Maria Nicolae

Maria Nicolae currently serves as a General Partner at Index Ventures in London, where she directly oversees early-stage enterprise software and artificial intelligence investments. Before transitioning to venture capital, she spent four years as the Vice President of Product at UiPath, successfully scaling the automation platform's active user base from two million to over fifteen million global enterprise users. Her earlier career includes a critical three-year tenure as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Google DeepMind, focusing on predictive algorithmic models for commercial deployment. Nicolae began her professional trajectory after earning a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she published three peer-reviewed papers on neural networks. Her current professional focus primarily centers on identifying and funding next-generation machine learning startups across the rapidly expanding European technology ecosystem.