Top Tier Impact (TTI) is the network of investors, entrepreneurs and professionals focused on solving the critical issues of our time.
The TTI ecosystem spans across TTI's private network, TTI’s investment banking activities across emerging markets to support growth-stage regenerative businesses and smart infrastructure projects, TTI's investment gatherings around the world, TTI's climate policy forums, and our first climate tech startup spinoff.
Together, our mission is to accelerate the mainstream adoption of impact and sustainability.
We are 600+ members building a new paradigm across more than 50 countries.
“TTIers” oversee some of the leading impact funds and run some of the most impactful companies. Many are based across our main hubs (London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Singapore) and others are all around the world.
Beyond our private community, we believe in advancing thought leadership in the impact space. Each month, TTI reaches hundreds of thousands of professionals in impact and sustainability.
Nino Tronchetti Provera
Nino is the founder and managing partner of Ambienta, one of the largest private equity funds exclusively focused on sustainability investing. Ambienta has over $3 billion under management and impressive investment returns.
Gunnar Lovelace
Gunnar is the founder of Good Money, a conscious mobile banking platform that is democratizing ownership across its customer base. He’s also the founder of Thrive Market (200m+ raised, 7.5m+ users and 600+ employees in 4 years).
Agate Freimane
Agate is an investment partner at the Norrsken Foundation’s VC. Norrsken VC comprises an investment fund of €130 million for startups that make the world better, alongside a co-working space with 350 impact companies.
Alex Bates
Alex is the managing director of Neocortex Ventures, an investment fund for AI technologies. In 2006 Alex co-founded Mtelligence (Mtell). In 2016, Mtell was acquired by AspenTech (NASDAQ: AZPN).
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes
Adesuwa is the founding partner of Aruwa Capital Management, a growth equity impact and gender lens fund with the mission of closing the $42 billion SME funding gap & gender investing gap across Africa.
Kristina Anguelova
Kristina is the Head of Sustainable Finance at WWF Asia. She brings together industry, academic, and science-based resources to support financial institutions in implementing ESG best practices and achieve the United Nations' SDG goals.
Billy Zane
Billy is an internationally acclaimed Hollywood actor (Titanic, Back to the Future, Twin Peaks) and the founder of the Convergence Lab, the innovation think tank based within the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Niyanta Spelman
Niyanta is the founder and CEO of Rainforest Partnership, an impact-driven international organization that uses the power of community-centered collaboration to protect rainforests in some of the most critical
places on Earth.
Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss
Eric is the founder and CEO of Dance, the ebike subscription company. Eric is also the founder of SoundCloud, the largest community of artists, bands and creators of music & audio. He is an active climate angel investor.
Marik Hazan
Marik is the founder of Tabula Rasa, the venture capital firm focused the therapeutical psychedelics space. Tabula Rasa is also the host of the "Psychedelic House of Davos" organized during the WEF.
Jack Sim
Jack Sim, otherwise known as: “Mr. Toilet”, is the founder of the World Toilet Organization and the World Toilet Day initiative. Jack was named one of the "Heroes of the Environment" by Time Magazine.
Cindy Gallop
Cindy is an English advertising consultant, founder and former chair of the US branch of advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and founder of the IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn companies.
Steve Melhuish
Steve is the founder of PropertyGuru, Asia's largest online property portal group. He's also the founder of Planet Rise, investing in startups that tackle climate change and social inequality using tech to impact at scale.
Katie Hoffman
Katie is a partner at Regeneration VC, the venture fund investing in early-stage companies that bring climate solutions to consumer markets. Katie is also a partner at Etho Capital, a low carbon asset management and fintech platform.
Tobias Huzarski
Tobias is the head of impact investment at Commerz Real. Tobias has extensive experience in the investment space, ranging from early-stage venture capital to real estate private equity.
We connect the most action-driven, result-oriented impact leaders
In our community, all members interact with each other.
TTI members communicate daily through our online platforms and our events across different sectors, geographies and topics. We run member dinners each week across our 30 cities around the world. We also organize private gatherings during conferences like the WEF in Davos and the UN COP. We host online member panels about different investment sectors.
Together we discuss partnerships, investment opportunities, trends in impact, talent needs, geopolitical changes and more. We also connect members 1:1 depending on specific needs.
Our new member cohorts are introduced weekly to fellow TTIers, and the annual fee is $350.
Joining the TTI global community
If you’re interested in learning more and becoming part of the global Top Tier Impact network, please send your application here. The next step is a 15-min chat with a team member to learn more about your alignment with the impact space and how TTI’s reach could best support you. If there’s a mutual fit, you’ll receive an invite to join the next cohort of TTI members.
Next TTI Global Investment Events
Other TTI Group Units
TT Impact Investing is the TTI unit screening and selecting the most high-quality investment opportunities into impact funds and growth-stage companies.
TT Impact Policy bridges the gap between private sector expertise and public sector implementation of policies that are related to topics within Net Zero.
The TTI Global Impact Awards celebrate the entrepreneurs who are working hard each day to build a more sustainable and equal paradigm all around the world.
TTI Ambassadors
At Top Tier Impact, we amplify the impact of our TTI members around the world.
Our City Ambassadors are present across 30+ TTI cities like London, NYC, Singapore, Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Zurich, Nairobi, Stockholm, Istanbul, Dubai, Bali, Barcelona, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Tallinn, Mexico City, Geneva and many more.
