Carolin Wais

Carolin Wais, Partner at Plug and Play Tech Center

Carolin Wais is a Partner and the EMEA IC Co-Founding Member at Plug and Play Ventures, a leading international early stage Venture Capital (VC) firm headquartered in Silicon Valley with 50+ offices around the globe.1 She has been in the VC industry for over 8 years and has completed 30 deals since joining Plug and Play in 2019.14 Carolin spearheaded the EMEA Investment Committee which managed to do 91 investments in 1 year, the highest they have ever done.1

Carolin was born in Stuttgart, Germany but has lived and worked all across the world from the United States, Middle East, China and more.1 She is the Valedictorian of the 2019 Master in Management class of ESCP Business School, IE Business School and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.1 Carolin has a personal portfolio of over 30 investments.1

Her investment thesis focuses on whether a company drives impact in a sustainable way while considering costs and revenue.1 Carolin is passionate about diversity in founded teams and does a lot of mentoring on the side.1 She believes that diverse teams work better and this is reflected in her personal deal flow, with 9 out of 12 investments in the past year being in diverse teams.1

Carolin's LinkedIn username is carolin-wais-78929660.23 She is based out of Munich, Bavaria, Germany and works at Plug And Play Tech Center as Director // Member of EMEA IC.5