Thaleia Misailidou is Co-Founder & General Partner at Skybound, a VC fund investing in deeptech companies from day one. She is also Co-Founder of the Tech Finance Network startup community. Previously, she spent seven years as a seed-stage investor at Marathon VC, joining at inception and contributing to its industry-leading performance. Before that, she spent another seven years abroad across Europe and the UK, including at the M&A Industrials team of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Her experience spans seed-stage investing to billion-dollar transactions for large multinationals. Thaleia studied Mechanical Engineering at NTUA and Financial Engineering at Imperial College London.