Nordic private equity firm Verdane has raised €300m to scale technology companies and create ‘disproportionate impact’, says Verdane partner Frida Einarson.
Blue Earth Capital’s climate growth strategy is backed by Partners Group co-founder Urs Wietlisbach and Union Bancaire Privée.
The tie-up with a German technology firm will initially invest in Germany.
New details have emerged on Kartesia's newly launched impact debt strategy.
From diverse-owned business to agriculture and the environment, GPs are raising billions of dollars in capital to deploy into companies making an impact.
Natural capital, human rights and tax concerns: what sustainability themes will dominate private markets in 2022?
Kartesia joins the likes of Amundi, Allianz and Tikehau with a dedicated impact debt strategy.
Private markets capital is being sucked up by established managers, but LPs are making room for one type of first-time fund: the sustainable one.
This puts the firm halfway towards a target of $400m.
In the year that COP 26 drew the world's attention to the climate crisis, private markets firms of all sizes and types were trying to raise climate funds.