Amy Duffuor

Co-Founder and General Partner, Azolla Ventures

2024 C3E Finance & Investment Award Winner

Amy Duffuor is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Azolla Ventures, where she invests in early-stage technology companies with transformative climate impact. She is also a Managing Director of Prime Impact Fund, Azolla’s predecessor vehicle. Her professional background spans business, finance, and impact across three continents.

Earlier in her career, Duffuor was a Renewables and Power Investment Banker at Bank of America. There, she worked with chief executive officers of public and private companies to raise investment capital; her achievements included the initial public offering (IPO) of Sunnova, a residential solar company initially valued at approximately $1 billion. Before her experience on Wall Street, Duffuor ran early-stage social venture accelerators in Southeast Asia for a Singapore-headquartered impact investing firm called Impact Investment Exchange. Prior to working in Asia, she was a Management Consultant at State of Flux, a London-based consulting firm that specializes in supply chain and procurement.

Duffuor has served as a board member for portfolio companies Clean Crop Technologies, Noon Energy, Ovipost, Heaten, Carbon Reform, VELOZBIO, and Oxylus Energy. In addition, she serves on the board of the Northeast Clean Energy Council; 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 Circle of GreenTech Noir, a global community for Black people working in sustainability and climate tech. In 2023, she was recognized by Fortune as a “Top 13 Seed Stage Climate Tech VC to Watch” and is a sought-after speaker and commentator.

Duffuor holds an MPhil in Migration Studies with Distinction from the University of Oxford, an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Urban Studies from Columbia University.