Women & Wealth: Investors & Allocators in Sustainable Industrial Technology
Women & Wealth: Investors & Allocators in Sustainable Industrial Technology
Overview: Start your SFCW25 off right with GPs and LPs deploying and allocating capital alongside Impact Science Ventures, Orion Industrial Ventures, and Sidley Austin for lunch, networking, and facilitated group engagement with a 30 minute AMA with Justina Lai, Chief Impact Officer & Employee Owner at Laird Norton Wetherby, who oversees impact investing strategy and investments, and Phoebe Wang, Investment Partner & Corporate Development at Amazon.
Who: We're bringing together active, tenured capital allocators and investors from across roles (LPs, GPs, fund managers), geographies, asset classes, growth stages, and sectors intersecting with industrial technology, critical minerals, decarbonization, climate tech, energy, infrastructure, and sustainability. Attendees are engaged in check-writing roles and as diverse asset owners across funds, family offices, endowments, foundations, pension plans, and more.
Why: Our aim is to ensure that all participants leave the event with more actionable next-steps or tangible resources than you came in the room with to empower your work deploying and raising capital.
Other: If you have someone you think would love to attend this event, have any questions, or would like to support us or get involved, please reach out anytime.
This is invite-only and dedicated to investors and capital allocators who self-identify as women.
RSVP list and emails will be securely shared only with committed attendees prior to the event.
To enable open, candid discussion, the event will operate under Chatham House Rules, meaning information from a meeting can be used but the identity or affiliation of the speaker (or any other participant) cannot be revealed.
While we will discuss topics including the current fundraise/market environment and firm/career growth, please note that this is not a fundraising or recruiting event, and no pitching is allowed.
Agenda
1-1:30PM: Open networking and lunch
A range of NA, vegan, and gluten-free options will be provided
1:30-1:40PM: Welcome + facilitated introductions
Come prepared to share with the group:
(2) objectives you've set for yourself for SFCW25
(2) goals that you are working to accomplish professionally and with your team in 2025
1:40-2:00PM: Chatham House AMA with Justina Lai, Chief Impact Officer & Employee Owner at Laird Norton leading impact investing strategy and investments, and Phoebe Wang, Investment Partner & Corporate Development at Amazon leading venture investments from both a GP and LP perspective
Ask casual or sensitive questions on whatever you want: the markets, management challenges, deal flow trends, LP trends, or transaction & closing challenges
Operating with confidentiality and support
2:00-2:30PM: Open networking / working
Yes, we want to make this convenient for you so if you need to send a few emails, respond to a few slacks, or leave after an hour, feel free to do so!
Hosts & Sponsors
Impact Science Ventures (ISV): ISV is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in revolutionary technologies and companies driving industrial innovation in rapidly transforming trillion-dollar global markets including energy, manufacturing, materials, and agriculture. An emerging manager with founding roots at Activate, the nation's premier deep tech accelerator funded by the US DOE, ISV has invested in market leaders such as Antora (low-cost, zero-emissions industrial heat and power that raised $150M led by BlackRock), Brimstone (decarbonized and on-shored production of industry-certified Ordinary Portland Cement, SCM, and smelter grade alumina from domestically-sourced feedstocks), and Fervo (next-gen geothermal energy systems for 24/7 clean power with record setting geothermal PPA). Our three-year old Fund I consists of two unicorns with a third slated for late 2025 and expects its first IPO in 2026.
Orion Industrial Ventures (OIV): OIV is the venture capital platform of Orion Resource Partners (Orion), an $8B alternative investment management firm. Established in 2013, Orion specializes in institutional investment strategies in precious and base metals and minerals, many of which are currently leveraged to stimulus and infrastructure spend and the push to decarbonize. Orion's venture capital platform, Orion Industrial Ventures (OIV), targets investments in early- to mid-stage technology companies (Seed-Series B) that enable a sustainable and economic supply of critical minerals, materials and new energy solutions to support industrial decarbonization.
Sidley Austin LLP (Sidley): Sidley is an elite global law firm. With 2,300 lawyers, annual revenue of US$3.4 billion, and experience that spans nearly 160 years, we have established a reputation using Built to Win legal strategies in successfully representing clients in more than 70 countries on complex transactional, restructuring, investigation, regulatory, and litigation matters. With 21 offices strategically situated in key commercial and financial hubs across the world, our perspective and our reach are truly global. Our lawyers and business professionals, fluent in more than 80 languages, possess the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acumen needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape.
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