Eric Archambeau is Founder and Managing Partner at Astanor, a global impact investing firm in the agrifood space. Astanor, which has grown to circa €1B AUM, invests in technology companies that support the planet and people’s health and accelerate the shift to a resilient economy. Astanor’s flagship investments include ProducePay and Plantible in North America, as well as Aphea.bio, Source.ag, and Standing Ovation in Europe and Tractor Junction in India.
Eric has been a pioneer in the impact investing space for over a-two decades. He has served as Global Chairman of the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, and lectured at the graduate business school INSEAD, where he founded the Social Entrepreneurship Department and co‐founded Social Impact International, supporting livelihood development and regenerative agriculture programs in India. Eric was a board member of the Harvard Business School initiative, the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) in Boston, and now an embassador of Capitals Coalition as well as a past chairman of the impact investment arm of the UK Government’s NESTA program. He published a book in 2022, Costing the Earth: How to Fix Finance to Save the Planet, outlining how to overhaul finance to achieve net zero.
Prior to Astanor, Eric was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and later a technology venture capitalist, investing in the likes of Spotify (IPO), Onfido, XING (IPO), PriceMinister (now Rakuten Europe), Betfair (IPO), Maven Clinic, Peakon (now part of Workday), and Freenow (now part of Lyft). Eric holds graduate degrees from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Santa Clara University.