Episodes

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Bill Liao . Bill Liao is a Chinese-Australian-Irish entrepreneur, investor, diplomat, business mentor, author, passionate leader and speaker, with a distinguished record in business development and community activism. Co-founder of the CoderDojo movement and of Weforest, his career in tech and business encompasses two unicorn companies and launching the world’s first bio-tech accelerator, RebelBio. He is a general par...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Eleanor Kaye. Eleanor built her career in operations, holding roles at MoneySuperMarket and Palantir before joining the Newton Venture Program. Initially taking up the role of Head of Operations, Eleanor was quickly promoted to Executive Director and now leads the team at Newton, which is a joint venture between London Business School and LocalGlobe VC. Launched in 2020, their mission is to make careers in venture ca...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Eric Rubenstein. Eric is Managing Partner at New Climate Ventures or NCV, a US based fund launched to tackle climate change with a holistic approach. NCV invests in innovative early-stage startups broadly across the carbon reduction and avoidance ecosystems. NCV launched in October 2021, and has invested in companies that span the areas of climate tech, recycling, alternative materials, and food tech, among other emis...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Victoria Ferguson. Victoria is a Partner and General Counsel at MMC Ventures, one of the most active investors in early-stage tech in Europe. She is an experienced venture capital lawyer, leading the legal work on MMC’s investments, following-on funding and exits. She also leads the firm’s ESG work, including its efforts as a B Corp. Victoria was previously at the law firm Jones Day, where she was an associate in the ...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Bertie Crawley. Bertie is the co-founder and Managing Partner of UNTITLED, an early stage venture fund based in the UK which has backed companies like Fabric Nano, Hide Biotech and Mytos. They are also an investor in venture funds. Prior to this he co-founded Zulu Forest Sciences - an applied science and asset management group focused on financing nature-based carbon offset programmes - and was a Partner at Zulu ...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Matt Ward. Matt is a Partner and Syndicate Investor Lead of 4WARD.VC's early stage climate syndicate, he is also the host of The Startup Tank Climate Investor Pitch Show. Since graduating from Georgia Tech with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Matt spent the last 10 years in technology, startups and venture capital. Matt’s built and exited multiple ecommerce and media companies. Together with Matt, we discusse...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Kate Mullord. Kate joined 4impact, an early stage fund investing in tech4good startups, as Partner in 2021, bringing over 20 years of experience in corporate strategy, tech scale-up and private equity, as well as endless enthusiasm for understanding new business models and meeting entrepreneurs. Prior to 4impact, Kate held senior roles at fintech scale-up Jumo World, which provides microloans to the unbanked in emergi...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where we are joined by Anna Pellicer. Anna is an early-stage VC investor at Abac Capital, a Barcelona-based Private Equity & VC fund investing to improve the sustainability performance of its portfolio companies. She also holds the SASB FSA credential which studies the link between sustainability and financial performance. Together with Anna, we discuss what investing with impact means and that investors are in the privileged position to f...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where I’m joined by Inês Rocha. Inês is an Investment Manager at Norrsken, an impact VC fund. Prior to Norrsken VC, Inês worked in private equity at Hellman & Friedman in London and as a management consultant at Bain & Company in Iberia and the Middle East, focusing on software investments. Together with Inês, we talk about a selection process at the impact venture fund and if it is possible to measure materiality and impact of startups th...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where I’m joined by Bo Ilsoe and Monica Johnson. Bo is a Managing Partner at NGP Capital. he has developed NGP Capital from initial commitments of $25M to more than $1.6B investing across 3 continents. A technologist at heart, he believes in the positive transformative effects technology has on society and always comes with a global view of the business. Monica is the Operating Partner and Chief Financial Officer of NGP Capital. Prior to j...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ESG in VC podcast where I’m joined by Hannah Leach and Johannes Lenhard. Hannah is a Partner at Houghton Street Ventures, a new venture firm backing companies founded by students and alumni of the London School of Economics. She is also a co-founder of a global industry-wide non-profit initiative, VentureESG, whose aim is to help the VC sector recognise the importance of ESG and to provide resources and guidance to make ESG a standard part of diligence, po...

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Lubomila Jordanova in this latest episode. Lubomila is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, a Berlin-based company developing an end-to-end platform that manages and improves carbon and ESG performance for businesses. She is also the co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of over a thousand startups which are connected to over 500 advisors. Together with Lubomila, we discuss who are Plan A’s customers and who they engage the most from the clien...

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Ben Knight in this latest episode. Ben is Head of Environmental Sustainability at fintech company GoCardless, a global payment company with more than 70k customers. He previously worked at space-telecoms start-up OneWeb and was assessing the environmental impact of the space sector. Together with Ben, we discuss how an organisation can have an external impact and influence Its customers to implement various ESG initiatives. Ben also shares if GoCar...

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Henry Philipson in this latest episode. Henry leads marketing and communications for Beringea in the UK and he is also a co-founder of ESG_VC, an industry initiative to help portfolio companies improve their ESG performance. Together with Henry, we discuss how ESG_VC have started and now has 150 firms across UK and Europe trying to build tools and consistent frameworks to use in venture industry, which is based on National Social Value (TOMs) framework...

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Merit Valdsalu in this latest episode. Merit is the CEO & Co-Founder of Single.Earth, a startup tokenizing the world’s nature to save it. She was one of the early employees at Pipedrive as the Head of Localization. In this conversation, we explore how with the help of technology we can turn the existing model of rewarding land owners by paying them for essentially depleting the earth into a model where they are incentivized to nurture bio-diversity. We...

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Tracy Barba in this latest episode. Tracy is currently the Head of ESG at 500 Startups, one of the most active global early-stage VCs. She has been a true ESG leader dedicating her career to be at the forefront of the social and environmental initiatives within private equity and venture capital firms, as well as family offices, and angel investor networks. We discuss when is the right time to start thinking about ESG practices for early stage business...

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Today we have Alexander Rhodes joining us. Alexander is Head of Mishcon Purpose, Mishcon de Reya's dedicated sustainability business. He works with a variety of clients and helps them navigate the rapidly changing commercial, legal and regulatory environments that underpin the sector. In this conversation, we talk about what ‘purpose’ really means and what role legal frameworks will play in the adoption of ESG in the business community. “Fundamentally the transiti...

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. It is great to have Simon Mundy with us. Simon is currently a Moral Money editor at FT (Financial Times). He began his reporting career in Johannesburg, where he covered Southern Africa for the FT before a period writing on the London financial sector. He then spent seven years in Asia, heading the FT bureaux in Seoul and Mumbai and then two years travelling across six continents while writing a book called, Race for Tomorrow. Simon spared a moment between followi...

Welcome to ESG in VC podcast. Join me and Marc Lepere in this first episode of many more to come. Mark is currently researching the link between crisis and ESG at King's college. He is also a fellow of the higher education academy and also serves as a visiting lecture at Wharton business. Listen in as Oksana and Marc talk about what drove him to dedicate his current full time career to ESG and why as some studies show, most of the VC backed companies are slower to become more responsible over ...

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