Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
I am an entrepreneur and investor passionate about building high impact ventures. I am a co-founder and the CEO of Carbon Equity, a fintech platform that seeks to power the world's most impactful climate technology solutions with retail capital. I spent approximately half my career investing in companies, as a partner with Peak Capital and as an investor at HAL Investments. The other half I spent building companies. As a student I founded De Kleine Consultant and later founded Rocket Internet backed Lamudi Group in the Philippines and helped scale South East Asian fintech mobile wallet TrueMoney. I am passionate about creating companies from scratch and building high performance teams of talented individuals. I talk about the intersection of climate change and finance and am obsessed with the question how we can steer the planet towards a sustainable future through effective capital allocation. Finally I have a great deal of difficulty keeping up with my LinkedIn inbox. Do message me but I can not guarantee a response. Feel free to follow up if it is important. My apologies in advance for my unresponsiveness at times.
Carbon Equity is looking to move the needle on climate change by connecting Capital to Climate technology by the billions. To mitigate climate change we need to rebuild pretty much every inch of our fossil fuel-dependent economy in a historically unprecedented amount of time. Carbon Equity, through its climate fintech solution, seeks to offer retail investors climate investment products that actually move the needle. This means euro for euro direct investment in R&D, technology and scaling of companies (in contrast to secondary market investments). We do this by enabling access to Alternative Investments such as Climate Venture Capital, Climate Private Equity and other asset classes - with direct climate impact and attractive financial returns.
Peak Capital is an EUR 84mln entrepreneurial European investment fund set up by experienced entrepreneurs and fully funded by the Netherlands' most prestigious entrepreneurs. Peak Capital offers smart venture capital to European fast-growing early stage marketplace and SaaS companies. Our first fund invested in Radionomy, exit in 2015 to Vivendi (EURONEXT:VIV), and IENS, which was sold in 2014 to TripAdvisor (NASDAQ: TRIP). In 2009, our second fund started with investments in companies Catawiki, CheapCargo (exit in 2017 to PostNL, AMS: PNL), Flinders, NPEX, Peecho and TradeCloud. In 2015, we launched our third fund investing smart capital and hands-on support in technology companies such as Channable, Floryn, Media Distillery, OneFit, StuDocu and United Wardrobe. Our 4th fund, with a size of EUR 66M, launched in August 2019. With this fund we expand in Europe, focusing on fast growing marketplace, platform and SaaS companies.
TrueMoney provides low cost financial services, primarily to the unbanked population, across the ASEAN region with presence in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines. True Money Philippines through it's network of 18,500+ agents in the Philippines offers B2C financial services such as prepaid loading, bills payment and domestic remittance as well as B2B payroll and lending solutions. TrueMoney is backed by Ascend Group, the Thai CP Group (a $60bn conglomerate with holdings in a.o. food, telco, retail) and Alipay and employs 500+ employees in the Philippines. Key highlights • Grew the agent network from 5,000 agents to 18,500 in the span of 12 months • Strengthened the domestic agent network through partnerships with key partners such as LBC, CVM and RD Pawnshop • Grew transaction volumes 500% in 2018 to close to P2bn monthly transaction volume • Launched cashless payments and FMCG focused micro SME lending solutions with Unilever, Monde Nissin and Unionbank