Cristina Fonseca | |
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 Cristina Fonseca in 2013 | |
| Born | November 14, 1987 |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Occupation | Venture Partner of Indico Capital Partners |
Cristina Fonseca is a Portuguese tech entrepreneur, Angel investor and Engineer, better known as one of the founders of Talkdesk, a cloud-based help desk software that became Portugal's third "unicorn" after raising US$100M in series B funding at a valuation of over US$1 billion in October 2018[1].
She is an alumni of the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon where she studied telecommunications and networks engineering[2]. Cristina later did the Global Solutions Program at Singularity University[3] and specialised in Artificial Intelligence.
In 2016 Cristina was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list under the enterprise technology category[4] and in 2017 she became an Agenda Contributor to the World Economic Forum[5].
In 2018, Cristina became a venture partner at Indico Capital Partners, the first Portuguese private venture capital fund investing in Portugal and Spain early-stage, tech-focused startups[6].
References
edit- ^ inVentures - Portugal has a new unicorn 03/10/2018
- ^ Técnico Lisboa - Cristina Fonseca regressa ao Técnico para inspirar futuros empreendedores 05/04/2018
- ^ Medium - 10 weeks at Singularity University in review 07/09/2016
- ^ Forbes - The 30 Under 30 In Enterprise Technology For 2016 04/01/2016
- ^ World Economic Forum - Cristina Fonseca
- ^ TechCrunch - Lisbon finally gets a substantial VC fund in the shape of Indico Capital Partners 13/12/2018
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