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Lars Nordal Jensen is the Director of Fund of Funds investments at Vaekstfonden, the Danish Growth Fund. Since 1992, The Danish Growth Fund has financed more than 5,400 Danish companies with a total commitment of more than €1.5 billion. The Danish Growth Fund invests equity and provides loans and guarantees…
Caroline Walerud is a Swedish entrepreneur and Partner at Walerud Ventures, a deep-tech investment company that focuses on early-stage green tech startups. She also co-founded Volumental, a company that developed a cloud-based, 3D-scanning technology to create models to customize products and services. Walerud co-founded Volumental in 2012 together with three…
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Marie Helene Ametsreiter is a General Partner at Speedinvest, an early-stage generalist fund based out of Wien in Austria, with more than €600m AUM and 40 investors based in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Marie-Helene oversees their newly launched Climate Tech fund. Marie Helene has a TON of insights…
Irena Spazzapan is a Managing Partner at Systemiq Capital, a London-based climate fund and spin-off of Systemiq Ltd. Systemiq Ltd is an advisory and investment firm focused on climate, that helps build companies that have the potential to meaningfully accelerate the transition towards net zero. Irena worked at Goldman Sachs…
Irena Spazzapan is a Managing Partner at Systemiq Capital, a London-based climate fund and spin-off of Systemiq Ltd. Systemiq Ltd is an advisory and investment firm focused on climate, that helps build companies that have the potential to meaningfully accelerate the transition towards net zero. Irena worked at Goldman Sachs…
Benjamin Kayser is a former French Rugby international and a co-founder and Partner at Teampact Ventures, a Venture Capital fund that specializes in human capital. Core to their thesis is the idea that human capital, like in sports, is a central ingredient of sustainable success. Teampact is an active investor…
Benjamin Joffe is a Partner at SOSV, a global deep tech fund with 1000 portfolio companies and $1.3B AUM. They focus on early-stage planetary and human health. Benjamin has a TON of insights to share. - We will cover his views on today's Climate Tech ecosystem in Europe and China…
Christian Vollmann is the Founder and CEO at C1 / Circular Carbon Chemistry, a Berlin-based startup developing climate-friendly chemicals, for example Green methanol. He has been involved in over 70 start-ups to date, has built several companies from zero to successful exit, including a listing on the NYSE We're receiving…
Chris Wedding is an ex-Private Equity investor, 3x founder, professor at Duke University, a Climate CEO Coach and a MONK. Today's episode is a little special. Both Chris and I are running Climate Tech podcasts. The difference is that Chris has been doing it for a lot longer than I…
ABOUT CLIMENTUM CAPITAL: Climentum Capital is a Seed+ and Series A cleantech European venture capital firm focused on funding and scaling climate-positive ventures that cut down on CO2 emissions. To learn more about CLIMENTUM CAPITAL and apply for funding, please visit https://www.climentum.com To become an LP and invest in one…
ABOUT CLIMENTUM CAPITAL: Climentum Capital is a Seed+ and Series A cleantech European venture capital firm focused on funding and scaling climate-positive ventures that cut down on CO2 emissions. To learn more about CLIMENTUM CAPITAL and apply for funding, please visit https://www.climentum.com To become an LP and invest in one…
Antoine Hubert is the CEO of Ynsect, the World's largest insect farming startup based out of France. In this episode, he shares the key pivotal moments that turned Ynsect into a market leader, how they used acquisitions to scale and gives advice to fight the taboos of money and industrialization…
Lawrence Leuschner is the Co-founder and CEO of Tier Mobility, Europe's largest micro-mobility startup based out of Germany. They were founded in 2018 and today they count more than 900 employees, have raised more than $650m, did 6 acquisitions to consolidate their leadership. We will learn a lot from Lawrence…
We talk about Europe's key ingredients for success in this Climate race with Christopher Burghardt, the ex-Managing Director Europe of ChargePoint, a US company that built the world's largest network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. -------------- ABOUT CLIMATE INSIDERS: Climate Insiders is brought to you by Climentum Capital, a…
Pascal Bieri is the Co-Founder of Planted, a Zurich-based startup developing meat from alternative proteins. Planted produces alternative chicken, pulled pork, kebab and schnitzel and their products are available at restaurants and retailers across 6 countries in Europe. In this episode we: - go deep into the alternative meat space…
ABOUT THE GUEST: Agate Freimane is a General Partner at Norrsken VC, a €125m Swedish early stage impact VC investing in technology that solves some of the world’s greatest challenges. She comes from investment banking at Morgan Stanley and then worked at a PropTech/Fintech startup: Brickvest. -------------- ABOUT THE HOST:…
In today's show, we will discuss with Agate: - The state of Climate Tech in the Nordics - The correlation between impact and financial returns - What the current economic slowdown means for Climate Tech VC - The biggest learnings from raising Norrsken VC and investing in 40 companies --------------…
In this show, we discuss with Pippa Gawley (Founding Parter of Zero Carbon Capital): - How to crack the diversity problem in VC and Climate Tech in general - The level of maturity of the London and UK Climate tech scenes, how many funds exist and why there are so…
I really appreciate Nick as a human being and for his unique value system. In this episode, we will be human, humble, and vulnerable and take you behind the scenes of raising and running a Climate fund. In this episode, we cover: - The serendipitous meeting that led to the…
This is an EPIC conversation between two European Climate Tech fund managers. Hampus shares a TON of insights and opinionated views. You don’t want to miss out! I thought it’d be a crime reducing the episode to 30min... So I kept all 58min of insights, covering: - Fundraising for a…
In this show, we discuss: - Ubermorgen's evergreen fund model and why it actually helps stand up 1st-time funds. - How difficult it was to raise a first fund - Contrarian views, processes to drive investment decisions and what people get wrong about being a fund manager. -------------- ABOUT CLIMATE…
ABOUT CLIMATE INSIDERS: Climate Insiders is brought to you by Climentum Capital, a Seed+ and Series A cleantech European venture capital firm focused on funding and scaling climate-positive ventures that cut down on CO2 emissions. If you are interested in how smarter capitalism combined with mission-driven founders building innovative tech…
ABOUT CLIMATE INSIDERS: Climate Insiders is brought to you by Climentum Capital, a Seed+ and Series A cleantech European venture capital firm focused on funding and scaling climate-positive ventures that cut down on CO2 emissions. If you are interested in how smarter capitalism combined with mission-driven founders building innovative tech…
