About Donatella Callegaris

Donatella Callegaris, A confident communicator with an entrepreneurial and multicultural approach and the ability to build and maintain long-lasting professional relationships within the European startup tech ecosystem and the investors supporting those companies. Working with the most innovative and exciting businesses and now focusing in backing founders from the CEE, CIS, Baltic regions as well as Finland and Israel, from startups to growth stage. Specialised in originating deals for debt capital financing for technology companies. Donatella Callegaris, C-level executive with 15+ years’ experience in the private credit ecosystem having provided Venture Debt financing to 100+ high growth VC-backed technology companies from early to growth stage. A proven track record of successfully backing founders originating from the UK, continental Europe and the US. Extensive network in the tech ecosystem built over time focused on collaboration, communication, transparency, integrity and leadership. Considerable experience with Venture Debt origination, deal structuring and financing, fundraising, trust management/fund structure paired with a strong entrepreneurial approach has enabled me to launch and successfully establish two pan-European Venture Debt Funds. Donatella Callegaris joined Columbia Lake Partners in 2014. She is involved in the entire deal life cycle including assessing, evaluating and post investment monitoring. She is focused particularly on CLP relationships with the equity sponsors ecosystem and on identifying high growth technology companies in need of growth financing that best suits CLP’s investment criteria. Prior to joining CLP, Donatella Callegaris spent seven years working at Kreos Capital, managing several aspects of the investment process on a pre-term sheet and post-term sheet basis as well as managing the portfolio for technology and life science companies based in the UK, continental Europe and Israel. . Donatella Callegaris also managed various levels of the fund corporate governance for Kreos II, Kreos III and Kreos IV funds. Prior to this, She worked in trust management. She holds a degree in Business Management from Birkbeck College, University of London and speaks both Italian and English.