Jolene Anderson
Co-Founder and Managing Director of VectorPoint Impact Partners, LP
Kinect Capital Board Member, 2023
Jolene Anderson is the Managing Director for VectorPoint Ventures, a seed through early growth stage purpose-driven impact venture firm and advisory team, with a special focus on funding women and minority led Founders.
VectorPoint’s team launched VectorPoint Impact Partners L.P. (VIP) to fund and accelerate impact companies. An early pioneer and entrepreneur, Ms. Anderson has appraised, advised and sold small companies, provided investor relations for a public company, served as advisor and/or mentor for various life science, consumer wellness, material science and clean tech companies, such as Kineta Bio, Inmedix, Inc., CleanAge, ZEVAAero, and other companies.
A former Chapter President for Keiretsu Forum NW/Idaho, she is a current board member of the Evergreen Bioscience Innovation Cluster appointed by Washington State Commerce, incoming Board member for the Chris Elliott Fund for Brain Tumor Research, (EndBrainCancer.org), member of ACA Life Science committee, Co-Chair for ACA Impact Syndication Committee, K4 Northwest Life Science Screening Committee, and speaker at investor events, including Life Science Innovation NW.
A participant on investor panels at global health and FemAging events, she is a pioneer in the spa/wellness industry and founder of one of the first corporate wellness education companies. She has three decades of experience working with thought leaders in longevity medicine and East West medicine.
A decades long commitment to cancer prevention and cures, she participated in the Celebration on the Hill in Washington, D.C. An active participant in ACS events she was appointed to the Leadership Advisory Board for American Cancer Society NW Region in 2014 for a 2 year term. A former Board member for the St. Alphonsus Hospital Foundation, former Board member of MIT Enterprise Forum NW, and former Board member for Soroptimist International Rocky Mountain Region, she is a tireless advocate for global health and education on healthy communities, STEM Education and advocacy for education and literacy for women.
