Speakers

Relevant Experience and Expertise: Nato has worked with entrepreneurship ecosystems for a decade in diverse roles – as an educator, founder, project manager, and consultant. Nato is a consultant for the UN Women in female entrepreneurship projects. At the same time, she is an Ambassador at the Women Techmakers program run by Google. For the last 5 years, she has managed tech startup acceleration programs in Georgia, Azerbaijan, South Korea, Singapore, and Silicon Valley through 500 Global VC and Accelerator (aka 500 Startups). Simultaneously, she trained and coached women-led SMEs within different programs in Georgia and Azerbaijan. Before this, Nato managed the Entrepreneurship Program at Ilia State University, where she developed a study and practice environment for tech and SME startups over 8 years. She also used to work for the President's Administration of Georgia and Startup Grind. Nato’s interest is to activate gender-lens investment topics in Georgia and beyond.  

Accomplishments and Achievements: Founded the fastest-growing online startup community in Georgia – Startup Info, which is dedicated to sharing knowledge, experiences, and recourses with each other. The platform unites 20K people interested in entrepreneurship, and over time, it became the central peer-to-peer support platform for entrepreneurs in Georgia.