Melanie Gabriel

Melanie is an entrepreneur, board member and angel investor. She is the co-founder and former CMO of Yokoy, a Sequoia-backed FinTech & AI company recently acquired by Travelperk. In her weekly podcast and newsletter Follow the Gradient, Melanie and her guests share how to scale a business in Europe while staying sane.

She lectures on entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen, is a board member of SICTIC and Moodtalk and holds different advisory board mandates.

Melanie earned a master’s degree in business management from the University of St. Gallen. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Switzerland’s 100 Digital Shapers and received the HSG Founder of the Year Award 2023.