The Impact Venture

Welcome to our podcast with  The Impact Venture  , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, faculty members at UC Berkeley, and all of our friends, focusing on impact investing, cleantech venture capital and project finance. Today, we're joined by Justin Burden , a seasoned investor and Managing Director at Industry Ventures , one of the most prominent fir...

Welcome to our podcast with The Impact Venture , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, and faculty members at UC Berkeley. Ciaran Quinn is a globally experienced senior executive, entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor with four decades of leadership across energy, digital media, sports tech, SaaS, and venture acceleration. Based in Europe, he is cur...

Welcome to The Impact Venture Podcast, where we explore the intersection of innovation, investment, and impact. In this episode, we sit down with Amit Patel , Managing Director at Owl Ventures, the world’s largest edtech-focused venture fund. Amit shares insights from the frontlines of education investment — from how venture capital evaluates early-stage startups to the metrics that matter most in...

Welcome to our podcast with The Impact Venture , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, and faculty members at UC Berkeley. Today’s guest is Joshua Posamentier, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures. He recently closed their third fund, with consistently growing assets under management over the last 10 years. They are actively investing i...

Welcome to our podcast with  The Impact Venture  , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, faculty members at UC Berkeley, and all of our friends, focusing on impact investing, cleantech venture capital and project finance.   In this episode, we're joined by Charles Hudson , Founder & Managing Partner of Precursor Ventures , a trailblazing early-stage...

Welcome to our podcast with  The Impact Venture  , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, faculty members at UC Berkeley, and all of our friends, focusing on impact investing, cleantech venture capital and project finance. In this episode, we’re joined by Raymond Zheng , Sr. Managing Director of Honda Xcelerator Ventures , where he leads corporate ventur...

Welcome to our podcast with  The Impact Venture  , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, faculty members at UC Berkeley, and all of our friends, focusing on impact investing, cleantech venture capital and project finance. In this episode, we’re joined by Andrew Chang , Chief Growth Officer at New Energy Nexus , one of the world’s leading ecosystem build...

Welcome to our podcast with The Impact Venture , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, faculty members at UC Berkeley, and all of our friends, focusing on impact investing, cleantech venture capital and project finance. Today on the show, we're joined by Xan Wood , investor at Canvas Prime, where he focuses on Seed to Series B investments. A strong supp...

Welcome to our podcast with  The Impact Venture  , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, faculty members at UC Berkeley, and all of our friends, focusing on impact investing, cleantech venture capital and project finance. Today on the show, we’re joined by David Bloom , Principal at The House Fund—Berkeley’s flagship pre-seed and seed-stage venture capi...

Welcome to our podcast with The Impact Venture , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, and faculty members at UC Berkeley. Can you be both an investor and an entrepreneur? Can you take the leap—giving up something stable in pursuit of something bigger? Can you keep progressing and honoring the promise you made to yourself, no matter what? The answer is...

Today’s guest is Valerie Bertele—a San Francisco-based venture capital investor, two-time founder, and LinkedIn Rising Star with a following of over 15,000. As a global citizen, Valerie brings a distinctive perspective shaped by her experiences living and working across seven countries. In this episode, she shares insights about - How does she create value through strategic partnerships between go...

Welcome to our podcast with The Impact Venture , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, and faculty members at UC Berkeley, focusing on climate tech, impact investing, and clean energy. Come join us at Net Impact of the UC Berkeley Chapter. Today’s guest is Tim Schwichtenberg, Senior Investment Manager at Bloomhaus Ventures AG, the venture arm of a Swiss...

We’re excited to welcome Jinki (Paul) Hong from the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) — South Korea’s $200 billion sovereign wealth fund! As a senior manager of KIC’s San Francisco office, Jinki leads GP fund commitments and direct investments — from early-stage startups all the way to pre-IPO rounds. Over the past several years, he’s executed more than 20 transactions — including venture capital...

Welcome to our podcast with The Impact Venture , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, and faculty members at UC Berkeley. And come join us at Net Impact of the UC Berkeley Chapter. Today we’re honored to be joined by Professor Jerome Engel, a pioneering force in entrepreneurship education and venture capital. As Adjunct Professor Emeritus at UC Berkele...

Today’s guest is someone who sits at the intersection of deep science, venture capital, and impact. We're thrilled to welcome Robert Ethier, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Impact Science Ventures - The investor in Fervo Energy, Antora Energy, and Twelve, just to name a few. Robert leads investments in groundbreaking scientific innovations tackling the world’s most pressing challenges—from deca...

Welcome to our podcast with The Impact Venture , featuring in-depth interviews with LP-GP institutional investors, angel investors, and faculty members at UC Berkeley, with a focus on climate tech, impact investing, and clean energy. A huge thanks to Net Impact at UC Berkeley for their support. In today's episode, we are honored to welcome Nils Hellmer, a former Executive Director at Goldman Sachs...