Turning Delta into Alpha

AiiM Partners invests in technology companies improving resource efficiency across three interconnected markets - digital transformation, energy & power, and supply chain & logistics - an estimated $17 trillion opportunity. The resource savings our companies create are the delta. The returns those savings compound into are the alpha.

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Investment focus

We invest at the commercialization stage, after the technology is proven and as it begins to scale. The companies we back are built on hard, defensible assets, with strong unit economics and traction ahead of their peers. Far fewer funds invest at this stage than at seed or growth, and that scarcity is our advantage: less competition for the best companies, and entry at prices set before the market reaches consensus.

How we are different

Where the delta comes from

The markets we invest in are among the world's largest and the resource inefficiencies inside them remain vast and unaddressed. We back companies where the waste is greatest and the technology to remove it now exists, companies the market continues to validate: for every $1 AiiM invests, portfolio companies go on to raise $155 in follow-on capital.

 

More than capital

We lead or co-lead financings, take active board seats, and put a global network of customers, operators, and strategic partners to work from the day we invest.

 

Proven exit discipline

AiiM has successfully exited multiple portfolio companies, validating the firm's ability to identify category-defining companies early.

Verification

Every investment carries outcome targets set before we commit, and we report results against them. AiiM is the only independent venture fund on BlueMark's Leadership Board and our results are independently verified.The portfolio is on track to offset the equivalent of one gigaton of greenhouse gases and create 5,000 quality jobs, concentrated in low- and middle-income communities.

Select investments

Digital transformation

Arkenstone

GovCon-native platform that equips companies with the climate & ocean compliance infrastructure needed to enter the federal market

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Modular AI inference data centers that turn GPU waste heat into revenue - with sub-10ms latency in urban cores

Energy

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Next generation storage without critical material constraints

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Advanced wastewater treatment and resource recovery

Supply chain

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Replacing plastic in packaging at commercial scale

 

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Technology compiling verifiable data and insights across supplier tiers

 

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AiiM team

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Shally Shanker, CFA

Founder & Managing Partner

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Diana Lieberman, CFA

General Partner

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Maisie Ganzler

General Partner

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Preetish Ramasawmy, Ph.D.

Principal

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Luke Halsey

Researcher

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Sameer Halai

Venture Partner

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Justin Manley

Venture Partner

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Jessie Lam

Venture Partner

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Máire P. Walsh

Investor relations

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LeAnn Aharonian

CFO

Advisors

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Jason Thomson

 Advisory Board

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Noah Bernstein

Advisory Board

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Mattie Beknik

Industry Partner

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Michiel Bakker

Industry Partner

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Ida Posner

Industry Partner

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