Ever since Katerina Nichols finished her master's degree in International Management at the Waseda Business School in Tokyo, she has dedicated most of her career to early-stage startups. Currently, she is working as a senior consultant at CoCo Finance GmbH and supports businesses in setting up and optimizing financial processes and infrastructures, with an emphasis on controlling & reporting, business case modeling and internationalization. Prior to that, she worked as an investment controller at Rocket Internet where she assisted over 20 companies with the incorporation and set up of their business models.