Leadership
The team and advisors have experience in venture capital, impact investing, investment banking, management consulting, environmental science, education, technology companies, academia, and nonprofit organizations.
Our core activities to date have included developing and implementing ESG policies and practices, including defining metrics, capturing data, and performing analysis of portfolios representing more than 200 companies across five venture capital funds.
Tracy Barba
DIRECTOR
Tracy Barba has over 15 years of experience in investor relations, strategic marketing, and capital formation in venture capital. She is the Lucas Institute for Venture Equity and Ethics Executive Director at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Tracy also advises family offices and venture firms, leveraging her knowledge and network to guide capital strategy and stakeholder engagement.
Previously, she was the Director of Global Stakeholder Engagement at 500 Global, a venture capital firm and accelerator, where she led marketing, investor relations, and responsible investment policy design and implementation. Before that, she led investor relations for Bamboo Capital Partners, a pioneer in frontier market funds focused on the financial services, healthcare, and energy sectors. She served as West Coast Director for Golden Seeds, an angel investment network and fund supporting women-led companies. She also led public affairs and investor relations at Social Finance US, the firm behind the Social Impact Bond.
Her expertise spans capital formation strategies for emerging managers and sectors, frontier markets, blended finance structures, and joint ventures through strategic partnerships and investor engagement.
She started her career with venture funds in Silicon Valley, where she was the VP of Marketing, leading strategic partnerships and investor Relations for VantagePoint Venture Partners, a $5B private equity firm investing in renewable energy innovation, InterWest Venture Partners, a $6B fund manager investing in early-stage life science and information technology companies. She has been a mentor and faculty member in leading accelerators and fellows programs.
Tracy graduated from the Women’s College at the University of Denver and attended the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Courtney Weinstein
DIRECTOR
Courtney has almost a decade of experience advising early-stage companies and venture capital firms.
She's worked in early-stage tech startups as a Product Manager and Head of Innovation, and now supports early-stage companies making a positive impact on people and planet with strategy, business development and fundraising. Since 2020, she's worked with 500 Global (previously 500 Startups), on integrating ESG and helping portfolio companies identify and manage ESG risks and opportunities. Before getting into startups and VC, she was a Senior Research Manager at the Gerson Lehrman Group where she supported a portfolio of generalist hedge fund clients totalling +$20 billion in assets under management with their primary research. Previously, she spent one year interning at the United Nations headquarters in NYC with UNICEF and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) while completing her Masters of Arts in International Educational Development from the Teachers College at Columbia University. She started her career in education and non profit development, and holds a Bachelor of Science in English Education from Indiana University.
Courtney now lives in Memphis, TN with her husband and three children.