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, Qonto, Funding Circle, Bunq, 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

At La Famiglia, a European seed and growth-stage venture capital fund focused on technology companies transforming large industries like Banking, I handled the full due diligence process—sourcing startups, evaluating potential, and presenting investment proposals to the investment committee. Portfolio companies of La Famiglia include Deel, Stripe, Baobap, Atlar, and Mistral. I also organized La Famiglia's Annual General Meeting for LPs and a gala event for 250+ founders, investors, and industry leaders from Europe and the US, facilitating key connections across our network.

Early Stage Investing

2022 - 2022

Pre-Seed Team, supporting entrepreneurs in the very early stages. Portfolio companies of Picus include Carla, Xepelin, Aplazo, Alma, Billie, Rain, and many more fintechs.

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

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