Julia Mitereva

I’m a co-founder and CMO with 9+ years building platforms and communities at the intersection of tech, media, and culture. Today I co-lead Founders Mesh, a curated networking ecosystem for startup & scaleup founders in Amsterdam, designed for meaningful connection, not mass attendance. We create intimate, experience-led formats (including our private boat series) that help founders access capital, strategic partnerships, peer learning, and visibility through curated networking. Our partners include AWS, Deel, StartupAmsterdam, Pleo, Startupbootcamp, and others.

Before Founders Mesh, I co-founded FashionPotluck.com, a women-first social media platform built on safety, ownership, and community-led curation (40K users), and began developing Greek.Social, a white-label social platform for private communities.

Alongside tech, I serve as a Head of Creative & Communications for Moldovan Brands Runway (MBR) - Moldova’s fashion week and a cultural platform elevating Eastern European designers internationally. Under my direction, MBR secured global press across Vogue, Forbes, ELLE, and other top-tier publications, and developed a narrative that merges cultural storytelling with modern brand visibility.

Recognized as one of the Top 7 Inspiring Women in Tech to Watch in the Netherlands and nominated for VIVA 400, I focus on building ecosystems where founders, creators, and emerging talent can thrive, online and offline. I care deeply about community architecture, thoughtful brand experiences, women’s empowerment, and human-centric innovation.

Nominations & awards:

hashtag#VIVA400 nominee '20 (viva.nl)

T500 '21 (tnw)

50 inspiring women in tech '21 (NLdigital.nl)

7 women shaping the dutch tech ecosystem (siliconcanals.com)

notable bootstrappers of 2021 (iamsterdam.nl)