About Me

Jana Hlistova is the creator, producer and host of The Purse: Women and Capital, a media platform examining how women are reshaping capital allocation and influencing the architecture of finance.

Through conversations with investors, founders and institutional leaders, The Purse explores who controls capital — and what gets built as a result — while examining how women are changing conversations around investing, wealth and financial influence.

Alongside The Purse, Jana has spent more than 15 years working across enterprise sales, business development and venture-backed environments across technology and fintech. She also has founder experience through launching Lifeshifter, giving her firsthand insight into the realities of building and raising capital as an early-stage founder.

Through both operating roles and more than 160 conversations with founders, investors and institutional leaders, she brings a perspective on how capital moves, how investment decisions are shaped, and why women’s participation in investing and wealth creation will increasingly influence what comes next.

My Background

Born in the Czech Republic, raised in Australia and the UK, she loves new ideas, changing the order of things, connecting people and solving problems.

She is an eternal optimist.

You can connect on Twitter @Janicka or email me at jana@jointhepurse.com. Or connect to The Purse @jointhepurse