Paulina Westermann

GTM Strategy & Business Development Lead

2024 - Current

Taktile is the leading risk infrastructure platform for scaling fintechs and banks. It empowers risk teams at e.g. Zilch, Funding Circle, Banch, and Mercury to build, test, and improve automated decision flows through a low-code, intuitive but flexible interface. Taktile helps the most sophisticated lenders iterate and bring products to market quicker, adapt to change with fewer resources, and constantly improve their margins.

Business Development

2023 - 2024

Early Stage Investing

2022 - 2023

La Famiglia is a European seed and growth stage venture capital fund investing in technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries. My responsibilities included conducting due diligence processes, from initial sourcing to presenting investment proposals to the investment committee. In addition to my investment-related work, I organized La Famiglia's Annual General Meeting for LPs as well as a gala for 250+ founders, investors, and industry leaders from Europe and the US.

Early Stage Investing

2022 - 2022

Pre-Seed Team, supporting entrepreneurs in the very early stages

Product Management

2021 - 2022

Tacto builds software that helps industrial procurement leaders to future-proof and improve sustainable supply chains. I supported the product and engineering team with testing and developing new features, conducting user interviews and monitoring product metrics. Joined at pre-seed stage, by now Tacto has raised a €50M Series A led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures

Commercial Projects

2021 - 2021

Working Student: Sector Management: Technology, Media and Telecommunications

2020 - 2020

Project Management

2016 - 2018

The best advertising agency in the game :)