True Gum produces plastic-free and plant-based chewing gum and has just raised €1 million from venture capital fund Oyster Bay. We've been thinking about these investments for some time now as it shows how impact is reaching the mainstream. The product is "sustainable first" and it also keeps the [...]

Le Parlement Européen a adopté en juin dernier les premières mesures relatives à la mise en place d’une taxonomie des investissements pour encadrer les produits financiers dits durables, dans le cadre du plan d’action „financer la croissance durable“ voté en mars 2018. Le calendrier de mise en œuvre de [...]

Scott Kupor has written a book about venture capital published in 2019 (“Secrets of Sand Hill Road – Venture Capital and How to Get It”). It’s really worth reading and he makes an observation which we can relate to. In his view, venture capital is a source of funding [...]

Each week we take a look at deals we have seen in this space. What we find interesting this week: Kinder has raised €525,000 from angel investors. The name of the Amsterdam-based Kinder is a word play on Tinder and it wants to transform how donors chose charities. In [...]

The French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced last week, among the many measures designed to help companies get through the current Corona crisis and its consequences, the establishment of a €3 billion guarantee package to be indirectly injected into SMEs in the form of "long-term loans similar to [...]