Cristina Fonseca

Cristina Fonseca
Fonseca in 2013
Born (1987-11-14) November 14, 1987 (age 37)
Cercal, Ourém, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
OccupationVenture Partner of Indico Capital Partners

Cristina Fonseca is a Portuguese tech entrepreneur, angel investor and engineer, better known as one of the founders of Talkdesk, a cloud-based help desk software that became Portugal's third "unicorn" after raising US$100M in series B funding at a valuation of over US$1 billion in October 2018.[1][2][3]

She is an alumnus of the Instituto Superior Técnico[4] of Lisbon where she studied telecommunications and networks engineering.[5] Fonseca later did the Global Solutions Program at Singularity University[6] and specialised in Artificial Intelligence.

In 2016 Fonseca was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list under the enterprise technology category[7] and in 2017 she became an Agenda Contributor to the World Economic Forum.[8][9]

In 2018, Fonseca became a venture partner at Indico Capital Partners, the first Portuguese private venture capital fund investing in Portugal and Spain early-stage, tech-focused startups.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ inVentures - Portugal has a new unicorn 03/10/2018
  2. ^ Forbes - CEO Tech Talk: Talkdesk Achieved Unicorn Status By Building A Call Center In The Cloud 10/10/2018
  3. ^ Forbes Portugal - Investidora de fogo 30/10/2018
  4. ^ Técnico Lisboa - Founders@DEI with Cristina Fonseca 05/04/2018
  5. ^ Técnico Lisboa - Cristina Fonseca regressa ao Técnico para inspirar futuros empreendedores 05/04/2018
  6. ^ Medium - 10 weeks at Singularity University in review 07/09/2016
  7. ^ Forbes - The 30 Under 30 In Enterprise Technology For 2016 04/01/2016
  8. ^ World Economic Forum - Cristina Fonseca
  9. ^ World Economic Forum - Global Shapers
  10. ^ TechCrunch - Lisbon finally gets a substantial VC fund in the shape of Indico Capital Partners 13/12/2018
  11. ^ Crowdfund Insider - New VC Fund from Indico Capital Partners to Target Fintech and More 12/01/2019