September 26, 2024
This year, two top women from StartGreen are in the Top 50 Women in Sustainable Finance (WIFS): Anouk Blum-den Heijer and Simone Brummelhuis. They take over from our Co-founder and Managing Partner Laura Rooseboom.
Expert blog – August 22, 2024
Wind farms play a crucial role in the energy transition. Crowdfunding platform Invesdor, which was founded in 2012 by StartGreen as Oneplanetcrowd, has already completed two very successful citizen participation campaigns this year: Wind farm Friesland and Westermeerwind Wind Farm. In both cases, the available bonds were sold out in no time. In this blog, Ellen Hensbergen, Managing Director of Invesdor, explains the huge success of citizen participation in wind farms. Read More
Expert blog – June 27, 2024
There is a lot of interest in manure fermentation. This makes sense, because livestock farmers can use their manure to produce green gas and make good money from it. In this blog, Willem Dubbelman, biogas expert at Energiefonds Overijssel, explains what manure fermentation is, what the pros and cons are and why he believes there should be more manure digesters. Read More
June 27, 2024
Crowd financing platform Invesdor has completed another major citizen participation project. After success of Windpark Fryslân, there was also great interest in the Westermeerwind wind farm. Within a period of less than five weeks, almost 600 local residents took advantage of the opportunity to participate financially in the wind farm. The subscriptions more than twice exceeded the offer of 5 million euros in bonds.
June 20, 2024
We proudly present ourselves latest Impact Report. Here you can read what steps we have taken in 2023 towards a greener, fairer world. For example, last year the StartGreen funds together invested almost 70 million euros in the form of 42 loans and investments, thereby saving no less than 1.1 million tons of CO2 help save.
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In 2022, Visa Foundation was looking for a European fund to invest in that would help advance equitable access to capital for women-led businesses. Najada Kumbuli and her team investigated more than 300 funds in Europe. Borski Fund was one of the first to make the cut. In this interview, Najada explains what makes this partnership invaluable.
June 11, 2024
Energiefonds Overijssel, one of the funds managed by StartGreen Capital, signed an agreement with deltaWonen this week for a loan of 7 million. With this loan, the Overijssel housing association can make 153 homes in Kampen more sustainable. Read More