Over the last 15 years in the impact venture space, Nilima has founded and led accelerators capacitating hundreds of pre-seed founders across the US and emerging markets like India, Africa, LatAm to raise millions — and to impact millions of lives and shift industries.
She has been featured in 100+ publications and talks worldwide, including CNBC, VICE, TEDx, Harvard Business Review, and USA Today, and she starred on one season of The Real Deal reality show about social entrepreneurs, reaching 10 million viewers.
Nilima founded the New Earth Fund as a result of her experience in the entrepreneurial space along with her deep-seated belief that purpose-driven founders, particularly women, will be the drivers of the radical systemic shift toward transparency, decentralization, and regenerative and holistic values.
Our team is a network of world-class leaders at the top of their fields. They are fueled by their experience in age-old systems to create the next evolution of humanity through venture capital.
Finance
Adam has worked with multiple funds as CFO and controller, including for a group that managed over $5 billion of assets. He specializes in helping develop start-up companies into growth-stage enterprises and coaching emerging managers to organize private equity funds.
Top Healthcare Systems Expert
Stacy’s decades-long executive leadership spans across insurance companies (payers) and healthcare providers for top organizations including Capital Blue Cross, PreferredOne, and UNC Healthcare.
Technology
Leading tech at seed to Series D companies in healthcare, education, and energy, Saumya has played a pivotal role in assisting startups to raise funds, achieve exit, and reach billion-dollar valuations. In previous roles, Saumya led the development of user-friendly mobile apps with millions of downloads, restructured engineering teams, and delivered revamped products leading to acquisitions.
Product and Growth
Sean has spent the last 20 years founding, operating, and advising pre-seed, seed, series A, and series B VC-backed startups, F500 public companies, and private equity-backed turnarounds in the most challenging high-growth situations. He helped invent the “stories” social media format, now used by billions of consumers daily.
Strategy
Kelli Richards is a trusted advisor to visionary leaders, innovators and founders. A former Apple exec working with Steve Jobs, she’s a strategist and super-connector on the forefront of major innovation trends. She is a Top 100 Woman of Influence by Silicon Valley Business Journal.
People and Operations
Working with teams ranging from 7 to 33,000 people, Maggie has helped build US-based and global companies in the digital health, SaaS, eCommerce, and tech. Ensuring that operations, people, and culture functions closely align with the business strategy is her specialty, for Seed through Series A.