This Worldwide Girls’s Day (IWD) 2025, on March eighth, the worldwide theme is ‘Speed up Motion‘, emphasising the urgency in advancing gender equality. On the present fee of progress, it’s projected that full gender parity is not going to be achieved till 2158, roughly 5 generations from now.
This theme requires swift and decisive steps to deal with systemic limitations and biases that ladies 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 resulting from these disparities. The underfunding of female-led deeptech startups not solely represents a gender situation but in addition a considerable missed financial alternative.
In alignment with the ‘Speed up Motion’ theme, we current our annual listing of 100 outstanding girls shaping the European startup and enterprise capital panorama. These leaders are founders, buyers, and business pioneers who’re actively working to shut the gender hole in know-how and funding. Their achievements strengthen the innovation ecosystem and encourage future generations to pursue management roles in STEM, entrepreneurship, and enterprise capital..
Listed below are Europe’s 100 most influential girls in startups and enterprise capital in 2025—trailblazers who’re accelerating progress, investing in change, and redefining the way forward for innovation.
Agate Freimane: Basic Associate of Norrsken VC the primary impression VC within the Nordics, and among the many first in Europe. Agate is a trailblazing girl within the VC area and is captivated with impact-focused startups. She began her profession working in finance in London and New York, earlier than co-founding the edtech charity Vivid Mentors.
Alice Albizzati: Founding companion of Revaia, a Paris-based agency targeted on European sustainable development funding, partnering with mission-driven entrepreneurs. Alice has participated within the financing, structuring and oversight of greater than 35 development firms 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 assessment platform for contraception. It’s now the UK’s main contraception and sexual and reproductive well being platform, utilized by 1000’s of ladies 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 observe file. She is Principal at LakeStar and beforehand labored with Munich-based Acton Capital Companions and Ananda Impression Ventures. She is captivated with impression funding, leveraging her information of psychology and neuroscience to determine robust leaders and groups.
Alisée de Tonnac: Swiss entrepreneur who co-founded Seedstars World, a world startup competitors masking 85+ rising and creating 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 world chief in function administration, experimentation and personalization options that allows firms to validate concepts, whereas maximizing impression, minimizing danger and accelerating time to market. She can also be a board member of The Galion Mission 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 vital roles, she serves as a Board Member of the European Innovation Council, advocating for entrepreneurs from Horizon Europe’s widening international locations.
Angelica Kohlmann: She based Bloom Diagnostics in 2018 to allow individuals to take management of their well being by means of tech. After learning for her PhD in drugs, Angelica labored in most cancers analysis earlier than shifting into the pharmaceutical business and at last the VC area.
Ann Mettler: As Vice President at Breakthrough Vitality, the climate-focused funding fund based by Invoice Gates, she is driving crucial funding into transformative applied sciences. Ann beforehand served as Director-Basic of the European Fee’s in-house suppose tank. Her work continues to create pathways for ladies in tech and enterprise capital.
Anna Brailsford: Co-founder and CEO of Code First Women a social enterprise devoted to remodeling tech by offering the abilities, area and inspiration for ladies to change into profitable builders and future tech leaders. It’s made up of over 20k girls, 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 diet by constructing a round and zero-waste agri-food chain that displays bugs’ position in true, creating a brand new way of life with larger high quality, sustainability and resilience.
Audrey Tsang: Non-Government Director of femtech celebrity, Clue, Audrey was the CPO earlier than taking up the shared duty 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 individuals.
BaoY Van Cong: Associate at Goal International, a world funding agency based mostly in Berlin investing in European & Israeli tech firms. She is among the leaders of the agency’s development stage funding follow and focuses notably on the edtech, client and software program industries. She has participated in key offers reminiscent of Lepaya, Crisp and Elopage.
Briehan Burke: Briehan Burke is a Basic Associate at Eager Enterprise Companions, the place she performs a crucial position in figuring out and supporting high-growth startups throughout deeptech, AI, and enterprise software program. With a eager give attention to fostering numerous management, she actively champions entrepreneurs and underrepresented founders.
Carlota Pi Amoros: Co-founder and Government President of cleantech Holaluz, voted essentially the most valued vitality firm in Spain. Carlota has grown a various staff of 700+ individuals 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 consultants and permits them to do as a lot of the IVF therapy from their properties as potential. 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 professional monetary recommendation to rising companies throughout all sectors. Caroline has a observe file of constructing and promoting profitable companies having co-founded and offered the recruitment consultancy FreshMinds after which constructed the fintech enterprise Fluidly, which was offered in 2021.
Charlotte Baumhauer: In her position as Funding Supervisor with SquareOne, Charlotte is actively backing European tech firms which might be positively influencing the world by means of local weather tech innovation. Previous to this position, she labored with McKinsey, the place she was a part of the operations follow.
Chelsea Slater: CEO of InnovateHer a faculty programme for 13-17-year-olds and consults with tech companies on inclusivity. The imaginative and prescient is to equip younger ladies with the self-belief, confidence and abilities 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 Growth at Tyréns AB and former Head of Scania Ventures. She is an skilled chief and administration guide, with a give attention to technique, digitization and innovation. She is particularly skilled in approaching digital transformation and constructing robust, world groups.
Claire Novorol: Skilled physician, paediatrician and now co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Ada Well being, a Berlin-based world well being firm constructed by medical doctors to enhance human well being by reworking information into higher outcomes. It’s now counting over 13 million customers and is on the market to 60 million customers in complete, and performed over 31 million assessments.
Claudia de la Riva: Serial entrepreneur, and captivated with discovering and constructing options that enhance welfare, high quality of life and the event of individuals. She is the present CEO of Apolo Youngsters which is an thrilling edtech startup based mostly in Barcelona. Launched in 2020, the corporate motivates kids by means 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 staff throughout three continents. She is also behind totally different initiatives and programmes to encourage extra ladies in STEM. An more and more highly effective voice within the cybersecurity area as each an entrepreneur and tech chief in addition to a mentor.
Cristina Fonseca: A Basic Associate at Indico Capital Companions, she leverages her background because the Co-founder of Talkdesk—one in all 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 know-how sectors.
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill: Olympian changed into an entrepreneur. In 2019, she based Jennis, a femtech startup aiming to enhance information round girls’s well being and coaching, drawing on her personal experiences on the facility of hormones and simply how little girls 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 companion at Speedinvest, with a give attention to 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 goal of digitalising medical work and creating nice orthodontic remedies with the affected person on the core. It raised the biggest Collection B in Southern Europe of €123 million in 2022.
Ekaterina Almasque: Basic Associate 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 firms. ‘Put money into Girls 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 individuals from sometimes ignored backgrounds – guaranteeing that the following technology of enterprise buyers represents the world we stay 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 on the lookout for hyper-connected, personalised and enjoyable experiences. It’s one in all Europe’s fastest-growing journey operators.
Eva-Valerie Gfrerer: Based in 2020, Morphais is a agency based mostly in Berlin and invests in distinctive founders, impartial of their background. Morphais was launched by Eva to place the give attention to the founder to construct world-class firms. A behavioural scientist and entrepreneur at coronary heart, fascinated by predicting human behaviour with information.
Fariha Shah: An angel and VC companion investor, a startup mentor, and variety & inclusion ambassador (speaker and media contributor). Presently, Fariha is the Founder and CEO at SHAH Make investments and Associate and investor with 50 Companions Impression. She was additionally the co-founder of Golden Bees.
Dr Fiona Pathiraja: Associate at Crista Galli Ventures, a fund that invests in Seed and Collection A phases 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 captivated with telling the tales of entrepreneurs to help and champion their endeavours. Based in 2013, they acknowledge the onerous work and galvanizing tales of entrepreneurs.
Gina Domanig: As CEO and Managing Associate of Emerald, a number one VC corporations targeted on CleanTech, she has been instrumental in funding breakthrough options in vitality, mobility, and round economic 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 below 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 all ‘the ten wonderful multi-hyphenates to be impressed by’
Hélène Falchier: Associate at Portage Ventures, Hélène is an early-stage investor devoted to backing the following technology of modern, impact-driven firms, notably within the monetary sector. Hélène has been influencing the fintech area throughout her distinguished profession, serving to empower extra feminine illustration on this area.
Hélène Huby: Founding father of The Exploration Firm, one in all Europe’s fastest-growing area tech firms, and former Head of Innovation at Airbus Defence and House. Based in 2021 her startup has already secured €47.3 million aiming to form sustainable, scalable, and reasonably priced area journeys made in Europe.
Inka Mero: Inka is the founder and managing companion at Voima Ventures, a Finnish deep tech fund that’s on a mission to resolve the massive world challenges humankind is going through by means of science, entrepreneurship and capital. Inka is captivated with purpose-driven startups and the way they’re utilizing digital tech to form a greater future.
Itxaso del Palacio: Basic Associate at Notion, a high European B2B SaaS VC, beforehand served as an Funding Associate for M12 in Europe. Her notable investments embrace Yulife (life insurance coverage), Orus (SMB insurance coverage), Certain.co (foreign money 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, a tutorial 12 months program educating college students to change into enterprise capital buyers or entrepreneurs.
Jacqueline van den Ende: Entrepreneur and investor. She based Carbon Fairness in 2021, a fintech platform that lately raised over €100 million searching for to energy the world’s most impactful local weather know-how options with retail capital. Beforehand she was a companion at Peak Capital and an investor at HAL Investments.
Jane Reddin: Associate, Platform and Expertise director at AlbionVC. Based mostly in London, AlbionVC helps to construct the way forward for enterprise and healthcare. Jane helps put money into one of the best founders by assessing their management potential and advises the management groups to help and speed up the speedy organisational scaling of firms.
Janneke Niessen: Founding Associate at CapitalT, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and variety advocate. Her experience lies on the crossroads of know-how, expertise, investing and variety. She is a distinguished 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 allows firms to help workers on their path to parenthood. Jenny additionally operates as an investor with Nucleus Capital and Atomico, trying 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 affords treasury merchandise for high-growth startups to benefit from their cash, hold it protected, 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 all 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: Basic Associate at LocalGlobe & Latitude. She takes a selected curiosity in well being, inventive industries, mobility and fintech. She has backed firms reminiscent of Yulife, Vira and Fertility. Presently working with LocalGlobe and Latitude, she seeks to depart a constructive impression 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 girls 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 different protein manufacturing with insect-based applied sciences. Underneath 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 an information scientist in each the general public and company sectors, Karina launched CodeOp, a venture-backed social enterprise targeted on addressing the gender disparity in tech by means of technical coaching and game-changing partnerships with native and regional governments in addition to NGOs and corporates.
Kerry Baldwin: Managing Associate of IQ Capital, a deep tech early-stage VC based mostly in Cambridge and London. She co-founded IQ Capital in 2006 and is among the UK’s most skilled VC buyers 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 firms.
Kinga Stanislawska: Because the founding father of European Girls in VC, Kinga Stanislawska is a vocal advocates for gender range in enterprise capital. The goal is to extend the variety of females as senior VC professionals in Europe and globally. With a observe file of supporting high-growth companies, Kinga is a driving drive in reshaping the European funding panorama to be extra inclusive, guaranteeing that ladies in tech and innovation have the sources they want.
Laura Urquizu: CEO and President of Pink Factors. In 2020, Laura was named one of many 100 Leaders Reworking Enterprise by Enterprise Insider and among the many most inventive individuals 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 fee area. Permitting customers to make funds utilizing their checking account, Brite employs state-of-the-art open banking know-how to course of instantaneous 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 ladies entrepreneurs’. Leila has devoted her profession to serving to girls begin and increase significant companies.
Lina Chong: Lina joined Goal International in 2018, now serving as Associate at HV Capital. She specializes within the rising areas of SaaS, Shopper 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 means of know-how together with digital, electrical, and autonomous techniques. As a part of the World Financial Discussion board’s tech innovators group, she goals to hurry up the shift in direction of clear and resilient know-how.
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 impression 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 focuses on 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 inventive drive 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 firms with greater than 500 VCs, media, and consultants.
Luciana Lixandru: Associate at Sequoia Captial, Luciana companions with impactful European founders who’re pioneering impactful change. She has invested in Collection A at UiPath, Collection A at Miro, Collection B at Deliveroo, seed stage at Hopin, seed stage at Tessian and extra. Luciana has additionally been a Board Member for firms reminiscent of Miro, Tessian and UiPath.
Lucile Cornet: Associate at Eight Roads, Lucile is an impactful investor backing promising firms, notably within the health and SaaS sectors. She has an in depth profession within the funding area and is at the moment backing firms 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 professional and Councillor on the Startups Institute.
Manon Sarah Littek: Founding Basic Associate on the Inexperienced Era Fund. Manon is captivated with rising impactful ventures within the meals tech and inexperienced tech areas. She has been an lively 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 wonder business. Since its inception in 2016, Magnificence Pie has targeted on delivering high-quality magnificence merchandise, fostering self-worth, and instructing girls to assert their deserved success. Having secured over €92 million million, Marcia has change into a pivotal determine within the entrepreneurial world.
Margo Polishchuk: Margo is the co-founder and President of proSapient, a major analysis and professional networking service for institutional buyers, consultants, and company shoppers all over the world. The agency goals to ship actionable intelligence and related consultants to shoppers, giving them an edge to succeed in their industrial ambitions.
Marie-Helene Ametsreiter: A distinguished determine in enterprise and enterprise capital, at the moment a Basic Associate at Speedinvest, main the Industrial tech staff. She advocates for range within the EU startup and VC sectors, supporting modern firms 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, Training and Youth since 2019. She was liable for EU insurance policies associated to Horizon Europ, analysis and innovation, the Erasmus+ programme, training, tradition and sport.
Marta Krupinska: As CEO & Co-Founding father of CUR8, she is spearheading carbon removing options, an important 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 observe file in impact-driven ventures, she is just not solely shaping the CleanTech business but in addition paving the way in which for extra girls 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 huge 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 commonplace.
Mette Lykke: The visionary founding father of TooGoodToGo, a number one sustainability app that fights towards meals waste by partnering with supermarkets, eating places, bakeries, and resorts to redistribute surplus meals. Main a staff of over 400 Waste Warriors, Mette’s impactful work follows her success.
Michaela Jeffery-Morrison: Because the Managing Director of the Girls in Know-how World Collection, she is pioneering new paths for ladies in tech. By way of Ascend International Media, she fostered connections between companies and expertise, specializing in empowering girls and ladies to enter and excel within the know-how sector.
Miriam Wohlfarth: A serial entrepreneur, she established one in all Germany’s pioneering fintech corporations, Ratepay, a fee 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 professional with a distinguished profession within the VC, non-public fairness and funding banking industries on a world stage. She beforehand based Vaultier7, a consumer-focussed non-public fairness agency that’s backed success tales like French style unicorn Vestiaire Collective.
Namrata Sandhu: Co-founder and CEO of Vaayu, a startup that’s serving to retailers observe and reduce their carbon emissions. She has over 17 years of worldwide expertise constructing, creating and implementing sustainability methods throughout firms – 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 corporations present inclusive options for the cosmetics and wonder tech sector. Nana advocates for range, inclusivity, and fairness within the business. Her newly launched model, Historic, made her the primary Black Girl in Germany to safe tech VC funding in magnificence.
Nicola McClafferty: Associate 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 style. Her prior roles embrace serving as an investor at Ravensbeck and Balderton Capital, the place she targeted on cross-platform media and e-commerce.
Nora Bavey: Basic Associate at Unconventional Ventures, an Impression fund targeted on early-stage impression tech firms 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, totally funded Fellowship concentrating on numerous and sometimes marginalised communities, aiming to democratise entry to the enterprise capital business by means of training and alternatives. In three years, practically single-handedly, Nikita established a globally acknowledged model.
Paulina Jänsch: Founding companion at Leanox Impression Capital, champions sustainability startups and feminine empowerment. Leanox focuses on purpose-driven innovators searching for impression past revenue. An lively mentor, Paulina goals to draw extra girls buyers and obtain gender parity within the startup scene with Leanox’s newest fund.
Rachel Delacour: A distinguished determine in European tech, based Sweep in 2020 to fight local weather change. Sweep, a B2B software program, helps firms 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 Associate at Mundi Ventures, she has performed a pivotal position in supporting early and development stage know-how 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 impartial video games developer and writer based mostly in London. Pushed by creativity, it takes a group strategy to content material and sport growth.
Roxanne Varza: Director of Station F, a worldwide startup campus based mostly 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 professional, advocate for ladies, public speaker, the particular person behind Womenpreneur, and creator of “Invisible Girls 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 trying to the ignored elements of Europe’s startup ecosystem. Sara is at the moment a companion at Endeit Capital.
Sarah Barber: Managing Associate of Jenson Funding Companions, Sarah was a part of the staff liable for creating the primary Jenson SEIS Fund in 2012, to assist startups elevate capital by means of the scheme. She has been instrumental within the development of the fund, main the staff in fundraising, deployment and managing the portfolio of investee firms.
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 know-how and analytics features at numerous e-commerce startups, together with as Chief Know-how and Product Officer at main Indian e-commerce fashion-tech firm StalkBuyLove.
Simone Brummelhuis: Founding Associate and Fund Director on the Borski Fund, a VC fund investing in know-how leaders and variety. Simone is a supervisory board member of Royal Schiphol Group, Rabo Amsterdam and Media Huis Nederland. She beforehand based The Subsequent Girls, offering entry to capital, applications, sources and networks for ladies.
Sophie Hersan: Co-founder and Vogue Director of Vestiaire Collective, the main world on-line market for preloved style. It counts over 23 million consumers and sellers and has a world attain with places of work in Paris, London, Berlin NY, Hong Kong and past. Sophie based the agency in 2009 and is captivated with making a extra sustainable future.
Talia Rafaeli: Basic Associate 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 know-how to rework buildings into extra sustainable and wholesome areas.
Vera Elizabeth Baker: A Associate at 4P Capital, has a deep understanding of impression 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 girls to management positions and enhancing their abilities and affect.
Yonca Braeckman: Founder and CEO of Impression Shakers, fosters societal and environmental options by means 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: Associate at LocalGlobe, and former founding Member and Principal at Impression X Capital, a UK-based enterprise capital fund based to put money into firms led by underrepresented entrepreneurs throughout Europe. Recognised by ‘Forbes 30 Underneath 30′ in 2020, she has invested over €230 million in startups across the globe.
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