Daniela is a 3x impact entrepreneur and an impact investing professional with 17 years of experience across India, Kenya and the UK. Having cofounded an edtech, a rural healthcare and a marketing technology start-up in India and Kenya, Daniela is highly experienced at building business models for impact and profitability.
Daniela is currently the Venture Architect a Unmarkets, a joint venture studio based in London where she leads the new venture development in a co-design approach with founders of established enterprises in Kenya and India. Before Unmarkets, she managed angel funds for Acumen, designed VC-backable businesses at Antler Kenya and SME financing solutions in East & West Africa and sourced deals for Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. In 2018 she received the Skoll Scholarship to complete the MBA at University of Oxford.
In India, for 7 years (2011 – 2018), Daniela was at the forefront of impact entrepreneurship: she, prototyped, marketed, and scaled impact businesses across several sectors: healthcare, textile manufacturing, waste management and education. She co-founded an eye care company in 2013 that today serves millions in Northeast India and an edtech company in Bangalore in 2014 recognized at the Global Social Venture Competition by University of California, Berkeley.
