Lilit Aslanyan
Ex-PGGM allocator and growth-equity investor, Lilit Aslanyan leads CatalyX’s 300-point fund-selection and ESG program. With dual cum-laude econ degrees and deep EU GP ties, she wins scarce allocations and builds balanced VC/PE portfolios for new-era investors.
About Lilit Aslanyan
Lilit Aslanyan blends the discipline of a €30 billion institutional allocator with the velocity of a SaaS growth investor—experience she now channels into CatalyX’s mission of democratising access to top-tier venture and private-equity funds.
- Institutional foundations. At PGGM Investments, Lilit spent three years inside one of Europe’s largest private-equity programmes, underwriting primary, secondary and co-investment deals and co-authoring the team’s Responsible Investment reports. pggm.nl
- Growth-equity edge. She then joined Connected Capital, a specialist B2B-SaaS fund, where she sourced and evaluated pan-European scale-ups and helped the partnership refine its data-driven screening model. linkedin.com
- Academic rigour. Lilit holds a BSc in Business Economics and an MSc in Financial Economics—both cum laude—from Erasmus University Rotterdam, graduating in the top 5 % of her class. pitchbook.com
At CatalyX, Lilit architects the 300-point due-diligence framework that selects the firm’s 15–20 core fund positions, negotiates co-invest rights, and steers portfolio construction to balance geography, strategy and vintage. She also leads CatalyX’s ESG policy, drawing on the ILPA-aligned practices she helped shape at PGGM.