EWVC x Evertrace: Female founders reshaping Europe’s future 🌱 | February Edition 👏🏼

Welcome to this month’s spotlight. We’re excited to bring you the latest edition of our European Women in VC x Evertrace Spotlight. In this space, we are dedicated to amplifying the vision of women driving Europe’s next wave of innovation. Each month, we will use this space to highlight outstanding startups across Europe led or co-led by inspiring women. These founders and leaders are driving innovation across sectors. This is not about numbers or gaps. It’s about celebrating the women building, leading, and scaling ventures that will shape our future! 🚀

👉 If you are a pre-seed startup and would like to be listed on Evertrace, feel free to reach out!

The next wave of venture growth it’s being written in labs, greenhouses, clinical trials, and stealth-mode garages. Who is at the helm of many of these frontier ventures? Female founders who are blending scientific depth with commercial firepower.

Together with Evertrace, we bring founders who are redesigning entire markets: From energy transition, to early disease detection. 🏃🏽‍♀️

📍 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom

dayli. is an AI voice assistant designed to learn your specific workflow and priorities. By digesting your emails, calendars, and notifications, it delivers a personalized voice briefing that helps busy professionals cut through digital noise and start every day with clarity on what matters most.

Yinnie Chan is a serial founder and VC-backed operator with over a decade of product leadership. Before dayli., she led product retention at Holland & Barrett, served as a PM at Gen H, and held growth roles at Dyson. She is an alumna of Warwick Business School and Harvard Online CS50x.

dayli. addresses the universal problem of information overload with a personalized AI layer. Built by a founder with deep product expertise at global brands, the company is positioned to turn a productivity tool into a daily habit for millions.

📍 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark

VAEV is an AI-powered platform that enables teams to create business applications without requiring developer skills. It productizes the repetitive, difficult parts of internal projects - from data pipelines to workflow logic - allowing companies to move from idea to working tool in a fraction of the usual time.

Louise Garde Wibroe is a seasoned technology leader with nearly two decades of experience. She was previously a Partner at Inviso and a Senior Consultant at QVARTZ. She holds Master’s degrees from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Technology Sydney.

VAEV tackles the growing developer shortage by empowering non-technical teams to build their own tools. Led by a founder who spent 19 years solving enterprise-level digital problems, VAEV is set to become the default for internal business innovation.

📍 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

Lentil Robotics develops robust robot vision for manufacturing. Its technology allows factories to automate complex tasks where objects appear in variable positions - a challenge that has historically required manual labor. By enabling robots to see and adapt in real-time, Lentil Robotics helps manufacturers boost throughput and reduce errors.

Amanda Malmqvist is a serial founder with deep roots in industrial robotics. She spent five years at Micropsi Industries, where she helped bring AI-driven robot control to factory floors across Europe. She holds a Master’s from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and studied at Columbia University.

Lentil Robotics targets a massive installed base of factories still running manual processes due to technical limitations. Malmqvist brings the technical credibility and industry network necessary to land early customers in a sector hungry for automation.

📍 🇬🇧 Cambridge, United Kingdom

ReadHug is a social venture that promotes literacy and sustainability through community initiatives. It builds products and programs that make it easy for families to read together while reducing waste, turning a simple daily habit into a force for both learning and environmental good.

Nita Wakan combines strategy consulting with climate finance. She was a researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, a Manager at EY-Parthenon, and a Team Lead at Accenture. She holds a Master of Finance from the University of Cambridge.

ReadHug sits at the intersection of two high-growth sectors: EdTech and Sustainability. Led by a Cambridge-educated founder with “Big Four” experience, the model is designed to be both commercially viable and socially impactful.

📍 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom

Your Connect is a curated network for founders, investors, and family offices. It acts as a platform to foster valuable, long-term relationships, helping members share deal flow and build the trust-based connections necessary to accelerate business growth.

Nathalie Sophie Sturm has 6 years of experience in finance. She previously held roles at Cube Green Energy, KanAm Grund Group, and SitusAMC. She holds degrees from EU Business School, and the University of Roehampton.

Your Connect addresses the rising demand for trusted deal flow networks. Sturm’s extensive background in investment gives her first-hand insight into the relationship-driven nature of capital movement.

📍 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden

Kite Motors is rethinking conventional car design from the ground up. Rooted in automotive engineering, the company is developing new approaches to how vehicles are conceived and structured, aiming to bring the next generation of mobility to market.

Saba Hajilou is an automotive engineer who rose through the ranks at Volvo Cars as a Body Structure Design Engineer. She was also a Team Leader at Manchester Stinger Motorsports and holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Manchester.

Kite Motors brings “Volvo DNA” to the challenge of reimagining vehicle design. Hajilou’s experience in real production programs, from concept to manufacturing, provides the rare combination of hands-on expertise and fresh thinking required in the automotive sector.

👉 If you’d like to nominate a founder for the spotlight, reach out!

Evertrace - Data-intelligence company that helps venture funds, corporates, tech companies, family offices, and other investment professionals discover the most promising (pre-)seed startups and founders before they appear on traditional radars. By tracking the earliest digital footprints across trade registries, code repositories, domains, research, patents, and social activity. Its “founder detection engine” turns scattered signals into a clear picture of who is building what, and where.

Through its platform, Evertrace massively expands a fund’s sourcing surface area, ensuring investors see a much broader – and more relevant – pipeline of early-stage opportunities and connect with exceptional founders while relationships are still truly proprietary. Evertrace’s long-term vision is to become the definitive bridge between capital and entrepreneurs: widening access, surfacing underestimated and diverse teams, and helping ensure that breakthrough ideas get the visibility and funding they deserve.

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