If you pitch her, she will rip your financial model apart. She will ask three uncomfortable questions about your burn rate. But then, she will pull up a chair and fix it with you.

She is a co-founder and guiding teacher at the Meditation Centre Vimalakirti in Geneva, Switzerland.

Patricia Genoud has a knack for spotting unicorns before they grow their horns. While she maintains a relatively low profile, her portfolio includes some of the most successful tech exports from Switzerland in the last decade.