as senior VC professionals in Europe and globally. With a monitor report of supporting high-growth companies, Kinga is a driving power in reshaping the European funding panorama to be extra inclusive, guaranteeing that girls in tech and innovation have the sources they want.
Laura Urquizu: CEO and President of Crimson Factors. In 2020, Laura was named one of many 100 Leaders Remodeling Enterprise by Enterprise Insider and among the many most artistic folks by FORBES. Beforehand Laura Urquizu held government and administration positions at Arthur Andersen, Caja Navarra & CAN Company.
Lena Hackelöer: Founder & CEO at Brite Funds a fast-growing second-generation challenger within the European cost house. Permitting shoppers to make funds utilizing their checking account, Brite employs state-of-the-art open banking expertise to course of prompt funds and payouts throughout Europe throughout a variety of verticals.
Leila Maidane: Founding father of Femmes Fieres and Founder & CEO of InterSkillar. She has additionally contributed to the WEgate Thematic Group on the ‘digital & inexperienced transition of girls entrepreneurs’. Leila has devoted her profession to serving to ladies begin and increase significant companies.
Lina Chong: Lina joined Goal International in 2018, now serving as Accomplice at HV Capital. She specializes within the rising areas of SaaS, Client Merchandise and Internet 3.0, and has labored with some large names in Europe’s startup ecosystem together with TravelPerk, Fresha, Bloom and Kippah.
Linnéa Kornehed Falck: Co-founder and Deputy CEO at Einride, champions sustainable transport options by way of expertise together with digital, electrical, and autonomous methods. As a part of the World Financial Discussion board’s tech innovators group, she goals to hurry up the shift in the direction of clear and resilient expertise.
Lisa Barclay: Government Director of Nesta Impression Investments, has over 20 years of expertise rising companies as an investor, advisor, and supervisor. With a ardour for influence investing, her profession contains roles as COO of Social Finance, Assistant Director at Bridges Ventures, and Co-Founding father of EGS Group.
Lisa Carter: Founding father of the bootstrapped startup Dialogue Field in Bristol, which makes a speciality of uniting high-level stakeholders for impactful conversations with world manufacturers. As the one black woman-owned enterprise in its sector. Past main Dialogue Field, Lisa is the artistic power behind the jewelry model NIKAO and Founding father of Panelle.
Lubomila Jordanova: Founder and CEO of Plan A, leads a science-backed, AI-driven SaaS platform specializing in enterprise carbon accounting, decarbonization, and ESG reporting. A staunch sustainability advocate, she additionally co-founded the Greentech Alliance, connecting over 3,000 Greentech corporations with greater than 500 VCs, media, and specialists.
Luciana Lixandru: Accomplice at Sequoia Captial, Luciana companions with impactful European founders who’re pioneering impactful change. She has invested in Sequence A at UiPath, Sequence A at Miro, Sequence B at Deliveroo, seed stage at Hopin, seed stage at Tessian and extra. Luciana has additionally been a Board Member for corporations akin to Miro, Tessian and UiPath.
Lucile Cornet: Accomplice at Eight Roads, Lucile is an impactful investor backing promising corporations, notably within the health and SaaS sectors. She has an intensive profession within the funding house and is at the moment backing corporations like Reveal, Amenitiz, Spendesk, Interplay and Fuse Common.
Lupina Iturriaga: Advocating for the inclusion of passionate and visionary people to create dynamic groups, Lupina based Fintonic in 2012. Lupina can also be the co-founder of senior skilled and Councillor on the Startups Institute.
Manon Sarah Littek: Founding Common Accomplice on the Inexperienced Era Fund. Manon is keen about rising impactful ventures within the meals tech and inexperienced tech areas. She has been an energetic investor in shaping the meals revolution throughout Europe and at the moment works with Upfield, Change Meals, Lypid and The Rainforest Firm.
Marcia Kilgore: Founding father of Magnificence Pie, a startup revolutionizing the sweetness business. Since its inception in 2016, Magnificence Pie has centered on delivering high-quality magnificence merchandise, fostering self-worth, and educating ladies to assert their deserved success. Having secured over €92 million million, Marcia has develop into a pivotal determine within the entrepreneurial world.
Margo Polishchuk: Margo is the co-founder and President of proSapient, a main analysis and skilled networking service for institutional traders, consultants, and company shoppers world wide. The agency goals to ship actionable intelligence and related specialists to shoppers, giving them an edge to achieve their business ambitions.
Marie-Helene Ametsreiter: A distinguished determine in enterprise and enterprise capital, at the moment a Common Accomplice at Speedinvest, main the Industrial tech workforce. She advocates for range within the EU startup and VC sectors, supporting revolutionary corporations like Greyparrot, Fernride, and CELUS.
Mariya Gabriel: Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Overseas Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, present President of the Robert Schuman Institute. Earlier European Commissioner for Innovation, Analysis, Tradition, Schooling and Youth since 2019. She was answerable for EU insurance policies associated to Horizon Europ, analysis and innovation, the Erasmus+ programme, schooling, tradition and sport.
Marta Krupinska: As CEO & Co-Founding father of CUR8, she is spearheading carbon removing options, a vital discipline in tackling the local weather disaster. Marta beforehand led Google for Startups UK, the place she labored to help underrepresented founders. With a formidable monitor report in impact-driven ventures, she is just not solely shaping the CleanTech business but in addition paving the best way for extra ladies in management.
Melanie Gabriel: Melanie is the co-founder and former CMO of Yokoy, a Swiss fintech that leverages AI to automate company expense, bill and bank card processes of midsize and enormous enterprises. She is a board member on the startup Moodtalk, advisor and enterprise angel.
Advantage Valdsalu: One of many early workers at Pipedrive as Head of Localization, is now bringing disruptive options for company environmental motion with Single.Earth. Based in 2019, Single.Earth goals to make sustainable forest and land administration the brand new customary.
Mette Lykke: The visionary founding father of TooGoodToGo, a number one sustainability app that fights in opposition to meals waste by partnering with supermarkets, eating places, bakeries, and accommodations to redistribute surplus meals. Main a workforce of over 400 Waste Warriors, Mette’s impactful work follows her success.
Michaela Jeffery-Morrison: Because the Managing Director of the Ladies in Expertise World Sequence, she is pioneering new paths for girls in tech. By way of Ascend International Media, she fostered connections between companies and expertise, specializing in empowering ladies and women to enter and excel within the expertise sector.
Miriam Wohlfarth: A serial entrepreneur, she established one in every of Germany’s pioneering fintech companies, Ratepay, a cost service supplier. In 2020, she launched her newest enterprise, Banxware, which is reworking the European lending business by enabling platforms to supply banking merchandise.
Montse-Suarez: Founding father of IRIS Ventures, Montse is an skilled business skilled with a distinguished profession within the VC, personal fairness and funding banking industries on a worldwide stage. She beforehand based Vaultier7, a consumer-focussed personal fairness agency that’s backed success tales like French vogue unicorn Vestiaire Collective.
Namrata Sandhu: Co-founder and CEO of Vaayu, a startup that’s serving to retailers monitor and reduce their carbon emissions. She has over 17 years of worldwide expertise constructing, growing and implementing sustainability methods throughout corporations – specializing in local weather change, carbon emissions, human rights, ESG reporting and moral provide chains.
Nana Addison: Founder and CEO at Styleindi & CURL CON. Her companies present inclusive options for the cosmetics and wonder tech sector. Nana advocates for range, inclusivity, and fairness within the business. Her newly launched model, Historical, made her the primary Black Lady in Germany to safe tech VC funding in magnificence.
Nicola McClafferty: Accomplice at Molten Ventures and a board member for a number of startups, can also be the founding father of Covetique, a curated on-line market for pre-owned luxurious vogue. Her prior roles embody serving as an investor at Ravensbeck and Balderton Capital, the place she centered on cross-platform media and e-commerce.
Nora Bavey: Common Accomplice at Unconventional Ventures, an Impression fund centered on early-stage influence tech corporations constructed by numerous founders in Europe. She can also be the co-founder of the UV Accelerator, an 8-week digital program geared toward supporting tech startups by underrepresented founders within the Nordics, specializing in sustainable enterprise development.
Nikita Thakrar: Co-Founder & CEO of Included VC, pioneers the primary world, absolutely funded Fellowship focusing on numerous and infrequently marginalised communities, aiming to democratise entry to the enterprise capital business by way of schooling and alternatives. In three years, practically single-handedly, Nikita established a globally acknowledged model.
Paulina Jänsch: Founding associate at Leanox Impression Capital, champions sustainability startups and feminine empowerment. Leanox focuses on purpose-driven innovators searching for influence past revenue. An energetic mentor, Paulina goals to draw extra ladies traders and obtain gender parity within the startup scene with Leanox’s newest fund.
Rachel Delacour: A outstanding determine in European tech, based Sweep in 2020 to fight local weather change. Sweep, a B2B software program, helps corporations handle and scale back their carbon footprint. Beforehand, she co-founded BIME Analytics, acquired by Zendesk, and serves as a enterprise angel and board member for numerous US and French startups.
Rafaela Andrade: As a Accomplice at Mundi Ventures, she has performed a pivotal position in supporting early and development stage expertise ventures. Her work spans throughout Europe and Latin America, serving to bridge funding gaps and fostering a extra inclusive startup ecosystem.
Raja Skogland: An angel investor in over 70 startups, has suggested 1000’s of founders since 2015. In 2020, she based The Visionary Firm, offering founders with sources to spice up their fundraising and scaling efforts. Beforehand, she was CEO at TheFactory, a number one accelerator in Norway, and launched thehub.io in 2016.
Roberta Lucca: Roberta is the Co-founder and Board Director of Bossa Studios, angel investor and keynote speaker on the way forward for video games, entrepreneurship and management. BOSSA is a BAFTA-winning unbiased video games developer and writer primarily based in London. Pushed by creativity, it takes a group strategy to content material and sport improvement.
Roxanne Varza: Director of Station F, a worldwide startup campus primarily based in Paris. She’s additionally a scout for Sequoia Capital, and a board member of NRJ Groupe and Le Fonds pour l’Indépendance de la Presse. Amongst her earlier roles, Roxanne led Microsoft’s startup actions in France and co-founded Tech.eu.
Sana Afouaiz: An award-winning gender skilled, advocate for girls, public speaker, the individual behind Womenpreneur, and creator of “Invisible Ladies of the Center East”. Sana has suggested entities just like the United Nations and the European Fee on gender points and co-founded Womenquake, a motion difficult and re-examining gender notions.
Sara Resvik: Sara is an skilled early-stage investor and chief with expertise from BackingMinds, Industrifonden, Schibsted and Axel Johnson. Based in 2016, BackingMinds was constructed on the thesis that the following unicorn will come from seeking to the missed components of Europe’s startup ecosystem. Sara is at the moment a associate at Endeit Capital.
Sarah Barber: Managing Accomplice of Jenson Funding Companions, Sarah was a part of the workforce answerable for creating the primary Jenson SEIS Fund in 2012, to assist startups increase capital by way of the scheme. She has been instrumental within the development of the fund, main the workforce in fundraising, deployment and managing the portfolio of investee corporations.
Selma Prodanovic: The “Startup-Grande-Dame,” is a distinguished speaker, investor, and advisor. She’s the Board Member & Gender Committee Chair of EBAN, founding father of 1MillionStartups, and initiator of the EBAN Gender Balanced Investing Manifesto. Over 20 years, she’s considerably influenced Europe’s startup and angel investing ecosystem.
Shrestha Chowdhury: Co-Founder and CTO at Razor, a Berlin-based unicorn. Shrestha moved to Berlin in 2020 from New Delhi, the place she led expertise and analytics capabilities at numerous e-commerce startups, together with as Chief Expertise and Product Officer at main Indian e-commerce fashion-tech firm StalkBuyLove.
Simone Brummelhuis: Founding Accomplice and Fund Director on the Borski Fund, a VC fund investing in expertise leaders and variety. Simone is a supervisory board member of Royal Schiphol Group, Rabo Amsterdam and Media Huis Nederland. She beforehand based The Subsequent Ladies, offering entry to capital, applications, sources and networks for girls.
Sophie Hersan: Co-founder and Trend Director of Vestiaire Collective, the main world on-line market for preloved vogue. It counts over 23 million consumers and sellers and has a worldwide attain with workplaces in Paris, London, Berlin NY, Hong Kong and past. Sophie based the agency in 2009 and is keen about making a extra sustainable future.
Talia Rafaeli: Common Accomplice at KOMPAS, an early-stage enterprise capital agency that focuses on investing in startups that may lead the digital transformation and sustainability revolutions in main business verticals. She backs bold founders who develop expertise to remodel buildings into extra sustainable and wholesome areas.
Vera Elizabeth Baker: A Accomplice at 4P Capital, has a deep understanding of influence funding, she focuses on high-growth companies that drive constructive change in sectors starting from FinTech to sustainability.
Vivienne Hsu: With over 20 years of strategic communications experience in B2B and B2C organizations, she is the co-founder and CEO of Anasbasis Companions and a Founding Member of Chief. Hsu additionally mentors within the fintech sector, specializing in advancing ladies to management positions and enhancing their expertise and affect.
Yonca Braeckman: Founder and CEO of Impression Shakers, fosters societal and environmental options by way of inclusive entrepreneurship. Dedicated to mission-driven initiatives and supporting underrepresented founders, she contributes to diversifying the Belgian and European tech ecosystems and mentors startups and entrepreneurs.
Yvonne Bajela: Accomplice at LocalGlobe, and former founding Member and Principal at Impression X Capital, a UK-based enterprise capital fund based to spend money on corporations led by underrepresented entrepreneurs throughout Europe. Recognised by ‘Forbes 30 Below 30′ in 2020, she has invested over €230 million in startups across the globe.
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