Ekaterina Almasque

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at BlankPage Capital

Speaker

Ekaterina, a founding partner of BlankPage Capital, is one of Europe’s most visionary venture capitalists (VC) who has been investing in breakthrough technology companies in AI, cloud and data infrastructure, energy efficiency, quantum computing, and cybersecurity for almost two decades.

Previously, as a General Partner at OpenOcean VC and a Managing Director at Samsung Catalyst Fund, she has led investments and served on the boards of companies such as GraphCore (acquired by SoftBank), IQM Quantum Computers, AIMotive (acquired by Stellantis), LatticeFlow.ai, Hygraph, Bitrise, and Binalyze. In addition, she was deeply involved in strategic initiatives to create $20B+ business opportunities for Samsung, EMC/Dell and Siemens. Passionate about building a strong technology ecosystem, she has invested in other deep tech Venture Capital funds across Europe.

Ekaterina has lived and worked in Silicon Valley, plus several countries in Europe and Latin America. Before becoming a VC, Ekaterina was an entrepreneur and a software architect creating cutting edge companies and solutions, including some of the first e-commerce technology platforms in the early 2000’s. She has co-founded European Women in VC network, is serving as an expert at the European Commission since 2003, and is a Mentor at CDL for the Next Generation Compute, AI and Quantum since 2019. Ekaterina has been named among Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space.