About Us
Learn more about our vision and the team behind Sie Ventures.
Why we started Sie?
As former founders and investors, we’ve seen the vast opportunity in backing diverse founding teams, particularly women.
Despite this, only 2% of venture capital funding is secured by female founded teams. We have experienced the biases in fundraising first hand, having sat on the other side of the table as investors. Plus, we know there’s a significant degree of untapped potential across huge markets, where women have shown to be creating innovative solutions.
We launched Sie Ventures to address this and provide female founders with equal access - to capital and network - as well as demystify the fundraising process. We bring more transparency to venture capital, with the aim to unlock opportunities for exceptional founders and drive more wealth into the hands of women - both as investors and entrepreneurs.
Our founders’ success will positively impact the future generation and build a more equitable future for female entrepreneurs.
Our Team
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Triin Linamagi
Co-Founder & CEO
Triin is a former entrepreneur turned investor with experience from The Venture Collective, Founders Factory, and Startupbootcamp. She was in the Founding teams of three technology startups across FinTech and Future of Work.
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Jess McCarten
Head of Operations
Jess is a highly experienced Community Builder having previously helped Creators find and grow their communities at TikTok and prior to then, designed and operated The Rattle's global community - an incubator for artists and technologists - as Chief Community Officer.
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Rita Cherradi
Venture Partner, Syndicate Lead
Rita is a former operator turned VC investor, with experience gained at Antler and Zinc VC. Joining newly founded teams as first employee, Rita built out teams and held Head of Growth roles at high-growth tech companies across Health-Tech, Consumer & Sustainability sectors.
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Ella Meiss
Operations Fellow
Ella is a recent B.Sc. psychology graduate and particularly interested in startups that are devoted to improving mental health and quality of life. She is passionate about supporting female founders on their journey and contributing her people lens to promote successful talent acquisition and team development for business success.
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Karolina Fratczak
Venture Fellow
Karolina is a seasoned consultant and communications specialist, with a strong background in collaborating with Pharma and MedTechs. She has Master's degree in Bioscience Entrepreneurship at UCL and she’s big women’s health advocate.
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Experts in Residence
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Maya Ghosn Bichara
Storytelling
Investor at Bridge Builders Collaborative and advisor with an angel portfolio of 25+ companies. Scout at Sequoia. Previously Director of Operations at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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Jannat Shah Rajan
Financial Modelling
Head of Finance at Lean Technologies. Previously Head of Strategic Finance at Hopin and Investor at AXA Venture Partners.
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Alena Maran
Business Model and Storytelling
Director of Strategy & Sustainability within M&A at Avery Dennison. Previously consulting at PWC and Deutsche Bank.
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Edwina Johnson
Operations & Scale
Head of Global at Alloy and Angel investor at Ada Ventures. Formerly COO of Startupbootcamp FinTech NYC and London, and co-founder of an AdTech startup.
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Viktoria Ruubel
Product
Senior product leader with experience building and scaling products at Skype, Facebook, Tide, Intuit & Veriff.
Women control $72 trillion of the world's wealth and will inherit 70% of the wealth passed down from the previous generation.
Teams with at least one female founder deliver high exit returns which have increased by 2.5x from 2020 to 2021 ($31.4bn to $73.3bn).
Backing female entrepreneurs could increase global GDP by up to $1.6- $2.3 tn. – approx. 2-3% of global GDP – and generate 288-433 million jobs globally.
Companies with diverse founding teams perform 2.5x better than those without.
How you can work with us?
We measure our impact by the number of investments and the amount of capital going to founding teams with at least one female founder. How are we doing this?
Sie Catalyst
A 3-month educational program to provide founders with better access to capital, investor network and support on their fundraising journey.
Sie Syndicate
We are a curated community of 120+ accredited angel investors determined to change the landscape for female founders by bringing smaller tickets together under one line on the cap table.