Millen Wolde-Selassie

Millen Wolde-Selassie is an Investor at Octopus Ventures based in London, UK. In this role, she deploys £1 million to £10 million checks from the pre-seed to Series B stages for a firm with £1.2 billion under management. Before joining the venture capital sector in 2020, she spent nine years at Citigroup as Vice President of Corporate Derivatives and founded the maternal e-commerce company no+mi in 2016. Her academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Management from the London School of Economics, alongside an additional master's degree from HEC Paris. She was recently selected as a member of the 2024 Royal Academy of Engineering Science and Technology Venture Capital Fellowship cohort. Wolde-Selassie currently focuses on early-stage consumer technology, artificial intelligence, and deep tech commercialization across the broader European startup ecosystem.