Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Matt Ward. Matt is a Partner and Syndicate Investor Lead of 4WARD.VC's early stage climate syndicate, he is also the host of The Startup Tank Climate Investor Pitch Show. Since graduating from Georgia Tech with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Matt spent the last 10 years in technology, startups and venture capital. Matt’s built and exited multiple ecommerce and media companies. Together with Matt, we discussed what are the key differences between traditional venture investing and investing in climate tech and can ..read more

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Kate Mullord. Kate joined 4impact, an early stage fund investing in tech4good startups, as Partner in 2021, bringing over 20 years of experience in corporate strategy, tech scale-up and private equity, as well as endless enthusiasm for understanding new business models and meeting entrepreneurs. Prior to 4impact, Kate held senior roles at fintech scale-up Jumo World, which provides microloans to the unbanked in emerging markets. Other roles include senior positions at Woolworths Holdings Ltd (South Africa), London-ba ..read more

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Anna Pellicer. Anna is an early-stage VC investor at Abac Capital, a Barcelona-based Private Equity & VC fund investing to improve the sustainability performance of its portfolio companies. She also holds the SASB FSA credential which studies the link between sustainability and financial performance. Together with Anna, we discuss what investing with impact means and that investors are in the privileged position to force change. We also explore how a VC investor can integrate ESG & impact management practices ..read more

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where I’m joined by Inês Rocha. Inês is an Investment Manager at Norrsken, an impact VC fund. Prior to Norrsken VC, Inês worked in private equity at Hellman & Friedman in London and as a management consultant at Bain & Company in Iberia and the Middle East, focusing on software investments. Together with Inês, we talk about a selection process at the impact venture fund and if it is possible to measure materiality and impact of startups thar are tackling various SDGs. We also discuss how the market opportunity is increasing for imp ..read more

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where I’m joined by Bo Ilsoe and Monica Johnson. Bo is a Managing Partner at NGP Capital. he has developed NGP Capital from initial commitments of $25M to more than $1.6B investing across 3 continents. A technologist at heart, he believes in the positive transformative effects technology has on society and always comes with a global view of the business. Monica is the Operating Partner and Chief Financial Officer of NGP Capital. Prior to joining NCP, Monica was the CFO of CafePress, where she led the financial, accounting and legal functio ..read more

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where I’m joined by Hannah Leach and Johannes Lenhard. Hannah is a Partner at Houghton Street Ventures, a new venture firm backing companies founded by students and alumni of the London School of Economics. She is also a co-founder of a global industry-wide non-profit initiative, VentureESG, whose aim is to help the VC sector recognise the importance of ESG and to provide resources and guidance to make ESG a standard part of diligence, portfolio management and fund management. Johannes is an ethnographer of venture capital and homelessness ..read more

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Lubomila Jordanova in this latest episode. Lubomila is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, a Berlin-based company developing an end-to-end platform that manages and improves carbon and ESG performance for businesses. She is also the co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of over a thousand startups which are connected to over 500 advisors. Together with Lubomila, we discuss who are Plan A’s customers and who they engage the most from the client side, what challenges do they face internally within their respective organisations. We also explore ..read more

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Ben Knight in this latest episode. Ben is Head of Environmental Sustainability at fintech company GoCardless, a global payment company with more than 70k customers. He previously worked at space-telecoms start-up OneWeb and was assessing the environmental impact of the space sector. Together with Ben, we discuss how an organisation can have an external impact and influence Its customers to implement various ESG initiatives. Ben also shares if GoCardless had to make any substantial change within their organisation (for example using new tools or changin ..read more

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Henry Philipson in this latest episode. Henry leads marketing and communications for Beringea in the UK and he is also a co-founder of ESG_VC, an industry initiative to help portfolio companies improve their ESG performance. Together with Henry, we discuss how ESG_VC have started and now has 150 firms across UK and Europe trying to build tools and consistent frameworks to use in venture industry, which is based on National Social Value (TOMs) framework. We also dive a bit deeper into how many funds have adopted ESG principles fully and the process they ..read more

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Merit Valdsalu in this latest episode. Merit is the CEO & Co-Founder of Single.Earth, a startup tokenizing the world’s nature to save it. She was one of the early employees at Pipedrive as the Head of Localization. In this conversation, we explore how with the help of technology we can turn the existing model of rewarding land owners by paying them for essentially depleting the earth into a model where they are incentivized to nurture bio-diversity. We also briefly touch on Singe.Earth recent funding journey and what they are doing internally to be ..read more