Pavlina Yanakieva

Investor | Advisor | Speaker | Founder | CEO | Championing Exceptional Founders & Innovation

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
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Mar 2025
Portfolia is the most powerful community of women and men investing in the companies we want in the world. Our collective investments are changing health, active aging & longevity, sustainability, education, and the overall venture capital landscape while also backing diversity. Our currently open funds are Femtech III, focused on enhancing the wellness of all women, and advancing innovation in womens health; and Active Aging & Longevity II, focused on significant opportunities and challenges in aging well, as well as those focused on new strides and technologies in the field of longevity. We drive change while creating wealth. If youd like to join us, email investorrelations@portfolia.com, and our Investor Relations Team will contact you.
Angel Investor
May 2024
SHACK15 Ventures provides funding and support for DeepTech and AI startups at the earliest stages: angel, pre-seed, and seed.
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2025
Investor
Mar 2025
Portfolia is the most powerful community of women and men investing in the companies we want in the world. Our collective investments are changing health, active aging & longevity, sustainability, education, and the overall venture capital landscape while also backing diversity. Our currently open funds are Femtech III, focused on enhancing the wellness of all women, and advancing innovation in womens health; and Active Aging & Longevity II, focused on significant opportunities and challenges in aging well, as well as those focused on new strides and technologies in the field of longevity. We drive change while creating wealth. If youd like to join us, email investorrelations@portfolia.com, and our Investor Relations Team will contact you.
2024
Venture fellow
Sep 2024
The Venture Cooperative is a free educational program and inclusive community that makes Laconias investments, processes, and learnings accessible for the next generation of early stage investors. The first of its kind, this structure expands financial access into the asset class and sheds light on the inner workings of a venture firm. . Members financially share in our success, participate in our investment processes, share expertise within our community, and collaborate with early stage founders. Apply for our next cohort here: https://bit.ly/3e0VPjm
Angel Investor
May 2024
SHACK15 Ventures provides funding and support for DeepTech and AI startups at the earliest stages: angel, pre-seed, and seed.
2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
Teach for Bulgaria is a non-profit organization that aims to facilitate the access to quality education for every child in Bulgaria. Teach for Bulgaria is initiated and generously supported by America for Bulgaria Foundation and is part of the global network Teach for all. „Заедно в час"​ e неправителствена организация, която работи за осигуряването на равен достъп до качествено образование на всяко дете в България. "Заедно в час"​ е създадена по инициатива и с финансовата подкрепа на фондация „Америка за България“ и е част от глобалната мрежа Teach for all.
2015
Co-Founder | Partner
Oct 2015
At Astra Growth Partners we partner with clients to add strategic and domain expertise when launching new growth initiatives. We help local technology and services companies to enter new markets, launch new products and grow their user base and user engagement. Through close collaboration and partnership we enable global technology enterprises develop a successful market entry strategy for the US market, set up operations, or expand their presence in the US. Our goal is to minimize entry barriers, increase time to market, reduce risks and lower investment costs for our clients and their stakeholders.
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