Explorer by nature, pioneer by choice

ALESSA BERG

Swiss-Brazilian entrepreneur and investor

Alessa’s first entrepreneurial activities started when she was 11 years old. From there onwards, it’s been a ride!

Alessa grew up in Switzerland and is fluent in 6 languages. During high school, she started focusing on neuroscience while working as a windsurf and snowboard instructor on the side.

She graduated from Oxford University in 2012 and began her career in M&A at Goldman Sachs and private equity at Blackstone. After working in early-stage investing at a Series A focused VC fund and structuring her personal investment activities, she went back to business building.

Alessa founded Top Tier Impact (TTI) in 2019. Today, TTI is the global ecosystem of impact investors, LPs, entrepreneurs, professionals and public figures across more than 50 countries. TTI runs weekly impact investment events across its 30+ city chapters and during gatherings such as the World Economic Forum and COP. TTI’s investment unit facilitates investments into growth-stage impact companies across emerging markets, such as the €90m debt investment into Wave Mobile Money.

Nature, capital and regeneration

The global economy still treats nature as an externality, extracting its value without accounting for its loss. Forests, soil, water, and biodiversity underpin every market on Earth. Yet, their true worth remains invisible to our financial systems.

This disconnect is now one of the greatest systemic risks we face: when our ecosystems degrade, so does the resilience of our economies, our food systems and our societies.

A new asset class is emerging to bridge this gap. It integrates natural capital, regenerative land use and climate resilience into investable, measurable forms. By aligning incentives between ecology, communities and capital, we can build the foundations for an economy that restores rather than extracts.

How to connect

Alessa's TTI newsletter reaches more than 20,000 investors, founders and professionals who are focused on solving the critical issues of our time. You can subscribe to it here.

You can also connect with Alessa on LinkedIn and Instagram.

As a public voice of the impact and innovation, Alessa was approached to create and host the first TV series about impact entrepreneurship. “Road to Utopia” is now available to watch on Prime Video US and on Gaia TV.