Oliver Bonallack

Community & Marketing Associate

2024 - Current

Working on ClimateImpact’s ‘Growth Retreat’, an event for ClimateTechs raising $50m to $1bn.

Analyst Intern & Content Platform

2023

➣ Early-stage category defining B2B SaaS. ➣ Founder, Investor, or Podcast Speaker? 📨 oliver@teamignite.ventures Scouting, analysis of fund deals, driving syndicated deals, crafting YC deal memos and managing a content team. Building strict platform processes and best practices after a structured learning residency resulting from Venture Institute performance. 100k+ shorts and post views/impressions for Ignite and GP.

Venture Institute Residency

2023 - 2024

Co-Founder, Host

2023

📨team@collective.vc Community, content, event, and knowledge building around climate and impact investment. Long-term vision of an enduring and impactful venture syndicate to back companies targeting specific incumbents, or mitigating and adapting to widespread climate risk and harms.

Outreach Officer & Governance Team Member

2024

Re-elected for 24/25

Founding Committee: Outreach Officer & Governance Team Member

2023 - 2024

➣ $300,000+ peak voting power across Arbitrum, Euler, Optimism, and DYDX (Feb 2024) ➣ Only non-STEM student in the governance team. ➣ Hosted Coinbase EMEA directors for 70+ students in 2023 ➣ Hosted Railgun DAO Privacy Protocol in 2023 & 2024 ➣ Hosted Internet Computer (ICP) UK Hub in 2024 ➣ Hosted ReFi (Regenerative Finance) DAO Founder in 2024 ➣ Invited to and attended Oxford Blockchain Conference 2023 ➣ Member Society of European Students Blockchain Coalition ➣ 6th/45th @ IBCOL 2023 with 'CrossVote' ➣ Written content for socials and email, liaised with different speakers, societies, and schools. ➣ EasyA App Enjoyer

Advisor

2024 - 2024

Assisting founder Max Amos. Building flocks of ultra efficient bird drones.

Entrepreneur in Residence

2024 - 2024

EIR role under Ash Phillips alongside my studies: Developing/deploying an investment model, supporting Rebel Meetups globally, and working on ways to tackle the status quo using entrepreneurship as a vehicle. Earned hotdesk privileges in perpetuity.

Networking

2022 - 2024

Bristol-based founder/investor keen to share? Get in touch!

SA7 Microinvestor

2024 - 2024

Micro-investment: First introduced to Sustainable Ventures when I met Jed Comyn at GreenTech London 2022 and reintroduced by Joshua Armistead-Wood at Blue Earth Summit 2023. Following closely, really love the work this team is getting done in delivering holistic capital across their cohorts. Pulpatronics Limited

Microinvestor

2024 - 2024

Micro-investment: I have strong conviction in green hydrogen refuelling infrastructure in solving the hydrogen industry chicken and egg problem.

Microinvestor

2023 - 2023

Micro-investment: I know how passionate Dan and Nikki are after a brief stint at Stratiphy, I'm interested in how the democratisation of quantitative strategies, stocks, (and more widely, capitalism) will evolve alongside the improvement of AI, and the app is cool.

Carbon Offset Lead (Summer)

2023 - 2023

➣ Undertook a sponsored CFA climate finance course before leading the offset arm ➣ Structuring and leading an outreach plan for financial and commercial clients

Community Lead

2023 - 2023

Stratiphy is a FinTech startup providing personalised quantitative investment strategies and carbon offsetting for retail and corporate investors. • Learned how to best assist the Stratiphy team as community lead and investor liaison • Sourced a substantial commitment from a private investor