Expert blogs

Expertblog door Guus Bronkhorst – Geopolitieke spanningen zorgen voor hogere en volatielere energieprijzen. Daarmee verandert ook de businesscase van batterijopslag (BESS). Systemen die flexibiliteit bieden — en vraag en [...]

Expertblog - 22 August 2024 Wind farms are playing a crucial role in the energy transition. Crowd financing platform Invesdor, which was founded in 2012 by StartGreen as Oneplanetcrowd, has already raised two [...] this year.

Expertblog - 27 June 2024 There is a lot of interest in manure fermentation. Logical, because livestock farmers can use their manure to produce green gas ánd earn nice money from it. In [...]

Expertblog - 18 April 2024 The gender investment gap is as yawning as it was a decade ago. Simone Brummelhuis, partner and fund director of Borski Fund, believes pension funds and government [...]

Expertblog - 11 April 2024 Besides co-founder of StartGreen Capital, Laura Rooseboom is co-founder and partner of Borski Fund. This fund improves access to capital for growth companies with [...]

Expertblog - 19 March 2024 Grid congestion is a hot topic, especially in the world of impact investing. On the one hand, we are keen to accelerate the energy transition, on the other [...]

Expertblog - 4 January 2024 Since last June, StartGreen has been managing the SaveGarant Fund. Entrepreneurs looking to make their premises more sustainable can turn to the fund for financing. Noura Hzami, Investment [...]

Expertblog - 2 October 2023 Nuclear energy is often the subject of heated debate. Some see it as an indispensable component in the energy transition, while others see too many objections. [...]

Expertblog - 11 July 2023 StartGreen wants to help build a sustainable economy. That is why our funds invest in three impact areas: the Energy Transition, Diversity and Circularity. 'There is a lot of social attention [...]

Expertblog - 3 July 2023 'Good - far from perfect - but we are working on it and showing progress every year'. That's how Dylan Perales, Sustainability Lead at [...]

Expertblog - 6 June 2023 StartGreen is financing the construction of a large solar park near Almelo. This financing is possible partly because charge point operator Allego is guaranteed [...] for the next ten years.

Expertblog - 17 February 2023 Hydrogen seems to be the magic word in the energy transition. But what exactly can we do with it? What are the opportunities and what are the caveats? Michiel Hickey, [...]

2 February 2023 Arthur Jongejans has just successfully completed his internship at StartGreen as an Impact Investment Analyst. In this blog, he talks about what he has been doing over the past six months [...]

1 November 2022 StartGreen funds within three impact domains: circular economy, diversity & inclusiveness and energy transition. Coenraad de Vries, co-founder and Managing Partner of StartGreen is convinced that [...]

Expertblog - 8 September 2022 Bertrand van Leersum, Investment Manager at Borski Fund, describes how the Value Creation Model enables StartGreen to assess investment propositions as well as impact entrepreneurs [...]

30 June 2022 Flo Schepers is a trainee at StartGreen. She has a great affinity for Africa, women entrepreneurs and sustainability, so feels like a fish in [...] at StartGreen.

Expertblog - 12 May 2022 Investment Manager Jakoba van der Mei is an expert on project finance. In this blog, she explains what is involved [...]

Expertblog - 7 March 2022 Radboud Dood is Investment Manager for Energiefonds Overijssel. His expertise is investing in CO2 reduction innovations. In this blog, he explains [...]

Expertblog - 18 January 2022 Investment Manager Nienke Rijpstra is constantly looking for new opportunities and solutions in the field of solar energy for Energiefonds Overijssel. In this blog [...]

4 January 2022 Febe van den Bergen completed a 4-month internship at Borski Fund. After completing her Bachelor of Business Administration at Erasmus University, Febe chose to [...]

Expertblog - 15 December 2021 Joost Vlot is Investment Manager for Energiefonds Overijssel. His expertise is property sustainability. In this blog, he describes how he addresses sustainability wishes of property owners [...]

Expertblog - 16 November 2021 StartGreen makes impact with a team of over 40 experts. These are not just specialists in venture capital and impact investing. Maartje Asscheman, for example, [...]

12 October 2021 Energiefonds Overijssel organised a bike ride last month with the ominous name 'The Hell of Twente'. Investment Associate Eva Post reports. [...]

Expert blog - 22 September 2021 Investment manager Nienke Rijpstra describes in this blog how StartGreen can help both developers and civic initiatives set up a new energy project. [...]

31 August 2021 Susan Leerkes, commercial director of Van Lanschot Kempen, explains in this blog why this independent wealth manager invests in Borski Fund. [...]

Expertblog - 17 August 2021 Karel Asselbergs, Director of Participations, argues in this blog that StartGreen can make a real impact by thinking in 'and...and', rather than in 'or...or'. [...]

Expertblog - 3 August 2021 Dylan Perales, Sustainability Lead at StartGreen, describes in this blog what the regulation of sustainability disclosures means for StartGreen and its investors. [...]

Expert blog - 21 July 2021 Anouk Blüm, director of finance for StartGreen, explains in this blog what StartGreen considers true green biomass. [...]

12 July 2021 On to the grand finale I have been working towards in this blog series. Now that we know what results 7 years of impact investing have produced, it is [...]

June 22, 2021 At PDENH, we were able to close a series of no less than seven parallel follow-on investments in Q1 2021. Therefore, in this second blog, I take you [...]

16 June 2021 If you love change, this is your time. Our own changemaker Laura Rooseboom was a guest at Change Inc's Future Business Live last Monday to [...]

10 June 2021 We have published our Impact Report for 2020. In a year that also went differently from expected for us, we are nevertheless proud to report that [...]

19 May 2021 With the biggest motivation to do more than just 'deals'-as before in my M&A career-I started working seven years ago [...]

10 May 2021 Are you a changemaker who believes in diversity, sustainability and a circular economy? And do you want to help build the transition to a sustainable future by [...]

3 May 2021 The FD recently headlined that the government no longer has a role to invest in start-ups, there is enough money for all young companies. In this [...]

20 April 2021 Creating possibilities and seizing opportunities is what entrepreneurs are eminently good at. [...]

22 March 2021 Attention to climate change has grown enormously in recent years. An old generation has woken up and a new one has emerged. One that is more and [...]

3 November 2020 The corona measures mainly hit the engine of the Dutch economy: SMEs. [...]

1 April 2020 The first emergency financial measures, including the NOW are a reality. An ambitious, progressive and valuable package. But insufficient for startups. In China, VC investments are [...]

18 March 2019 On 20 March 2019, besides the provincial council elections, there will also be elections to the Water Boards. Then you can choose which party you think can make decisions [...]

09 September 2017 Crowdfunding and sustainability connect seamlessly, argues Coenraad de Vries, co-founder of Oneplanetcrowd: "Sustainability is a complex transition, which can only succeed by [...]

14 October 2018 Offering green businesses a sustainable future through investment and/or crowdfunding. StartGreen Capital deals with this. Managing partner Laura Rooseboom talks about [...] on the Top Names programme.