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.inVentures - Portugal has a new unicorn 03/10/2018Forbes - CEO Tech Talk: Talkdesk Achieved Unicorn Status By Building A Call Center In The Cloud 10/10/2018Forbes Portugal - Investidora de fogo 30/10/2018
She is an alumnus of the Instituto Superior TécnicoTécnico Lisboa - Founders@DEI with Cristina Fonseca 05/04/2018 of Lisbon where she studied telecommunications and networks engineering.Técnico Lisboa - Cristina Fonseca regressa ao Técnico para inspirar futuros empreendedores 05/04/2018 Fonseca later did the Global Solutions Program at Singularity UniversityMedium - 10 weeks at Singularity University in review 07/09/2016 and specialised in Artificial Intelligence.
In 2016 Fonseca was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list under the enterprise technology categoryForbes - The 30 Under 30 In Enterprise Technology For 2016 04/01/2016 and in 2017 she became an Agenda Contributor to the World Economic Forum.World Economic Forum - Cristina FonsecaWorld Economic Forum - Global Shapers
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.TechCrunch - Lisbon finally gets a substantial VC fund in the shape of Indico Capital Partners 13/12/2018Crowdfund Insider - New VC Fund from Indico Capital Partners to Target Fintech and More 12/01/2019
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