Sustainability Talks In conversation with Uli Grabenwarter and Christian Motzfeldt
In this episode of ‘Sustainability Talks’ host Patrick Sheehan (Founder & Managing Partner, ETF Partners) is joined by special guests Uli Grabenwarter (Deputy Director, Equity Investments, EIF) & Christian Motzfeldt (former CEO of Vaekstfonden) to explore how we can achieve "A new, greener Europe?" This discussion was originally recorded on 18th November 2020 as part of ETF Partners' 2nd Annual Investor Meeting.
Uli Grabenwarter is Deputy Director - Equity Investments at European Investment Fund (EIF). In this capacity he oversees EIF’s activities in Venture Capital, Impact Investing, and Technology Transfer, with EIF being Europe’s biggest Fund-of-Funds Investment platform in these markets. Previously he was responsible for EIF’s strategic development in the equity space and in this context has led the build-up of the Social Impact Accelerator, the first pan-European social impact investing fund-of-funds. From 2010 to 2012 he conducted a 20 months research project on impact investing in collaboration with IESE University of Navarra in Barcelona and the Family Office Circle Foundation based in Switzerland, analysing best-market-practices for impact investing in the private equity and venture capital space. He is a visiting Professor for Private Equity and Venture Capital at IESE University and is an angel investor in life sciences companies. Since 2018 he is a Trustees of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and serves on the Board of several asset management companies and family office structures. He regularly publishes articles and white papers on venture capital and impact investing. Uli is also member of several expert groups on impact investing and impact metrics across Europe. Uli holds a Master’s degree in Business and Finance of the University of Graz.
Christian Motzfeldt is an investor and board member in young growth companies in finance, tech and green transition. Through two decades he built and ran the Danish Growth Fund and took a central role in growing the Danish ecosystem of entrepreneurship. His has held previous positions in private banking, the Central Bank of Denmark, the Danish Government and the EU Commission. Christian is an Economist by education and a firm believer in science based and entrepreneur driven solutions to the major challenges of human life.
ETF Partners (The Environmental Technologies Fund), is a venture capital & private equity firm that uses venture capital techniques to address real-world problems -particularly within the realm of environment and sustainability. ETF was one of the first companies to do this in Europe, and as such, change has always been the core of our DNA. ETF invest in change, and the founders we back are the innovators working to drive positive change.
Find out more about ETF Partners at https://etfpartners.capital/
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