Diaspora
What CEE Startups Need More Than Money
The Central and Eastern European (CEE) has grown remarkably over the past decade, yet despite this, the region’s startup ecosystem remains constrained. And the bottleneck is not a lack of capital, nor is it simply a matter of political risk or market size, as people sometimes assume… The CEE...
e2vc Principal Tunya Irkad on Getting Into VC and Funding “Insane Founders”
“People often ask how I got into VC straight out of college. Truth is, it’s rare — funds often prioritize immediate execution over mentoring their talent,” tweeted Tunya Irkad last summer. Now Principal of e2vc, managing a fund about €70 million that invests in startups across Central & Eastern Europe,...
I Scaled Startups Across Continents. Now I Help People Discover Africa
If you told me a few years ago that I’d go from scaling venture-backed startups across continents to helping people book safaris in Africa, I might have raised an eyebrow, and then probably asked for the pitch deck. My career hasn’t followed a clean, thematic path. It’...
