Marguerite de Tavernost

VC Investor (web3)

2022 - Current

Cathay Ledger Capital is a €100M early-stage venture fund. We aim at unlocking the full potential of Web3 and reaching the next billion users while ensuring security and trust at scale. We invest globally, at Seed & Series A. If you're building a web3 company or want to chat all things web3, do reach out! marguerite@cathay.fr marguerite.detavernost-ext@ledger.fr

Cathay Ledger Fund

2022

Cathay Ledger Capital is a €100M early-stage venture fund. We aim at unlocking the full potential of Web3 and reaching the next billion users while ensuring security and trust at scale. We invest globally, at Seed & Series A. If you're building a web3 company or want to chat all things web3, do reach out!

Artist (Photographer & NFT creator)

2022

Investor

2019 - 2022

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando, Groupon and Spotify. Cherry backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of their businesses. Cherry has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Flaschenpost, Forto, and Flink. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Investment Team

2018 - 2019

e.ventures is a global venture capital fund with $1.4B under management and presence in Berlin, San Francisco, São Paulo, Tokyo and Beijing. Investments include The Real Real, Farfetch, Bird, NGINX, Groupon, Sonos, Segment, Deposit Solutions, Acorns, Blinkist, Staffbase and others.

Head of Sider Acquisition UK & FR

2017 - 2018

Head of Operations UK

2017 - 2017

Side (side.co) is a platform that matches students with flexible jobs for fast growing companies like Deliveroo, Appear Here, Urban Massage, and Hellofresh. We allow companies to outsource tasks to freelancers whenever they need an extra pair of hands for a few hours or over a few weeks. In less than 24 hours, we provide such companies with the best temp workers matching specific criteria (availability, location, skills) and we cover the end-to-end process for them (profile selection, payment, insurance, etc). “Siders” help with a broad range of services such as sales, customer support, event management, logistics, data entry. Side raised a total of 6.5M€ with the support of renown investors like Xavier Niel (Zenly, Source{d}, Payfit), Connect Ventures (Citymapper, Typeform) and Fly Ventures.

Venture Analyst

2015 - 2017

Founders Intelligence is a specialist consultancy advising corporates and investors on digital strategy. We also enable our clients to find, partner with and invest in technology start-ups from across the globe. We were born out of Founders Forum, an exclusive network of the most successful technology entrepreneurs and investors.

Google Business Associate Intern

2014 - 2014

EMEA Marketing, Brand and Reputation - Growth Engine team

Intern

2012 - 2012

Public Relations Intern

2011 - 2011