SPEAKER’S PROFILE

Juliette Souliman is a Principal at Sagard, Portage Ventures and joined the firm in 2022. Juliette is based in London, UK and is responsible for all aspects of the investment process.Prior to Sagard, Juliette was an early-stage fintech VC investor at Octopus Ventures and then MMC Ventures, both UK funds, focusing on Pre-seed to Series B investment opportunities. There Juliette was responsible for sourcing, investing, and portfolio managing deals in the FinTech, InsurTech and Crypto sectors. Prior to that, Juliette served as Chief Commercial Officer in a FinTech start-up working on tokenizing and trading income-sharing agreements.Juliette  was named one of the ten most trailblazing female VCs in London by Business Insider and is listed Forbes 30 under 30 by Forbes magazine in 2020. Juliette holds a BSc in International Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands. She specialized in new venture financing at Babson College in the USA and earned an MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship from Cass Business School, London, UK.