Maria

Freelancer at Carreer Break (2024-04 – Present)

• Focusing on projects like yoga teacher training, fundraising for a non-profit and freelancing in real estate

Transaction Manager at FASE (2024-11 – 2026-03)

• Built and executed sales pipeline of impact ventures and partner organisations for a new service from 0 to 1
• Supported in advising clients on equity story, pitch deck and financial planning for investor fundraising
• Organised regular industry events for impact founders and represented FASE publicly at ecosystem events

Venture Scout at Value Scale (2024-03 – Present)

• Opening founders the door to an international family office and entrepreneur network

Investment Associate at Companisto (2023-04 – 2024-02)

• Managed deal flow, talked with founders, conducted commercial and financial due diligence, wrote investment memos, and coordinated two equity crowd investing campaigns (€1.7m and €0.5m)

Strategy Consultant while studying Design Thinking at Diconium (2022-11 – 2023-02)

• Redesigned internal knowledge management system and maintained existing knowledge library

Innovation Consultant while studying in Master's at Boldheart (2022-03 – 2022-08)

• Delivered end-to-end an international market research project for an EdTech client

Venture Development Intern at Razor Group (2021-07 – 2021-10)

• Set up and executed agile web development processes in Asana, tracked KPIs of five D2C online shops, helped to recruit four D2C tech and creative hires by executing end-to-end process incl. onboarding in D2C team

Entrepreneur in Residence Intern at Vantik (2021-01 – 2021-06)

• Supported product launch in fintech focusing on compliance management, analyzed market and competitors, and prepared documents for a €1.5m Pre-Series A funding and board meeting

Business Development Intern at Lumiform (2020-10 – 2021-01)

• Built a multilingual SaaS customer onboarding flow in HubSpot and secured €50,000 in public funding

Public Relations Intern at absolutionPR (2015-06 – 2015-12)

• Created clipping reports for fashion and lifestyle clients, managed sample distribution, and supported at events

Certificate in Design Thinking – Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam (2022-10 – 2023-03)

MA in Strategic Management for Global Business – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan (2021-10 – 2022-08)

BA in Business Administration and Economics – Humboldt University Berlin (2016-09 – 2020-08)

Exchange Semester – Bocconi University Milan (2019-02 – 2019-07)