Juliette Souliman

Principal at Portage Ventures

Speaker

Juliette Souliman is a VC investor specializing in Fintech, Insurtech and Crypto investments. She serves as a Principal at Sagard - Portage, one of the largest VC funds in the world focusing exclusively on FinTech early stage investments, with $2.5bn AUM.

With offices in Toronto, Montreal, NYC and Paris - Juliette opened and is leading the first UK Portage Ventures' office in London - where she leads on sourcing, executing and managing fintech Series A to Series C investments with ticket sizes ranging from $1m to $30m.

Prior to Portage, 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. Juliette also served as Chief Commercial Officer in a FinTech start-up working on tokenizing income sharing agreements & co-founded Ground Floor Ventures, a UK based angel syndicate.

Juliette is a fierce advocate for more diversity in FinTech and especially in FinTech funding. She has been a mentor on various programs including London & Partners and Women in FinTech UK Department for International Trade among others. 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.