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What is Urban Partners? It is a platform of vision-aligned investment strategies shaped around urban problem solving. The strategies consist of RE (Nrep), VC (2150) and impact RE credit (Velo Capital). Urban Partners has existed for 1 year only and has achieved an impressive number of milestones during this year: 🌱 Selected to pilot test the Science Based Targets initiative as 1 of only 15 companies globally. Supporting #decarbonization in the building sector. 💡 Committed €2bn to assets, companies, and technologies improving urban environments ( Nrep: Klövern & 7R SA ; 2150: 1KOMMA5° and AtmosZero). 🏆 Winning PERE Awards as 'Firm of the Year', 'Nordics'; 'Capital Raise of the Year', and Environmental Finance’s 2023 IMPACT Awards as Venture Capital Firm of the Year. 🏙 Raised the record-breaking fund NSF V of €3.6bn, making it the largest European value-add real estate fund ever. Why an urban rethink matters? Watch below ⬇️

“Crisis is not what is defining the real estate and housing sector. What is defining us is how we are responding to the crisis." - R-LABS' CEO George Carras The continued expansion of pledges is further evidence of a growing cluster of innovation that is bringing new solutions through new companies that create new, higher productivity jobs. Check out the press release featuring our newest pledges from Dorsay Development Corporation, Bidmii, Assembly Corp., RESCON and more ➡ https://lnkd.in/gS2ps5X9

Introducing Connecticut Innovations (CI), a ClimateHaven Partner and the leading source of financing and continued support for innovative, growing businesses operating within Connecticut. Through equity investments, guidance, and valuable introductions, our partnership with the venture capital firm ensures our promising members can access the funding necessary to advance their company objectives. In response to the climate crisis, CI launched the ClimateTech Fund. With $100 million of intended investments, the fund will support emerging companies, create high-paying jobs in Connecticut, and help the state achieve its decarbonization goals. The ClimateTech Fund will focus on funding businesses across climate tech verticals based in Connecticut or those with plans to expand their workforce and operations, targeting 15-25 enterprises over a 10- to 15-year investment period. Next Wednesday, December 6, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm, join us and CI for a Climate Tech Social at Third Place by Half Full Brewery in Stamford, CT. There, we’ll highlight the future of electrification in Connecticut, connecting with local environmental leaders and green innovators to discuss relevant issues and ideas and celebrate the holiday season. To register, visit https://bit.ly/47BWUci, and we’ll see you there! To learn more about Connecticut Innovations, visit www.ctinnovations.com.

Today marks 1 year since we unveiled Urban Partners, our platform of vision-aligned investment strategies shaped around urban problem solving. As we look back on this year, we celebrate several milestones: 🌱 Selected as one of only 15 firms globally to pilot test the Science Based Targets initiative's new industry guidance, supporting #decarbonization in the building sector.    💡 Committed €2bn to new investments across assets, companies, and technologies to improve urban environments, including Nrep’s acquisition of Klövern & 7R SA and 2150's investments in 1KOMMA5° and AtmosZero.    🏆 Winning PERE Awards as Firm of the Year, Nordics; Capital Raise of the Year, Europe, alongside several Global shortlistings, and Environmental Finance’s 2023 IMPACT Awards as Venture Capital Firm of the Year.    🏙 Raised the record-breaking fund NSF V of €3.6bn, making it the largest European value-add real estate fund ever.     Today, we manage €21bn and accelerate our efforts to help solve the most pressing urban problems through our real estate equity investor Nrep, venture capital firm 2150, real estate credit specialist Velo Capital, and impact private equity investor Luma Equity. Why an urban rethink matters to us? Watch below ⬇️ 

Exciting news indeed. Thanks for sharing Tineyi Matanda. It is good to hear such inspiring initiatives as it is only through collaboration and such strategic alliances like the one you are talking about between private equity and investment firms like SLATER BROTHERS LTD and innovation hubs like Swinburne University of Technology’s innovation arm led by Director of Commercial Innovation Abhay (Abs) Seth and Sphere we have any hope at all of tackling the complex and societal grand challenges and address some of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At The University of Sydney Business School of my colleague Ranjit Voola and our PhD student Siyu Liu we have been investigating which specific organisational capabilities firms can leverage in formulating and executing strategies aligned with SDG 13 Climate Action. We believe pinpointing these climate action-related capabilities can enable firms to sense and capitalize on new sustainability-oriented strategic development opportunities. We are currently, finalising interviews in China and are looking at undertaking more research in USA and Australia to see whether ether the prerequisite climate action-related capabilities differ across countries and industry. 

Ending the week full of inspiration created by those moving the dial on access to capital for women-led ventures. Congratulations goes to Roya Aghighi, Sarah Graham, and Lite-1 for winning the TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good Women-Led Impact Investor Challenge. Lite-1 is transforming the dye industry from one of the most polluting industries to a clean, healthy industry. Roya and Sarah have a bold vision, compelling technologies and solid early momentum. They truly represent the best and brightest of climate innovation, women-led ventures, and early stage investment opportunities. The big news? Not only did they secure investment from the investor group, but Sevrine Labelle and BDC Capital announced that they will match the investment - doubling the investment and the impact on this high impact venture. I want to acknowledge the visionary support of the program and women-led ventures by Ka-Hay Law, Blair Miller, and the team at Pollinator. In addition, we're grateful for the support of Government of Canada (including National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada), DLA Piper, Ink LLP, RSM Canada, and Genus Capital Management. I also want to acknowledge the Due Diligence coaches - Elizabeth Dutton, Davina MacPhail, Jennifer McDonald, Claudia Van Der Vorm, and Nina Vellani Ph.D - for your time, wisdom, and support of our investor community. Thanks also to Tara Bosch for your inspiring fireside chat with Sevrine last night to kick off our Finale. Last but not least, I want to congratulate the other finalists - Lourdes Juan Knead Technologies, Angela Robert Conquer Experience Inc. , Georgia Powell NURA Medical, and Kristy Ehman Hyon Software Inc. - you all should be so proud of what you have built, how you represented your vision in the program, and the impact you are creating. The future of innovation is bright, and it's brighter for the women who help lead it. Let's move the dial - DM me if you want to connect via our Collective into these opportunities. #investinginwomen #genderlensinvesting #angelinvesting #venturecapital #healthtech #impactinvesting #climatesolutions #cleantechnology #circulareconomy

Don't sleep on Minnesota. We may be modest, but we've got a powerful mix of public-private partners, energy & tech experts, and the ambitious vision to invent, build, and deploy. Our accelerator programming enables these incredible assets and partners to do big things, in partnership with a rising tide of energy startups and innovators. #AccelerateNorth #energy #startups #accelerator

Happy to announce that we got into the Winter Investment Call at PurposeTech with our company Choice Technologies AG. This is especially important to me for 2 main reasons: 1- It shows that our #mission is understood and that #venturecapital can contribute to a #stigmafree society through #impactinvestment while seeing the business case 2- We will have the opportunity to work through a professional #duediligence process to be investment ready within the upcoming weeks for our #earlystage #financing

🇨🇭 Redalpine’s Michael will be speaking at the Schulthess Forum on 28 November in Zurich! 🎤 In this panel discussion, Michael will be joined by Thomas Heimann, MSc (HBM Partners AG), Karim Maizar (Kellerhals Carrard), and Andreas Goeldi (b2venture) to talk about current investment trends and the state of fundraising in Europe. Register using the link below 👇 #SchulthessForum #VentureCapital #DeepTech

April Accelerator Academy - Weekend Edition Why does MN need its own energy and cleantech accelerator? 💪 Minnesota has a robust innovation ecosystem - steeped in hightech experience, Fortune 500 leadership, a legacy of innovation, nation-leading research institutions, and a strong small business network. ❄️ With our own energy accelerator, we can nurture homegrown innovation and new business opportunities. We can take a more ambitious stance on solving energy and climate challenges, instead of waiting for innovation to make it to our market. The accelerator moves us up in the line for developing and adopting the best available technology, and makes us less vulnerable to technology that isn't designed or tested for our cold climate. 🤝 We also want startups that launch here to have all they need to grow and scale here, including support, partnership, investments, and a pathway into the marketplace with our critical first adopters. With the newly launched Minnesota Energy Alley to support existing and expanded accelerator programming, we can make bold moves as leaders in energy and cleantech innovation. Thanks to the partners leading that initiative (in collaboration with Grid Catalyst) - Clean Energy Economy Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Commerce. Read more about this new initiative and how its supporting the Minnesota energy innovation ecosystem. https://lnkd.in/gVXnKe-h #AccelerateNorth #MinnesotaEnergyAlley #energy #innovation #AprilAcceleratorAcademy