Nikolaus Hutter
Partner, Founder
Relevant Ventures GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Relevant Ventures is a purpose venture catalyst - we build businesses and mobilise capital for the blind spots: people, places, topics that markets neglect.
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About me
Partner and Founder at Relevant Ventures, a Purpose Venture catalyst operating in East Africa and Europe.
25+ years' experience in finance, incl. 10 years in VC, impact investment field building, impact innovation and capacity building.
Started first impact accelerator in CEE and what is now Impact Days Vienna with Impact Hub Vienna, served as MD Europe for Toniic, co-founder of CEE Impact Investment Association and Hellenic Impact Investment Network, initiated impact venture programs with large NGOs (e.g. WWF Impact Ventures, REDpreneur), designer of participatory Purpose Pool funding methodology, and Purpose Private Partnership governance model.
Institutional and behavioural economist by training, entrepreneur and investment professional by trade, activist and humanitarian at heart, conceptual engineer and possibilist by nature.
Speaker sessions (1)
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
11:20 - 12:10
Financing the Future: Innovative Instruments for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Discover how innovative tools like quasi-equity, basket bonds, and blended finance are reshaping access to capital for entrepreneurs and scaling impact across the innovation ecosystem.