Olivia Hipkins
Deal Partner at Ganas Ventures
Dubai
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2020 - Current
Odyssey works with, advises, and invests in early stage technology ventures driving change within the real asset industries, focused on infrastructure and natural resources. With experience in private equity, project finance, and asset lending, the Odyssey team focuses on in-depth diligence, capital structure advisory, and coinvestment optimization when underwriting each opportunity. Sustainability can be an important consideration in capital allocation decisions - formerly known as Green Atlas Consulting, Odyssey also advises companies and investors on the best manner in which to consider factors such as ESG, impact, and corporate responsibility into investment and business strategy. Operating responsibly is a journey - our goal is to help management teams identify what they are already doing and build a strategic narrative that aligns their impact and sustainability mandate with their commercial mandate. We also focus on empowering employees, creating a culture of sustainability, and building financial products geared towards a dual mandate of commercial and impact returns.
Executive Advisor
2023
Advisory services for single family office operating across North America and Europe, primarily looking at sourcing, acquisition, management, and disposition of assets. Focus on implementation of sustainability policies and procedures across portfolio spanning hard assets (minerals, real estate, etc) and sports. Current focus in Europe, plus interest in MENA and HK/Singapore
Board Advisor
2022
Previously Board Member (1 Year Term)
Locoal is a climate technology company that utilizes materials to generate renewable clean energy while capturing carbon.
Raised $475,000.00.
Venture Scout
2023
Enduring Planet is a fintech lender focused on the New Climate Economy.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Dangerous Ventures.
Deal Partner
2023
Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America. For more information, visit www.ganas.vc
Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.
Executive Member
2021
Dreamers & Doers is an award-winning community and diverse ecosystem amplifying extraordinary entrepreneurial women through PR opportunities, authentic connection, and high-impact resources.
Dreamers & Doers is a private collective for extraordinary entrepreneurial womxn.
Consultant
2021 - 2023
Qalbaq is a career and education advisory marketplace where clients can hire "insiders" to pick their brains about academic, career, or business insights. Advisory work includes educational and career interview preparation, pitch presentation practice, and "ask-me-anything" sessions for education or career advice.
Qalbaq is a career advisory marketplace that provides on-demand career advisory services.
ESG and Business Development Executive Advisor
2021 - 2022
Qenta is a financial technology platform that provides cashless payment processing to the Austrian and Central European markets.
Raised $1,400,000.00 from Social Capital, 8VC, Tribe Capital and Green Sands Equity.
Director, Head of Asset Management (Pro Bono)
2020 - 2021
17 Asset Management builds bridges between financial assets and investable impact opportunities, advising, designing and managing financial solutions for investors, corporate clients, asset managers and city governments to achieve both long-term financial returns and meaningful progress toward our purpose of an equitable and prosperous global society. Named for Sustainable Development Goal 17, Partnership for the Goals, we serve today’s change-makers by leveraging our SDG intentionality, design thinking, blended finance, and impact measurement & management (IMM) tools. These capabilities lay the foundation for our innovative approach to investments that create meaningful change.
17 Asset Management manages financial solutions, product design and distribution services to investors, corporate clients & asset managers.
Senior Associate
2020 - 2020
Global Special Situations, with a focus on Power, Renewables, and Mining. Member of ESG Working Group.
Associate
2018 - 2019
Castlelake is a global institutional alternative investment firm that focuses on value, asset rich opportunities in dislocated industries.
Raised $1,000,000,000.00.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
2010 - 2014
High School
2002 - 2010