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Faye has been a long-time metaverse (m)user; building products and communities across extended realities (XR) and studying the intersection between culture and new technologies. Most recently, she led investments in areas such as virtual world platforms, digital fashion, web3 and virtual beings, at a top-tier gaming fund (Seed/Series A) and co-writ…

Sarah is an entrepreneur and angel investor. In 2014 she co-founded the fast-growing and award-winning angel network, Angel Academe. They help female founders and co-founders access a unique pool of engaged, mainly female investors. Angel Academe investors have backed 45+ startups through 70+ funding rounds, helping them raise over £100m from angel…

Kerstin is the CEO and co-founder at Openers, a boutique communications agency in Berlin that partners with tech companies including Sorare, Pipedrive, Spotify, and Pleo as well as several other unicorns. She is an active mentor and advisor to several start-up initiatives including the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund — Europe's largest Deep …

Nicole Büttner is a tech optimist at heart and is active as an entrepreneur, investor and board member. Her passion is to create real impact with new technologies useful to companies and people. Nicole is co-founder and CEO of MerantixMomentum, a leading AI solutions firm and member of the management board of Merantix, an AI venture studio based in…

This episode was recorded live on stage at Women in VC Europe Summit 2022 at Station F in Paris. Florence Richardson graduated with a Masters in Engineering completed by a further Business Masters degree. She began her career with Crédit Lyonnais (LCL) in 1988 and spent 14 years in various roles within the corporate division finishing her time ther…

Michala has 15yrs+ experience in investing, private equity and finance and she is CEO of Rose-Sky Investments. The investment focus is on consumer, B2B tech and sustainability. Investments include among others Emma Sleep Company, Clove, Nevernot, Pulpo. Michala is a co-founder of encourageventures and Level 20 DACH. Follow Michala on LinkedIn Follo…

Stine has more than 10 years of experience working with new technology both in a corporate global role at H. Lundbeck and founding several tech startups whereas she led one to a successful Silicon Valley exit. Today Stine is an active angel investor and a partner and co-owner of Nordic Fintech Angels, sits on the board of REEL, CPH Village, and MAT…

Jenny is one of the co-founders of Apryl, a fertility benefits startup based in Berlin. Before starting Apryl, she worked as VP Business Development for the Dutch fintech company Adyen (IPO 2018). Jenny completed her dual studies at Deutsche Telekom and worked there as an executive assistant after graduating. She completed her MBA at the Hult Inter…

Céline is one of the most well-known business influencers on LinkedIn. She started to feed her personal profile with self-created content focusing on the latest innovations, startups and tech-trends. Since then, her LinkedIn experienced dramatic growth in followers and now compromises a large community of +130.000 professionals with a weekly reach …

Veronica Diquattro is Chief Revenue Officer Europe at DAZN. Previously to that, she was Managing Director Southern and Eastern Europe at Spotify. Veronica also worked on the launch of the Android Market and Google Play in Italy for Google. She is a non-executive director and advisor in the media technology sector and a big advocate of “giving back”…

This episode was recorded live on stage at the Lead Today Shape Tomorrow Conference organised by Female Founders in June 2022 in Vienna. Nicole Crentsil is a Ghanaian-British businesswoman, change maker, angel investor and cultural curator based in London. Nicole is the founder and CEO of Black Girl Fest and the founder of BIG SIS, a new network su…

Rita Vilas-Boas is an executive turned angel investor and startup advisor. She has a Biotech background and has more than 20 years’ experience working in multinational, family and startup businesses, in 7 countries across 3 continents. In the last years Rita has invested in early stage startups with consumer focus. She is a Limited Partner in the f…

Heidrun has been an entrepreneur since 2002 and has accompanied numerous companies to the stock exchange during the first German startup wave at the end of the 90s. As a board member, she was instrumental in establishing one of today's leading German investor relations agencies and subsequently founded her own IR consulting firm Impacct. As an exec…

Does making chocolate and supporting future unicorn startups have something in common? Listen to this podcast episode with the incredible Carmen Alfonso Rico - VC turned angel and find out more about her journey towards creating Cocoa VC. Previously to Cocoa, Carmen was a VC at Felix Capital and Blossom Capital. She is an early investor in Hopin. F…

Noor has been part of leadership teams of founder-led organisations throughout her career. As Chief People Officer at N26 and VP People at SoundCloud, she has shown how to scale and evolve your organisation in a sustainable way during times of extreme growth and constant change. Noor is globally recognized for her track record in building high perf…

Raffaela Rein - is a founder of Career Foundry and Wild Wild Ventures. She is investor at the own.fund and crypto fellow at Kernel. Listen to her fascinating story about becoming entrepreneur, angel investor and diving into Web3. Follow Raffaela on Twitter, Linkedin & Instagram Follow Katia on Linkedin or Twitter Follow Female Business Angels Podca…

Laura Lewandowski - from journalist to entrepreneur to investor. Laura's work cannot be put into a one-liner bio, but summarised as story-teller-entrepreneur - now turned investor with her investment in @passionfroot. Listen to Laura on the power of stories, the future of the creator economy and her very personal route to investing. Follow Laura on…

Banker turned entrepreneur turned early-stage tech investor. June Angelides is passionate about diversity in tech & venture capital. Activist. Board Member & Speaker. Formerly SVB and founder of @mumsintech. June sits on the board of @CredrailsHQ, @KairCare, @RukaHair, @wearejude invested via @samosvc. She is an angel investor in Bloom Money and By…

Julia is passionate about bringing more diversity to the cap table – as talent advisor to venture capitalists and angel investor mostly to female founders (Equalicert, Fabit, Oviavo, Unea) and many others are among her angel portfolio companies). She has more than a decade of experience in executive search, diagnostics and coaching that enables her…

Stephanie von Behr, Deborah Choi and Alina Bassi from the Founderland are on a mission to level up the playing field for women founders of color by providing education, network and resources to empower their success and create more role models for the future generations. #breakthebias Follow Founderland on Linkedin, Twitter or Instagram Follow Fact…

Besides being a prolific investor in startups like Ada Heath, Lin is a truly impressive global citizen. Originally from China, she spent 1/3 of her life in Germany, lived and worked in Sri Lanka and moved to Sweden in the middle of the pandemic. Before becoming a startup advisor, mentor, board member and angel investor, Lin had co-founded 3 startup…

After exiting Honeypot.io Emma Tracey, was approached by a friend for her first angel deal. A year passed and she started taking a more proactive approach to explore the other side of the table ending up with 4 angel investments more including remi.so and joinvitamin, those founders were striving for a diverse and gender balanced cap table. Emma is…

Deepali Nangia was born and raised in India, went to University in the US, worked at Wall Street, on the growth equity side and in the corporate world. She launched an angel syndicate, started advising for equity and doing small personal angel checks. Sophia Bendz invited Deepali to participate in Atomico´s angel program and that´s when she REALLY …

Eva is a real Berliner, she studied law in Germany, traditional medicine in China and worked briefly at a startup. She currently works as a legal counsel at an early stage VC firm Cavalry Ventures and is a proud co-initiator of Venture Ladies - a network supporting women in Venture Capital with more than 2.800 active members. She is an angel by hea…

Find out how Gloria´s absolute passion for angel investing and supporting entrepreneurs could be contagious! Gloria Bäuerlein is a WHU alumna, she lived in several countries, worked on Adyen fundraise at Morgan Stanley, at TCV, joined the London office of Index Ventures in early days and was a key operator for startups like Kry and Back. Last year …

Georgie and Katia talk about uplifting other women, focusing on people and building communities. Georgie is CPO of Tier Mobility and investor scout for Accel. She founded Auxilia to connect and support female founders and tech professionals. She previously worked for N26 and other exciting companies across 3 continents which allowed her to become a…

Setting the stage: Tine and Katia are interviewing each other. Tine: co-founder of www.auxxo.de she is beyond passionate about venture capital and female founders. 8+ years in VC and angel investing. 3+ years in product management. 4+ years in consulting Katia: co-initiator of http://spotiangels.com she is beyond passionate about angel investing, c…

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