Pangaea Impact Investments

Co-founders Anthony Bohm (Managing Director) and Karen Bohm (Partner) lead the firm's investment activity. They previously co-founded and scaled the Think: Education Group and Open Colleges, where they were hands-on operators. Their decision-making draws on that direct management experience rather than a traditional institutional investment-committee structure.

The Bohms lean heavily on their operating network within Australian education, healthcare, and impact-investing circles. Karen Bohm's role as a founding partner of EduGrowth and Anthony Bohm's mentorship at the Social Impact Hub provide proprietary access to founder-led businesses. The firm's association with the Toniic global impact network creates an additional sourcing channel across geographies.

Pangaea functions as a private asset manager deploying proprietary capital, without the external LP base of a venture firm or the wealth-management services of a multi-family office. There is no disclosed fund structure, and the firm invites co-investments on a deal-by-deal basis. This gives it the flexibility to move across buyouts, turnarounds, and early-stage deals without the constraints of a fixed mandate.

Pangaea pursues buyouts, turnarounds, growth-stage, and early-stage start-up investments. This broad mandate reflects the Bohms' willingness to engage wherever their operating background can add value, rather than specializing in a single stage. The firm does not disclose a minimum or maximum check size.

Pangaea does not publish a formal exclusion list, but its stated focus on 'great businesses that make a lasting positive impact on peoples' lives' suggests it would avoid sectors at odds with that mandate. Observable investments are concentrated in education, health, and mixed-use real estate, implying limited appetite for extractive industries, defense, or consumer sectors without a clear social-outcome thesis.

The Bohms co-founded both Think: Education Group, a vocational-education platform, and Open Colleges, one of Australia's largest online private educators. The capital they deploy at Pangaea originated from the eventual sale of those businesses. Their former business partner, Mark Rohald, and director Robert Gavshon collaborated with them on these ventures but do not hold named roles at Pangaea.

No separate philanthropic foundation is publicly disclosed. The firm's impact mandate is integrated into its investment activity rather than being siloed in a grant-making entity. The Bohms' direct mentorship and board roles at organizations like the Social Impact Hub serve a similar community-building function without a formal charitable trust.