What we have done so far

Dr. Gosia Karas is an Investment Vice President at SoftBank Group, where she leads investments into Memphis Meats , Fetch, Konfio, AlphaCredit, and Loggi. Prior to joining SoftBank

Take part in our survey for European Women in VC Annual Report on Diversity in VC space

We have a great pleasure to invite all female founders and fellow colleagues from VC to our next Briefing with Myrto Papathanou, a Founding Partner at Metavallon.vc

This time Kinga Stanislawska (Experior VC) hosted Evgenia Plotnikova from Dawn Capital. As a Partner Evgenia covers exciting B2B companies in software and fintech across Europe.

Summary of our meetup organized in Google Campus in Warsaw.

Leesa Soulodre is a General Partner at R3i Ventures living in Singapore, supporting many of the world's most promising early-stage deep tech companies in accelerating their growth is actively engaged in pioneering artificial intelligence, robotics, Healthtech, cybersecurity, fintech, cleantech smart city, and IoT technologies. She advises as an Entrepreneur in Residence/Mentor for Government High Commissions and Accelerators soft landing high growth deep tech and MedTech companies into the Asia Pacific and European Union. And most of all she is a champion for responsible investment.

Cecile is the Head of Impact & Sustainability at Pitango Venture Capital, Israel’s largest VC, where she is responsible for adapting the worlds of ESG and the SDGs to the framework of mainstream venture capital. Cecile has extensive experience in the combination between the impact and technology worlds for almost 20 years. Previously, Cecile was the Founder and Managing Partner of Impact First Investments, Israel's first impact investing company.

Katya is a General Partner at OpenOcean, early-stage venture capital firm operating across Europe. Beside this she is also on board of IQM, the European leader for superconducting quantum computers, as well as several other companies.

After the first successful online meeting of the Group with Mariya Gabriel, the #European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, it is time to invite the ecosystem to a very first: Handover Ceremony

Hear from experts Ekaterina Almasque and Manjari Chandran-Ramesh on why Europe struggles to scale its deep-tech startups.

Diversity in initiating and funding startups continues to increase, yet the influence of the ecosystem still weighs it down. The report is written in French.

This report serves to discuss this gap and aims at calling to action all those who have the ability to drive change across the VC and tech ecosystem. Only by discussing facts, figures and taking a real leadership role can we drive change for the benefit of the whole society.

Iceland raised €182.4 million in startup funding in 2025 — nearly fivefold year-on-year growth, and over four times Germany's per-capita VC intensity. The newly merged New Venture Fund Kria sits at the centre of this ambition: backing early-stage founders, anchoring domestic VC funds, and actively pulling in international investors. Greipsdóttir discusses how a 400,000-person island is punching well above its weight — and why pension fund participation is key to sustaining the momentum.

"Lunch & Learn" on Investing and Divesting across the Atlantic

Gender Gap in Investment workshop, 🇸🇪Stockholm, Sweden