The 22 Fund

Monica Dodi is a Partner at The 22 Fund, which invests in climate-friendly, tech-enabled manufacturing companies, and the Founder and Managing Director of the Women's VC Fund, which invests in female entrepreneurs. Earlier in her career, she cofounded a technology company later sold to Thyssen Bornemisza, cofounded MTV Europe as Executive Director, served as Disney SVP of Consumer Products for Europe/Africa/Middle East, and was CEO of AOL's Entertainment Asylum; she later worked as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Softbank VC. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and serves as a Board Director for Repurpose, Inc. and Re-Nuble, Inc.

Rajan Kasetty is a Partner at The 22 Fund with over 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO across sectors including IT and IT outsourcing, engineering and design, manufacturing, power systems, automation, and renewable energy, having established and run ventures in India, the United States, and Canada. He has served on boards of and advised startups and growth-stage companies in the United States, South America, Europe, and India. Kasetty was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator and has served as a mentor and judge at the Cleantech Open.

Emilie Cortes is Chief Financial Officer at The Collins Foundation and the 22 Fund. Her experience spans finance, accounting, investments, human resources, risk management, and legal functions across both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

Vanessa Gray is Executive Director at We Are Enough. Her work includes communications and marketing, event planning and budgeting, public speaking, and collaboration with elected officials and city and county departments. She has experience writing grants, reconciling profit and loss reports, maintaining operational budgets, and preparing year-end and next-year budget analyses.

Noah Bernstein serves as Director of the Quality Jobs Fund and Senior Program Officer at the New World Foundation. His work encompasses social impact investing, multi-donor and multi-sector grantmaking, community-based partnerships, fundraising, and capacity building and strategic planning.