A few days ago, I conducted a small focus group with four young girls aged 16–18 to serve as input for some of the work we’re doing with 2hearts to support children and young adults from underprivileged backgrounds in finding a career path into the tech world. When it comes…

I had longer discussions about the benefits and challenges of working from home or remotely with many investors, founders, mothers and fathers over the past weeks. As the shift to digital work began to accelerate at lightning speed, much of the discussion was focused on the nuts and bolts: how…

A new dawn and an old divide… Work After Covid-19: An Opportunity In the light of Covid-19, many of us try to see beyond the crisis and hardship, instead focusing on possible opportunities that might arise once we have defeated the virus. Working in Venture Capital, my job is to observe technologies and make sense…

With 2019 forming the end as well as the beginning of a new decade, I have been reviewing the machine learning investments we at La Famiglia have made over the past years. …

In my home country Germany, privacy is important. This country has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world, and for good reason. Germany has gone through two regimes of mass surveillance in less than 100 years, first in the Third Reich and then in the GDR. The dark…

A few days ago, I attended a female founders event in Berlin, an initiative driven by a growing number of wonderful women in Venture Capital, aiming to better connect female founders with female VCs. The panel discussion by senior VC professionals focussed on the best approach to fundraising. …