Tereza Ionescu

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Principal at Riverbend Ventures · venture capital, applied ML

Riverbend Ventures
Kraków, Poland · CET (UTC+1)
6+ years experience
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Polish
Investing
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Overview

6 years around startups; now investing in AI applications. Backed 59 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Spotify and Amazon. Most at home with applied ML and product. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in AI applications
  • Working sessions on product
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Crypto token projects

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Skills
productapplied MLventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into pre-seed AI applications in India and SEA

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
AI applications
Geographies
Europe
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Usually the first cheque in. Decisions within 2 weeks.

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Experience

  1. Principal
    Jul 2025 - Present
    Riverbend Ventures · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kraków, Poland
    • Backed 27 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 6 boards.
    • Led or co-led 38 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Senior Financial Analyst
    Mar 2023 - Jul 2025
    Spotify · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kraków, Poland
    • Closed the books in 5 days, down from 16.
  3. Senior Financial Analyst
    Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
    Amazon · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kraków, Poland
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 2% for 6 straight quarters.
    • Saved $5 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.

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Education

  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    MSc, Computer Science
    2019 - 2021
  2. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Computer Science
    2015 - 2019

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