Whistle Stop Capital and Rizoma Ventures are partner companies, joining forces on client engagements when our areas of expertise are complementary.

Claire Veuthey has worked in impact investing for more than a decade, serving in research, investment, product management, and business development roles in London, Toronto, Singapore, Amsterdam, and San Francisco. As Principal at Rizoma Ventures, Claire partners with investors partners with investors seeking to integrate or assess environmental, social and governance (ESG) and impact in their portfolio. She also advises companies interested in understanding and managing the impacts of their operations. In addition, Claire works as a Scout or Venture Partner for NextGen Venture Partners, Indie.vc, and the crowdinvesting platform Republic.

She was previously Director of ESG & Impact Product at OpenInvest, one of the first venture-backed public benefit corporations. Before that, she led ESG on the Wells Fargo Social Impact Investing team, and worked in both research and sales at MSCI ESG Research and Sustainalytics. She also served as an advisor to the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board in 2017, its inaugural year. Claire holds an MBA from Berkeley-Haas, and MA From King’s College London, and a Licence from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She speaks French and Spanish fluently; her Mandarin is a work in progress.