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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-writes the pop culture newsletter, High Tea  Since July, Faye has been investing as part of Atomico's Angel Programme. Follow Faye on Linkedin and...

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 angels, VCs and family offices to continue to grow their med tech, clean tech, fintech and enterprise software businesses, many of them with ESG goals...

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 tech fund. Kerstin invests as a hands-on angel in early-stage startups across sectors ranging from climate tech to food tech and health tech,...

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 Berlin. Nicole is Digital Leader at the World Economic Forum and was nominated as a Young Leader by the Aspen Institute. She was selected twice as...

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 there within the group strategy department. She then co-founded and developed a commercial consulting and sales force outsourcing company. She joined...

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 Follow Tine on Linkedin and Twitter Follow Female Business Angels Podcast on Instagram or Linkedin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

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 MATTER Pension, further, she sits on the Innovation Fund Denmark's investment panel and she is elected to the Danish Competitiveness Council and in...

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 International Business School in San Francisco. Attracted to the startup world, she stayed there for three years and worked in corporate development for...

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 of more than 250.000 people. LinkedIn recognised her work by awarding Céline three time in a row as “LinkedIn Top Voice” 2018 and 2019 and 2022....

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” being a member of Angels4Women and Angels4Impact - both prestigious business angels networks in Europe. Veronica was awarded as one of "The...

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 supporting the personal development of creative working women.  Nicole currently sits on the Members Advisory Board for the Tate and is also a VC...

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 first Portuguese Founders Fund. Rita is founding member of the first Classic Liberal Party in Portugal. She is a strong advocate of gender diversity...

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 executive advisor, mentor and business angel, she supports companies, startups and organizations in capital market issues as well as in transformation...

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. Follow Carmen on Linkedin Follow Katia on Linkedin or Twitter Follow Female Business Angels Podcast on Instagram (@female_business_angels) See...

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 performing teams. . Noor started Invested in early 2021, with co-founder Anna Brandt. Invested supports companies to scale either through consulting or...

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 Podcast on Instagram (@female_business_angels) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 Twitter, Linkedin & Instagram Follow Tine on Linkedin Follow Female Business Angels Podcast on Instagram (@female_business_angels) See...

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 Rotation. She is a columnist @FT and most importantly - mum of 3! Angel Investing school mentioned in the podcast:...

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 to discover and unlock unique potential. As angel investor Julia is dedicated to support diverse founder teams in organisational design, how to...

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 Factory on Linkedin, Twitter or Instagram Follow Katia on Linkedin or Twitter Follow Female Business Angels Podcast on Instagram...

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 startups (2 in e-commerce and 1 in ed tech) and she is a proud mom of 3 kids. Follow Lin on Linkedin Follow Katia on Linkedin or Twitter Follow Female...

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 currently working on her next startup and she is also a venture scout for Peak Capital, focusing on B2B SaaS. Follow Emma on Linkedin Follow...

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 got into the angel investing game. She co-founded Alma Angels - a community of angel investors (women and men) who are passionate about actively...