Adiari Vazquez had previously spent a year as a UK-based associate at Next47.

Adiari Vazquez has joined US-listed online retailer Amazon’s sustainability-focused corporate venturing unit as an investment manager.

At Amazon’s $2bn Climate Pledge Fund, Adiari said in her LinkedIn profile she was “investing to bend Amazon’s carbon emissions curve”.

She had previously spent a year as a UK-based associate at Next47, a corporate venture capital vehicle owned by Germany-headquartered industrial equipment and appliance producer Siemens, before leaving in 2020 to set up Braver Ventures.

Vazquez had earlier been a Portugal-based investment manager…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.