Helena Hasselmann is a Managing Director at Stardust, a single principal family office based in New York and Houston. She leads all investment activities for Stardust Equity, the firm’s impact-focused alternative investment arm, with oversight across private markets including venture capital, private equity, private credit, and real assets. She also partners with external managers to integrate sustainability and impact considerations across Stardust’s public investment portfolio.

Prior to joining Stardust in 2018, Helena was an Investment Manager at LGT Impact (now Lightrock), a global impact investing platform supporting early-stage companies across Europe and emerging markets. She began her career at Goldman Sachs, where she worked in London on the Distressed Investing team and previously as an analyst in the Investment Banking Division in New York.

Helena holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and International Business from McGill University.