Camilla Dolan, General Partner at Eka Ventures, joins a conversation following Eka being named Impact Leader of the Year 2025 at the EUVC Summit & Awards Show 2026.
The award recognises exceptional positive impact alongside strong financial performance, with impact intention, measurement and reporting integrated throughout the investment process.
The recognition follows the close of Eka’ $107 million second fund, focused on health, wellbeing and sustainability as long-term drivers of value.
In the conversation, Camilla explains Eka’s shared value thesis and why the firm believes impact investing can drive outlier returns while bringing more commercial capital into the market.
In Fund I, she says every pound invested by Eka has been followed by roughly £10 of additional capital, much of it from commercial investors.
She also explains how Eka assesses founders, looking for people who learn at an exceptional rate, show high intentionality and have evidence of outlier achievement.
Camilla connects that approach to investments including Runna, which Eka backed in 2022 before its acquisition by Strava.
The discussion explores what it looks like to treat impact as part of the investment discipline itself, rather than something separate from commercial performance.
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