Itxaso Del Palacio Aguirre

Itxaso Del Palacio Aguirre is an Associate Professor in the Business Department at University College London. She is a Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship and responsible for the Entrepreneurial Finance course module. She also supervises dissertations for the MSc Entrepreneurship program. Itxaso is a Partner at Notion Capital, investing in software companies focused on AI, ML, big data, and analytics. Prior to this, she was a Partner at M12, Microsoft’s venture arm, and has invested in software companies in Europe for over a decade. She has worked with startups in London, Silicon Valley, Spain, and Latin America for more than 15 years. Itxaso holds a PhD in entrepreneurship and a prestigious Kauffman Fellowship.