FounderSocial Venturers
Anika Horn is an ecosystem builder for social change, social enterprise advisor and avid storyteller. At Social Venturers, she is on a mission to equip entrepreneurial ecosystem builders with the insights, resources and peer community to lead impact-driven careers and meaningful lives. She leverages her global network to raise the profile of ecosystem building for social change as a contributing editor for Impact Boom (where she covers Europe and the U.S.) and Ecosystem Builder Hub (where she heads up the national awareness raising campaign Unsung Ecosystem of Ecosystem Building).
Previously, Anika co-founded Unreasonable Lab VA (Virginia’s first mini-accelerator for social entrepreneurs), CO.STARTERS VA (a startup program for idea-stage founders) and Rebelle Con (a boutique conference for entrepreneurial women). At the same time, she worked with high-growth startups at nationally ranked accelerator program Lighthouse Labs and spearheaded the B Corp movement in Virginia as the state’s official B Keeper.
Prior to her work in North America, Anika earned a Bachelor of European Studies and Masters of Sustainability Sciences in Germany, France and Australia where she spent a decade working in journalism, non-profits, government and the private sector.
