Jessica is a seasoned investment manager with a professional history encompassing advisory, portfolio management and entrepreneurship. She has mentored 100s of startups in both the UK and Nordics ecosystems. She is passionate about supporting founders to build sustainable businesses, from a financial, environmental and societal point of view.After joining Wellstreet as Chief Investment Officer in 2019, Jessica quickly proved essential and became a partner and the firm’s first fund manager in 2020. Currently, Jessica runs the Wellstreet Ventures Fund I as well as the Wellstreet Launchpad program in collaboration with Google for Startups.Prior to Wellstreet, Jessica was the founder of Five Years Time, an educational platform for entrepreneurs, and an advisor to the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) on innovation. Earlier in her career, she managed a portfolio of 35 early-stage startups in the cleantech and social impact space.