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.
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.
Patron Capital Partners, a private equity real estate fund, recently launched the world’s first ‘gender-lens’ property fund. Its managing partner, Keith Breslauer, explains why.
In Finland, social impact bonds are showing success in tackling long-term employment. Jussi Nykänen, a co-founder of FIM Impact Investment, the first impact investment fund management company in the Nordics, explains how.
Crowdfunding has emerged as an interesting tool for impact businesses to find venture capital. According to some Dutch crowdfunding platforms, more investors are willing to invest even without interest.
Sustainable investor Impax Asset Management topped the milestone of £30bn of assets under management in March as it continues to grow exponentially. “Covid has reinforced our investment case,” said founder and CEO Ian Simm.
Goodwell Investments, the oldest impact investor in the Netherlands, has started a €50mn fund aimed at fast-growing small and medium-sized companies in Africa.
Investors who want to get into impact tend to focus too much on which investment products they should go for, according to Patrick Briaud of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Instead, start with what impact you want to make.
Artificial intelligence has the tools to improve how ‘impact investment’ decisions are made by factoring in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities better than ever before.
Artificial intelligence, combined with the boom in cloud computing, has huge investor potential in a wide variety of areas, from identifying and treating diseases to managing environmental impacts in industry and farming.
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