Founding Partner, Haystack Ventures
Olivia is the Founding Partner of Vital Ventures (ex Haystack Ventures) a pan-European early-stage deep-tech fund, focusing on European technological sovereignty in computing, energy and health.
She is part of the College of Experts of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology of the British Government, a group of 70 nationwide experts providing expert advice to inform innovation policies and projects. She is also a consultant for The World Bank on Technology Transfer practices in European emerging economies and a Senior Fellow in Industry and Enterprise at Clare Hall College, Cambridge.
Before creating Vital, Olivia was a Director at PwC, where she supported startups in international fundraising rounds. Prior to that, Olivia was part of various early-stage deep-tech venture capital funds – Eureka! Venture, ACF Investors and Cambridge Enterprise (Ventures), where she invested in research-based deep-tech spinouts emerging from the work of academic and student entrepreneurs from the University of Cambridge.
Olivia holds a PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and a Masters and Bachelor in Physics from Università Statale di Milano.
