Fadwa Ouardani

Investment Principal

2024 - Current

We invest in mission-driven founders, not companies. We prefer to invest in the first round, though we occasionally write initial checks at later stages. We commit for the long run. We are sector-agnostic but we love deep-tech. Portfolio companies include among others Palantir Technologies, Taulia, Socotra, Context Logic (Wish), Evernote, CapLinked, Spectrum Investments, Open Door, Zipline, Properly, Simscale, Osaro, Polyspectra, Aether Bio, Ashby, Asyncy, Eligible, WayUp, Xage, Lampenwelt, Robin Hood, Klara, Qualia Labs, Aizon, Luna, Shogun (Hearth), Mosaic Finance, Cantourage, Seed Legals, Sava, Gordian, Form Logic, Vector, Bryte, Gartenhaus, Free Form,

VC Investor

2022 - 2024

XAnge is a leading European venture capital firm based in Paris, Berlin and Munich. We invest in European early-stage innovative technology companies operating in the fields of Digital consumer, Enterprise & Data, Fintech, and Deeptech. Since its creation in 2003, XAnge has backed more than 200 fast-growing companies in their entrepreneurial journeys.  We work alongside visionary founders with strong values and International ambitions such as Ledger, Odoo, Lydia, Believe Digital,... XAnge is the Venture arm of Siparex, an independent investment group with €2Bn under management.

Ambassador

2022 - 2023

The Female Founders organization and large community are on a mission to create equal opportunities for entrepreneurial women in the European tech and innovation ecosystem. Female Founders' team is behind Europe’s fastest-growing community of entrepreneurial women. Together we make sure to take action to provide access to funding for female founders and to provide opportunities for women in tech & innovation. Learn more about our programs here: https://www.female-founders.org/

Machine Learning PM and business lead

2019 - 2022

https://merantix-momentum.com/ We conceptualize, build, and scale machine learning companies through our unique incubation environment which is built on trust in our brand, technological synergies across use cases and relentless product focus. Our ventures target domains that today depend heavily on human decision making to address complex problems. This includes a system to automate breast cancer screening, a testing platform for self-driving cars as well as an engine for automated trading. In close collaboration with leading European industry players, we are currently incubating three companies which will soon become independent businesses. However, we are growing beyond our current portfolio. Within our dedicated MX Labs unit we are constantly exploring AI use cases in new and adjacent industries together with our partners. We are growing fast and looking to expand our Berlin based team of outstanding software engineers, machine intelligence engineers, and entrepreneurs.

Product Strategy

2019 - 2020

Vara leverages A.I. technology to make high-quality medical diagnoses available to everyone. https://www.varahealthcare.com/ We leverage machine learning technology to make high quality medical diagnostics available for everyone at affordable prices. We have built a diagnostic platform designed for medical specialists to read medical images at much higher scale and quality. Our platform is soon available for clinical use within Europe.

Strategy Consultant

2017 - 2019

- Implementation of the 5 pillars of digital transformation (studio, platform, academy, data, factory) and associated governance - Realization of digital web, mobile, data and cognitive projects in an industrialized way - Implementation of the transformation projects required for scaling up: setting up a studio, setting up a large-scale agile operation, devops transformation, upskilling projects, reskilling, young talents, data lab, cognitive competence centre, etc.

Research consultant

2018 - 2018

Topic: How to regain trust among Google products users in the context of GDPR? • Recommendation on several products and services • Personal focus on Youtube and the relation with content creators

Public and press relations

2016 - 2016

Junior Consultant

2016 - 2016