Christine Vaca

Biography

Appointed director of LINKSIUM’s incubator early 2017, Christine is a professional of incubation and acceleration programs for aspirational deeptech startups. She serves the development of LINSKIUM start up portfolio and the strategic objective of 20 new businesses creation on a yearly basis.

As start up mentor, she has been mentoring more than 50 high-tech startups over the last 10 years. She is fast in establishing a trusted connection with entrepreneurs and proficient with many frameworks and concepts in marketing and sales, business plan drafting, financial plan, investor elevator pitch, seeking funding and founders team building.

Also in charge of financing relationships, she has developed a strong network with investors and bankers for speeding up LINKSIUM start up fundraising.

Since 2013, she is also an affiliate professor of innovation marketing at Grenoble School of Management.

Prior mentoring entrepreneurs, Christine also served as HR project manager at Soitec as well as European customer service manager and sales administration manager in a successful computer assisted surgery startup.

She is a post graduate in Business Management (1994) and holds a master’s degree in Economics & Finance from Institut des Etudes Politiques Grenoble.