Anna Finizio: Inside Europe’s Largest LP (EIF)

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🌊 A New Swell Has Arrived

How the European Investment Fund is shaping the next generation of climate VCs.

We’re joined by Anna Finizio, Investment Manager at the European Investment Fund (EIF) Green-Tech, one of Europe’s most influential LPs in climate investing.

EIF isn’t just backing climate funds. It’s building the market.

In this episode, we unpack how Europe’s largest public LP thinks about first-time managers, risk, performance, and impact, and what climate fund managers actually need to do to earn EIF’s conviction.

From anchoring funds to setting impact accountability, this is a rare look inside the LP that has quietly shaped Europe’s climate VC ecosystem over the last decade.

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