An entrepreneur for most of my career, experienced in bringing innovation to life in a variety of products and platforms (tech and non tech).
I am passionate about connecting the dots - bringing people together, multidisciplinary learning, knowledge sharing and empowerment of underestimated founders.
What I offer
Connecting the Dots
As an entrepreneur and generalist I support founders on a wide variety of issues - providing continuous support on their growth journey - ideation, product market fit, fundraising, business model, strategy and strategy prioritisation and execution and more
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Financial Storytelling
I support founders in building and adjusting their financials ahead of investment. We work on how to structure their financial forecasts in a way that aligns with their vision, business model and strategy.
Community of early stage climate investors
I am part of a wide and vibrant investor community across, UK EU and IL - I offer support early stage startup in planning their fundraising strategy and connecting to investors.
I also support in connecting with other founders in my ecosystem for potential collaborations and cross learnings.
Experiences
Building companies and products from the ground up
I have built eCommerce, IP Collaboration and Open Innovation platforms as well as a HospitalityTech startup. In all of them I started from an idea, built the strategy and business model, worked with tech teams and customers. Some came to life and some didn't survive but all are part of the journey.
Learning a new industry and from scratch
Throughout my career I have moved between industries and positions - I was a MarCom manager in a hi-tech company & shifted to BizDev in Japan, invested & managed fashion brands with global production and stores, built tech platforms and companies in eCommerce, hospitality, community and more
Investor in Early Stage ClimateTech Ventures
An active Angel Investor in (mostly) Female Led Climate Ventures, sector and geography agnostic.
I invested in Fiiba and Shellworks (Materials), Compare Ethic and Unibloom (SaaS), Cordon and Samudra (Robotics and AI), By Rotation (eCommerce), Iterum (HaaS). I am excited to be part of their journey!
Co-Founder The Table
An active Angel Investor I am building am community of investors at the intersection of Climate and Diversity.
Focused on increasing the amount & frequency of investment into climate ventures where there is at least one woman on the co-founding team.
Only collaboration will enable a breakthrough!
Supporting and Funding Early Stage Impact Startups
Fellow@Zinc, Mentor@Women in Impact, Mentor@Climate First & Venture Partner@Conduit Connect
• Advising 30+ founders on team & venture ideation process
• Working w/ 20+ startups on concept, product, business model, strategy
• Participating in IC
• Supporting Conduit team in due diligence of startups
Working with multidisciplinary multicultural teams
In every project I have worked on I was the conductor, bringing together the business, the creative, tech and operations. Working globally with teams in US, India, Israel, Europe and Japan. bridging different thought processes, attitudes and sensitivities.
Producing Live Morning News
I started my career as a morning news producer on the radio and later on TV. This experience has taught me the core skillsets of my professional path - agility, creativity, making decisions under pressure quickly, getting the ungetable get, grit, negotiation, multitasking and so much more
Rhus Ovata - CEO and Investor
An up-market Israeli fashion brand + children’s brand
- Approached to take CEO role for Rhus Ovata and Yaldoti (bought from bankruptcy).
- Managed operations: 12 stores, 50 employees, global manufacturing, cash flow, financing
- Grew combined sales to over 7.5M NIS P.A. for both brands
The Service - Co-Founder & CEO
Boutique Hotel Guest Experience platform
• Ideation to product
• Strategy & business plan. Closed investment round (hospitality investors)
• Product development from market research, to UI/UX
• Technology implementation & digital transition
• Sold technology & processes modeling
SIGN - Co-Founder and CEO
Building new Proprietary Information Collaboration Platform to advance sustainable innovation
• Developed concept
• Built strategy, crafted business plan, validated idea and business model
• Recruited top talent team
• Managed product development (market research and UI/UX) culminating in a demo
Sparker - Head of Startup Ecosystem
Held several hats:
- Managed Product Development (including tech platform spec and UI/UX) plus product offering, pricing model.
- Built ecosystem for both Startup and Investor side (over 1000 startups and a 100 investors), including work processes
- Led startup scouting and analysis team
