#33 Cristina Fonseca, Indico Capital Partners

Cristina Fonseca is a Venture Partner at Indico Capital Partners and one of Portugal's most successful tech entrepreneurs and a true pioneer in the ecosystem. Cristina has co-founded Talkdesk, a cloud-based help desk software that became Portugal's third unicorn and is valued at over 3 billion euros. In Cristina's own words she has: "worn various hats, be it engineering and coding, design and user experience, product management, customer relations, processes or knowledge management." And, in fact, the list could go on. In this episode, you’ll learn:- How Cristina has transitioned from founder to VC & why she believes there are no shortcuts- What Cristina's startup experience brings to Indico and how the team at Indico complements each other.- What Cristina has learned from Indico's move into new geographies and what to expect and invest & how to avoid getting the bad apples