Expert Session (Marie Ekeland): Radical impact — open source, evergreen investing, and rethinking venture

​Behind every top-quartile claim is a set of choices about benchThe complexity of impact investing in venture, how 2050 was designed around it, and whether its open-source/common-good approach could spread to other LPs and VCs. Also: fund structure (evergreen vs. 2/20) and how it complicates fundraising.

​Marie Ekeland is a French entrepreneur specializing in start-up financing. She is the co-founder of the Daphni investment fund and the founder and president of the 2050 fund. At the end of 2017, she became the first woman president of the French Digital Council, an independent advisory commission created by a French presidential decree to advise the French government on any question relating to the impact of digital technologies on economy and society.

​About Expert Sessions

​Between Ripple sessions, you'll find Expert Corners around the venue where researchers, founders, operators, and practitioners share what they're seeing from the front lines. These are short, focused talks designed to introduce new ideas, challenge assumptions, and spark conversations that continue throughout the day.