Stéphanie Heller
Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Bootstrap Europe
Stéphanie Heller is a managing partner and co-founder at Bootstrap Europe, based in London. The team at Bootstrap financed > 342+ technology loans across 237+ companies in Europe. Before co-founding Bootstrap Europe to support ground-breaking tech businesses, Stéphanie’s career includes founding, building and sitting on the board of the award winning fintech start-up Fractal Labs (sold).
Stéphanie takes her experiences as a founder and parlays that into working with Bootstrap Europe’s portfolio founders in a pragmatic and compassionate way. Prior to Bootstrap and driven by the belief that more capital should be directed to entrepreneurs and innovation, Stephanie founded The Real Economy Effect (TREE) in 2012 to help family offices manage their private equity investments. TREE managed a portfolio of c. $350M in more than 30 growth equity and technology investments. Stephanie initially built her financial foundation in the London based M&A team of Deutsche Bank, where she specialised in the Industrials Sector.
