Margarida Garcia is a VP of Operations with ~9–10 years scaling ops, finance and people across B2B startups from developer tools to biotech in London, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon. She has repeatedly led fundraising and go-to-market execution—securing a $3M seed at Lifebit, driving large Seed rounds of $5M+ and supporting Series B financings up to $50M+ as interim FD and principal at Beacon. At poolside and Athenian she has built cross-functional operational frameworks and led People, while earlier roles at source{d} and Lifebit combined commercial leadership with developer- and bioinformatics-focused products. An active angel investor and mentor in multiple female and early-stage programs, she pairs founder coaching with hands-on financial modeling and deck strategy. Notably, she operates at the intersection of deep technical teams and investor relations, making fundraising strategy a repeatable part of scaling startups.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration | Exchange Program, Bachelor of Business Administration | Exchange Program at Nanyang Business School
Sciences Économiques et Sociales, Sciences Économiques et Sociales at Lycée Français Charles Lepierre - Lisbon
Bachelor of Business Administration & Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration & Finance at IE Business School
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