Marie Ekeland

Founder and CEO

2050

A successful entrepreneur in finance and investor reshaping private equity industry to serve performance, planet and people.

At 30, she joined Elaia, where she led the early-stage investments in Criteo (exited for $5bn on the NASDAQ). In 2015, she became Europe's first woman to raise €170M introducing a new investment approach that delivered a top-decile track record, cementing her positioning as one of Europe's leading VCs.
Marie co-founded France Digitale, the leading startup & VC European association.

Through 2050, she's building her most ambitious venture: building the investment infrastructure to fund the transition to a sustainable economy.

Speaker Session

15:05–16:20

Workshop Salon: Thematic Trends & Challenges

Salon 5: Unlocking Markets Through Collective Catalytic Capital

This Salon will examine the understated power of aligned investors whose individual commitments, intentionally structured and aggregated, can form vehicles able to absorb risk, send credible market signals, and unlock significantly larger flows of capital.

Through a nuanced conversation on blended finance, shared standards, and cross-sector collaboration, we will explore how coordinated pools of purpose-driven capital can shift incentives, widen access in overlooked markets, and catalyse durable, inclusive, climate-aligned growth at meaningful scale.