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Corporate VC is an incredibly smart option to consider for so many climate companies, but it often seems impossible to navigate. Check out this piece with Enduring Planet and Taylor Chapman to help demystify the process.

In this segment from our Executive Director Sarah Kearney’s conversation with Laurie Lane-Zucker from Impact Entrepreneur, she talks about Prime’s venture capital practice, which is guided by the impact-first underwriting criteria that help address the “valleys of death” inhibiting the deployment of climate innovation. Listen in to learn more about some of the metrics that Prime tracks related to our catalytic capital programs and the solutions they enable. https://lnkd.in/eH5DyX4y #CatalyticCapital #ClimateFinance #ClimateTech

New VC alert 📣 On Tuesday, Impact Loop broke the news that French heavyweight VCs Demeter IM and Cerea Partners were merging to form a new company. In an exclusive interview with Impact Loop, Managing Partner Stephane Villecroze, speaks about: → How the merger came about → Demea Invest’s combined vision moving forward → The secret behind the company’s name #VC #impact #climatetech #adaptationsolutions #venturecapital #impactvc #investments #europe

I didn’t let my non-traditional background stop me from breaking into VC. And I’m not the only one. Young, diverse investors are landing VC roles as VC funds are shifting away from the standard Ivy league finance degree and investment banking background. But there’s still a lot of work to be done to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive VC ecosystem. I’ve personally paid it forward by advising individuals of all experience levels (students to experienced professionals) and backgrounds on how to break into VC. Now, I’m ready to take this one step further, and share the unfiltered story of how I broke into VC to a larger audience: SXSW. I’ve submitted a proposal titled “Overcoming Adversity as a Young Diverse VC Investor” for SXSW 2025. I, along with VCs Leigh Harris and Demetrius Palmer, will discuss: 1️⃣ The challenges we each faced when breaking into VC and how we overcame them 2️⃣ What needs to change in the VC industry 3️⃣ Misconceptions senior VCs have about junior VCs 4️⃣ How junior VCs can add value to their firms 5️⃣ How investors can promote diversity within their portfolios If you want to transform the VC industry, please vote for our proposal (https://lnkd.in/gsiinqXP) and reshare this post with your network. Voting is open until Sunday, August 18 (11:59PM PT). Thank you for supporting the next generation of VCs! #VentureCapital #Startups #SXSW #DEI #Austin

"Ultimately, and this is maybe most important, when we look at impact, we try to achieve what we call systemic impact, which means if this technology is adopted and becomes mature, it will become the industry standard. That means all our competitors will be doing it as well, which may be bad from a business point of view but is super good from an impact point of view." Today's new Investor Spotlight Interview is with Helmer Schukken, managing partner at Rubio Impact Ventures, a Netherlands-based impact venture capital firm. Click through and read Helmer's insights into climate investing! We've linked the article in the comments. We'd like to extend a huge thanks again to Helmer for giving us his valuable perspectives; we feel he covered a lot of new ground and gave some great advice. We wish him and Rubio Impact Ventures nothing but the greatest success in their surely exciting future. #investorspotlight #seekthechange #climatetech #startupadvice #venturecapital

Rubio Impact Ventures has shown that social impact and financial returns can go hand in hand, and Geri Stengel (Forbes) recently spotlighted this journey, featuring our founders, Willemijn Verloop and Machtelt Groothuis. I'm proud to be part of a team that challenges the status quo—linking 100% of carry to measurable #impact, fostering a gender-diverse team, and showing that impact-focused businesses can thrive financially. This article highlights not just our achievements, but also the bold choices and lessons learned along the way. It’s a testament to how venture capital can deliver results for people and planet. 🌍 Curious to learn more? Check out the full interview in #Forbes (link in comments) Warner Philips Ilonka Jankovich Edward van der Hout Eline de Haan Helmer Schukken Charlie Macdonald Ata Şenkon Kirstin Valkonet Talita Ferguson Tijl Hoefnagels 👉 Let's keep pushing boundaries in impact investing. #impact #impactinvesting #venturecapital #forbes #teamrubio #finance

📢  Check out a recent interview by Pulse 2.0, featuring two of our talented investors, Jillian Noel and Claire Yun. ✨ In this conversation, they dive deep into their personal journeys, from starting their careers in finance and consulting to discovering a passion for investing in climate tech. 🌳 Read the full interview to learn about some of our success stories, our focus on industries shaping the future, and what sets Piva Capital apart from others in the space ⬇️ 

Could the relentless drive for innovation and market disruption from VC be harmoniously integrated with the operational rigour and strategic foresight of PE? I believe that each world will become stronger if they imbibe wisdom from the other and discover the Third Way through Polarity Thinking. Imagine a world where: ✅ VCs learn to love more of their children, not just their star performers and PE houses learn to let their children play and innovate with more freedom. ✅ VCs properly assess the strengths and weaknesses of the management teams not only to figure out whether they want to invest in them but also to inform them of areas of development going forward and PE firms value the ability to learn and adapt more than experience. ✅  VC firms align their needs over the short and long term to prevent conflict and PEs collaborate to gain a diversity of knowledge, expertise and thinking for the benefit of the portfolio companies.  ✅ Where discipline and accountability are embraced in the VC world and flexibility and adaptability are embraced in the PE world. Most PE and VC funds fail to make a return on their investments for their investors and themselves. So, maybe it’s time to rethink the VC and PE models not just to improve the financial returns but to build better, more sustainable businesses (which will benefit wider society too). Maybe it’s time for The Ambidextrous Fund which takes both defensive measures (efficient in managing the current capabilities for profit) and offensive measures (adaptable to explore new growth opportunities) ultimately leading to sustainable competitive advantage for their portfolio companies and their own fund. - - - - - For help on how to get the most from the VC or PE world in your scaleup: ✉️ DM me 🔗 Email mark@fittolead.net #VC #PE #Capital #RaisingCapital #FundRaising

We get asked a lot about when a VC firm should hire their first CFO, COO, or leads in talent and IR, and didn't find much in the way of concrete data on the topic, so we did it ourselves! We looked at 200+ firms that raised funds over the past 3 years and examined the operations teams that support the investment teams, to see how firms grow those teams as they raise more, or larger, funds. Then some great practitioners in the VC field (particular thanks to Michael Mangini Kendra Perlitz) gave us their thoughts on how to hire and retain the leads in those roles. I think it's one of the better pieces we've made. We discovered some interesting data, like the fact that most VC firms under 1bn AUM have 1 finance professional, but past 2bn AUM the average is 4.5. Or that most VC firms hire their first IR professional coincident with their 3rd fund. Shoutout to many at True who contributed but particularly Pamela Golding Stina Ladd, and Ryan Mains and Alexandra Merrill who spent hours pouring through firm websites and linkedin pages.

5 tips to making decisions with a VC investor mindset: 1. Look for outliers. 2. Love arguing; it's the only way to get the deal through the investment committee. 3. Fight for your view of the future. 4. Be open to hearing new perspectives. 5. Be persistent in kicking your ideas around. Remember, once you have conviction in that zero to one moon-shot and you are bringing the deal to your partnership, avoid making consensus-based decisions. Outliers won't get approved by majority rules. #venturecapital #investormindset #Investlikethebest Patrick O'Shaughnessy, CFA