Nina Wöss has spent 13 years in VC. She started at SpeedInvest as an intern, became a VC all-rounder, and then left to co-found Female Founders Global and then decided to build a fund on top of that.

What could go wrong?

They started fundraising in early 2022. Russia invaded Ukraine. Crypto winter hit. Stock markets tanked. Everyone told them, do you really want to do this now? 

They did it anyway. 

And then spent years simultaneously investing in companies, building a team, leading that team, and still fundraising. Nina says this period almost ended badly, to be very honest.

Fund F is now a €28 million fund.

We get into 👇:
★ Why founders wildly underestimate what building a company does to you as a person
★ Starting Female Founders Global as a nonprofit and why they eventually had to build a fund
★ Fundraising through war, crypto winter and a tanking market and doing it anyway
★ The period that almost ended badly, and what she learned about taking care of herself
★ Why the most common reason Fund F says no has nothing to do with the founder
★ What VCs are actually looking for that most founders never think to research

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