Brianna White

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Karin Fuentesová started off her career in the accounting sector, where she worked for 13 years. While working there, she observed how much time is wasted by people doing mundane tasks, such as manual data entry of invoices into accounting systems.
After taking notes, Fuentesová launched Digitoo, which automates manual bookkeeping processes. Founded in 2019, the founder struggled to find investors but in 2021, it raised €900k in seed funding from Czech investors Kaya VC and Nation 1.
For Fuentesová this was a huge success because only 46% of founders raise more than $250k in the pre-seed phase in Central Eastern Europe.
Her investment was reportedly the first pre-seed investment of this amount in a company led by a single female founder.
The conversation around ethnic diversity in European tech often centers on entrepreneurs in the UK.
But there are many Black and mixed-race founders, particularly women, in other parts of Europe that have often struggled to get funding, experienced media disparity, or much like women here in the UK have been sidelined for high-level opportunities.
So we’ve made a list of amazing founders across the continent who’re doing some pretty cool things that deserve recognition.
Continue reading: https://peopleofcolorintech.com/break-into-tech/outside-of-the-us-and-the-uk-here-are-the-black-and-mixed-race-female-tech-founders-raising-funds-and-leaving-long-lasting-impact/
 

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