![]() ![]() The fund is headed up Alliott Cole and Emma Davies, a former silver circle lawyer and JPMorgan research analyst respectively. Part of Octopus Investments – which is itself part of the Octopus Group – Octopus Ventures was founded in 2008. The fund added Yasmina Darveniza as a principal just last year from real estate investment manager Round Hill Capital. Managing approximately €1bn, Zouk capital is comparatively old for this list, being founded in 1999 by ex-JPM banker, one Samer Salty. It took on Mehdi Lichani as a director of portfolio impact earlier this year - Lichani was once the global strategy director for French logistics provider Stuart. Although still headed up by the two founders, it has a subsidiary - Just Climate - which took on ex-Goldman VP Serhat Aydogdu as an investment professional just this month.įounded by Prince Max von Lichtenstein (unrelated to the musician, but related to the country) in 2009, Lightrock is currently headed up by ex- McKinsey senior partner Pal Erik Sjatil. Founded in 2004 by Al Gore (Yes, really) and ex-Goldman Asset Management chief David Blood, it has offices in London and San Francisco. If there is a big daddy in the scene, it’s Generation. ![]() But what are some of the biggest - and most interesting - in the city? And who do they hire? Venture Capital (VC) firms in the city have raised over half of all European climate tech funds in the last two years, as per Gong. London is one of the best places to be for ESG analysts. “More than one quarter of all venture capital funding is going to climate technology,” PwC said last November, and there was an “increased focus on technologies that have the most potential to cut emissions.” It’s also long been an open secret career power-move for dirty, oily bankers to pivot into the ESG space and lend their expertise in energy to the anti-climate change movement – money is pouring into the space, and banks are taking the space more seriously ( sort of). It’s a good time to be into ESG – environmental, social, and governance issues. ![]()
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