Omada’s Post

** 🌎Private investment in Nature-based solutions (“NbS”) – one of the keys to accelerate the green transition 🌿** Was delighted yesterday to moderate the 10th edition of the “Value & Transformation” series by Amala Partners, SINGULIER & Omada with the co-founders of France Valley, an asset management company specialising in natural assets, with 42,000 hectares and over 350 #forests in France and Europe. According to @#unep nearly $7 trillion is invested globally each year in activities that have a direct negative impact on nature from both public and private sector sources – that’s 7% of global GDP. In 2022, investments in nature-based solutions totalled approximately $200 billion, but finance flows to activities directly harming nature were more than 30 times larger (#COP28 State of Finance for Nature report by UNEP & partners). 💵💲To reverse nature-negative finance flows, investors need to see the tangible financial benefits of natural solutions. Pioneering companies like France Valley address this. With a client base of institutional investors, family offices, private banks, and savers, France Valley constructs and manages forestry, vineyards, agricultural and real estate investment solutions, offering capital gains and yields. When Guillaume Toussaint ex-investment banker & Arnaud FILHOL former auditor & consultant, founded FV in 2010, in France, no investment solution for savers and professionals in natural assets existed - they started from scratch. ➡️ Today they operate in 10 countries, have 40 employees, and 4.2 billion euros in assets under management (*), with a "retail" model that operates like a “SCPI” (Civil Real Estate Investment Company); fundraising from individuals through wealth management channels. “We have industrialised the process of making assets that are difficult to acquire and manage directly accessible to investors,” they explained. 🌲🌳🍇The assets are managed with a ‘reasoned’ approach that favours sustainable exploitation methods. To replace tree populations, FV work in coordination with forestry operators, choosing species capable of adapting to climate change, managing without clear-cutting, improving biodiversity, and increasing carbon absorption capacity. The value of these assets increases by 4 to 6% each year, with a growing demand for wood (notably for more sustainable construction) and forests as assets. They offer protection against inflation and enhance the value of the land and the wood stock, and, of course, also work as carbon sinks. Always a privilege, through my numerous work assignments, to expand my knowledge of new sectors and thus my understanding of unfolding economic trends and meet inspiring entrepreneurs at the forefront of change and innovation. With thanks to our guests, Amala, Singulier, Omada Jean-Michel Cagin Rémi Pesseguier Nizar CHAYEB

✨Delighted to resume the moderation of the 'Value & Transformation' talks hosted by Amala Partners SINGULIER and Omada in Paris where a small audience of targeted #investors (#privateequity, #familyoffice etc) discovers the journey of an entrepreneur, his/her thoughts on current trends, opportunities, the disruption potential of a market - and engage in an unfiltered dialogue with the guest. 🎤Today, I had the honour of interviewing the energetic Olivier Novasque, co-founder & CEO of the AI-driven #cashtoorder platform Sidetrade, listed on #EuronextGrowth. Olivier launched this innovative financial services solution back in 2000, during the dot-com bust (for those too young to remember), pioneering an early #SaaS model. He openly shared that the initial motive was not driven out of vision but simply a way to encourage clients to try the solution. Today, SideTrade is a partner to numerous #CAC40 listed companies and other large international firms. 💡SideTrade's crown jewels (and massive competitive advantage) are its proprietary, reliable and relevant customer data produced out of 6.6 Trillion $ of B2B financial transactions emanating from 42 million corporates across the world (a mighty barrier to entry for any new player), which can produce unique insights on patterns, predict future behaviour etc. Olivier is optimistic about the company's expansion in the U.S. and noted, not without a degree of nervousness, that the emergence of #GenAI marks an AI development unlike anything seen in the past 40 years: brace yourselves.... 🙏🏻With thanks to him for his first class story-telling skills, as well as Jean-Michel Cagin Rémi Pesseguier and Nizar CHAYEB #pe #growth #entrepreneurship