Spotlight 2023

Lidia
Capmare

Director of EUNAT Department @ BRD - Groupe Société générale

Mihaela
Pascu

Product Director @ BRD - Groupe Société générale

Cristian
Buzatu

Digital Product Manager @ BRD - Groupe Societe Generale

Innovation promoter, open minded and adept of lifelong learning. 18 years experience in banking management positions

Gloria
Bäuerlein

Founding Partner @ Puzzle Ventures

VC turned operator and angel investor, Gloria raised her own €21.5M fund in 2022, one of the first in Europe to be led by a female solo GP, focusing on B2B SaaS and fintech companies across Europe.

Karolina
Mrozkova

General Partner @ Credo Ventures

At Credo, Karolina loves connecting with ambitious and talented founders from the CEE region, sharing common history, humor and culture, while being able to provide help, perspective of a Series A investor and a bridge to North America.

Julija (JJ)
Jegorova

Founder @ Black Unicorn PR

JJ is a seasoned PR Pro with 13 years of international experience. She founded Black Unicorn PR, focusing on European tech startups and scaleups.

Zachary
Gleicher

Applied Product Manager @ Google DeepMind

Zach focuses on foundation models in Google products, and has been in the Google DeepMind Applied team for over 6 years. His team is responsible for taking DeepMind’s AI research and applying it across all of Google.

Felix
Martinez

Principal @ Seedcamp

Principal at one of the global top-performing seed funds, expert in evaluating & supporting the best early-stage startups in Europe

Robert
Hegedues

FOUNDING PARTNER @ FIEDLER CAPITAL

Robert started doing pre-seed investments in 2014, following a decade-long career in Management Consulting across Europe, Middle-East and Asia, and he was instrumental in getting companies such as Bitrise & SEON off the ground as their first investor.

Darren
Chait

Head of Growth Marketing @ Calendly

Savvy growth marketer, ex-founder, and recent author, Darren leverages his work culture passion into our day-to-day products