Founder & General Partner, OpenseedVC

Maria is an operator turned investor. Before transitioning to investing, a better part of the first decade of her career was spent scaling multinational technology startups like Uber and Branch.co in leadership roles such as Country Manager and General Manager to millions of customers, and dollars in revenue.

Prior to Openseed VC, Maria was a Fund Manager at Octopus Ventures First Cheque Fund and before that, was the Managing Director of the Oxford Seed Fund.

Maria holds an MBA from the University of Oxford, a BSc. in Computer Science from Covenant University, and is also certified Chartered Accountant with the ACCA in the United Kingdom.

Maria is an experienced day zero investor having invested in over 60 startups, assessed over 7,000 startups mostly in the earliest stages.