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🚀 From Garage Startup to Financial Powerhouse: The Full Journey of Mattioli Woods plc 🚀 Join me as I explore Ian Mattioli's journey from a garage startup to the financial giant Mattioli Woods plc. Ian shares insights on work-life balance, structuring a startup, and evolving from pensions to wealth management. Discover how his vision shaped Mattioli Woods plc and our health tech ventures, Care Hires and Kanabo. Ian helped Care Hires grow to a platform connecting 19,000 care workers with care homes across the UK. At Kanabo, he's supported our growth as a telemedicine startup listed on the LSE, connecting 4,200+ pharmacies and launching medical cannabis clinics. A must-watch for entrepreneurs and startup founders seeking inspiration to turn their vision into reality. Learn how these lessons drive innovation and growth in Care Hires and Kanabo Full Version linked below 👇 #Entrepreneurship #StartupSuccess #WealthManagement #BusinessGrowth #LeadershipLessons #Inspiration #HealthTech #MedicalCannabis Leicester Startups, Loughborough University, University of Leicester De Montfort University, Avihu Tamir, Nizam Bata ACCA, Tharaka De Alwis.

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NOTWICS would like to alert founders to this lovely message I got from my good mate Tom Britton @ SyndicateRoom This excellent Cambridge based pre-seed and seed stage VC is looking for top founders and hopefully this is the first of many funds ringing the bell saying they are now deploying 💥 - akin to top man Dan Bowyer’s LP post yesterday. The winds of change are coming - funding is coming back From Tom “Hey Chris - We've partnered with Carbon13 to launch their next Climatech SEIS fund. The fund will open to investors on Tuesday and aims to deploy in the current tax year. And on Carbon 13 Carbon13 companies have gone on to raise up-rounds totalling more than £38m. The average age of their cohort participants is 37, a quarter hold PhDs and 63% of their teams are mixed gender”. Their portfolio now has 71 ventures across five key sectors: chemicals and materials, energy, food systems, enabling platforms and the built environment. Founders find out more here and get applying https://lnkd.in/es6EvuN5 Or Direct Message Tom for more Apologies for spelling mistakes - rushing to host a huge defence tech breakfast with FieldHouse Associates and others #startups #scaleups #vc #angel

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The Seed - Episode 4 now up on all pods. This week Mads Jensen and I talked with Leo Ringer from Form Ventures about Europe's opportunity, are we over regulated? crypto's future, universal basic income, US consumer fatigue and why that matters to Europe - plus much more. In this clip I've mooshed together around 10 mins to give a flavour. It was a great episode but we lost Leo half way through thanks to Spanish interwebs and technical shenanigans. BUT. Still lots to poke the bear with. Love to hear what you think. Links in the comments or search 'The Seed Dan Bowyer' on all hosts. In the full pod: 00:00 Europe's Innovation Potential 03:45 Addressing Regulatory Challenges 09:43 The Future of Cryptocurrency 13:21 Universal Basic Income 14:47 Funding Public Services in the AI Era 16:53 US Consumer Fatigue and its Global Impact

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Standard Chartered pioneers green finance with carbon removal startup UNDO. • StanChart breaks new ground by offering commercial debt to UNDO, a carbon removal firm using Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) - a promising yet controversial approach to fighting climate change. • This innovative financing model, backed by British Airways advance credit purchase, could unlock scalable funding for nascent carbon capture technologies. • ERW shows potential for dual benefits: sequestering CO2 for millennia while improving soil health and crop yields. But questions remain about its ecological impact and verification challenges. Is this the financial catalyst needed to scale carbon removal, or are we overlooking simpler climate solutions? What are your thoughts on ERW as a viable carbon capture method? #CarbonCapture #ClimateFinance #SustainableInvesting #CleanTech #NetZero

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Proud to be one of the first believers with Climate Founders in kolum.earth! Carbon pricing like the European Trading System (EU-ETS) and supply chain pressure are in my opinion the two most powerful approaches for decarbonization. Cross boarder adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs) are the link to combine those approaches. The limitations of the EU-ETS are the regional limitation, that just a few industries are involved and the prices are not high enough yet. CBAM solves the first limitation in my opinion entirely, as it includes all suppliers from Non-European countries into the system. This is a huge step und creates pressure in the supply chain. Last year I was looking for a startup working in this field, as I believe it sits in a very important position in the supply chains of carbon heavy industries and can enable many other impactful solutions. Very glad that Helge Wieggrefe and Marius Sprenger decided to join our Climate Founders program and start Kolum. With their speed and know-how they instantly convinced me to be the best team in this space. Let‘s rock this together! Also very happy to work with fantastic investors like Christian Guba, Nicolaus Norden, Anna Alex, Thomas Gottheil, Markus Linder, Andrei Podlesnyi, Christian Peters and many others. https://lnkd.in/gmihdUJ5

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Stop this removal-only obsession in the carbon markets. What kind of hare-brained approach is that? We need avoidance even more than we need removals. This article reminds me of the analogy I made a few months ago about a sinking boat. No amount of bailing water with buckets will save you if the hole in the hull is getting bigger. Remember, if deforestation was a country, it would be the world's third largest emitter. And no, you cannot just demand/legislate that poor rural people stop deforesting without providing alternative income. That is why forest carbon exists. It takes some form of totalitarian mindset (and/or total lack of understanding of rural economies)to think one can just ban things they do not like. https://lnkd.in/eCddBRwt

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Big News: Minut x Google Nest Integration is now Live! 🚀 Minut works hard on sustainability. We spend a lot of effort on making sure our supply-chain is short and that our products are eco-friendly. Even more importantly, we're also helping Airbnb hosts run their rentals more sustainably! This latest collaboration between Minut and Google Nest is a game-changer in that regard. With this new release hosts around the world can: 💡 Cut energy costs: Automate heating and cooling to keep energy usage low when guests are away. 🛏️ Enhance guest experience: Ensure every guest arrives to a perfectly comfortable space with pre-set temperatures. 🌱 Reduce carbon footprint: Gain control over your heating, reduce energy consumption, and make your property more eco-friendly. Start saving energy and lowering your environmental impact today: https://lnkd.in/eY58wkxV We're particularly proud of this release, so please let us know what you think! 🙏🏻

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I’m looking into a new (niche but important) topic at the moment: healthcare-focussed climate adaptation tech. In other words, startups that are helping healthcare systems to prepare for future: → Climate events (e.g. floods & heatwaves) → Climate-caused pandemics → Increases in certain illnesses/diseases (e.g. skin cancer and asthma) I’d like to expand my network and speak to health & med tech investors (VC, PE, infrastructure) about how the market’s currently looking. Are we seeing the words ‘climate adaptation’ and ‘healthcare resilience’ used in pitches just yet? Who should I speak to? Any and all recommendations greatly appreciated. 

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Take a look at our handy guide on different nature-based carbon projects and some key points to consider. Make sure you're following the Terra page for more explainers like these.

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We are super excited about our latest investment; one that has had us excited from the first meeting... The First Thirty has participated in a £3.5m Seed round into Cerve. At TFT, we are grounded in data and intelligence being an unlock for systems change in food systems and ultimately in human health. But data in a silo will not be sufficient in changing how ALL stakeholders in the supply chain operate or how end users consume data. The data needs to move, to be exchanged efficiently and to be meaningful in today's context with the opportunity to drive future contexts. We have for a long time been looking for a company building the digital infrastructure that could solve for this data efficiency and transport problem in the food system. While we have met some great companies, there has always been a mismatch on scope, approach, domain knowledge, ambition, vision or impact. Then we met Dan Mazig🎗️. There was a sharpness rare to see and a lazer focus on a problem he understood well. But with that was also a calm thoughtfulness around the opportunity Cerve had in front it. Today Cerve tackles an unstructured data inefficiency problem that is a major contributor to food waste. Tomorrow, a structured data exchange can expose new meaningful data to make food systems more sustainable, efficient, healthy and productive. We knew immediately this was what we were looking for. Dan and commercial leader David Walker were the right team, with the right backgrounds, the right approach in today's supply chain context and with ambitious vision about the potential for transformation. TFT and Cerve share a vision that through their platform technology the supply chain can be more efficient today and decommodified tomorrow. Cerve is a platform that has the potential to reshape our relationships and decision-making processes throughout the food system. We are keen to continue to work with an incredible group of investors from the lead SuperSeed to our fellow participants Zenith Ventures and Ponderosa Ventures. Special thanks to Stephanie Mathern and Eric Walters for playing your parts. Congrats Dan Mazig, David Walker, and the Cerve team! Let's Go! #sustainability #foodsystems #humanhealth https://lnkd.in/e7gmEHpt

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Erik Noyes writes on how entrepreneurs should consider using AI tools to analyze customer data at scale, extract valuable insights, and make informed decisions. At risk of repeating others, here’s the quick take: 🔷Otter.ai - for transcribing focus group sessions or interviews in seconds 🔷Microsoft Azure - detects emotional cues and tones in customer conversations, by aggregating this data over time we can more deeply understand how customers feel about the brand, product or service. 🔷MeaningCloud - voice of the customer (feedback at scale) aggregated from social, product reviews and customer support tickets. 🔷Claude - iterate/generate variations on messaging based on customer feedback 🔷Copy.ai - to create product descriptions that resonate with a target audience It has become clear that the future belongs to those who understand how to leverage AI effectively. Onwards! #AI #Entrepreneurship #CustomerExperience #DataManagement #Marketing

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🌿 A question that I get asked often is "Why is there a sudden global interest in natural capital and agriculture from the investment community?". 😎 Its true, there is growing interest in #naturalcapital and #regenerativeagriculture 👨‍🌾 . In the past two decades, there has been significant investment interest in #renewables and #carbonavoidance, and this has now expanded to include #carbonremoval (an essential form of #climatemitigation), leading to the growing interest in #naturalcapital investment and important diversification for #impact investment. 👨‍💻 This has been facilitated by better tracking of nature 🦅 and natural forms of #carbonsequestration 🌲 through #technology and #innovation. Innovation in this area is essential to continue the develop natural capital investment. Regenerate Asset Management combines the benefits of sustainable agriculture with the monitoring precision of natural capital in its regenerative agriculture investment themes. Essential to facilitating better tracking of our investment's positive impact on #nature. Making food, impactful 🌻 It great to be coming back to World Agri-Tech for a second year in London to discuss the technology development for agriculture and natural capital. I'm looking forward to joining the 9.50am panel on "Financing the Green Transition in Food & Agriculture" chaired by Gemma Cranston with fellow panelists Johnny el Hachem, Laurent-David Charbit, Maria Carvalho and Peter Bachmann. If you are joining the event next Monday and Tuesday, come and listen! Regenerate Outcomes, Tikehau Capital, Edmond de Rothschild, Pollination,NatWest, Gresham House, Mad Capital, Trailhead Capital, Rebalance Earth, MERIKA ADVISORY, Ryan Cameron, David Bates, Nicholas Burlington, Addy Windsor-Clive, Jeremy Stroud, Ananya Manna, Matt Jordon Agenda: World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, September 26-27, 2023 (https://lnkd.in/emiN5AMh)

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This Monday, I kicked off a project to validate the Dutch market for Metris Energy, a London-based startup that’s reshaping solar asset management. Backed by VCs Octopus Ventures and AENU, Metris is building a powerful new platform that addresses a pain point in the solar industry. 🌞 Currently, many PPA funds and solar asset managers rely on Excel for tracking and reporting - a method that’s often slow, inefficient, and difficult to scale. 🐢💻 Metris is solving this problem with its software, automating key processes like monitoring, reporting, billing, and payments. Making solar asset management faster, easier and scalable. 📈⚡️ ️ With 240+ sites already live in the #UK, Metris is now looking to expand into new markets. And that’s where I come in. Over the next weeks, I’ll be: - Validating market demand - Assessing needs to support a potential entry 🇳🇱 Through targeted interviews and research, we aim to confirm a potential product-market fit and identify essential features for a potential launch. So, do you know anyone in the #solar asset management space? If so, tag them below or send me a DM - I’d love to connect! 💬

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🎉 Fantastic € 1.6 million Pre-Seed Round for our Climate Founders portfolio company Hula Earth lead by Europe's legendary Seed VC Point Nine with Pawel Chudzinski supported by Partners in Clime, Yannick Frank, Lucas von Fürstenberg, Julian von Blücher, Triple Impact Ventures, Markus Linder, Andrei Podlesnyi, Lawrence Leuschner, Kilian Kaminski, 🌱🌎 Florian Hildebrand, Daniel Hanemann and Maex Ament 🎉 The climate crisis and biodiversity loss are described as sibling crisis with strong interdependencies. Therefore we decided to jump into biodiversity topics and start with the foundational layer: proprietary data. As biodiversity is incredible complex, the first steps to take action are about understanding nature by collecting data to an extend never seen before and a proper analysis of this data. This will help to take action, avoiding negative measures in the supply chains for agriculture related companies and to funnel investments in restoration and nature positive measures. Think about food companies, fashion companies, cosmetics companies and many more. They are strongly depended on mother nature's output. More than half of the global GDP depends on nature. $44 trillion economic value. Those companies have a strong motivation to invest in a good relationship and health of their by far most important supplier and they already start to invest. Hula is here to accelerate that. Combined with political actions like the European Nature Restoration Law to restore 20% of degraded land & sea by 2030 and similar laws in UK and other countries we currently create a chance for nature and biodiversity to recover partly. But we probably don't have many chances to do it right, as time and money are limiting factors, therefore a good understanding of what we do and how we funnel money will be crucial to succeed. Hula Earth found a fantastic mix between accuracy with their BioT-Sensors and scalability with satellite data. This combination can be able to create the data foundation we need, as fast as possible in high quality. https://lnkd.in/eNiP-TSz

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We started ReGen with the intention to build the VC firm we would want to invest in as limited partners and choose to partner with as founders. We are obsessed with the potential for regenerative technologies to enhance and enrich the lives of everyday people, everywhere. Today, we share a small sample of the founders, technologies and companies who are dedicating their lives to reimagining the world from the atom up. Thank you to Elena Klonsky who architected and authored this stunning totem of ReGeneration and to Alexandra Carr who helped illuminate these stories in high definition. To all the founders out there who are building the companies that will define our generation and the future of our kids, kids, kids - we honour you, we admire you and we are your partners. #regenerativetechnology #planetaryscale

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I'm speaking at SuperVenture 2024 on the 5th of June in Berlin. The topic of the panel is emerging VC managers: time to shine or out of their depth? Are LPs fleeing to established names and those that cut their teeth during previous cycles? Or is now the time for emerging managers to bring something different to the table? Is volatility leading to true innovation and disruption? We’re on track to see approximately 44% of the total LP capital committed to US VC funds since the start of the year go to just two large established VC platforms, according to PitchBook data. While many established VCs maintain their allure, there is a subset of LPs who are making a deliberate choice to increase their allocations to specialist emerging VC managers - managers who have spun out from established funds and have an attributable track record, founders with deep operational experience turned funders or academics with deep domain expertise. There is non-trivial added complexity when it comes to emerging VC selection – given the large number of funds needed to be screened and the more complicated referencing and DD process. Data highlights how important it is for GPs to identify & back ‘big winners’ early on to drive fund returns. Typically, ~5% of invested capital in a few winners drives most of the return (>50%). The VC model is built around investing in early-stage companies each with the potential to more than return the whole fund. Who has the right to win? Who will the best founders (and LPs) decide to partner with? #SuperVenture #VC SuperReturn

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Team Supercritical has been hard at work over the last month building our marketplace for today’s launch 🚀 For the first time ever, buyers can access live pricing and availability data for projects covering 80%+ of global biochar supply. All projects onboarded onto our marketplace must pass our strict 118-point vetting protocol, including all the CDR usuals (additionality, leakage, permanence, LCA etc.) as well as broader environmental impact, social impact, and delivery risk. 80% of the projects we review fail. And the 15+ page vetting reports are available for any buyer to read. When I speak to overworked sustainability teams trying to buy CDR, I hear the same problems over and over: ♦ “I need 20,000 tonnes, this year for my 2023 emissions. Is this available? How do I know?” ♦ “I ran an RFP. It took 6 months, a ton of back & forth with suppliers, and by the time I selected my shortlist, I learned the tonnes were gone. The data was rapidly out of date and all that work was for nothing.” At Songkick, my last company, we built the world’s most comprehensive database of 100,000+ upcoming concerts in the world, aggregating over 100 data sources to make sure fans never missed a show. What does Beyoncé have to do with biochar? Well, I know how challenging it is to build a transparent, accurate, and real-time data set, but I also know how transformational it can be. #CarbonRemoval #CDR #Sustainability #Biochar #ClimateAction #Supercritical #NetZero #RadicalTransparency

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Our pitch tomorrow is going to be rad af 🔥 If you are into Mining, Marketplaces, AI x VR, Precision Agriculture or Process optimisation startups, then we have you covered 😎 As voted for 11.30am tomorrow, any future investors, advisors or startup lovers welcome! Check out the companies pitching tomorrow 👇 https://lnkd.in/gRv94Ekx #startups #community #ecosystem

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