Sophie Meralli, Eight Roads - The future of venture capital is female (S2E9)

Sophie Meralli joined the Japan Ventures team at Eight Roads at the beginning of 2020, focusing on Enterprise Tech and FinTech investments. Previously, she has worked at Innospark Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Boston. Originally trained and qualified as a CPA, Sophie was used to financial analysis, before taking her MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Business. Joining the AI-focused Innospark meant changing her mindset to discovering new technologies led by bold and passionate founding teams.

Also while at MIT, Sophie worked with the Digital Currency Initiative, and wrote her first academic paper, which got recently published. "Privacy-preserving analytics for the securitization market: a zero-knowledge distributed ledger technology application" analyzes current bottlenecks in the asset-backed securities industry, and suggests ways how zkABS, a solution built leveraging MIT's zkLedger, can provide an efficient, industry-wide solution. You can find the paper here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40854-020-0172-y

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