Impact AMA: SET Ventures x Eka Ventures

​Founders building in climate, energy, and sustainable consumer health - this one’s for you.

​Join us for an open and honest Ask Me Anything with two of the most thoughtful early-stage impact investors in Europe:

​Ellen Smeele – SET Ventures
Ellen is investor at SET Ventures, a specialist energytech investor, backing founders at seed and series A across Europe. SET is a high conviction investor, investing tickets of €2-6M in a few companies per year as lead or co-lead, investing from their 4th fund at €200M. SET recently strengthened their UK team with exited founder Sarah Chapman. Ellen has a background working at startups and in energy and enjoys working closely with founders to understand products and markets across the energy domain! 

​Estia Ryan – Eka Ventures
Estia is an investor at Eka Ventures, a venture fund backing founders innovating in Sustainable Consumption and Consumer Health. Eka backs companies at pre-seed and seed stage in the UK with tickets of £1-2m as a lead investor. Fund 1 is £68m in size and has backed c.20 companies to date including Runna, Axle, and Medly. Estia previously worked in Equity Research at Barclays Investment Bank and covered EMEA Internet companies.  

​Expect zero fluff, maximum insights from what gets them excited at pre-seed, to how they think about traction, defensibility, and fundraising in 2025.

​🧠 Come with questions. Leave with clarity.