Chairman of Top 50 Farmers and Founder, Astanor
Eric Archambeau
Top 50 Farmers is an acceleration platform paving the way for regenerative agriculture to be scaled from soil to gut. We identify the farmers who are role modeling what the future of farming looks like and share their stories. We also connect them with industry executives and pioneering thought leaders to unlock new opportunities across the value chain.
Eric Archambeau is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Astanor Ventures. A global venture fund with €800 million assets under management, Astanor backs ambitious entrepreneurs with disruptive, scalable solutions that will create systemic change across the agrifood value chain from soil to gut.
Eric has been a pioneer in the impact investing space for over a decade. He served as Global Chairman of the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, lectured at graduate business school INSEAD where he founded the Social Entrepreneurship Department, and co‐founded Social Impact International supporting livelihood development and regenerative agriculture programs in India.
Eric is Chairman of the Board at Top 50 Farmers as well as a board member of the Harvard Business School initiative, the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) in Boston, and a past chairman of the Impact Investment arm of the UK Government’s NESTA program.
In 2022 he published Costing the Earth: How to Fix Finance to Save the Planet, a book outlining how to overhaul finance to achieve net-zero.
Prior to founding Astanor, Eric was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur then a technology venture capitalist. Eric holds graduate degrees from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Santa Clara University.
Eric Archambeau is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Astanor Ventures. A global venture fund with €800 million assets under management, Astanor backs ambitious entrepreneurs with disruptive, scalable solutions that will create systemic change across the agrifood value chain from soil to gut.
Eric has been a pioneer in the impact investing space for over a decade. He served as Global Chairman of the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, lectured at graduate business school INSEAD where he founded the Social Entrepreneurship Department, and co‐founded Social Impact International supporting livelihood development and regenerative agriculture programs in India.
Eric is Chairman of the Board at Top 50 Farmers as well as a board member of the Harvard Business School initiative, the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) in Boston, and a past chairman of the Impact Investment arm of the UK Government’s NESTA program.
In 2022 he published Costing the Earth: How to Fix Finance to Save the Planet, a book outlining how to overhaul finance to achieve net-zero.
Prior to founding Astanor, Eric was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur then a technology venture capitalist. Eric holds graduate degrees from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Santa Clara University.
