Caroline von Hirschberg is an impact-driven entrepreneur, investor and ecosystem builder with experience in capital pathways, commercialization and scaling impactful solutions.

Her background includes corporate leadership in the United Kingdom, international development with UNICEF in Laos, and co-founding a renewable energy venture that designed and launched off-grid solutions in East Africa. She combines strategic insight with operational pragmatism, focused on creating meaningful, measurable impact.

She now serves as Co-CEO of Spring, supporting impact-driven entrepreneurs across Canada to build their capital roadmap, connections and commercial plans to scale. This work has helped catalyze more than $250 million in early-stage capital for ventures advancing people and planetary health. She also chairs Propel Impact, equipping and catalyzing young people to build and invest in the
future they want to live in.

Caroline is focused on the systemic change needed for more equitable access to capital, and on the power of diverse leadership teams to solve problems more effectively. She serves on the North American jury for the Cartier Women’s Initiative, received the Social Impact Entrepreneur special citation at the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Pacific awards, and has twice been named to Business in Vancouver’s BIV 500, B.C.'s list of the 500 most influential business leaders.