Danielle Rossingh

Articles written by Danielle Rossingh

• Pymwymic’s Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II makes first investment

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food,
  • Investment

  

  Pymwymic’s Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II makes first investment

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food,
  • Investment

  30 Aug 2021

  The Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II, a recently launched fund by Pymwymic, a cooperative of European impact investors, has made its first investment.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• FMO and Rabobank invest €20mn in €100mn IDH Farmfit Fund

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  

  FMO and Rabobank invest €20mn in €100mn IDH Farmfit Fund

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  06 Aug 2021

  Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO and Rabobank have invested €10mn each in the world’s biggest public-private impact fund for smallholder farmers in emerging markets.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• Learned in lockdown: ‘I’ve become more of a people person’

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  

  Learned in lockdown: ‘I’ve become more of a people person’

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  01 Aug 2021

  This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic shifted priorities. This week: Philip Tan, managing director of Polestar Capital.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• Learned in lockdown: ‘Together we can really bring about change’

  Posted in category:

  • Investment,
  • Social enterprise

  

  Learned in lockdown: ‘Together we can really bring about change’

  Posted in category:

  • Investment,
  • Social enterprise

  26 Jul 2021

  This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic shifted priorities. This week: Nanouk Grootendorst, programme manager social enterprises at Rabo Foundation in the Netherlands.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• BlackRock raises $250mn for blended finance climate fund

  Posted in category:

  • Development finance,
  • Investment

  

  BlackRock raises $250mn for blended finance climate fund

  Posted in category:

  • Development finance,
  • Investment

  19 Jul 2021

  BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, has raised more than $250mn for its flagship ‘blended finance’ climate fund.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• ‘Impact investing in cities can tackle climate change and social inequality’

  Posted in category:

  • Infrastructure

  

  ‘Impact investing in cities can tackle climate change and social inequality’

  Posted in category:

  • Infrastructure

  29 Jun 2021

  Impact investing in our cities can play a key role in tackling the two greatest challenges of our time: climate change and social inequality.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• Expert view: ‘Covid has fundamentally changed fundraising practices’

  Posted in category:

  • Development finance,
  • Investment

  

  Expert view: ‘Covid has fundamentally changed fundraising practices’

  Posted in category:

  • Development finance,
  • Investment

  21 Jun 2021

  No need to reinvent the wheel – in The Expert View impact investing pros share their lessons learned. Nico Blaauw tells us how the pandemic changed fundraising practices at Goodwell Investments.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• Dutch Central Bank calls for clearer lead from government in scaling up climate investments

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Policy & regulation

  

  Dutch Central Bank calls for clearer lead from government in scaling up climate investments

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Policy & regulation

  31 May 2021

  The Netherlands must scale up its climate investments before it is too late, the Dutch central bank (DNB) warned in a recent report. Impact Investor asked a large public investor in Europe’s biggest seaport for a reaction.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• Future Food Fund mulling launch of second food and agtech fund

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  

  Future Food Fund mulling launch of second food and agtech fund

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  18 May 2021

  Future Food Fund, a €12mn Dutch specialist venture capital fund that provides early-stage capital for agriculture technology (agtech) startups, is considering launching a second fund next year.

  

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  • Danielle Rossingh

• Future Food Fund: finding the next big agtech disruptor

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  

  Future Food Fund: finding the next big agtech disruptor

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  18 May 2021

  A GPS cattle tracker, a harvester robot for white asparagus and a packaging-free online supermarket. These are some of the investments of the €12mn Future Food Fund (FFF), a Dutch seed capitalist that invests in innovative agricultural and food technologies.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh