Katalin Gallyas is the visionary Founder and Managing Director of c*funds, a boutique fund placement agency that connects top-tier investment funds with the right investors. With over 15 years of experience in global private markets, particularly in Private Equity and Venture Capital fundraising (GPs with a 50m - 1b target size), Katalin has become a leading expert in the field. Her journey, rooted in her Hungarian heritage and driven by a relentless entrepreneurial spirit, has led to the creation of a unique, practice-based fundraising intelligence at c*funds. Katalin’s approach is distinguished by its hands-on, autodidactic nature, honed through screening over 1,800 General Partners (GPs) worldwide. Under Katalin’s leadership, c*funds has raised €114 million and manages relationships with 180 Family Offices around the world. Her firm supports female-led GPs and scaleups, and has built a strong network of high-performing VCs, debt venture funds, LPs, HNWIs, and Family Offices. Katalin’s passion for deal-making began at age 26, and her career has evolved from raising €60,000 for Young City Policy Makers under 30 years, to support their career developments. Carried on an EU grant writer for promising startups and has grown into an investment dealbroker for established tech scaleups and is currently dedicated only to investment funds. In 2016 she has launched her own venture, c*funds, which is a global boutique placement agency for Venture Capital, growth, secondaries and hedge funds. Currently, 4,5 B M EUR mandates in placements. c*funds manages 450 active LP relations worldwide, out of which the majority are Family Offices. At c*funds she is the day to day CEO of 9 talented international deal-brokers. Katalin has traveled for the past 10 years extensively to build up rich investor and fund manager relationships. She successfully selected the "Pearls of the Industry", the most placable funds and under the radar multi-family offices from the Baltics and CEE, alongside the traditional LPs. The Headquarter of c*funds is in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, however, we are currently opening offices in Vienna, Bratislava and Oslo.