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What can work against greenwashing look like? Quality carbon credits are the answer. BeZero Carbon focuses on quality carbon rating, helping companies become transparent and have a positive impact.
In this episode, we talk with Tommy about his personal career which led him to BeZero Carbon, some industry insights, the importance of the quality in this sector, and non-voluntary options as well.
We also make some space for advice aimed at newbies, who don’t know how to focus just on one part of their sector. Of course, you will find out something more than “follow your heart” ;)

Are you a founder who's successfully convinced investors to trust in your startup?

Congratulations, you've taken a significant step towards fulfilling your dreams! However, the hard work doesn't stop there. Once you've secured the funding, you'll need to learn how to manage your investors effectively to ensure a successful business relationship.

Svenja Tegtmeier, from Saiz, had to learn this the hard way. Investor relations turned out to be more challenging than she anticipated. Managing multiple viewpoints and interests while making effective use of your time is no small task.

As investors in Saiz, we can attest to the importance of effective investor management. We're excited to share our experience and learnings with you. In our latest episode, Svenja opens up about the challenges and surprises she faced after closing their first round of funding.

Providing regular updates and creating space for feedback is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to effective investor management. Tune in to our latest episode to find out more.

You can often hear complaints about how the impact investing scene could be better. But that depends on your perspective. The state of impact investing looks a lot different when you’re the first one on the scene. That’s exactly the wide point of view that Wojciech Majewski has.

Dealing with investors and founders from Poland and the CE region, Wojciech has seen impact investing evolve and mature over the years. At first it was a struggle to get any funding and having to explain time and time again what impact investing is. Now he and his company see a lot more interested founders and organizations who are more aware that generating impact can help them scale their business.

That’s a whole lot of good news!

Tune into our podcast with Wojciech Majewski from Simpact to learn more about how the impact ecosystem has changed and expert advice on how to sell impact.

For companies that work in software development, diving right in to build a complete software product seems like a natural course of action. That’s exactly what Jamie Dujardin and his team at Altruistiq did. Until they learned the hard way that sometimes the best way to move forward in the tech world is to go analog.

Because what’s the point of investing tons of time and energy in software features that then turn out to be unnecessary to most users and clients? Why not instead manually provide features for specific clients, giving the builder time to implement feedback?
Because feedback doesn’t need to come from surveys after a product launch. It can come from real time collaboration while using the product that’s still in the works. Transparency with the client is key. If they know they’re working with a beta stage product they can be both more willing to provide feedback as well as suggest ideas of their own for more features.

Tune in to our podcast to learn more about why sometimes the best way to build software is to not build it at all.

When you think of carbon credits, companies reactively and unconsciously buying up credits to offset carbon emissions might come to mind. Thankfully, those days are becoming a thing of the past.

That’s not only thanks to a shift in mindset and evolving regulations. It’s also thanks to companies like goodcarbon that are paving the way for a new way of looking at carbon credits. By building a technical, Web 3-based platform, they cut out the middleman and allow project owners and companies to connect directly. Project owners can tap into the funding that they need to get their projects off the ground and companies can benefit from taking long-term climate actions.

And these aren’t just any projects. As companies lean in more to understand the impact they have and communities are increasingly concerned with biodiversity, goodcarbon has an astounding 170 criteria that it looks at before judging a project to be of appropriate quality. If that’s not an example of taking climate action seriously, we don’t know what is.

If you want to learn more about how it’s not just about planting trees, but more about planting a forest, tune in to our interview with founder Jerome Cochet.

ESG is a framework that helps companies to manage risks and opportunities related to environmental, social, and governance criteria. This aspect is increasingly important among investors during startup evaluation and due diligence processes.

One of the primary responsibilities of both parties is to align what ESG means in the context of a particular startup. For example, environmental risks would be more relevant to a startup focused on mining various ores than building new accounting software.

Tune in to our podcast with Hannah Leach from VentureESG to learn more about how to talk with investors about ESG and what the reporting looks like after the investment.