Judith Dada

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March 10, 2025 # Exclusive: Ex-General Catalyst and La Famiglia investor Judith Dada joins Visionaries Club ## The move sees Dada reunite with former colleague and La Famiglia founding partner Rob Lacher Anne Sraders 4min read Former La Famiglia investor Judith Dada, who left the firm shortly after it merged with mega US firm General Catalyst in 2023, is joining Berlin- and London-based VC firm Visionaries Club as a general partner. Dada joins former colleague and La Famiglia founding partner Rob Lacher, who left to found Visionaries in 2019 but continued managing La Famiglia’s first fund. [...] Dada announced her departure from General Catalyst over the summer, just months after the deal closed. “I was ultimately really looking for something that is more boutique [rather than] a really, really big firm. I was really craving more of this boutique element and approach to VC,” Dada tells Sifted. Advertisement Lacher and fellow founding partner Jeannette zu Fürstenberg brought Dada on to La Famiglia back in 2017, and continued working together managing La Famiglia’s first fund, which includes bets like Personio and Deel. [...] Visionaries has made a number of high-profile deals, including buzzy and mysterious French AI startup H Company and nuclear company Proxima Fusion — in 2024, the VC did more than 10 deals, including several unannounced deals, according to Visionaries. ### Going global Visionaries is spending more time outside of its home base of Berlin, hosting e