Marie Asano is currently a partner at the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund. This specialized fund invests in growth-stage companies active in ag-tech, nutrition, industrial biotech and packaging.
At ECBF, Marie is the partner leading the nutrition and food tech vertical. Before that, she worked at High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), a German-based seed fund where she lead early stage investments active in the areas of chemistry, climate tech, animal health and life sciences.
Before beginning her professional career, Marie completed her PhD in Chemistry at the universities of Liège and Bordeaux after which she obtained an MBA at the Collège des Ingénieurs.