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I'm delighted to be a Mentor for UOB FinLab’s GreenTech Accelerator 2024 – a 6-month regional programme for greentechs to grow, transform, forge partnerships and pilots to meet the sustainability needs of companies. I am looking forward to supporting the greentechs as they work closely with industry partners to address real-world sustainability pain points and drive a positive green impact. Stay tuned for more updates by following @UOBFinLab on LinkedIn. #greentechaccelerator #businesstransformation #greenbusiness #greentech #UOBFinLab

I'm delighted to be a Mentor for UOB FinLab’s GreenTech Accelerator 2024 – a 6-month regional programme for greentechs to grow, transform, forge partnerships and pilots to meet the sustainability needs of companies. I am looking forward to supporting the greentechs as they work closely with industry partners to address real-world sustainability pain points and drive a positive green impact. Stay tuned for more updates by following @UOBFinLab on LinkedIn. #greentechaccelerator #businesstransformation #greenbusiness #greentech #UOBFinLab

Act Venture Capital are pleased to have contributed to ESG_VC's latest research in partnership with the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA). We've worked with ESG_VC to compile ESG data from 587 portfolio companies backed by leading VC's. The findings offer the most comprehensive benchmarking of ESG performance across start-ups and scale-ups, and how this performance differs by stage, sector and geography. Check it out via the link below! #ESG_VC #sustainability #responsibleinvesting https://lnkd.in/eKghz5_x

VC investment into agtech increased for the second consecutive quarter in Q3 2024, suggesting recovery for the sector after some major low points in 2023 and earlier this year. https://buff.ly/3AKZpxD

I was delighted to appear on a panel at LP Forum/TechBBQ in Copenhagen this week to discuss the evolving world of venture capital. We discussed the implications of leading venture capital funds, such as Sequioa, transitioning from the traditional 10-year fund cycle into a single, permanent structure, and how other VC funds are adapting to blend venture capital with philanthropy or other non-equity investments. In a similar vein, IMCA is aiming for the first time to coordinate development investment pipelines across countries, leveraging blended finance in novel ways to draw private capital towards climate solutions in developing economies. In both cases, traditional financial models are giving way to long-term, developmental solutions focused on the bigger picture. At IMCA, our mission is to establish which innovative blended finance vehicles will de-risk investments in emerging market climate projects, rendering them more attractive to asset owners and private capital. By forging these new pathways and using public-private partnerships to pool catalytic funding at speed and scale, we can make the necessary progress in addressing the urgent need for climate financing to emerging markets and developing economies. Thank you for the invitation Christel Piron, CEO of PSV and the photo Tenna Fonnesbo. #VC #VentureCapital #ClimateFinance #ClimateAdaptation #TechBBQ2024 #TechBBQ #IMCA #WorldClimateFoundation #Investment

Financing the transition calls for use of new mixed instruments .Thx Dewi Dylander for sharing ways forward. #VC #VentureCapital #ClimateFinance #ClimateAdaptation #TechBBQ2024 #TechBBQ #IMCA #WorldClimateFoundation #Investment #SusSolutions

🆕 There was no old boys network to break into in the growth-stage of climate tech investing when the women at Blume Equity launched their first fund. Back in 2020, there were few funds of any sort dedicated to helping Europe’s climate solutions reach commercial scale. “The growth stage was this missing middle,” says Blume’s Clare Murray. “We saw it as a huge opportunity.” Blume is among a new crop of fund managers stepping up to address the shortage of growth capital for companies that have proven their technologies, and may even have found their first customers, but now need to scale up production – and their climate impact. Avaana Capital Ankur Capital Trellis Climate AiiM Partners Elemental Impact Shally Shanker Lara Pierpoint Eleanor Blagbrough Michelle Capiod Planet A Ventures SET Ventures Norrsken VC Aerones European Investment Bank (EIB) Fjärde AP-fonden (AP4) Impact Engine Wire Group British Patient Capital Rema Subramanian Swapna Gupta Anjali Bansal Ebb Carbon Dawn Lippert Avra van der Zee Ecologic Brands Jabil SupplyShift, a Sphera company https://hubs.li/Q02QKZN00

𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 $𝟭𝟯𝟱𝗠 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 Avaana Capital has raised $135 million for its Avaana Climate and Sustainability Fund, supported by major investors like the Green Climate Fund (GCF). This marks GCF's first investment in an Indian climate venture fund. Avaana aims to support startups addressing India's carbon-heavy sectors—energy, mobility, and agriculture. India, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, will require over $10 trillion by 2070 to meet net-zero targets. #finance #news #ClimateTech #VentureCapital #IndiaStartups Source:- https://lnkd.in/gkEzzZvY

Karnataka’s Social Impact Catalyst funds mission-driven startups tackling urban challenges—water conservation, healthcare access, waste management, and beyond. Early-stage ventures receive grant assistance, community partnerships, and mentorship from seasoned impact investors. Transform social challenges into scalable solutions and make a real difference in people’s lives. #SocialImpact #CatalystProgram #UrbanInnovation #SustainableSolutions #ImpactInvesting

Thank you, Blume Equity, for hosting such an interesting & impeccably organised Investor Day (even the ⛈️ Swiss weather came around to your sunny plans !) Highlights, from a room of energising entrepreneurs and passionate investors: 🌳 Debate on carbon capture: while all IPCC scenarios rely on some form & level of carbon capture to reach net zero by 2050, the types of carbon capture (nature based vs. engineered) and price point for carbon at which a voluntary carbon market becomes effective (garnering sufficient uptake vs. financing the most permanent capture solutions) are up for discussion ! 🏭 Factory tour: visit of a site where Blume’s most recent investee neustark injects CO2 (by-product of a local biogas facility) into demolished concrete (the world’s largest waste stream) for the CO2 to react with the limestone in the concrete to form calcium carbonate, and thus be permanently mineralised, and ultimately become part of a batch of recycled concrete (to be used in roads for example)  💶 Enduring growth stage funding gap in GreenTech for European VC: as Blume Equity described its competitive positioning, we discussed the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group’s new Cleantech co-investment facility (tickets of c.EUR 10m to be deployed alongside European Investment Fund (EIF)-backed GPs into promising GreenTech companies headquartered in EU and EFTA countries, notably at growth stage). Dare I say … Happy to be a Blumer ? 🏵️ Clare Murray Michelle Capiod Eleanor Blagbrough Rens Mathot Tejas Choudhary Kirby Lam Francesco Orlando Raxita Kapashi Kasper Hulthin Devon Sanford Paula Campbell Floris Lyppens Kai Liiva Luz R. Khalid Naqib Adelaide Cracco Daniel Beck Florian Chilla João Sampayo Ramos Martín Corredera Silván Nick Dunster Jerome Samson For more info: https://lnkd.in/gCckvDRA https://lnkd.in/gcpJNKmK https://lnkd.in/eTwQqwu7