Speakers

Terese Hougaard is a Partner  at the London-headquartered venture capital firm Atomico, investing in gamechanging technology companies. Terese is part of the venture stage investment team at Atomico, where she leads investments in climate and fintech. Currently she sits on the boards of Abacum, Vaayu, Opna, Aplo and Gaia, and played a vital role in Atomico’s investments in Qatalog and Y42. Terese joined Atomico after five years at Alphabet’s investment fund CapitalG, based in San Francisco. There, she invested in or worked with companies like Stripe, Robinhood, Gusto, and UiPath, and worked on the fund’s India investments and strategy. Prior to that, she spent time in Google’s UK SMB marketing team and held roles in strategy consulting and e-commerce business development at American Express.