Investing in a better future
The AiiM Partners Fund invests in companies that solve complex social and environmental issues. Our investments address climate change through the lens of oceans and their interdependencies with land, air, and energy systems.
Systems Thinking
Oceans Focused
The problems facing oceans are complex and highly interconnected with other sectors like food production, transportation, and energy. We take a systems level approach to find high impact solutions, often where sectors intersect.
How We're Different
A Better Investment Model
We provide milestones-based, long duration capital and hands-on technical assistance to build high impact companies that help create a healthy ecosystem.
We Focus on the “Missing Middle’
We invest in the ‘missing middle’, where capital is scarce for innovative companies disrupting big markets, to bridge companies from prototype to scale.
A Proven Track Record
Our team has combined 160 years of experience in funding, ocean health, and building innovative, profitable businesses that have improved over 3 million lives and attracted over 25 times initial investment in follow-on capital. The team’s portfolio strategy has yielded top quartile performance while benefiting 3 million people worldwide. Women founders and CEOs form 64% of the AiiM Partners Fund assets; ethnic minority founders and CEOs, 59%.
Our Team
Shally Shanker
Founder & Managing Partner
Portfolio strategy, investment thesis, diligence & management.
The Schmidt Family Foundation, Hillspire, Stanford School of Medicine
Ben Tarbell
Technology Partner
Product Strategy, Technology, Energy
Google X, SolarCity, Mosaic, IDEO
Hailey Hu
Investment Director
Sourcing, investment diligence, portfolio support
Accenture, Grameen Foundation, UPenn (Wharton)
Mattie Bekink
Policy & Communications Director
Metrics, investment diligence, communications
Skadden, ABA Rule of Law Initiative, Center for Business and Human Rights, Stanford University
Luke Halsey
Investment Director
Analytics, investment diligence, performance and metrics
The Schmidt Family Foundation, Social Finance, Oxford University
Sameer Halai
Operating Partner
Energy, Financing, User Experience
The Schmidt Family Foundation, Jirav, SunFunder, Microsoft
Tim Richardson
Venture Partner
Ocean Technology, Robotics, Health
Georgia Tech, Jupiter Research, Liquid Robotics, Micro Linear
Justin Manley
Technology Director
Engineering, Robotics, Sensors
Marine Technology Society, MIT
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