Small enough for trust. Large enough to change who gets access.
Why the Evangelistas Collective exists: one hundred women across Europe investing their own capital, by application. Thirty seats are decided in November, completing the first hundred.
Why the Evangelistas Collective exists
In 2019, twenty-seven women started a WhatsApp group. Each had capital, judgment and a network. Each was angel investing largely alone.
The same thing kept happening: one of us would hear about a round after it closed; another had been in it and could have said a word. Access came through trusted relationships, and decisions improved when experienced peers compared what they knew.
So we compared
The chat became dinners, then trips into rooms none of us would have entered alone, then a habit. In January 2026, we gave that habit a form and a name: the Evangelistas Collective. One hundred seats, by application.
One hundred women. More eyes on every opportunity.
Who it is for
Women in Europe investing their own capital, from angel to LP: founders investing after an exit, women investing family wealth that is theirs, and experienced angels investing alongside other work.
Own, private capital is the line. It makes every conversation one between principals.
What happens inside
Members compare what they see across startups and funds, ask difficult questions and introduce each other to people that add a nudge to the conversation.
We meet off the record in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Frankfurt, and online, through three programmes: Super Angel, Signature Influence and Diversified Wealth.
In 2026, the Collective made its first joint commitment through Evangelistas Stars, a vehicle members set up together.
Members are also invited to Female Founders Fest, the PEARL Summit (ticketed, members book first) and Diversity Drinks amongst around 15 events annually. Those are open rooms, built with everyone who backs women. The Collective is the one room for the women who decide, and where they stay in conversation between gatherings.
What membership means
This is an active investor network. Members contribute what they know and plan to deploy capital. Membership does not guarantee access to an allocation. We do not sell deal flow or broker introductions, and nobody earns a fee, commission or carry on a member's investment.
Each member decides for herself, signs her own documents and bears her own risk. The directory and conversations stay among members.
How to join
Thirty seats are decided in November, completing the first hundred. Applications stay open all year; I review them on the first Friday of each month, and the first Friday in November decides these thirty.
Membership is €799 plus VAT per year. The form asks about your last investment, because that answer tells me more than any CV.
I want the next good opportunity to reach more of us, and more women to grow, diversify and direct their own capital.
Cap tables don't diversify themselves. We do.
Julia Dous co-founded the Evangelistas in 2019 and has led them since 2022. She invests her own capital directly in startups and in funds and funds of funds. She writes The Inroad: occasional notes on women, capital and the rooms where both are decided.
