Description: Karla Schönicke - Digital Product Lead
karlawithakey Venture Scout & Product Person leading with empathy
Product Person Karla Schönicke is award-winning product management professional with 10 years of working experience in the dynamic Berlin startup scene. She has a strong customer focus combined with an agile mindset and advanced technical understanding. Additionally, she's an excellent communicator fluent in English, German and Spanish, and a design thinker focused on building the smallest usable unit that provides new learnings. Her cross-functional teams appreciate her human-centered approach to leadershi
Venture Scout & Angel Investor In 2020, just 1% of Venture Capital in the CEE region went to female-led startups and 5% to mixed teams. This means a whopping 94% went to all-male founder teams. Learning about this shocking disbalance, Karla decided that instead of becoming a founder herself, she needed to get to the root of the problem and become an (angel) investor with her personal investment thesis being overlooked tech founders in Europe. And so the journey began: In summer 2021, she was selected for th