Reshma Sohoni

Who they are

Reshma Sohoni is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Seedcamp — co-founded Europe's original first-check seed fund in 2007 and just closed a $320M raise that pushed total AUM past $1 billion.

Person

Reshma co-founded Seedcamp in 2007 when European seed investing barely existed as a category — she and Saul Klein built it from scratch into the continent's original first-check institution. Before that, she studied Engineering and Business at the University of Pennsylvania, took an MBA at INSEAD (2002–2003), then worked her way through commercial and marketing strategy roles at Procter & Gamble and Vodafone, with M&A work at Jefferies Broadview, before a stint at MakeMyTrip gave her an early-stage operator's eye. The through-line is someone who moved from blue-chip corporates into emerging-market internet and then into building the infrastructure of European venture itself. She was a Kauffman Fellow from July 2011, and has served as a Senior Advisor to Anthemis Group and an Advisor to Credo Ventures alongside her Seedcamp role. She posts actively on LinkedIn — portfolio updates, fund announcements, hiring frameworks, European tech ecosystem commentary — and speaks widely: Sifted Summit 2026, SXSW London 2026, SaaStock, Techsylvania, Cambridge Enterprise Tuesday, and Startup Grind, among others. Possibly — the content themes around female founders and ecosystem-building reflect a deliberate community-construction effort, not just deal flow.

Company

In June 2026, Seedcamp closed $320 million across two vehicles: $220 million for Seedcamp VII (its flagship early-stage fund) and $100 million for Seedcamp Select II, a new growth fund for portfolio companies at Series B and beyond — the raise pushed total AUM past $1 billion for the first time. Alongside the capital close, Seedcamp announced US expansion with new offices in New York City and Miami, framing it explicitly as a 'Transatlantic Bridge' to connect European founders to US customers and investors. The investment thesis is pivoting toward what the team calls 'physical AI' — the intersection of AI, science, and real-world infrastructure — with recent bets including BioOrbit (space manufacturing), Sunrise Robotics (autonomous robotics), Dust (AI agents), and Waniwani (financial services embedded in AI platforms). In early 2026, Seedcamp also led a €2M seed round for Topograph (global KYB infrastructure) and participated in 9fin's $170M Series C at a $1.3B valuation; portfolio company Curve was acquired by Lloyds Banking Group for £120 million in January 2026.

Market

Seedcamp sits at the top of the European seed stack — 550+ portfolio companies, 6 unicorns including Revolut, Wise, and UiPath, 5 IPOs, and over 81 acquisitions — competing most directly with Y Combinator and Techstars on global brand recognition, and with European-native funds like Index Ventures, Atomico, Earlybird, and SpeedInvest for deal flow. The European seed market in 2026 is shaped by geopolitical complexity (AI regulation, fragmented compliance regimes, transatlantic trade tensions) and a sharpening focus on deeptech and physical science as the next wave after pure software. Seedcamp's US expansion is a direct response to the structural challenge European funds face: portfolio companies that need US distribution and capital access before they have a natural US investor on the cap table.

Network

Reshma's closest professional relationship at Seedcamp is with Managing Partner Carlos Espinal MBE, her longtime co-lead; Saul Klein, who co-founded Seedcamp with her, remains linked as co-founder and Chairman. Within the fund, Partners Tom Wilson and Sia Houchangnia are taking on increasing deal leadership roles as the firm scales.

Carlos Espinal· Managing Partner, Seedcamp
Saul Klein· Co-founder & Chairman, Seedcamp
Tom Wilson· Partner, Seedcamp
Sia Houchangnia· Partner, Seedcamp

How they likely show up

Long tenure founding and running Seedcamp since 2007 → thinks in fund cycles and decade-long platform arcs, not individual deal wins.
Active LinkedIn poster on portfolio news, hiring frameworks, and European tech commentary → comfortable being a public face of the firm, likely responds well to substantive engagement on ecosystem themes.
Career arc from P&G/Vodafone commercial roles through M&A to founding a VC fund → brings an operator's commercial instinct to investing, not purely a pattern-matcher.
Speaking across SaaStock, SXSW London, Techsylvania, Sifted Summit, and Cambridge Enterprise Tuesday → range signals she tailors messaging to different audiences (founders, LPs, students, press).
Simultaneous advisory roles at Anthemis Group and Credo Ventures alongside Seedcamp → high capacity for parallel commitments, likely values density of insight over depth of any single relationship.
Kauffman Fellows membership since July 2011 → invested in peer learning within the global VC community, not just the European bubble.

Conversation tips

→ Come in with a specific view on the physical AI thesis — she just put $320M behind it; generic AI enthusiasm will be noise, but a sharp take on robotics, space manufacturing, or AI-in-science will land.
→ Reference the US expansion specifically: opening offices in New York and Miami is a strategic bet, not a footnote — ask about what the Transatlantic Bridge looks like in practice for a founder.
→ She has been building this firm for nearly 20 years; don't treat the portfolio as a list — pick one company (Curve's Lloyds acquisition, 9fin's unicorn round) and ask what that outcome taught her.
→ Her background is engineering and commercial strategy before VC — she responds to crisp problem framing, not pitch theater.
→ She speaks often on hiring in high-growth companies (SaaStock EMEA 2021 talk); if talent is relevant to your conversation, it's a topic she has structured views on.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on the $320M raise and the decision to launch Seedcamp Select II alongside Fund VII — committing $100M to back portfolio winners from Series B onward is a structural shift in how Seedcamp thinks about its role; ask what triggered that move now.
Reference the physical AI pivot — BioOrbit (space manufacturing), Sunrise Robotics, Dust — and the framing that the next decade is about AI intersecting with science and real-world infrastructure. It's a pointed bet and she'll have a precise thesis behind it.
Bring up the Curve acquisition by Lloyds Banking Group for £120 million in January 2026 — a portfolio exit where a fintech pioneer was absorbed by a high-street bank is a rich data point on how European fintech is maturing.

Discovery questions

The Select II fund backs your own portfolio companies at Series B and beyond — how do you avoid the conflict between being a supportive insider and making a fresh, dispassionate investment decision at a higher valuation?
You're opening offices in New York and Miami explicitly to build a Transatlantic Bridge — what does that actually mean for a European founder at seed stage, before they have any US revenue or team?
Physical AI is the stated thesis for Fund VII — robotics, space, science infrastructure. Where does that intersect with the fintech and SaaS founders who made Seedcamp's reputation, and is there tension between the two communities inside the portfolio?

Avoid

Don't treat Seedcamp as a European also-ran to Y Combinator — she has spent 18 years building it into a distinct institution, and framing the conversation around how it compares to YC will read as uninformed.

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