Ekaterina has been working in the European tech space for the past 17 years – first as an operator scaling tech companies, then as an investor backing early-stage teams. Currently, she is a Venture Partner at Calm/Storm, the most active early-stage digital health investor in Europe. Previously, Ekaterina invested with Inventure, a leading seed investor in the Nordics, half of the time as a General Partner of the firm. Prior to joining Inventure, she was part of the team that scaled Fjord from a small consultancy into a leading design and innovation firm globally (Fjord was acquired by Accenture Interactive in 2013). Ekaterina holds a degree in Economics from Moscow State University and is also Finland’s only Kauffman Fellow, representing the largest network of VCs and innovation leaders in the world.