Ana-Maria Yanakieva

Junior Partner

2022 - Current

Head Of Investment

2021 - 2022

Investment Manager

2020 - 2021

Investor

2018 - 2020

As an investor I: - am looking for pre-seed and seed deals in web3.0 - am managing relationships with founders and VCs at pre-seed and seed stage in Europe & the US - have set up the startup fundraising and investor relations process for the accelerator - am working with portfolio companies on GTM and fundraising strategies - am running the investment pipeline, due diligence process for fund and accelerator investments - am running “Weekly Investor Profile” and ANA.vc - am participating in the end to end investment process - am identifying new market opportunities (eg Corona Tech, Web 2.5) - am aiding on fundraising and enriching thesis for the firm Outlier Ventures is an early stage venture capital platform focused on the convergence of emerging technologies with deep expertise in web 3.0, DLT, AI, IoT. We provide not only capital but post-investment support like business development, token economics, branding and positioning, technology and more.

Mentor

2020 - 2020

Helping talented individuals access and plan for a career in Venture Capital.

Investment Analyst

2017 - 2018

Aiding the partnership through: • Assessing market opportunities across Enterprise, Frontier Tech, Marketplaces. • Extensive research on Blockchain technology. • Performing due diligence on early stage deals (seed). • Structuring a guidelines framework for deal evaluation and testing different approaches to deals evaluation. • Sourcing deals in Europe and the UK. LAUNCHub Ventures is an early stage (seed) venture capital fund with tendencies of investing in digital space (SaaS, Enterprise Software, Health-tech, E-commerce, Mobile, IoT).

Junior Accountant

2012 - 2015

Norma Doors is a boutique accounting company working with domestic and international clients operating in Agriculture, Automotive, Architecture, Construction, E-commerce, Energy, Health, Hospitality, Insurance, Retail, Transport. My duties included: - processing documents - issuing invoices - carrying out research in the county archives - attending client meetings - verbal and written correspondence with the foreign clients - shadowing the financial consultants executing deals I was working part time throughout the academic year and full time in summers. This job complements my Professional Qualification in Economics (obtained in 2015).