UBS Female Founder Award 2024

Location: Spain

Martin is a tech entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience. He has founded multiple companies and mentors aspiring entrepreneurs, focusing on business transformation, digital innovation, and networking.

Jonathan is the co-founder of Adatos, a remote sensing company that uses AI to analyze satellite data for carbon projects and agriculture. He is a former banker, he has invested in over 10 startups and founded a hedge fund focused on climate-related investments.

Location: USA

Chaitanya Hiremath is a seasoned entrepreneur with a strong focus on innovation and technology. He has led successful ventures across various industries, earning recognition from Forbes 30 Under 30 and Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 25 People in Tech for his contributions to AI-driven solutions and business leadership

An Israeli high-tech insider, Mor co-leads iAngels, a firm she co-founded and scaled from an investment platform to an investment house. As a GP, Mor is a voting member of the investment committee, leads deal sourcing and due-diligence, while managing the firm’s multi-strat portfolio.

Mor’s tech and corporate strategy background with SAP, IBM and Amdocs, coupled with her experience in the IDF’s elite intelligence unit, 8200, has proven invaluable in assessing new technologies and foreseeing the evolution of frontier technologies. As a member of numerous boards of directors in the iAngels portfolio, both public and private companies, Mor is uniquely qualified to provide value to portfolio companies through her ability to deep dive with entrepreneurs into business strategy and R&D roadmaps.

Mor is a recognized investment expert in the areas of Fintech, AI and Automotive. She holds an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Technion Israel’s Institute of Technology

As an entrepreneur, investor and advisor, Hester knows what it takes to build and successfully scale a company. 

Hester is Founding and Managing Partner of Epic Angels, the largest all-female angel investor collective investing in women-led startups in Asia-Pacific. She is the author of Thinking Big and Small: a guide to activating your entrepreneurial mindset, in which she lays out the essential attributes of successful entrepreneurship. Through allocating time and capital, she creates access for more women to become change-makers.

With a background in private equity investment management and business development, she has made sustainability an integral part of her work. Her expertise in catalyzing business growth and transformation extends across both large corporates and SMEs. Serving as the CEO of Grownate, a digital platform that aims to connect corporates, consumers and organizations to jointly engage on sustainability, she confronts ESG challenges head-on.