Amy Duffuor

Amy Duffuor

Co-founder & General Partner, Azolla Ventures

Amy Duffuor is a co-founder and General Partner at Azolla Ventures, where she invests in early-stage technology companies with transformative climate impact. Amy is also a Managing Director at Prime Impact Fund, Azolla’s predecessor vehicle. Her professional background spans business, finance, and impact across three continents. Earlier in her career, Amy was a renewables and power investment banker at Bank of America. There, she worked with CEOs of public and private companies to raise investment capital including the IPO of Sunnova (NYSE:NOVA), a residential solar company initially valued at approximately $1 billion. Before her experience on Wall Street, Amy ran early-stage social venture accelerators around Southeast Asia for a Singapore-headquartered impact investing firm called Impact Investment Exchange.

Prior to working in Asia, Amy was a management consultant at State of Flux, a London- based consulting firm that specializes in supply chain and procurement.

She has served as a board member for portfolio companies Clean Crop Technologies, Noon Energy, Ovipost, Heaten, Carbon Reform, VELOZBIO and Oxylus Energy. In addition, Amy serves on the board of the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC); the Leadership Council of Activate, a nonprofit that empowers scientists to bring their research to market to address climate change; the Advisory Council of ReFED, a national nonprofit focused on food waste; and the Advisory Circle of GreenTech Noir, a global community for Black people working in sustainability and climate tech. In 2023, she was recognized by Fortune as a "Top 13 Seed Stage Climate Tech VC to Watch” and is a sought-after speaker and commentator. Amy holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia University, an M.Phil in Migration Studies with Distinction from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.