Marianna is based in Silicon Valley and is Managing Partner at Avy Ventures in Menlo Park – a company focused on business consulting and pre-seed & seed investments in applied AI. She worked for i5growth in the Bay Area and was an advisor to Open Austria in San Francisco. Marianna studied in France and Eisenstadt, Austria, and is a senior advisor for ABA (Austrian Business Agency) - Invest in Austria. She is also the Co-Founder of Sand Hill Network, which connects Silicon Valley with international tech communities.