Dominnique Karetsos

Industry Pioneer Women’s Health, Wealth & Justice. Ex VC Backed CEO, Serial Entrepreneur. Venture Capital GP. Advisor. Global Speaker. Co-Author. CIO Anti-Human Trafficking & Grooming . Sexologist & Educator. UN Women

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Independent Board Member
Aug 2023
Testmate Health is a an early stage healthcare startup focused on low cost, high quality & accurate at home self-testing. Our team brings together expertise in sexual health and diagnostics to bring our mission of making testing for sexual health easy and accessible to life. STI rates have soared in recent years, partly due to a reduction in access to easy & affordable testing. Yet, it is asymptomatic in nearly 80% of women, and causes preventable complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Testmate Health is developing the first OTC urine home test for common STIs, that can be performed anywhere, at anytime, providing results in minutes. Testmate Health raised an over-subscribed Seed Round to accelerate development, and validate their disposable test. Awards and Accelerators: 1. MassChallenge Switzerland 2019 2. HelloTomorrow Top 100 2019 3. Google For Startups Womens Health 2021 4. De Vigier Foundation Award 2021 5. Biopole Startup Award 2022
Investor & Advisor
Sep 2019
MysteryVibe is an award-winning leader in Womens & Mens Health devices. We create clinically-proven, FDA-II devices that adapt to the users body & deliver targeted vibrations to address big topics like Genito-pelvic pain, arousal disorder, period pain, mastitis, prostatitis, erectile dysfunction & delayed ejaculation - without medicines or side effects. Our devices have changed the lives of over 150k users worldwide.
Investor | Shareholder | Marketing
Mar 2014
WHO WE ARE As humanity is transitioning to digital life, COMO Digital Life’s mission, during this transition, is to inspire and nurture people around the globe. Consistent with its mission, COMO defines itself as a technology company digitally simplifying the world’s payment…and more! SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES Our solutions and services are offered to all types of organizations – Merchants, Marketplaces, Corporates, Fintechs, Funds, Governments, and more. Clients will benefit from: • Multi-currencies IBAN accounts • Cross-border payments in 190 countries • omnichannel payments acceptance • 400+ payment methods local and global • 200+ connected Acquirer worldwide • automated reconciliation • automated and AI-driven synchronization of AR/APs • advanced data analytics. • delivering embedded financial services. These services are delivered globally by-and-through a single platform.
Investor | Shareholder | Marketing
Mar 2014
WHO WE ARE As humanity is transitioning to digital life, COMO Digital Life’s mission, during this transition, is to inspire and nurture people around the globe. Consistent with its mission, COMO defines itself as a technology company digitally simplifying Banking…and more! SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES Our solutions and services are offered to all types of organizations – Merchants, Marketplaces, Corporates, Fintechs, Funds, Governments, and more. Clients will benefit from: • Multi-currencies IBAN accounts • Cross-border payments in 190 countries • omnichannel payments acceptance • 400+ payment methods local and global • 200+ connected Acquirer worldwide • automated reconciliation • automated and AI-driven synchronization of AR/APs • advanced data analytics. • delivering embedded financial services. These services are delivered globally by-and-through a single platform.
Experience · 11 entries
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2025
Partner
Sep 2025
Rakini’s hybrid model unites a venture fund, nonprofit infrastructure, and purpose driven businesses, creating a powerful, scalable system where profit fuels systemic change.
2024
Founder
Jun 2024
Her 100 - a subsidiary of Merchants of Light - is dedicated to helping girls and women rescued from sex trafficking to reclaim their dignity and safety by providing secure housing, comprehensive health care, education, and essential support for their basic needs. Through these vital services, we help them recover from the trauma they have endured and regain their strength and confidence. With the generous support of donors, we strive to renew their lives by offering ongoing education and resources that empower them to reintegrate into society with hope and independence. Together, we are transforming pain into possibility and building a future where every survivor can thrive.
2023
Independent Board Member
Aug 2023
Testmate Health is a an early stage healthcare startup focused on low cost, high quality & accurate at home self-testing. Our team brings together expertise in sexual health and diagnostics to bring our mission of making testing for sexual health easy and accessible to life. STI rates have soared in recent years, partly due to a reduction in access to easy & affordable testing. Yet, it is asymptomatic in nearly 80% of women, and causes preventable complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Testmate Health is developing the first OTC urine home test for common STIs, that can be performed anywhere, at anytime, providing results in minutes. Testmate Health raised an over-subscribed Seed Round to accelerate development, and validate their disposable test. Awards and Accelerators: 1. MassChallenge Switzerland 2019 2. HelloTomorrow Top 100 2019 3. Google For Startups Womens Health 2021 4. De Vigier Foundation Award 2021 5. Biopole Startup Award 2022
CEO & Co-Founder
Jul 2023
minthub is propelled from the success of the Healthy Pleasure Group, and the emerging demand to empower people with solutions that truly support the transitioning through life stages. mint is an innovation hub dedicated to driving honest and relevant innovation which enables social change throughout the Intimate, Sexual Health and Well-being industry. We deliver honest innovation through a human-centric, back to basics approach that ensures profitability by answering the real needs of consumers and driving behavioural change. All of our innovations are embedded with human life stages and cycles, encapsulated by our proprietary approach humint model as created by minthub to mean, human-centric innovation. At minthub, all of our innovations are built with human truth. This ensures that all products serve actual customer needs and deliver solutions that enable people to live fulfilled intimate lives which ultimately allows them to develop social intimate confidence. It is underpinned by a process that gathers human, medical, social and psychological intelligence to transcreate practical, bespoke product offer set in the context of market conditions and proliferating customer needs. We innovate across key category markets including; Male Intimate Care, Menopause and Aging, Sexual Wellness and Pleasure, Menstruation and Hormones, Contraception, Beauty and Grooming, Teen and Tween
2021
General Partner
Mar 2021
The world’s first venture capital fund focused on Sexual Health & Women’s Health Technology startups. Amboy Street Ventures invests in the Seed and Series A rounds of Sexual Health & Women’s Health Technology startups that are progressing the industry in America and Europe. Amboy Street Ventures is an active investor and adds value above and beyond capital. Its dedicated Value Enhancement Team supports portfolio companies with marketing & branding, sales & distribution, product development & scientific innovation and public education resources through its position within the Healthy Pleasure Group, an ecosystem dedicated to solving the problems that startups face in the Sexual Health and Women’s Health Tech market.
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