Clara Barby

Clara has focused her career on investing in innovative high-impact businesses – most recently on the management team of AyurVAID Hospitals, an India-based healthcare chain and Acumen Fund portfolio company. Clara previously worked for Acumen Fund’s Capital Markets team in New York where she played a lead role in designing an innovative investment vehicle and later co-led the Acumen energy portfolio in India. Before Acumen, Clara worked in Bogota, promoting socially responsible investment. At Bridges Ventures, Clara takes the lead on the fund’s IMPACT strategy throughout the investment cycle - from defining the strategy and process for selecting impact investments, to engaging with portfolio companies to create additional value through environmental and social factors, to tracking and reporting results to our investors and other stakeholders. In addition to growing impact through our own funds, Clara works on Bridges’ efforts to promote the growth of the wider sustainable and impact investment sector. Clara holds a BA (Hons) in Greats from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.