Ilona Limonta-Volkova

Ilona Limonta-Volkova is a Venture Partner at Media for Growth with a career spanning allocator work at the Hilton Foundation, where she helped oversee a $7 billion global alternatives portfolio, and fintech investing at Vanguard. As a Forbes fintech contributor and host of the NPR-distributed Money Memories podcast, she has built a media platform that functions as both a signal layer and a proprietary deal funnel, with early coverage of companies like Nubank, Esusu, and Cora. She holds an MBA from Kellogg and an undergraduate degree from Wharton, and is the founder of Bear and the Bull, a media and investment platform dedicated to making money conversations more accessible for underrepresented communities. Raised across Cuba, Russia, and the United States, she brings a cross-cultural lens to every investment.