This week we speak to Juliette-Marie Somerset, CEO & Managing Partner at Somerset Capital based in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

Juliette-Marie is a tech investor, advisor and mentor in early-stage global tech startups and social impact scale-ups and sits on a number of board of directors and board of advisors of tech start-ups, tech incubators and accelerators right across the globe, including Norrsken Impact Accelerator, UniRock Partners, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and Swiss-based CV Labs, and Yale University.

Throughout a career spanning over 30 years - first as a Wall Street investment banker and now as a tech investor, advisor and mentor, Juliette-Marie has been consistently a leader and champion of diversity and inclusion.  She is passionately and fiercely dedicated to empowering other women leaders, game-changing tech innovators and underrepresented entrepreneurs globally.   We discuss with Juliette-Marie: 

· Investment in female-led or majority owned start-ups in the tech space remains stubbornly low – still in the low single figures in terms of percentages – we discuss with Juliette-Marie the sea change that needs to happen to really lift or accelerate this change

· Where Juliette-Marie believes the bright spots for tech investment over the next few years

· Whether there is a growing technology gap – especially when it comes to the development of 'transversal technologies' - between Europe on the one hand and China and the US on the other

· The principles that underpin the Norrsken Impact Accelerator

· Juliette-Marie’s view on Patagonia’s recent announcement

· Market disruption vs market destruction

· Whether the Metaverse is a fantasy or the future 

· What the characteristics are that will define the next generation of entrepreneurs

· Some of the tech giants are almost natural monopolies in their sectors – Juliette-Marie offers her view on what their responsibility is in return for this privilege

· Juliette-Marie’s advice in terms of the key components to creating and driving a culture of innovation

· How tech businesses keep a culture of innovation going after a charismatic leader leaves

· Where the next generation of tech hubs will be

If you’d like to learn more about what Juliette and her team do, please go to:

www.somersetcapital.ai

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