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Kate Danaher

Managing Director at S2G Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Kate Danaher is the Managing Director at S2G Ventures in San Francisco, specializing in investing in AgTech, Food and Beverage, and ClimateTech/CleanTech startups. With a background in social finance and event management, she has successfully invested in companies like Aquaconnect and ViAqua Therapeutics, contributing to their growth and success.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    2020 - Current

  • Senior Manager, Social Enterprise and Integrated Capital

    2016 - 2020

    Kate Danaher is a senior manager of Social Enterprise Lending and Integrated Capital at San Francisco–based RSF Social Finance, an impact investing pioneer that has provided loans and grants to social enterprises since 1984. Kate focuses on RSF’s food and agriculture portfolio, where her work includes business development and strategy for the lending program, PRI portfolio, and integrated capital funds. RSF has financed more aggregators and distributors of regional and sustainable food than any other organization in the country, and Kate is deploying RSF’s financial tools to build more-resilient regional food systems and high-integrity supply chains. Kate is a frequent speaker on investment in sustainable food and agriculture. She received her MBA through the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise program at Colorado State University.

  • Lending Manager

    2015 - 2020

  • Senior Lending Associate

    2012 - 2020

  • Chief Lending Officer

    2019 - 2020

RSF Social Finance is a non-profit financial services organization providing senior secured debt to enterprises.

Raised $500,000.00 from Rockefeller Foundation.

  • Project Manager

    2008 - 2011

  • Graduate Student

    2010 - 2011

  • Account Executive

    2009 - 2010

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