"Whether you're a funder or a founder... we all have more levers than we tend to think of. Use all the levers."   💰 Money as a Tool: Julianne Zimmerman's Investing Playbook!   🎙 In this episode of the InvestHer Podcast, host Anne Ravanona speaks with Julianne Zimmerman, Co-CEO of Adasina Social Capital, about the current state of global startup funding in 2025, the generational wealth transfer reshaping who controls capital, and why social justice investing is not only possible — it's essential.   🌍 Discover how Julianne went from aerospace engineer and two-time NASA astronaut finalist to clean energy co-founder to venture capitalist — and ultimately to Co-CEO of Adasina Social Capital, a public equities impact asset manager with a global social justice investing strategy. Along the way, she was repeatedly told her ideas were impossible. She proved them wrong every time. Now she's on a mission to help founders and funders alike recognise every lever available to them — and use them all.   💡 Don't miss this episode with powerhouse insights on: • Why less than 2% of global capital still goes to female-led founder teams — and what's shifting beneath the surface • The generational wealth transfer: trillions moving to women, and what that means for the future of investing • Why our over-reliance on venture capital has distorted the entrepreneurial ecosystem — and which models are making a comeback • The hottest sectors for 2025: distributed energy, regenerative agriculture, circular manufacturing, employee ownership, and more • Why AI is only as fair as the assumptions it's built on — and why regulating it now, even though we're late, still matters • Julianne's core advice to founders: know your why, define your version of success, and never just "take the money and figure it out later" • How every founder and funder can use ALL their financial levers — from where your money sleeps at night to pressuring your pension plan   Learn how to use money as a tool for systems change — and build a future worth passing on.   🔗 Listen Now | 🎧 Apple Podcasts | Spotify | ▶️ Full Show Notes   About Julianne Julianne Zimmerman is all in on durable, transformative, reparative systems change. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience putting technology and capital to work for the greater good, she has been a change instigator across aerospace, clean energy, and venture — co-founding a seed stage venture practice, standing up a fund focused on women and people of colour, and teaching Innovative Social Enterprises at Tufts University for eight years. She is a 2020 World Changing Woman, a 2022 Forbes 50>50 honouree, and a two-time NASA astronaut finalist.   🌐 Website: https://adasina.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannezimmerman/   About Adasina Social Capital Adasina Social Capital is a public equities impact asset manager with a global social justice investing strategy. They employ a holistic, community-centric approach to using the tools of the market to transform finance for the benefit of all — working to advance social justice across the entire market, with a team that is predominantly BIPOC, female or gender expansive, and queer.   Resources Mentioned 🌐 Adasina Social Capital: https://adasina.com/ 🌐 Malaika Ventures: https://malaika.com/ 🏛 Boston Impact Initiative: https://bostonimpact.org/ 📊 World Economic Forum Global Risks Report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2025/   Connect with Anne & Global Invest Her 🌐 https://www.investherpodcast.com/ 📂 Funder Directory: https://funderdirectory.globalinvesther.com/ 🛍 Buy From Her Directory: https://www.buyfromher.com/ 🗨️ LinkedIn: Anne Ravanona https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneravanona/   #WomenFounders #SocialJusticeInvesting #ImpactInvesting #InvestHerPodcast #WomenInFinance #VentureCapital #SystemsChange #WomenInvesting #WomenEntrepreneurs #StartupFunding #Sustainability #InvestHer #FemaleFounders #WealthTransfer