MCJ AMA: Jacqueline van den Ende - Carbon Equity
Join us in the MCJ Community Slack for a 24 hour 'Ask Me Anything' with Jacqueline van den Ende, Co-founder & CEO at Carbon Equity.
Let’s meet our guest…
Meet Jacqueline: Jacqueline is an Amsterdam-based ‘entrepreneur cum investor passionate about building high impact ventures’. She has spent half of her career investing in companies, as a partner with Peak Capital and as an investor at HAL Investments, and half building companies. As a student she founded De Kleine Consultant, and later founded Rocket Internet backed Lamudi Group in the Philippines. She also helped scale South East Asian fintech mobile wallet TrueMoney. Passionate about creating companies from scratch and building high performance teams of talented individuals, she regularly speaks about the intersection of climate change and finance and is obsessed with the question ‘how we can steer the planet towards a sustainable future through effective capital allocation?’.
About Carbon Equity: Carbon Equity pools capital to provide individuals with access to world-class private equity funds, while their team of experts handle the research, management, and investment work. Their approach allows investors to build a diversified portfolio of climate startups and scaleups.
MCJ Podcast: Listen to (or read the transcript of) Jacquelines episode with Jason here.
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Our AMA with Jacqueline will start on Wednesday 28th June at 12pm PST - 3pm EST - 8pm BST - 9pm CET and will run asynchronously in the MCJ AMA slack channel for 24 hours.
This our first AMA guest from our new Capital Series, hosted by Jason Jacobs. This series explores a diverse range of capital sources and the individuals who drive them. From family offices and institutional LPs to private equity, government funding, and more, we’re taking a deep dive into the world of capital and its critical role in driving innovation and progress.
In Jason’s episode with Jacqueline they cover:
[2:20] An overview of Carbon Equity
[4:41] How Jacqueline's original idea for climate investing came about
[9:19] Carbon Equity's focus on the mass affluent market today
[13:55] How they raised early funds and who they targeted
[17:50] Differences between US vs Europe investor limitations
[21:27] Carbon Equity's diligence process
[28:12] The firm as a diversification provider
[30:57] Jacqueline's thoughts on sector expertise and mission alignment
[35:25] Carbon Equity's milestones since January 2021
[39:59] The firm's plans for thematic funds
[46:02] Some of Jacqueline's key learnings from her journey and the difficult questions she's asking
[53:22] Who Jacqueline wants to work with and her parting words, including job opportunities with Carbon Equity
→ You can find a transcript of the full conversation here.
You can also dig into Jacqueline’s work further via:
Carbon Equity in the news: ‘Retail investors drawn to ‘super-hot’ climate space’
Set your reminders, and get your questions ready! You can ask Jacqueline anything!
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