Amon Anderson

Amon Anderson

Managing Partner

Acumen America

Amon co-leads Acumen America, which he launched nine years ago to invest in early-stage companies addressing the root causes of America’s poverty crisis. Prior to this, he spent several years with Acumen in East Africa investing in agricultural innovations.  Amon holds a bachelor’s with Highest Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Frances & Arjay Miller Fellowship in Social Innovation and the Miller Social Change Leadership Award.