Terese Hougaard

Partner, Investment Team

2020 - Current

Currently focus on fintech and on climate, investing in late seed and s. A rounds. Led investments & board member in Abacum (finance b2b SaaS), Vaayu (carbon accounting) and Opna (carbon financing) and part of Atomico's investments in Y42 (data), Aplo (crypto) and Qatalog (collaboration). Ran Atomico's Angel Programme 2020-21.

Partner

2017 - 2020

CapitalG is Alphabet's growth equity investment fund. Worked with late stage investments incl. Stripe, Robinhood, Airbnb and UiPath. Board member & observer of India based Cuemath (edtech), Cardekho (car classifieds) and Practo (healthtech).

Vice President

2016 - 2017

Growth Lead

2015 - 2016

Head of Marketing

2017 - 2018

Grasshopper is a coding app startup that is part of Google's Area120 incubator. Headed the 4-member marketing team, developing and launching the brand and marketing strategy. https://grasshopper.codes/

Product Marketing Manager, SMB Marketing

2014 - 2015

Built the brand for The Digital Garage, Google's new UK SMB digital skills product. Also headed SMB co-marketing and education efforts for Google's SMB agency resellers.

Manager, Business Development and Marketing, Online Commerce

2013 - 2014

Drove business development for AXP in the online payments space, by launching marketing partnerships with payment start-ups, such as Braintree and PayPal.

Manager, The Strategic Planning Group

2011 - 2013

SPG is AXP's internal strategy consulting group. Worked on strategic projects for AXP's CEO and senior executives across the organization.