About Us

Our Manifesto:
Driving Change with Passion and Purpose

Purpose:
We dream of a thriving future where humanity, the planet, and all living beings flourish together. Every life matters, and every step we take is a chance to make a difference. Let’s re-imagine a world where we all thrive, powered by purpose, passion, and possibility.

Vision:
Picture this: humanity living in harmony with the planet instead of exhausting it. Right now, we’re consuming resources at three times the planet’s regenerative capacity. Our air, water, and soil are choking on pollution, and many people are struggling with mental health challenges. This affects not just us, but animals, plants, and ecosystems—all the life that makes Earth our home.

But here’s the good news: we can fix this. Together, we can heal and restore the planet while reshaping how humanity lives, works, and thrives. It starts with big ideas and bold action. We need businesses that push boundaries, challenge norms, and spark a societal shift in how we create, consume, and connect. Change starts within us and radiates outward. By empowering innovative leaders and visionary teams with capital and community, we can ignite the transformation our world needs.

Mission:
We’re here to fast-track solutions that heal the planet and uplift humanity. How? By investing in Regentech companies with the power to create bold, catalytic change.

Strategic Objectives:

  1. Accelerate Innovation: Fuel groundbreaking Regentech companies so their ideas and technologies spread quickly and create ripples of change worldwide.
  2. Drive a Societal Shift: Lead by example. Build a regenerative economy, foster inclusive practices, and create a global community of changemakers. Let’s not just fund the future—let’s be the future.
  3. Achieve Extraordinary Returns: Deliver financial success that aligns with our values and reflects our belief in bold yet balanced risk-taking.

 
The Power of Diversity
Our team thrives on diversity across every dimension, embracing a broad spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and strengths:

  • Diversity Beyond Gender: Our commitment extends far beyond gender balance. We value differences in culture, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic background, education, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, geography, and ways of thinking. This holistic approach drives innovation and equity.
  • Gender Balance: A dedication to equality with a team that’s 50% women and 50% men.
  • Managerial Expertise: From corporate veterans to fast-growing scale-ups, our members contribute a wide range of leadership experiences.
  • Technological Breadth: Expertise spans deep tech, software, and hardware, equipping us to support cutting-edge innovation at every level.
  • Cultural, Generational, and Cross-Border Perspectives: Bridging diverse cultural backgrounds, generations, and global markets, our team fosters a holistic and inclusive approach to investment.
  • Ecosystem Connectivity: Strongly integrated into networks that provide exceptional access to opportunities and insights.
  • Neurodiversity and Inclusion: Our inclusive culture nurtures creativity, resilience, and a collective focus on creating a better world.

 

This multifaceted diversity is not just a strength—it’s a driving force for innovation. It empowers us to analyze opportunities from multiple angles and deliver comprehensive support to portfolio companies. Together, we’re uniquely positioned to identify transformative ventures and scale their success.

Core Values:

  1. Trust and Collaboration: Great things happen when we work together with open hearts and minds.
  2. Ethics and Excellence: Integrity isn’t just a policy—it’s our way of life.
  3. Personal Leadership: We lead with courage, optimism, and vision, because big dreams require bold leadership.

Guiding Frameworks:

  1. Inner Development Goals (IDG): These guide us to be our best selves—creative, authentic, courageous, and resilient as we embrace challenges.
  2. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
    • Our Focus: SDG 3 (Good Health & Well-being) and SDG 13 (Climate Action).
    • Our Foundation: SDG 16 (Peace) — on a personal as well as on a collective level and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) — because teamwork makes the dream work.


Investment Philosophy:

We seek out game-changing Regentech companies that combine innovation, passion, and purpose to transform the world.

Investment Focus:
We’re here to coinvest with like-minded professional investors and back trailblazers at the seed, Series A, and Series B stages—where the magic of ideas meets the power of execution.

What is Catalytic Impact:
Catalytic impact is where the extraordinary happens. It’s about bold ideas that:

  1. Deliver big solutions for a healthier planet and happier humanity.
  2. Inspire others by setting a new standard for what’s possible.
  3. Transform infrastructure or supply chains to drive large-scale change.
  4. Bring life-changing solutions to underserved communities at scale.


Key Investment Criteria:

  1. Catalytic Impact: Does it spark big, scalable solutions for global challenges?
  2. Product-Market Fit: Does it solve significant real problems with unique, market-defining solutions?
  3. Customer Traction: Are customers already on board and buying in?
  4. Exceptional Teams: Do the founders have demonstrated expertise and passion to turn dreams into reality?
  5. Exit Horizon: Can we deliver meaningful results within 3–5 years?


Why Catalyst Impact?

At Catalyst Impact, we believe changing the world is a team sport—and we’re here to make it exciting, impactful, and full of inspiration. Together, we can bridge bold ideas with brilliant execution, creating not just returns but ripples of positive change. Let’s build a future where businesses heal, people thrive, and every investment becomes a story worth celebrating.

Because when we dare to dream big and act boldly, anything is possible.

Our criteria

Catalyst Impact Investment Club
criteria for startups

Below our main criteria and explanation (we focus on seed and Series A)

  • Catalytic impact
  • P/M fit (clear value proposition, clear vision on competitors and USP)
  • Paying customers & traction (showing positive development and globally scalable)
  • Great team (experienced people with relevant experience in the appropriate space)
  • Exit horizon 3-5 years with attractive returns given the risk involved

What is Catalytic impact?

Catalytic impact can be looked at from different viewpoints,
our definition encompasses any of these four:

  1. Impacting at scale in healing & repairing the planet and/or humankind
  2. Acting as demo/example for Needed Societal change
  3. Bringing needed change in infrastructure or a vertical/industry, that can catalyze impact at large
  4. Addressing underserved markets/groups of people

About Us

Annegien Blokpoel

Founder

Annegien Blokpoel is a trailblazer in the investment world, blending financial acumen with a passionate commitment to regenerative change. Winner of the prestigious Golden Aurora Award 2024-2025 from the Business Angel Association Europe, Annegien has shifted her investment philosophy entirely toward Catalytic Impact Companies – ventures dedicated to healing the planet and improving human well-being.

After a decade in tech-focused venture capital, Annegien experienced a transformative moment in 2022, recognizing the urgent need for solutions to combat the escalating environmental and humanitarian crisis. This realization inspired her to pivot her portfolio to 100% regenerative investments. By mid-2023, she further refined her focus, dedicating herself fully to investing in and building Regentech companies. Harnessing her extensive international network, she aims to collectively accelerate transformative ventures that repair and regenerate our planet and human kind.

Through the Catalyst Impact Investment Club, which now boasts over 50 investors from more than 10 countries, Annegien fosters a thriving, diverse community of angels and professionals. The group is uniquely balanced, with currently a healthy balance of 50% women and 50% men, creating a powerful ecosystem that combines capital with deep experience, knowledge, and connections. Together, they collaborate to identify, analyze, and support regenerative businesses that offer both societal and financial returns.

For Annegien, every day is an opportunity to engage with extraordinary founders and investors, sharing her belief that bold ideas and collective effort can drive the world toward a regenerative future. Her leadership at Catalyst Impact exemplifies her mission to bridge traditional and impact investment approaches, delivering both measurable returns and scalable, life-changing solutions.

Under her guidance, Catalyst Impact has become more than an investment club—it’s a movement to empower innovative leaders, drive societal and behavioral shifts, and create a thriving planet for all living beings.

Our Advisory Investment Committee

Our Advisory Investment Committee (AIC) upholds the core criteria and mission of the Catalyst Impact Investment Club (CIIC) while evaluating candidate ventures with precision. The AIC embodies a balanced mix of expertise, including cross-border corporate and scale-up experience, underpinned by an open-minded, cross-cultural perspective rooted in the Inner Development Goals framework.

With a team comprised of three men and three women, the AIC reflects our commitment to diversity in perspectives, managerial focus, and areas of expertise. This diversity allows us to leverage the group’s collective knowledge, deep connections across ecosystems, and unique insights to accelerate transformative change. We firmly believe in the power of diversity to drive impactful results.

David Prais

Investor, Advisor & Senior manager

Leveraging his extensive experience in technology and strategic planning from his time at Gateway and Dell, David co-founded the Collider.io accelerator. At Collider.io, he focuses on supercharging startups in the marketing, advertising, and commerce sectors. David also holds various board positions, where he plays a crucial role in aligning strategy and business plans for exponential growth. He is currently the chairman of London Investment Board.

What do you like about the Catalyst Impact Investment Club?
I like to challenge our assumptions about how companies can achieve scale.  The great thing about innovation is that old assumptions can be proven wrong. I love it when that happens.

Diana Krieger

Tech Innovator & Strategic Leader

Diana brings over 20 years of leadership experience in software technology, angel investing, scaling businesses and driving innovation across diverse sectors.

What do you like about the Catalyst Impact Investment Club?

I participate actively in CIIC because it’s my way of contributing to a better world—leaving a piece of legacy where every small change becomes a drop that builds a transformative waterfall.

Annegien Blokpoel

Catalyst Impact Investment Founder, Financial Strategist

Annegien has been in investments for 30 years, strategy and management advisor to Corporates, banks and companies for 20 years, and the last 10 years venture builder and investor in international startups.

What do you like about the Catalyst Impact Investment Club?

I love to discover these amazing companies with intrinsically motivated passionate founders, management and co-investors that bring solutions that the world and all its living creatures really need to heal, restore and regenerate. And to contribute to their success by using the talents of our club members and networks to go faster and smoother in succeeding in their purpose.

Corina Kuiper

Founder of The Innovation Family; Director Corporate Venturing Network; Author book Corporate Venturing

With a deep passion for connecting corporates, startups, and ecosystems, Corina combines strategic insight with hands-on experience gained across various functional areas in both startup environments and established business settings to drive innovation and entrepreneurship.

What do you like about the Catalyst Impact Investment Club?
The Catalyst Impact Investment Club provides an opportunity for entrepreneurship that contributes to a better world and brings transformative technologies to market, enabling its members, who bring a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, to collaborate and leverage their collective talents and networks to drive success.

Michael Devoe

Entrepreneur, Investor and Advisor

Michael is an experienced investor, corporate banker and director with a demonstrated history of working in the innovative mining & metals industry, climate tech, biomass, venture capital, private equity, and project management within corporates and new ventures in Europe and New Zealand.

What do you like about the Catalyst Impact Investment Club?
“For me personally, CIIC is giving me the opportunity to learn about investing in startups as well as access to great companies to invest in, companies that have a great potential to improve outcomes for people and nature as well as provide a return.”

Marc Torras Larson

Venture Investor and Sales Expert

Marc empowers software startups and scale-ups with his 18 years of expertise in financial strategy and corporate operations across APAC and Europe.

What do you like about the Catalyst Impact Investment Club?

I love the spirit and the energy of the people, I got hooked on the passion and then thrived with the intellectual challenge analyzing complex deals with great potential for catalytic impact.

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