Venture capital

VoLo Earth’s latest fund attracted investments from a range of global financial institutions, funds and family offices, bucking a downward trend in venture capital fundraising.

Rock Flour Company has raised €6.1m in a seed round led by the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark and Novo Holdings for its carbon removal and regenerative agriculture solution using Greenlandic rock flour.

The fund aims to help close the SDG 14 funding gap in Asia by investing into early-stage and growth companies in sectors such as maritime decarbonisation and sustainable aquaculture.

Nuveen’s head of private equity impact talks to Impact Investor about what limited partners are looking for in the impact space, trends and themes that are shaping private equity, and future innovations in private capital and impact.

The Hellenic Impact Investing Network has published the first impact investment market sizing report for Greece, which reveals €10bn in impact investments have been mobilised across the country.

Grocery store e-commerce platform Jumbotail has also completed the acquisition from SC Ventures of Solv India, a financial services platform.

The Belgian biotech firm has developed an antibody against gastrointestinal infections in pigs that can reduce the reliance on antibiotics in animal production.

The Dutch climate tech firm will use the money to speed up the development of a machine-learning tool for short-term power trading aimed at boosting the energy transition.

Despite the speculation, impact investing venture capital has matured beyond idealism into a commercially-driven approach that delivers strong returns while scaling urgent solutions, argue Alina Klarner and Christin ter Braak-Forstinger.

The senior partner at Global Ventures and founder of C3 talks to Impact Investor about entrepreneurship in emerging markets and why it has the potential to catalyse systemic change.