E562 | Impact Highlight Series: What We Learned from 10 Conversations on Impact VC

Welcome back to the Impact Highlight Series, powered by EUVC, Impact VC, and Impact Supporters.

Over the past months, we’ve hosted ten conversations with some of the most thoughtful GPs, LPs, and unicorn founders shaping the impact investing landscape. In this special capstone episode, August Solliv (Impact Supporters) and Dougie Sloan (Impact VC & Better Society Capital) sit down to unpack what we’ve heard and distil the lessons into four big themes.

🎧 Here’s what’s covered:

• 01:00 Impact driving returns: from the founder lens to the “lockstep” model where impact and profits reinforce each other.

• 04:00 Shared value in practice: how impact-native companies scale impact and profit — and why this creates resilience and de-risks venture.

• 07:00 Proving performance: what LPs at EIF, Isomer, and BSC are seeing in their data, and why DPI still matters.

• 09:00 Great vs. good funds: LP perspectives on partner skills, GP thesis fit, and “edge” in impact venture.

• 12:00 Specialist vs. generalist: why even generalist impact funds must go deep in certain verticals.

• 14:00 Overlooked opportunities: adaptation, circularity, first-of-a-kind plants, and where impact capital is most needed.

• 17:00 Innovating the VC model: evergreen structures, impact-linked carry, and the tension between GP innovation and LP appetite.

• 20:00 Democratizing LP capital: why both institutional and retail channels are needed to scale impact VC.

• 23:00 It all comes back to people: values, motivation, and the dual lens of commercial and impact acumen that defines the unicorn founders of tomorrow.

• 26:00 Closing reflections: what we’ve learned from 10 conversations, and what’s next for the Impact Highlight Series.