Katja is Co-founder and Managing Partner of emma Ventures. Having worked in senior management roles in Private Equity for close to 15 years, Katja’s passion is to empower women in business and particularly to support female founders on their journey. Katja has worked as a C-level finance executive in Private Equity across Primaries, Secondaries and Buyout and also acted as CFO of a SIX listed investment company. Lastly, Katja was a Partner and CFO at montana capital partners where she played an instrumental role in the exit process of the company to PGIM, the asset management arm of Prudential. She has a thorough background in structured finance, financial due diligence processes, transaction structuring both on the buy and sell side, fundraising processes, tax and legal, and investor relations. She is a Swiss Certified Accountant (Swiss CPA) and holds a M.A. in Business Administration from the University of Zurich. In addition, she is a Certified Digital Marketing Professional.

Christian is Co-founder and Managing Partner of emma Ventures. His passion is to promote creative founders working in diverse teams and supporting them on their journey to build attractive and sustainable business models. Christian was Co-founder and Managing Partner of montana capital partners and went through the entire process from building the company from scratch to a leading secondary firm with multi-billion assets.Thereby he worked together with some of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors. He was part of the investment committee and has led more than 40 deals. In 2021, the business was successfully exited to PGIM, the asset management arm of US insurance giant Prudential. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Technical University of Munich in which he analysed the success factors of investing in private equity. He studied business administration at the LMU Munich.