Michelle Barbara Valentine

Hong Kong

Water Science, Policy and Management (MSc), 2015
Christ Church, Oxford

Funding: Louis Dreyfus

Michelle completed her MSc in Water Science, policy and Management as a Louis Dreyfus- Weidenfeld Scholar in 2015. Previously, she graduate from Stanford University (B.Sc.) where her passion for early stage technology was ignited by the involvement in groups such as the Stanford Spaceflight Initiative and Engineers for a Sustainable World where she worked on balloon launches and remote water monitoring respectively.

Michelle worked at Goldman Sachs where she looked at infrastructure banking transactions for government and private entities. Following that Michelle focused on early stage technologies at Index Ventures, primarily at the seed and Series A stage. She spent much of her time in artificial intelligence, looking at ventures that utilize computer vision in enterprise verticals such as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, and finance. She is also particularly interested in companies in the distributed infrastructure space.