Looking forward to speaking at the tech.eu summit tomorrow in Brussels. I'll be on the Growth Stage to discuss "Sustainability at the source: A new era for European VCs" with Josépha Montana Bindi Karia and Joanna Kirk. Really looking forward to the conversation with these inspirational women, and thanks for the invite Robin Wauters! #sustainability #growth #tech #impact
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Labours of love 👶 📑... Freshly back from mat leave in March I jumped straight into the data collection and preparation of Balderton's annual impact report, which we are launching today 🙌 I am so proud of what we achieved last year and incredibly energised by the ideas and commitments across the team and portfolio going forward, driven by our shared vision that the best way to change the world is to build a business. Happy reading!
We're pleased to share the publication of our 2023 Sustainable Future Goals (SFG) Report. With so many pressing global challenges to solve, technological innovation couldn't be more vital. And the opportunity for start-ups to lead us into a more stable and sustainable future is clear. Three years on from the launch of our Sustainable Future Goals, we are doubling down on portfolio impact, challenging ourselves to make sustainability accessible, actionable, and value adding for tech start-ups. Portfolio highlights from this year's report include: 💼 36,000 jobs in the Balderton portfolio 💸 £33 million reduction in the poverty premium paid by Wagestream members 👐 3.7 trillion charity impressions served across Ezoic's network of websites 👚 64,122 TeqCO2 of emissions avoided by buying on Vestiaire Collective 🌱 ~$40m worth of retired carbon credits from Sylvera-rated projects ⚡ 40,771,726 kWh lower energy consumption among active Tibber customers 🏥 5,800 lives changed by Kaia Health Discover the full report below👇 https://hubs.la/Q02FcL0G0
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SWEEP is in town 🙌 Looking forward to speaking at Climate Compass, SWEEP's flagship networking event for climate and sustainability professionals, that will take place in London on 18 June. An amazing opportunity to exchange ideas, hopes and dreams, and challenges AND to find out how the platform is fast evolving to meet carbon and ESG reporting needs of companies of all sizes... from the founders themselves - join us! Rachel Delacour Bernard Liautaud Sign-up details below 👇
Climate change, sustainability, and tackling carbon footprints and ESG performance are challenges for every company. Join us on June 18th in London at our flagship event, Climate Compass, to hear from sustainability leaders, Elodie Broad (Balderton Capital) and Richard Burman Smith (Industrial Chemicals Ltd), on the green market revolution and strategies to future-proof your investments and business. These guests and more will be alongside SWEEP Cofounders Rachel Delacour, Raphael Güller, plus Chief Impact Officer and former French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie. Spaces are limited, don't miss out on this exclusive event — register your interest now! #Sustainability #ClimateChange #ESG #NetworkingEvent
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Really excited to be organising Balderton Capital's first Accelerator Challenge dedicated to tech for good businesses, in partnership with Allia. Aimed at early-stage, tech for good start-ups across the UK, successful applicants will have access to a full day clinic with the Balderton investment and platform teams. More details and link to apply below 👇
Applications now open! We've got a brand new accelerator challenge sponsored by Balderton Capital, and it's totally free with no equity fee. Who's it for? 🔹Tech for good early-stage startups all around the UK What's in it for you? 🔹 Access to an exclusive one day in-person clinic, to get advice and actively problem solve with the Balderton team. 🔹Work with the experts to address key questions and learn best practices on topics like investment readiness, monetisation, product-market fit, operations management, regulatory readiness, and communications strategy. Find out more / apply 👉https://lnkd.in/ems_3CmE #TechForGood #Innovation #StartupOpportunity #Startups Andrew Brisbin Hannah Lavender-Jones Kathryn Ore Fariha Anwar Iain Crighton MBE FIMI
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Great to welcome another portfolio company actively supporting the transition to a zero carbon future 🌱 Welcome trawa, it's great to have you on board!
We're delighted to back trawa and their mission to simplify energy purchasing and management for SMEs. 🔋 Founded by David Budde, Max Lüddemann and Robert Quick, trawa are transforming the energy market with their offer of streamlined and faster energy procurement. All whilst enabling a move to all renewable energy solutions, which outperform existing options in cost-effectiveness. We are so excited to join the trawa team's journey ahead ⚡ Read more here👇 https://lnkd.in/edTnx7bp
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"The great promise of embodied AI is that it can transform the things we do and allows us to do so much more with our lives. (…) There’s no better example than self-driving cars. This will give people the first chance to experience embodied AI, one that can deliver goods and move people around in a way that is more safe and sustainable than transportation as we know it today." Great to see our What's Next series launch today, chatting to Wayve CEO Alex Kendall. Excited to be exploring the possibilities emerging deep-tech innovations hold, the positive impact they can have on our health, livelihood and planet, and how we mitigate the risks. Let's get excited about What's Next.
Introducing What's Next, our new video and podcast series examining the most exciting emerging technologies and the people behind them. In our first episode, James Wise chats with Wayve's co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall to unpack what embodied AI means for transportation, how they met in a small Cambridge dorm room, and what drives Alex. 🚗 💡⚡ Watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/e4ewpbp7
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It's Earth Day 🌏 🌱 🦒 A great opportunity to celebrate some of the fantastic work happening in the Balderton Capital portfolio. Congratulations to Vestiaire Collective for launching their latest impact report, making the case for circularity by exposing the true cost of fast fashion.
🌍 THE WORLD CANNOT AFFORD FAST FASHION! Today, we are pleased to announce the publication of Vestiaire Collective‘s 2024 Circularity Report. This year, we wanted to redefine the way we see the true cost of an item. Cheap initial prices, constant promotions, rapidly changing trends… Fast fashion isn't just environmentally harmful, it is a financial trap too! What have we learned? 💥 Across all categories, preloved curated fashion items on Vestiaire Collective are 33% more affordable per wear in the long run. 👗 Pre-loved dresses are worn 8+ times more. Cost-per-wear of $1.56 vs. $5.66 for fast fashion alternatives. 👜 Pre-loved designer bags offer ~72% lower cost-per-wear vs. fast fashion alternatives. 🕰 Our Collective wears their pre-loved pieces almost 2x more than fast fashion owners wear theirs, and keep them for 31% longer. “In today’s climate of inflation, it is obvious: neither people nor the planet can afford fast fashion. This report sounds the alarm on fast fashion’s devastating impact, and should be a wake-up call to all to end overconsumption and overspending.” - Fanny Moizant, President and Co-founder of Vestiaire Collective "Fast fashion is a false economy. Buying cheap fast fashion is deceptive, as in the end you end up replacing items again and again. We champion circularity as it not only benefits consumers’ wallets, but also protects our planet. Pre-loved luxury items are more cost-effective over time with a longer lifespan. Our mantra ‘Think First, Buy Second’ makes more sense than ever." - Dounia Wone, Chief Impact Officer of Vestiaire Collective #VestiaireCollective #ThinkFirstBuySecond #Circularity #CostPerWear
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A rare opportunity to join the amazing Impact Venture team at Big Society Capital. If you're fascinated by what makes a good business, literate in technology, thoughtful about how numbers work, and you want to work with others to change the world, this could be for you! Suitable for someone’s first role in venture or bringing a few years’ experience in venture.
🚨 Interested in using investment as a force for good? We're hiring into our impact venture team! 🚨 Join us as we accelerate the venture ecosystem's shift towards impact - building on our position as the leading investor in impact venture funds in the UK. In this role you'll source, make, and manage investments into top UK social impact venture funds – building relationships with and learning from some of the best impact venture investors in Europe. You will be an agent of systemic change as a core part of a small team – tilting the venture ecosystem towards impact – from a position at the centre of the impact venture movement globally. Please do apply here: https://lnkd.in/gavBtyVC More on our venture programme here: https://lnkd.in/dkGC27D #hiring #impactinvesting #investment #financialrecruitment #impact #venture #startups Joshua, Hayley, Jeremy, Katie, Emma, Emma, Ellie, Claire, Philipp, Arfah, ImpactVC, Big Society Capital
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Alors que presque toute croissance est synonyme d'augmentation d'empreinte carbone, il peut être compliqué de trouver le juste équilibre pour continuer à grandir et à innover, tout en se préparant pour l'avenir. Ce dilemme est particulièrement délicat pour les start-up à forte croissance. Pour ces dernières, cette bataille peut sembler perdue d'avance, ou souvent remise à plus tard. Alors comment trouver l'équilibre adéquat entre croissance et durabilité ? Merci Les Echos START d'avoir publié les conseils que nous mettons en oeuvre tous les jours auprès de nos sociétés de portefeuille. cc' Balderton Capital https://lnkd.in/ei79rFia
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At Balderton Capital, we are incredibly excited by the opportunities brought on by the transition to a low carbon future and the need to adapt to a changing climate. It's been amazing to work alongside colleagues from the investment team Daniel Waterhouse Magda Lukaszewicz Solène Brébant Laura McGinnis Shikha Ahluwalia spearheading our thinking and investment theses in this space. But we mustn't think that we are completely exempt from climate risks either. It was a pleasure to speak to Freya Pratty at Sifted about our recent (and ongoing) work assessing the physical and transition climate risk exposures of our portfolio under different climate scenarios and time horizons for the first time. Climate scenario analysis is a powerful strategy tool to bring many "what ifs" to the fore, making us more agile, resilient and simply better investors for it. https://lnkd.in/efRCBfJv
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It hasn't gone unnoticed that the world's average temperature reached a new high on Monday 3 July, topping 17 degrees Celsius for the first time. On that same day, we hosted our first Climate Fresk workshop at Balderton Capital. This 3-hour workshop involves exploring and unravelling the causes and effects of the climate crisis, based on IPCC reports (the most reliable source of climate science and data), in a game format, before engaging in a pragmatic and open discussion about climate action. It was great to bring together members from our investment, finance, operations, marketing and EA teams to collectively deepen our understanding of climate change and walk off feeling both emotionally scared and (even more) committed to action. Proud to have joined the 1.1m people globally who have been through this workshop so far and to contribute to this grassroot movement born out of France. Many thanks to Sam Baker our facilitator. To anyone interested in finding out more or running a workshop, do get in touch with him! Keshvi Radia Yanjie Long, CA Magda Lukaszewicz Tamasha Ginige Lars Veen Uldal Shubhangam Tekriwal Steph Tyrrell Margaux Wehr Marie Le Chevalier ACA Solène Brébant #climatefresk #climateactionnow #impact
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1yThanks for the excellent insights and the great discussion, looking forward to reading the guide!