Clara Barby
Partner, Head of Impact+ @ Bridges Fund Management
London, United Kingdom
Clara Barby is a venture - series unknown investor at Bridges Fund Management in London focused on Electric Vehicle and Autonomous Vehicles. Clara has focused her career on investing in innovative high-impact businesses – most recently on the management team of AyurVAID Hospitals, an India-based healthcare chain and Acumen Fund portfolio company. Clara previously worked for Acumen Fund’s Capital Markets team in New York where she played a lead role in designing an innovative investmentvehicle and later co-led the Acumen energy portfolio in India. Before Acumen, Clara worked in Bogota, promoting socially responsible investment.At Bridges Ventures, Clara takes the lead on the fund’s IMPACT strategy throughout the investment cycle - from defining the strategy and process for selecting impact investments, to engaging with portfolio companies to create additional value through environmental and social factors, to tracking and reporting results to our investors and other stakeholders. In addition to growing impact through our own funds, Clara works on Bridges’ efforts to promote the growth of the wider sustainable and impact investment sector.Clara holds a BA (Hons) in Greats from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.
- Total investments:
- 1
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Electric Vehicle 1 (100%)
- Autonomous Vehicles 1 (100%)
Investments
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ABB E-Mobility
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ABB's E-Mobility division remotely diagnose, cure infrastructure and update in-house developed software with EV charging technology. | $358.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 01, 2023 |
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About Bridges Fund Management
Bridges Fund Management was founded in 2002 with the vision that hands-on investment and entrepreneurial talent can be used to address some of the challenges facing their society, as well as drive sustainable growth.Bridges' investment strategy is to focus on opportunities where investments can generate investor returns through helpingmeet pressing social or environmental challenges – be it backing businesses that generate jobs in underserved markets, or building environmentally friendly care homes for the elderly to sustain an ageing population, or providing flexible financing for innovative community transport models.In pursuing this strategy over the last twelve years Bridges have innovated a range of investment vehicles across three main fund types – Sustainable Growth Funds, Property Funds and Social Sector Funds - and they are building a strong track record of financial and societal returns.
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Clara Barby
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Philip Newborough
Chief Executive Officer
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Ben Purvey
Associate
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Brian Trelstad
Partner, US Sustainable Growth Funds
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Dimithri Gunasinghe
Analyst, Sustainable Growth Funds
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