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Ananda Impact Ventures

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Ananda Impact Ventures invests in European tech businesses solving social and ecological challenges.

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Ananda Ventures, Social Venture Fund, Ananda Impact Fund

founded date

01.01.2010

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For Profit

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Private

Description

With a focus on impact investing, Ananda Impact Ventures manages approximately €200 million in four Core Impact Funds, and has backing from notable institutional and private investors. The fund's active portfolio includes companies like Klim, Open Bionics, IESO Digital Health, and Ororatech, which are working on solutions such as carbon farming, bionic prostheses for children, online psychotherapy, and satellite technology to combat forest fires. Ananda Impact Ventures is certified as a Level 2 firm under the Diversity VC Standard.
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Florian Erber
Florian Erber

Florian Erber

Florian Erber has over 10 years of entrepreneurial and investment experience. At the beginning of his career he worked as a business consultant before joining Wellington Partners Venture Capital in 2000. Whilst at Wellington, one of the leading European VC companies, Florian Erber held the position of investment manager for High Tech Startups for five years. He then became managing director of sales, business development and field services in the EMEA region for the US High Tech Startup WhereNet (acquired by Zebra Technologies ZBRA). In 2008 Florian Erber became instrumental in the newly founded Munich based software company Aloqa and successfully executed the Series A financing as CFO. He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University in Munich and the ENSTE Toulouse, France. Additionally, he holds an MBA from the TU Munich and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Johannes Weber
Johannes Weber

Johannes Weber

Johannes Weber began his career as an entrepreneur and has, amongst other things, founded and developed a career service for those with high potential. Following this he worked for a mutual fund company and became managing director in 2006. After a successful IPO of the holding company, he became involved with PANDA Investment Management, which is an investment company with a focus on sustainable investments and a former partner of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Johannes sold PANDA Investment Management in 2008 and funded the Social Venture Fund in 2009. Johannes Weber was part of the NATO Kosovo Forces (KFOR) in Pristina, Kosovo in 1999. He is a graduate of the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and has also studied at the HEC in Lausanne. This is in addition to studying entrepreneurship and finance at the International Business School in Budapest.

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Employee Profiles
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Giulia Piu

Giulia Piu

Head of Communications

Sabine Scherer

Sabine Scherer

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Felix Hilti

Felix Hilti

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Felix Ferstl

Felix Ferstl

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Dr. Aline Vedder

Dr. Aline Vedder

Investment Manager

Mike Kennedy

Mike Kennedy

Venture Partner

Bernd Klosterkemper

Bernd Klosterkemper

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Lennart Hergel

Lennart Hergel

Partner

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