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Cristina Fonseca
Cristina Fonseca in 2013
Born (1987-11-14) November 14, 1987 (age 36)
NationalityPortuguese
OccupationVenture Partner of Indico Capital Partners

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[1].

She is an alumni of the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon where she studied telecommunications and networks engineering[2]. Cristina later did the Global Solutions Program at Singularity University[3] and specialised in Artificial Intelligence.

In 2016 Cristina was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list under the enterprise technology category[4] and in 2017 she became an Agenda Contributor to the World Economic Forum[5].

In 2018, Cristina 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[6].


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