Bio

Kremena Tosheva is a tech evangelist currently investing in high-growth Nordic companies at SNÖ Ventures. Prior to joining SNÖ she was on the investment team at Agera Venture curating a broad portfolio of early-stage growth companies. She is an experienced startup advisor, project manager, digital marketing strategist, and community builder. She is an active player in the Norwegian tech eco-system passionate about building businesses and helping them reach their full potential. Her colleagues describe her as an analytical and structured problem solver and entrepreneur with proven leadership capabilities. Kremena started her career at Storebrand, Norway's largest asset manager. She continued her journey at Oslotech, the managing company of Oslo Science Park, where she acquired substantial manager experience in leading innovation infrastructure projects and building digital and physical communities. Kremena is the entrepreneurial leader of Norway's largest science and tech business jam - The Cutting Edge festival. During 2015-2017, she led a team to establish it as the prominent technology day during Oslo Innovation Week. Three years in a row, the festival received most media coverage of 70 events in total. It showcased Norway's technological and scientific potential with numerous articles, videos, and publications in national and international media like TechCrunch, The Memo (acquired by Forbes Media), Yahoo!Japan, TV2, Aftenposten, VGTV++. Guests and key speakers have included the PM of Norway Erna Solberg, world-leading robotics experts like Jun-Ho Oh and Hiroshi Ishiguro, the first Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, the creator of the world's first lab meat hamburger ‎Peter Verstrate and many more. The Guinness World Records title for Heaviest payload lifted by a remote-controlled multicopter was set at the Cutting Edge festival in 2015. Under her management, the festival introduced participant fees and grew from 300 attendees in 2015 to successfully gather 1500 science, businesses, and technology opinion leaders from over 15 countries in 2017. Through building long term strategic partnerships with key industry sponsors like Samsung, Toyota, Abbvie, Thermo Fisher, IBM, Telenor, Kongsberg, she established a unique brand and a popular business matchmaking arena. She is a passionate multilingual keynote speaker and expert panelist on the topics of diversity in business, the future of work and entrepreneurial learning at conferences like SHE Conference (Worlds largest gender diversity conference); Tech BBQ; The SHIFT; StartupExtreme ++