About us

For StartGreen Capital, a sustainable economy is an economy that does not exhaust itself and in which everyone can participate to the fullest potential. We believe that impact entrepreneurs initiate the transition towards this. People with vision, drive and courage. Because they, like us, want to build sustainable progress and know that this is not possible without continuous innovation and a sound business model. We invest in that. Our investments show that financial and social returns can be combined very well.

We currently manage almost half a billion to invest in projects and companies of these changemakers. The benchmark is that they contribute to at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where we focus on three themes: the energy transition, diversity and circularity.

StartGreen Capital believes in being transparent and open about what we do and how we do it. To this end, we are transparent in how we manage the organisation, its governance structure and its remuneration policy.

The board of directors of StartGreen Capital consists of four members. All members of the board have sufficient experience in asset management, venture capital, project financing and investment management to be able to adequately fulfill their tasks.

The board members are:

These 4 policymakers have been tested by the AFM for reliability and suitability. They fully understand the business activities of StartGreen Capital including the key risks to which StartGreen Capital is exposed.

The board members bear the overriding responsibility for StartGreen Capital and are responsible for its strategic objectives, risk strategy and internal governance. The policymakers are also responsible for the integrity of the systems for accounting and financial reporting and for complying with legislation and regulations.

In addition to his work for StartGreen Capital, Coenraad de Vries is chairman of the Supervisory Board of Invesdor, Laura Rooseboom is also a board member of Borski Fund and Anouk Blum is director of Energiefonds Overijssel.

Our remuneration policy is designed in such a way that the staff remuneration does not pose undesirable risks or behaviour to either clients or the soundness and continuity of StartGreen Capital. We pay all staff members a fixed monthly remuneration that is independent of the objectives.

You can read more on the page Remuneration policy.

StartGreen Capital is licensed as an investment firm to provide investment services as referred to in Section 2:96 of the Financial Supervision Act (Wft) and operates in that capacity under the 'MiFID II' regime. In addition, StartGreen Capital is registered as a fund manager of investment institutions as referred to in Section 2:66a of the Wft and operates in that capacity under the 'AIFMD light' regime.

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) continuously monitors the operations of investment companies while De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) exercises prudential supervision.