Michaela Jacova

Alumni Update:

After returning from Uganda, Michaela worked at an International Affairs NGO in Prague, facilitating informal business talks between South and North Korea at that time. She later moved to Oxford in England, where she stumbled upon a job in technology transfer for Oxford University. She then did her Master’s in Geneva, Switzerland, including a semester exchange at the Fletcher School in Boston. Following her graduation she finally moved back to Slovakia (initially for a year or two) and ended up loving it. She’s a co-founder of the biggest startup event/competition in Slovakia, called the StartupAwards.SK which is now in its fifth year. She works full-time as an investment manager at Neulogy Ventures, the first regulated seed and VC fund in Slovakia. Unfortunately, due to their investment restrictions, no investments in Africa yet, but it’s in the works! She is in regular touch with her friends and adoptive family in both Uganda and Kenya. She also helps fund an orphanage in Nairobi and works as a part-time dilettante advisor to her TV news reporter brother, who travels to East Africa frequently to cover development aid projects run by Slovak NGOs.