Women in VC Briefing: Elina Halatcheva

Elina is a co-founder and Managing Partner at BrightCap Ventures with a background in investment banking, private equity and new business ventures in New York, London and Sofia. Prior to establishing BrightCap, she was part of the early management team of a B2B procurement platform where she drove the expansion into more than 50 industry sectors. Earlier, she was an investor at Citigroup’s private equity funds in New York ($600 m) and London (€1.1 bn) and a research analyst at Wit Soundview, New York, the first online platform for investment banking and research of emerging technology and e-commerce companies. She started her career as an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney, Citigroup on Wall Street.