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Ewa Treitz

Ewa Treitz

Black Pearls VC

Entrepreneur and investor. Ewa served in multiple management roles at Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital funds in Germany, Sweden and USA. Between 2012 and 2015 she was responsible for venture investments in innovative European startups for a large US corporate 3M, based in St Paul, Minnesota. She represented 3M in multiple Boards of Directors of its portfolio companies. Prior to that she worked as an associate at Sustainable Technologies Fund in Stockholm, a mid-size cleantech expansion-stage fund with a focus on the Scandinavian market.

Founder and CEO of a promising company in the area of advanced robotics. The company builds on years of research in artificial intelligence and robotics at the Technical University in Munich and is currently in stealth mode.

Since June 2014 Ewa has been a member of Kauffman Fellowship – an executive education program for top Venture Capital investors worldwide, based in Palo Alto, California.

Ewa is a graduate of Uppsala University in Sweden (MSc) and Jacobs University in Germany (BA), where she studied environmental technologies and economics. Ewa is a native Polish speaker and is fluent in English, Swedish, and German.

Ewa is based in Munich and her areas of expertise are energy & materials, electronics, SaaS and robotics.

Past Presentations

Roundtable Discussions

11:30 - 13:00, 19th of May (Thursday) 2016/ LEADERS STAGE

Dancing with elephants: how to make corporate-startup collaborations mutually beneficial?

15:00 - 15:30, 18th of May (Wednesday) 2016/ INSPIRE STAGE