Reshma Sohoni

Who they are

Reshma Sohoni is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Seedcamp — she co-founded the fund in 2007 with Saul Klein, making it one of Europe's earliest and most active seed-stage VC firms, with Wise, Revolut, and UiPath in the portfolio.

Person

Reshma joined Seedcamp at founding in 2007, when it was a brand-new seed-stage experiment in a European ecosystem that barely had one. She studied Engineering and Business at the University of Pennsylvania, then took an MBA at INSEAD — a combination that put her at the intersection of technical and commercial thinking from the start. Before Seedcamp she worked in commercial and marketing strategy roles, including stints at MakeMyTrip and Vodafone, and earlier in M&A and venture capital. The through-line is clear: she moved from operator to investor, then built the institution itself rather than joining one. Nearly two decades later she still runs Seedcamp alongside Managing Partner Carlos Espinal, having closed Fund VI at €166 million in 2023 — the fund's largest to date. Possibly — her public writing signal is active on LinkedIn, and she speaks regularly at conferences including Sifted Summit 2026, SaaStock, and Cambridge University Enterprise Tuesday, consistently on themes of seed-stage funding, founder traits, and scaling startups globally.

Company

Seedcamp's most recent activity in 2026 has been deploying from Fund VI across a range of sectors: it led a €2M seed round for Topograph, a fintech startup tackling global KYB infrastructure, participated in a $170M Series C for 9fin (which hit a $1.3B valuation), backed pre-seed AI startup Tattvam AI with $1.7M, and joined a €2.9M pre-seed round for biotech startup OutPost Bio. In early 2026 it also participated in three UK funding rounds totalling £54.5M across biotech, fintech, and legaltech. Fund VI closed at €166 million in 2023 with 60 LPs including Index Ventures, Atomico, Draper Esprit, and MassMutual Ventures — enabling larger and more diverse early-stage bets. In 2024, Seedcamp welcomed 75 new founders across 36 new portfolio companies, and 45 portfolio companies raised significant Series A rounds and beyond.

Market

Seedcamp sits at the top of the European seed funding stack, with a portfolio of over 550 companies, 6 unicorns, 5 IPOs, and 81 acquisitions — anchored by names like Wise, Revolut, and UiPath. Its main competition comes from Y Combinator and Techstars globally, and LocalGlobe closer to home in the UK, all competing for the best early-stage European founders. In 2026, the macro environment for seed investors is shaped by regulatory complexity across AI and fintech, geopolitical uncertainty affecting cross-border tech investment, and continued pressure on valuations at later stages — all of which create both risk and opportunity at the seed level.

Network

Reshma co-founded Seedcamp with Saul Klein, who remains a named co-founder and close collaborator. Her most frequent public pairing is with Carlos Espinal, her co-Managing Partner, who appears alongside her across fund announcements, portfolio coverage, and conference panels.

Saul Klein· Co-Founder, Seedcamp
Carlos Espinal· Managing Partner, Seedcamp

How they likely show up

Nearly two decades at a single institution she co-founded → thinks in fund cycles and portfolio arcs, not short-term deal flow.
Founded Seedcamp at the seed stage of European VC itself → comfortable with ambiguity and building without a template.
Active public writing signal on LinkedIn combined with regular conference appearances (Sifted Summit 2026, SaaStock, Cambridge Enterprise Tuesday) → visible by choice, likely responds well to substantive engagement on ideas she's already shared publicly.
Engineering and Business undergraduate plus INSEAD MBA → probably moves comfortably between technical diligence and commercial narrative.
Prior operator roles at MakeMyTrip and Vodafone before moving to VC → brings a company-builder lens to investing, not purely a financial one.
Consistent public themes around founder traits and scaling globally → selection criteria are well-articulated; she knows what she's looking for.

Conversation tips

→ Reference her SaaStock talk on 'seed funding: past, present and future' — she's thought carefully about how the seed market has evolved and will have a clear point of view.
→ Ask about the European ecosystem specifically — she's been building in it since before it had proper infrastructure and has a long institutional memory.
→ Come prepared with a specific portfolio company or sector angle (fintech, AI, KYB) rather than a general question about what Seedcamp looks for.
→ Don't treat her as a generalist VC — her operator background at MakeMyTrip and Vodafone means she's likely to probe commercial and go-to-market logic, not just product.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on the Topograph investment — Seedcamp led the €2M seed round in March 2026 for a startup fixing global KYB infrastructure, which is a specific bet on compliance plumbing becoming a product category.
Reference Fund VI closing at €166M with 60 LPs including Index, Atomico, and MassMutual — it's the largest fund in Seedcamp's history and signals a deliberate scaling of the model after nearly two decades.
Mention the Sifted Summit 2026 appearance — she's actively speaking this year, and referencing a live engagement signals you're tracking her current thinking, not just her Wikipedia page.

Discovery questions

After nearly two decades of seed investing in Europe, what's changed most about what you look for in a founder at the very earliest stage?
Seedcamp led the Topograph round on global KYB infrastructure — how do you think about backing picks-and-shovels compliance plays versus application-layer fintech bets?
With Fund VI at €166M and 45 portfolio companies raising Series A and beyond in 2024 alone, how has the portfolio support model had to evolve as the fund has scaled?

Avoid

Don't pitch generic European tech optimism without specifics — she has been building in this ecosystem since 2007 and will see through any narrative that isn't grounded in actual company or market mechanics.

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