Costanza Carissimo

Costanza is an Investment Director at Cathay Innovation, based in the Paris office and takes care of VC activities in Germany and the Nordics area. She contributes to screening, evaluating, and executing potential Cathay Innovation investments, specifically focusing on opportunities in Germany. Prior to joining Cathay Innovation in 2017, Costanza was at Cherry Ventures, an early stage VC fund based in Berlin. Her previous experiences include management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group in Milan and experimental research on low energy astroparticle physics at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. Costanza holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics from King’s College London and a Master’s degree in physics from Imperial College London.