Polona Cigoj is a Policy Officer at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). She is mainly involved in work on the InvestEU...

Named Startup-Grande-Dame by the media and elected “TOP 100: Europe’s most influential women in the startup & VC space” in 2022, Selma is an internationally celebrated...

Kerstin Jorna is Director General of Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW). She is a German national and a civil servant at the...

Janne Jormalainen is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is active in the angel investment scene in Northern Europe, he has invested to over thirty high tech and...

Merete Clausen, Director for Investment in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW). The Directorate is...

Angelo Dalli is a serial entrepreneur with involvement in a number of companies in the Technology, Entertainment and Gaming industries. Since the late nineties he has...

Founder of Gestluz, Invicta Angels and FNABA. Board Member of EBAN and member of the Fiscal Council of 321 Crédito. A former member of the Board of Directors at Instituição...

Viktorija Trimbel manages EUR 25,5 million early-state venture capital fund Coinvest Capital, mandated to co-invest into promising Lithuanian startups and strengthening business...

Cheyenne is leading sales and customer success at bunch, the OS for private market investments. The bunch platform makes navigating private markets easy, cost-efficient &...

Guillen has an interdisciplinary background, with over 15 years of experience in venture capital, technology, and life sciences entrepreneurship. Before transitioning to venture...

Laurence Gillois is the Acting Head of UN Women Brussels Office. She has held several positions within the office, including as the deputy director and as a programme and...

Simone has a business background with a strong focus on entrepreneurship. He has graduated in Business Administration from the University of Trieste and has completed an MSc in...

Giorgio Chiarion Casoni, Director of Directorate L – InvestEU and financial institutions, DG Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission. Giorgio Chiarion Casoni...

Steve is President and CEO of Advise Connect Inspire, LLC (ACI), a strategic consulting firm formed in 2018. ACI operates a European Accelerator called GOLDTRACK. The program is...

Erik Ehasoo is a creative innovation leader who has built and launched new businesses in both large companies as well as a startup entrepreneur for 9 years. He is currently...

With over 25 years experience, Keith is a serial entrepreneur and impact leader. Keith co-founded Spring Activator, a Vancouver based organization that exists to change the...

Nina Dremelj is the president of Business Angels of Slovenia. Her greatest passion is to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into real, successful businesses. In last 5 years she...

Kambis Kohansal Vajargah is the Head of Startup-Services at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. He is also the founding partner of several startup companies, incl. Carployee,...

YeSeul Kim is a Korean American serial entrepreneur based in Treviso, Italy. She graduated from MIT with degrees in Urban Planning. Her career has spanned across multiple...

Michal is responsible for the management of several EIF-advised investment programmes, particularly the multi-country Central Europe Fund of Funds, the European Angels Fund and...

Martynas has over 19 years of experience in establishing and growing business ventures across Europe. He holds board positions in various companies and NGOs, with a keen emphasis...

Alessandro Tappi is the Chief Investment Officer at the European Investment Fund (EIF), responsible for the investments in venture capital and private equity funds, as well as...

Rita Sakus is an active business angel investor, board member & advisor in innovative start-ups and is one of the founding members and currently proud board member of best...

With 20+ years of business and technology leadership experience for future aerospace missions in a cross-cultural environment, he has served several positions in the Technical...

Maria Hala is a senior strategist consultant and an angel investor. She has been concentrated on the expansion of the Greek technologically innovative startups’ ecosystem and on...

Master's degree in Economy and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities at Ca' Foscari University in Venice completed with an in-field study on young European designers and...

Ron invests in early-stage startup companies as Managing Partner and Head of the AV Seed fund at Alumni Ventures, the most active VC firm in the United States. Ron has spent his...

Alex Farcet is a partner at global innovation and venture building firm Rainmaking. He leads the Rainmaking Impact syndicate, a group of 2.100 individuals co-investing with VCs...

As officer of the European Commission since August 2017, Gabriele has focused on legal and policy questions raised by new technologies. In that role, he contributed to shaping...

Hüseyin R. Demirhisar, a luminary in emerging markets with a specific focus on Africa, impact investment, asset management, and finance, brings over 25 years of seasoned...

Harry ‘Tomi Davies (TD) is Collaborator-in-Chief (CiC)' at TVC Labs, an entrepreneurship support organisation working with technology-enabled innovation in Lagos, Nigeria which...

Anna has over 15 years of corporate, venture, and startup experience and a vast business and investor network in the CEE region. She worked as a part of EY, and PwC advisory...

Fadilah Tchoumba is CEO at ABAN and the fund manager for Catalytic Africa, a matching fund for early stage startups in Africa. Before joining ABAN, Fadilah managed investment...

Rešad Začina is a founder, product leader, and investor focused on innovation and startups. After a software engineering career where he managed to work on 3 of the top 50...

A bilingual (English, French) American national and French Resident received her International Business and International Economics degrees from the American University of Paris...

Ted has over 20 years of investor experience in early stage and scale-up companies in Sweden, Norway, USA and Taiwan, and has a solid network in Europe and Silicon Valley. His...

Cyril is a venture capital professional and well-known business angel in Baltic countries. In 2023, Cyril was awarded as a Business Angel of the Year in Latvia. Co-founder of two...

Andrew is currently the Head of Finance at the Founder Institute, overseeing global financial, legal and asset management strategies for the accelerator. Additionally, as the...

Erick Yong is an accomplished investor and venture builder who has dedicated his career to empowering African startups. Fueled by a deep-seated commitment to the continent's...

Candace Johnson - Chair of Advisory Board and Partner of Seraphim Space Fund, Founding Vice Chair and Member of the Board of NorthStar Earth and Space, and Non-Executive Director...

Christine has a broad experience from business development worldwide from large public global companies, as Electrolux, Saab to small start-up companies and representative for...

Janneke is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and mentor for startups and co-founder of CapitalT, a VC fund that invests in technology companies using...

Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and astronaut, the first Swedish citizen in space. Fuglesang earned a master’s degree in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of...