Lisa Barclay is a venture capital investor at Nesta Impact Investments who brings an unusual combination of early political advisory experience with Gordon Brown and other UK Labour politicians, startup founding experience, and over 20 years in impact investing since the early 2000s when she was among the first to pitch that commercial investments could achieve social and environmental good simultaneously. She operates with patient capital from Nesta's endowment rather than a traditional 10-year fund timeline and leverages Nesta's 270-person organization of data scientists, behavioral scientists, and policy researchers to provide distinctive support to portfolio companies beyond just capital. Lisa Barclay is a venture capital investor at Nesta Impact Investments who brings an unusual combination of early political advisory experience with Gordon Brown and other UK Labour politicians, startup founding experience, and over 20 years in impact investing since the early 2000s when she was among the first to pitch that commercial investments could achieve social and environmental good simultaneously. She operates with patient capital from Nesta's endowment rather than a traditional 10-year fund timeline and leverages Nesta's 270-person organization of data scientists, behavioral scientists, and policy researchers to provide distinctive support to portfolio companies beyond just capital.