Movers and Shakers

Cristina Fonseca: On a one-woman mission to make Portugal more innovative

  • Portugal
  • 11 min read
  • Oct 01, 2019
  • By Gareth Gardiner Jones

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The co-founder of Portugal's third unicorn, Talkdesk, is now an influential investor and AI authority

At the age of 31, Cristina Fonseca is already one of Portugal's most successful and youngest female entrepreneurs. Unlike so many others, however, she has not been driven by a solid business plan or even a clearcut product from day one. Rather, a heady mix of talent, hard work and determination has ensured that Fonseca has become one of Portugal's biggest entrepreneurial stories of recent years.
She has already appeared on Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Tech list. After co-founding and scaling Talkdesk, Portugal's third unicorn to date, Fonseca is now Venture Partner at Portugal's lar...

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