In this episode of 0100 Impact Talks, we sit down with Alina Klarner, General Partner at Impact Shakers Ventures, to explore what it means to design a venture capital fund around diversity, founder wellbeing, and systemic impact from the very beginning.
Alina shares her journey from private equity to angel investing, and how that experience led to co-founding a €20M early-stage impact fund backing scalable startups in climate tech, inclusion tech, and impact infrastructure. She also walks us through the fund’s unique structure—including its cooperative-style microfund—and how Impact Shakers works hands-on with founders to build mission-aligned companies through tailored support, an accelerator model, and their own “Impact Readiness Levels” framework.
From fundraising in a tough market to rethinking what it means to be a GP, this episode is a candid look at how Impact Shakers is pushing venture capital to evolve—without compromising its values.
🎧 Listen to the full conversation and get inspired by a fund building the impact economy from the ground up.
🔑 Key Highlights
The evolution from angel investor to GP: why Alina co-founded Impact Shakers to close the capital gap for underrepresented founders
How a friends-and-family microfund structured as a cooperative laid the foundation for their €20M VC fund
Impact Shakers' investment focus: pre-seed and seed startups in climate tech, inclusion tech, and impact infrastructure across Europe and the UK
Embedding founder wellbeing and impact strategy into every portfolio company through a hands-on venture accelerator model
Introduction to their proprietary Impact Readiness Levels framework
Fundraising insights in a challenging LP environment—and why aligned capital is more important than ever
Long-term vision: from fund to full-spectrum impact asset manager
Why systemic investing, not thematic hype, is the next frontier in VC
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