Impact Supporters

Greetings to 3,000+ Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas writing 👋 Today, we’re talking about food, not as in sharing great recipes, but as in one of the biggest systemic problems (and opportunities) on the planet. Food touches climate, health, geopolitics, culture, and everything in between. And while energy has dominated the green transition conversation for years, food has been quietly underfun...

Greetings to 3,000+ Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas writing 👋 For this episode, I sit down with Jon Sigvert , co-founder and CEO of Reel , one of our very own portfolio companies at Footprint, to talk about how you build a fundraising machine, what it really means to buy green electricity, and how Reel is quietly solving one of the most complex optimization problems in the energy transition....

Greetings to 3k+ Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas writing 👋 In this episode, I sit down with Arnau Tibau Puig , co-founder and CTO of TetraxAI , and one of my co-workers at Footprint, Will Nunn , to explore how AI is actually being deployed inside infrastructure and energy systems to accelerate the green transition, what defensibility really looks like when everyone has access to frontier mode...

Greetings to 3k+ Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas writing 👋 For our first episode of the year, I sit down with Johannes Weber , co-founder of Ananda Impact Ventures , one of the earliest impact venture firms in Europe. If you look around today, it almost feels like impact has always been here. Every second deck says climate. Every LP has a sustainability bucket. There are conferences, framewor...

Greetings to 3,000+ Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas writing 👋 Today, we’re talking about private equity in a way you might not expect: as a force for impact . Private equity usually gets a bad rap for being all about profits, but what if it could be a driver of change ? That’s exactly what Summa Equity are doing in Europe. In this episode, we talk to Emelie Norling to explore how impact can m...

Greetings to 3k+ Impact Supporters! 🌍 It’s Jonas Ahm-Lundgren 👋 This week’s episode is a little different. Instead of hosting, I join Jerome Gilleron as a co-host/guest on the Reactor Podcast , and it turned into one of the most thoughtful conversations I have had in a long time about early-stage climate tech, founders, and the communities that support them. Jerome has built Reactor as a space w...

Greetings to 3,000+ Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas writing 👋 In today’s episode, we sit down with Randi Wahlsten , CEO and co-founder of Matr , a Danish FoodTech startup rethinking how we eat. Matr blends taste, sustainability, and scalable impact — turning humble legumes and root vegetables into craveable, low-footprint meals without additives or over-processing. We dive into how Randi and...

Greetings to the 3k+ of you following along here at Impact Supporters! 🌍 It’s Jonas Ahm-Lundgren writing 👋 This week, I sit down with my colleagues Christian Sparrevohn and Phil Doolan from The Footprint Firm to understand what leadership of large corporates are thinking today in terms of sustainability, climate strategies, and operational resilience. From political headwinds to climate adaptati...

Greetings to almost 4k Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas Ahm-Lundgren writing 👋 In today’s episode, we sit down with Sonam Velani , co-founder of Streetlife Ventures , a New York–based VC firm backing bold solutions where climate, cities, and infrastructure collide. From her early years in a flood-prone Chicago basement to helping shape New York City’s climate plan at City Hall, working at Gold...

Greetings to nearly 4k Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas writing 👋 In today’s episode, we sit down with Praveen Sahay , co-founder of Wave Equity Partners in Boston. WAVE sits at the unique intersection of venture capital and private equity backing tech and manufacturing-driven companies that scale profitably without the need for subsidies . From his beginnings as a nuclear physicist in India t...

Greetings to (almost) 4k Impact Supporters! 🌍 This is Jonas Ahm-Lundgren writing 👋 Today’s episode takes us deep into the frontier of science, engineering, and impact. I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Barrett , founding partner at Playground Global , a deep tech fund where sci-fi visions intersect with real-world product market fit. From giving Elon Musk his first job to backing quantum...

Greetings to 3k+ Impact Supporters! 👋Today marks a new chapter for Impact Supporters one I’m deeply proud to introduce. From today onwards, the platform will be carried forward by The Footprint Firm , one of the most exciting impact-driven funds in Europe. And stepping in as your new host is none other than Jonas Ahm-Lundgren , Partner at The Footprint Firm and former guest on Impact Supporters....

Agenda: * Impact Driving Returns * What makes a great fund * Getting more LP capital to impact VCs * It comes back to people This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit impactvc.substack.com

Agenda: - Chloe’s Journey: From international development to venture and why local context matters. - Isomer’s Strategy: Building a diversified portfolio across pre-seed and seed in Europe. - Impact in the Portfolio: Why ~30% of Isomer-backed companies are SDG-aligned - and how impact sits alongside returns. - Returns vs. Impact: Revolut, scale, and why the biggest value drivers aren’t always in i...

Agenda: * A look at the person behind - who is Tony Jamous? * Who are the founders of the impact unicorns of tomorrow? Does it require something else than being a classic tech unicorn founder? * Being a 2x unicorn founder, what are your business building lessons from building a unicorn and being part of many successful both impact and non-impact start-ups? * What are the advantages that you see wi...

Key insights: * Interview with Rob Zochowski, President & CEO at The International Foundation For Valuing Impacts (IFVI) * Rob suggests investors and companies of all sizes (public and non-public) should increase their efforts to measure climate and social impact and put a dollar value on the impact - it’s the only way to make it comparable * Ignoring social and environmental impacts is a hidden r...

Agenda: * Meet Fabian: From founder to Earlybird GP to climate VC * When the science became too loud to ignore * Early mistakes in angel investing—and how it shaped AENU * Building AENU: Clean slate, pure play, Article 9 * Impact metrics that matter: CO₂e saved or removed * Walking the talk: Travel policy, green ops & founder integrity * Challenging the 10-year VC fund model * Why climate tech exi...

Key insights: * Interview with Jonas Ahm-Lundgren, Chief Investment Officer at The Footprint Fund * Biosolutions have long R&D cycles but can have a lot faster go-to-market than medical biotech as the industry doesn’t need the same clearances 🧬 * Food and agriculture is one of the industries where biosolutions are the most mature, but many investors have burned their fingers in the industry becau...

Agenda: * Jacqueline’s journey: from traditional VC to climate capital rebel * The climate capital gap: why only 2% of VC goes to climate tech * Institutional capital vs. bold innovation: the trust mismatch * Rethinking “retail”: building for a sophisticated next-gen LP * Tech as an enabler: onboarding, transparency, and scale * What private market investors need (and don’t get today) * Productizi...

Agenda: * Meet Emma & Emily: Impact VC meets operating at scale * What Is “Impact” Anyway? And why Ascension never used the label * Wagestream’s Model: Serving those who can’t pay—at scale * Market Failures & Margin Models: Why commercial still wins * Data That Matters: From savings behavior to sleep quality * Charity vs Commercial: The tension no one likes to talk about * Impact Boards: How to ma...

Key insights: * Interview with Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky, Partner at NATO Innovation Fund (it took place live at GoWest in Sweden) * I know it’s risky and dodgy to talk about defensetech investments on an impact VC newsletter/podcast. I thought it was worth the risk to open up the discussion about what is defined by impact - is defense an impact topic if you operate in a war economy? * If you gre...

Key insights: * Interview with Danijel Višević, Co-Founder and General Partner at World Fund * Resilience is to be “able to withstand crisis and to stand on your own feet” * Europe is further from being resilient than other global regions because of our high reliance on other countries through trade * Cylib, a World Fund portfolio company, is a great example of the types of solutions that we need...

Agenda: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit impactvc.substack.com

Key insights: * Interview with Erdem Ovacik, Founder of Impact Markets, Founder and ex-CEO of Donkey Republic 🚲 * Erdem is a big believer in impact markets - a marketplace where (primarily) governments pay companies and other organizations for a specific positive impact - or receive a payment in return for negative impact 💰 * Impact start-ups today don’t fulfill their full potential in solving o...

Agenda: * Why Cyril’s early influences shaped his mission-driven investing lens * From altruism to efficacy: lessons from failed NGO models * The rise of genuine dual-performance funds post-2014 * Why team quality is the #1 differentiator in impact VC * EIF’s role in supporting first-time, emerging managers * Why impact metrics must tie to the business model * The dangers of forgetting your impact...