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Portuguese entrepreneur and investor (born 1987)
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Cristina Fonseca
Fonseca in 2013
Born (1987-11-14) November 14, 1987 (age 37)
Cercal, Ourém, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
OccupationVenture 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.

She is an alumnus of the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon where she studied telecommunications and networks engineering. Fonseca later did the Global Solutions Program at Singularity University and specialised in Artificial Intelligence.

In 2016 Fonseca was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list under the enterprise technology category and in 2017 she became an Agenda Contributor to the World Economic Forum.

In 2018, Fonseca 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.

References

  1. inVentures - Portugal has a new unicorn 03/10/2018
  2. Forbes - CEO Tech Talk: Talkdesk Achieved Unicorn Status By Building A Call Center In The Cloud 10/10/2018
  3. Forbes Portugal - Investidora de fogo 30/10/2018
  4. Técnico Lisboa - Founders@DEI with Cristina Fonseca 05/04/2018
  5. Técnico Lisboa - Cristina Fonseca regressa ao Técnico para inspirar futuros empreendedores 05/04/2018
  6. Medium - 10 weeks at Singularity University in review 07/09/2016
  7. Forbes - The 30 Under 30 In Enterprise Technology For 2016 04/01/2016
  8. World Economic Forum - Cristina Fonseca
  9. World Economic Forum - Global Shapers
  10. TechCrunch - Lisbon finally gets a substantial VC fund in the shape of Indico Capital Partners 13/12/2018
  11. Crowdfund Insider - New VC Fund from Indico Capital Partners to Target Fintech and More 12/01/2019

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