Meet Our Team

Amy Duffuor is co-founder and General Partner of Azolla Ventures. Amy is also a Managing Director at Prime Impact Fund, Azolla Ventures’ predecessor vehicle. Her professional background spans business, finance, and impact across three continents. Earlier in her career, Amy was a renewables and power investment banker at Bank of America. There, she worked with CEOs of public and private companies to raise investment capital including the IPO of Sunnova (NYSE: NOVA), a residential solar company initially valued at approximately $1 billion. Before her career on Wall Street, Amy ran early-stage social venture accelerators around Southeast Asia for a Singapore-headquartered impact investing firm called Impact Investment Exchange. Prior to working in Asia, Amy was a management consultant at State of Flux, a London-based consulting firm that specializes in supply chain and procurement. Amy is on the board of the Alliance for Climate Transition (ACT); the Leadership Council of Activate, a nonprofit that empowers scientists to bring their research to market to address climate change; the Advisory Council of ReFED, a national nonprofit focused on food waste; and the Advisory Board of GreenTech Noir, a global community for Black people working in sustainability and climate tech. Amy received the Department of Energy’s 2024 C3E Award in Finance & Investment and was listed as one of Fortune’s 2023 Top 13 Seed Stage Climate Tech VCs to watch. She holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia University, an M.Phil in Migration Studies with Distinction from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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Lisa Coca is a partner for Toyota Ventures where she leads the firm’s Climate Fund, which focuses on investing in innovative solutions for carbon neutrality. Prior to Toyota, Lisa served as a managing director and entrepreneur-in-residence with Intel’s emerging growth and incubations division where she led teams creating disruptive new businesses. Lisa was also a founding member of GE Ventures, responsible for launching and leading the enterprise software investment practice, as well as the EDGE program, a platform for portfolio companies to leverage the global scale, expertise, and resources of GE. Previously, Lisa developed her passion for climate as the global sustainability and Ecomagination leader for GE real estate where she launched a program to leverage technology and operating best practices to reduce the environmental impact of its assets and improve financial performance. She has also held multiple roles focused on strategy, innovation and new businesses. She serves on the board of trustees for the Girls Middle School and as independent board director for Apollo Realty Income Solutions. Lisa graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with Honors, and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Dorian West is an Operating Partner for Ajax Strategies. He is a Senior Engineering Advisor currently helping various companies after spending 25 years leading highly successful engineering teams in scale-up of climatetech & electrolyzer solutions.  He was most recently a Co-Founder and EVP of Engineering at Electric Hydrogen.  Prior to Electric Hydrogen, he was Director of Engineering at Tesla where he most notably guided teams to develop products from the original Roadster to the Semi.  Dorian graduated from Stanford University with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering.

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Henry leads the market intelligence function of Earth Foundry, identifying early innovation trends, evaluating the market potential of investment opportunities, and setting the fund's investment thesis. Henry’s passion for learning new technologies and how they can be used in creating new businesses is key to this role. Prior to joining Earth Foundry, Henry spent six years as a strategy consultant for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in the Chicago office. Henry focused on Industrials (Chemicals / Materials, Ag) primarily working within the Corporate Development practice area (portfolio / growth strategy, M&A). Henry received his PhD in Chemistry from Northwestern University where he focused on developing theoretical techniques to accelerate development of new organic electronic materials for application in semiconductors and photovoltaics. Henry has a BA from Carleton College in Mathematics and Chemistry.

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Konstantine is a managing director of investments for Connecticut Innovations, focusing on climate and adaptation technology ventures. He manages CI’s $100 million ClimateTech Fund (CT Fund) to help Connecticut reach its decarbonization goals and create even more high-paying jobs. Konstantine has been a venture capitalist and entrepreneur for the past 16 years, specializing in climate and deep tech ventures. Prior to private equity, he was a professional environmental engineer, working on ecosystem restoration and civil works projects. Konstantine is a partner with the Pritzker Vlock Family Office, where he was a founding member of LaunchCapital, the firm’s early-stage-focused venture firm. He developed a portfolio of 40 companies, representing over 100 transactions and more than $750 million in syndication. Konstantine has also been a founder and operator of four tech companies: 6K, Katharos, PlazMod and PCTRx. He is a board member/director at 6K (founding executive chairman and former CSO), EpiEP, Biorez, TearSolutions and Iridia. Konstantine is also an active member in the university entrepreneurial ecosystem, where he is a lecturer, mentor and adviser to students and faculty ventures at UConn and Yale University. Konstantine has a BSCE from the University of Vermont and a master’s in environmental management from the Yale School of Environment, where he focused on closed-loop economy systems and markets. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Connecticut.

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