Venturing Women

Nadine Mezher was eager to spearhead change in habits and attitudes to handling money in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). She wanted to democratise access to investing and make it available to not only the ultra rich. Nadine co-founded Sarwa, a platform for investment and personal finance. In 2022, Forbes recognised Nadine among 20 women behind Middle Eastern tech brands. A fashion professional and owner of her own design house in the past, Nadine unpacks the concept of growth mindset in business and private life. Topics we discuss: About Nadine Mezher (guest): Nadine co-founded Sarwa, a one-stop platform for investment and personal finance, after years of consultancy and executive roles in growth strategies for government entities as well as multi-national corporates. She comes from a multi-disciplinary background with over 18 years of experience in growth strategies across industries and geographies. Nadine is an award-winning regular speaker on global platforms on topics of business ownership and hacking growth, Fintech, and women in the workforce. Nadine is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn Disclaimer: No information in this podcast episode should be considered as an investment advice.

How do you launch an innovative business in uncharted territories? Alina Bassi realised she could apply principles of coffee waste management to recycle textiles into… plastics. A chemical engineer, she launched Kleiderly in a foreign country, with no language skills, and out of network. She masterfully addresses challenges of two industries simultaneously: textile waste management and plastics manufacturing. Main topics: About Alina Bassi (guest): Alina Bassi is a chemical engineer turned impact entrepreneur, with a passion for creating a more sustainable and equitable future. After 7 years in the biofuels and waste recycling space, she co-founded Kleiderly, a textile recycling startup. She is an impact investor and the co-founder of Founderland - a non-profit that supports women of colour to raise investment. She was on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2020, and has been featured in Vogue, Wired, and Germany’s Shark Tank. She is an Obama Leader, TEDx speaker and advisor to over 50+ women-led startups. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

All-women startup teams receive less than 3% of the venture capital globally whilst male-led startups collect 89% of it. And as if this statistics wasn’t depressing enough, the trend is negative. It’s getting worse every year. Venture capital investors share their views on the reasons behind such disparity. What are its consequences? What are we as a society missing out if this gap perpetuates? And how can we possibly bridge it? About guests: Lucy Chow is the General Partner at the World Business Angels Investment Forum and a member of the steering committee of the movement 2022 Female Angels. Lucy has been recently recognized by Arabian Business as one of 50 Inspiring Female Business Leaders 2022. Katie Wachsberger is the Co-Founder of DANA Global, an Abu Dhabi based venture builder and investment platform for women-led startups in desert tech, including agritech, foodtech, renewable energy, water solutions, and circular economy. Medea Nocentini is Senior Partner at Global Ventures, an international venture capital firm. She is also the Founder of Companies Creating Change (C3), a UAE-based social enterprise helping impact-driven entrepreneurs in the Middle East and Africa to unlock their growth potential and maximize their positive impact on the community. Vera Futorjanski is the CEO & Founder of Veritas Ventures, a global strategic advisory firm. She is also an investor at Launch Africa Ventures. Vera is on the steering committee of the 2022 Female Angels. She is a serial entrepreneur and is currently building a community for female leaders. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. About this episode: This episode was recorded at the Women’s Empowerment Convention organised by the Women’s Empowerment Council. WE Council is dedicated to empowering women to achieve their goals, ambitions, and dreams. The event took place in the Dubai Opera on March 8, 2023. The next Women's Empowerment Convention will take place on November 11-12 in Dubai. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Many businesses start with the future founders trying to solve an issue they face personally. FemTech startups (female technology) are no exception. Here, however, many areas are emotionally loaded and wrapped into layers of taboos. Fatoumata Ly shares how her own story of trying to conceive evolved into addressing the centuries-old issue countless women face. Fatoumata is now building Ninti, a company that provides digital solutions for personalised care around sexual and reproductive health. Topics we discuss: About Fatoumata Ly (guest): Fatoumata Ly is a Franco-Guinean entrepreneur, currently a co-founder of Ninti, a company that provides digital solutions for personalised care around sexual and reproductive health. She is also a member of the board of directors of SISTA, a French NGO that focuses on reducing the funding gap between male and female entrepreneurs. Fatoumata is committed to putting women at the centre of the healthcare and entrepreneurship system. She actively works to reduce gender inequalities in the areas of reproductive health and entrepreneurship, with a soft spot for emerging markets. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ sounds like a fulfilling life motto. But how do you put it into practice? How do you leave a positive mark in the world and enjoy the ride along the way? Ultimately, we all have just one life to experiment with. Jacqueline van den Ende aims to unlock 1 billion dollars of capital to help power climate solutions. That’s a big dent in the world to make! Jacqueline is a founder turned investor turned founder, twice over. A true adventurer, she moved to the Philippines to launch a startup, then ran a team of 500 as a CEO. Now, she is building Carbon Equity, the world’s first impact investing platform. Topics we discuss: We recorded this episode at the Impact Shakers Summit in Brussels, in May 2023, the first European startup event focusing on inclusive entrepreneurship and impact. Impact Shakers is an impact entrepreneurship ecosystem tackling complex societal challenges through inclusive entrepreneurship. About Jacqueline van den Ende: Jacqueline van den Ende is co-founder of Amsterdam-based climate fintech company Carbon Equity. Carbon Equity is a climate venture capital and private equity fund investing fintech platform. Carbon Equity was founded with the mission to unlock retail capital at scale to power breakthrough climate technologies whilst enabling more equitable ownership. Jacqueline brings a unique perspective as a founder turned investor turned founder, twice over. She worked at HAL Investments and at Peak Capital. The other half of her career she spent building and leading companies, including De Kleine Consultant, online real estate marketplace Lamudi (backed by Rocket Internet) and fintech scale-up TrueMoney (backed by Ant Financial). About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany.

Can you become a better leader in 2 min a day? Yes according to Darja Gutnick, Co-Founder & CEO of Bunch, an AI leadership coach. Darja also shares her own story of how losing key people on her team and going through a split-up with her co-founder made her better leader. Topics we discuss: About Darja Gutnick: Darja Gutnick is Co-Founder & CEO at Bunch. She is a serial entrepreneur and maker, pushing the boundaries of her field with an ambitious vision to bring the power of a coach to every professional in the world. Darja is a passionate product builder, organisational psychologist, leadership coach, and 2x founder. She has helped over 100k professionals to upskill their leadership & career skills. She is specifically passionate about recommendation engines and AI powered approaches, and has led the important product and go-to-market iterations that have defined Bunch’s journey and success so far. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Mental health and marketplaces - both are hot topics! Isn’t it a great idea to build a marketplace for mental health services? Viktoria Lindner and Leonie Ellerbrock, co-founders of Mindsurance, share a story of launching such a marketplace and then walking away from this model. Topics we discuss: About Viktoria Lindner (guest): Viktoria is CEO & Co-Founder of Mindsurance, a digital mental healthcare platform that connects employees with therapists, coaches and digital mental health tools. Viktoria is a serial founder with more than 6 years of experience in the HR Tech space. She studied clinical psychology and founded her first startup DIMPACT in 2018 which she bootstrapped to a 7-figure revenue. In 2021, she started Mindsurance with a mission to remove the barriers to mental health care for employees. About Leonie Ellerbrock (guest): Leonie is COO & Co-Founder of Mindsurance. Leonie is a Berliner and joined the local startup ecosystem by 2011. She led teams in business development and operations, and has a deep interest in the MedTech area. Leonie holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and Business. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Can FOMO (fear of missing out) be a market opportunity? Sonia Weymuller realised many people were seeking ways to invest into tech startups and be a part of the startup buzz. Yet, there was no platform in the MENA region to do so. Sonia Weymuller is a Co-Founder and General Partner of VentureSouq (VSQ), a MENA-based venture capital firm, and Partner Lead for the VSQ Conscious Collective, its global impact-focused investment and educational platform. Topics we cover: About Sonia Weymuller: Sonia Weymuller is a Co-Founder and General Partner of VentureSouq (VSQ), a MENA-based venture capital firm, and Partner Lead for the VSQ Conscious Collective, its global impact-focused investment and educational platform. She is driven by a mission to support founders harnessing the power of technology to address tangible societal, economic, and environmental challenges. Sonia is an advisor to Village Capital’s Sustainability MENA Program and jury member for the Cartier Women’s Initiative. She is also a board member for the Middle East Venture Capital Association, and a Kauffman Fellow. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Polina Mikhaylova co-founded KNOT, a micromobility company, in 2015, long before shared scooters came into vogue. Terms like ‘free-floating’ or ‘swappable batteries’ didn’t exist yet. Polina is a true enthusiast of docking stations. Can they be the future of shared micromobility? Topics: About Polina Mikhaylova: Polina Mikhaylova is a co-founder of KNOT, provider of sharing and charging infrastructure for micromobility, bikes and scooters, with a presence in 10 countries. She is also an active member of a local startup community in the city of Strasbourg with a passion for non-ordinary events and cooperation between French and German founders. In her previous life, she was a project manager for scale-up European environmental projects thanks to a strong financial background. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. About Irina Vakatova (co-host): Irina is a product professional with background in operational excellence. She works at TIER Mobility, e-scooter and e-bike sharing operator striving to make cities more livable and transportation more sustainable. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

This is a joint episode with the Female Business Angel Podcast hosted by Katia Yakovleva and Bettine Schmitz. We launched our shows more or less at the same time, one year ago. Darya, Bettine and Katia talk about one year of podcasting, their learnings, angel investing and the outlook for female founders. About Katia Yakovleva Katia is a Berlin-based entrepreneur currently working on her next venture. Previously, she had spent more than a decade at Spotify and co-founded a web3 analytics startup. She is an active angel investor and - a mentor at Techstars and other startup accelerators. About Bettine Schmitz Bettine is a believer in the unharnessed potential of female founders. To this end she set up Auxxo - an investment company focusing on female entrepreneurs. Prior to that, she accelerated nearly 100 companies at Axel Springer Plug and play and has made nearly 20 angel investments. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn Female Business Angels Podcast on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Imagine you are invited to give a talk at Stanford about your work as an investor. Excited, you board a plane to cross the Atlantic. And a conversation with a seat neighbour on that flight changes your whole life trajectory. You are now adamant about building your own business. That’s exactly what happened to Penny Schiffer, CEO & Co-Founder of Raized.ai. After 10 years in venture capital, Penny decided to launch a startup to make this industry more intelligent. A psychology major, she had to ‘go back to the roots’ and re-discover her technical background. Topics we cover: About Penny Schiffer: Penny is on a mission to transform startup investment with artificial intelligence, to make it more efficient and fair, and generate higher returns. Before Penny launched Raized.ai, she worked in corporate innovation and as a strategy consultant at Accenture. Penny got into programming at the age of ten but only made the step into the tech industry later. She was awarded “Seed 10 - the Best of Europe's Female Early-Stage Investors” by Business Insider in 2022. Penny is based in Zurich, Switzerland. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany.

If you launch your own business, just forget about having a life. It’s only work, no play. And your friends and family will need to accept it. This notion is particularly popular in the startup world but how much truth is in it? We asked Jenny Holmström, CEO and Co-Founder of Coupleness, an app helping couples to develop healthy habits for happy relationships. Jenny and Darya examine About Jenny Holmström: Jenny has worked for the United Nations as well as large corporations, and co-founded a child rights organization. She is an award-winning communicator, always striving to make a positive social impact. Coupleness is an app for couples with a mission to make it easy and mainstream to invest in your relationship. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Her first job was as a saxophone player. Later, she worked on producing Star Wars and Fast & Furious in the Abu Dhabi desert - and absolutely hated it. Now an established IT professional, Karen Burns is the CEO & Co-Founder at Fyma, a computer vision company enabling data-driven urban planning. Karen knows best what change is, on personal and professional levels. She and her co-founder launched Fyma right before the pandemic hit, only to see cities deserted. We discuss how change starts deep inside us, why it is important to embrace and steer it and how to make decisions based on limited information. Finally, we examine how data and data-powered software will change urban space and our lives as urban dwellers. If you liked this episode, share it with at least one friend! About Karen K. Burns: Karen is the Co-Founder and CEO at Fyma, a computer vision SaaS platform that turns cameras into predictive sensors. She has 16+ years prior experience in IT and business development roles and she has lived and worked in the UK, South Africa and the Middle East, both in private and public sector organisations in management positions. Karen is based in Estonia. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

9 out of 10 startups die, and the first years of any startup existence are the most challenging to navigate. This is where business angels can offer invaluable support to founders along with so much needed capital. Rita Vilas-Boas is a marketing professional, entrepreneur and angel investor focusing on consumer-centric startups. She is particularly interested in impact and women-led startups. In the last 20 years, she held top-tier roles at major global brands like Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola as well as family businesses. Rita shares a moving story of fear, flight and growth that brought her to work and live in 7 countries across 3 continents. Topics that we cover in this episode: Related episodes: Angel investment #3: Debunking the elitist image of startup investment – Svenja Lassen Venture Capital #17: Who should or should not raise venture capital? And how? - Gesa Miczaika More about Rita Vilas-Boas: Rita is Limited Partner founder at Shilling - community-driven venture capital fund. She is also the founding member of the first Classic Liberal Party In Portugal. Born and raised in Porto, Portugal, Rita holds a bachelor degree in biotechnology and a post-graduation degree in bioethics. Rita is based in Lisbon, Portugal. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

What do you do if after 10 years of a successful corporate career, you feel the need for a big change? Can you make a career pivot, start in a new area and still be credible? Your track record may have helped you to get that new job or a promotion. And the same track record may hold you back from making a leap of faith into building your own business or starting anything new. Vanessa Westphal is COO and Co-Founder of Choosy, a personalised meal planning and grocery shopping assistant that makes forming healthy and sustainable eating habits effortless. After 10 years at Siemens, Vanessa decided to dedicate herself to her true passion: nutrition. We talk about how new habits and tools can support the transition from an employee to a founder and how important it is to tame your brain. Vanessa also shares her views on how technology will change the way we eat. About Vanessa Westphal: Vanessa joined Siemens 10 years ago as an electrical engineer to then switch to management consulting and lead a corporate incubator. She got excited about building something new from scratch and then seeing other people use it and benefit from it. With Choosy, Vanessa tackles one of our biggest and yet most underestimated challenges we face as humans: How we decide what we eat. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

How do you build an indoor farming company to produce delicious salads at scale and make the food system more sustainable? You may need to start with a greenhouse on top of a shipping container as an MVP. Then raise >100mln of euros of external funding. But most importantly, you’ll need to create a company culture based on values that aren't just some words on your website. Kate Hofman is Founder and Brand Director of GrowUp Farms, an indoor farming company helping to build a more sustainable food system in the UK. Kate and I talk about being a leader worth working for, hiring and building teams, and walking away from the initial company identity. She also shares her experiences of pitching to investors while pregnant and building a business while raising a child. More about Kate Hofman: GrowUp Farms was founded in 2013. Kate is passionate about making delicious and sustainable food more affordable and about business as a force for social and environmental change. She's a fellow of Barclays Unreasonable Impact and sits on the WWF Farming Advisory Board. She lives in London, UK with her family, their dog and 11 stick insects. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is committed to narrowing the gender investment gap for female founders and diverse teams. Darya is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Less than 0.5% of venture capital goes to women of colour founders. Is it a pipeline problem rooted in a lack of such founders? Perhaps, women of colour simply do not dare to build high-growth businesses? Stephanie von Behr, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Founderland, debunks these myths. She is focused on increasing visibility, creating community, and getting more women of colour founders funded. We talk about what allyship truly means and why it matters, how disadvantages can become opportunities and what it takes to create a robust and flourishing community. Stephanie tells the story of building Founderland with simple tools like surveys and match-making keeping founders’ needs at the heart of every step and decision. About Stephanie von Behr: Stephanie has been working with startups for over a decade building community, as a 3x founder, operator, consultant, and mentor. As the Managing Director of Founderland, she is on a mission to disrupt the status quo and challenge systems of power across the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Founderland is an NGO that supports women founders based in Europe who’ve faced obstacles tied to their ethnicity/race in their business journeys. Founderland brings founders, allies and investors together to get more diverse, sustainable and scalable businesses funded. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Founders and investors alike should be excellent signal processors. But what if you are navigating an environment that your ‘sensors’ are not attuned to? You can adjust those sensors and blaze a trail. You can transform your drawbacks into unfair competitive advantages. A woman, a foreigner, and an engineer, Maria Dramalioti-Taylor shares her story of breaking into the venture capital industry. Maria is the founding partner of Beacon Capital, a London venture capital firm. About Maria Dramalioti-Taylor: Maria has led numerous investment rounds syndicating with angels, micro funds and large VCs across Europe and the US creating $900m+ in enterprise value. As an investor, she works with founders to build global, category-defining businesses. She is on the board of several portfolio companies and serves on the Chairs in Emerging Technologies Committee and the Enterprise Committee of The Royal Academy of Engineering. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn

Despite the glamorous image of venture capital, it’s not a funding source that fits all. Who should and who absolutely should not raise venture capital to finance their business? How can you make the fundraising process less painful? And finally, is there a way for an outsider to break into the VC industry? Dr. Gesa Miczaika offers straight-forward and deep answers to these questions. Gesa is the founding partner at Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund, a venture capital firm co-investing in startups with at least one female founder in Europe. People and organisations mentioned in the episode: Judith Dada, general partner at La Famiglia VC Anu Duggal, founding partner at Female Founders Fund Gloria Baeuerlein, angel investor and VC Julia Dous, founder and CEO at Grow Diverse More about Dr. Gesa Miczaika: Gesa is the Deputy President of the German Startups Association and a member of the "Young Digital Economy" Advisory Board to the Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy in Germany. An experienced business angel, Gesa co-founded Evangelistas, a network of female business angels with more than 190 members in Germany. Gesa is based in Berlin, Germany. About Darya Kamkalova (host): Darya is a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. She is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us: Instagram - LinkedIn

‘I am on a mission to make organic food mainstream, accessible to everyone regardless of their income level.’ While doing so, Adriana Luna-Diaz is building a profitable bootstrapped business based on the principles of holacracy (decentralised management model). Adriana is co-founder and director of Tierra de Monte, a Mexico-based AgriTech company. Forbes Magazine named Adriana among the 100 most powerful women in Mexico in 2021. Tierra de Monte creates products that improve soil fertility, protect crops and foster biodiversity. With a team of 9 and a large network of partners, the company has been operating in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Ecuador since 2015. Some of the topics we explore: About Adriana Luna-Diaz: Adriana is co-founder and director of Tierra de Monte, a company that strives to regenerate soil and boost its fertility. Adriana is a laureate of the Cartier Women’s Initiative 2020. Forbes Magazine named her among the 100 most powerful women in Mexico in 2021. HER GLOBAL IMPACT Magazine selected Adriana as one of the Global Catalysts. She is a biologist by profession and holds a Master's degree in socio-environmental business administration. Adriana is based in Mexico. About Darya Kamkalova: Darya is podcaster, a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker. Her experience in the data industry spans 10 years, five continents and such domains as data monetisation & acquisition, data product development, strategic partnerships as well as data marketplace business operations. Darya has been driving or supporting various projects empowering women since 2013. She is based in Berlin, Germany. Venturing Women website: https://www.venturingwomen.org/ Follow us on social media: Instagram - LinkedIn