We’re excited to bring you the latest edition of our European Women in VC x Morphais Spotlight. 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. 🚀
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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 Morphais, we bring founders who are redesigning entire markets: From energy transition, to early disease detection.
💥 Meet female founders that are building the infrastructure of tomorrow:
🇬🇧 PlutosX
#B2B2C #AI #FinTech #SaaS
About the Company
PloutosX is a private limited company based in 🏴 England and 🏴 Wales, specializing in the development of a next-generation operating system for alternative investments.
👩🏽💻About the Founder
Female founder Natasa Kyprianidou brings 25 years of expertise in banking, product, and technology. Roles include Senior Director (ex-Alvarez & Marsal), Senior Director Product Management (ex-Publicis Sapient), Head of Digital Banking & Innovation (ex-Hellenic Bank), as well as Product Portfolio & Digital Delivery Director from top company (ex-Barclays UK). Holds an academic background in Economics and founding experience with Fintecher Stories, a fintech newsletter format.
🇩🇪 Insellar
#B2B #HealthTech #MedTech
About the Company
Insellar is developing a new class of brain interfaces that integrate with the body’s systems to enhance mental health.
🕵🏼👩🏼⚕️ About the Founders
Selina Greuel and Hamed Bahmani form a founding team with a PhD in Neuroscience and academic backgrounds from top universities (Max Planck Society, Charité, Cambridge). Previous founding experience with Dopavision, a medical device startup. Raised €14.7m in Series A from investors (including Seventure Partners and Novartis Venture Fund). Professional experience includes roles at different ventures as well as Project Lead at top research institute (ex-Max Planck Institute).
🇩🇪 Aury Care
#B2C #AI #Healtech
About the Company
Aury Care offers 24/7 psychological counseling through Aury AI on WhatsApp, providing structured sessions or casual conversations.
🧑🏽💻🙋🏼♀️🧔🏻 About the Founders
Saskia Fester, Robert Wasenmüller, and Maximilian Rank form a diverse founding trio with academic backgrounds in Mathematics, Psychology, and Economics from top universities (UC Berkeley, Humboldt University Berlin, LSE, LMU). Professional experience at a top company (ex-IBM) and previously held roles as Venture Builder & Head of Operations (ex-DocMorris), Venture Developer & Growth Manager (ex-Rocket Internet SE), and Psychologist.
🇬🇧 Stealth Founder: Mariza Fotiou
#FemaleFounder #FounderExperience #TopCompanyAlumni
👩🏽 About the Founder
Mariza Fotiou has an academic background in Finance and over 15 years of experience in Digital Transformation, Product Management, and Financial Services. Professional background includes senior leadership roles at top companies (ex-BP, ex-HSBC) as Vice President Digital Product Management, Chief Operating Officer Digital, and Senior Programme Manager. Previous founding experience with Curious IQ, a social enterprise focused on data analytics and digital education.
🇬🇧 Structured AI
#B2B #AI #SaaS #ConstructionTech
About the Company
Structured AI develops AI solutions for design engineers, aiming to reduce manual project documentation time by 30%.
👨🏽💻👩🏼🏫🧔🏻 About the Founders
With backgrounds in Physics, Economics and Mathematics from top university (Oxford), Issy Greenslade, Raymond Zhao, and Brandon Abreu Smith form a young founding team. Internship and work experiences at top companies (ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-EY, ex-Octopus Ventures) and experience as Fund Directors at Europe’s largest student-led VC with £2.5m to invest (ex-Oxford Seed Fund).
That’s all for this month’s spotlight. At European Women in VC x Morphais, we believe in amplifying the talent and vision of women shaping Europe’s innovation.
💡 Stay tuned, we’ll be back in a couple of weeks with another round of female founders to watch.
👉 If you’d like to nominate a founder for the spotlight, reach out!
As European Women in VC, we’ll keep spotlighting founders who show us where capital, policy, and partnerships must go next. With Europe already trailing the US, we simply can’t afford to leave half the talent pool untapped. Together with Morphais, we’re here to make sure these founders, and the markets they’re reshaping, are impossible to overlook.
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Morphais - Data intelligence company, empower venture funds, corporates, tech companies, family offices, and other investment professionals in finding and accessing relevant (pre-) seed startups and founders as early as possible.Through their platform, they maximize the sourcing options for venture firms, ensuring they see a wide range of potential startups deals and connect them with top-notch founders.
Morphais long-term vision is to serve as the ultimate bridge between capital and entrepreneurs. In this way, they aim to diversify the startup landscape and ensure that brilliant ideas and diverse teams get the visibility and funding they deserve.
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