Miruna-Ioana Girtu

Principal at Heritage Holdings

Speaker

Miruna-Ioana Girtu is a Principal at Heritage Holdings, a private investment platform co-founded by a global collective of prominent families and entrepreneurs. Heritage Holdings invests in alternative asset funds and opportunities across venture capital, growth, private equity and private debt. Miruna was previously a Partner at SyndicateRoom's Access, a Cambridge-based data-driven VC fund, where she invested in 50+ startups a year.

She has been actively supporting the wider ecosystem, advising and collaborating with universities, tech accelerators, government programmes and other organisations. She is an Advisory Board Member at the Oxford Seed Fund, a Tutor for the (E)MBA Entrepreneurship Project at Saïd Business School and supports The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network in designing a new funding mechanism for refugee entrepreneurs.

As a Forbes.com contributor covering venture capital and the startup ecosystem, Miruna strives to help build a more transparent funding environment.

Her studies spanned from Economics at UCL and International Business in Rome to Management at Cambridge Judge Business School.