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Planet, society and economy are facing unprecedented challenges. However, massive coordination failures that cause these global challenges can be resolved by frontier technologies, such as AI, DLT and new IoT.
With Vanagon Ventures, we are backing founders applying frontier technologies to create positive change for people, the planet and a resilient, regenerative and circular economy - while realizing massive growth opportunities.

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🌍 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 ⏱️ - Here is a 1-hour time investment that I highly recommend. Not only for beginners but also for advanced learners and experts in climate change to test your knowledge and get inspiration on how to spread the word. 

On 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟮, 𝗮𝘁 𝟱:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗘𝗧, we offer a free and open session of our ReFi Talents program to anyone interested in attending an 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗛 session - expertly moderated by Barbara Zitzmann-Tengelmann MRICS and Martina Weinberger.



💡 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

With the recent heat records globally, the increase in fires, droughts and flash floods, it is important to understand why these phenomena are linked to climate change.

Join this interactive and entertaining workshop to learn more about the challenge we face, why we are talking about net/low zero carbon or a state of emergency, and how we as individuals (and in our businesses) can make a difference and contribute to the solution.


❔WHAT IS THE CLIMATE PITCH?

An interactive, informative and entertaining talk covering the following topics:
1. Key facts about climate change and why we are talking about a state of emergency
2. How we can all act now and make a difference (individually and collectively)

No fake news! The content is based on the IPCC report (recognized by the global scientific community).


🔎 HOW DOES IT WORK?

Participants are guided through visuals and explanations and continuously engaged through a quiz format with different questions/exercises. Divided into 3 phases:
1. Intro & warm-up phase
2. Guided tour & quiz
3. Debriefing & solutions


👉 SIGN UP HERE
https://lu.ma/dxhn8g7d


Abdullah Melik Yildiz Daniel Holk Axel Roitzsch Sandro Stark Vanagon.vc

🐙 An octopus on Times Square,  🎙️ a TED Talk,  👑 HRH Prince William,  🍍 Paloneo,  🥇 losing 1st place to Microsoft, and much more - Our portfolio companies and we have been quite busy in the first half of 2024.

🌊  In our Vanagon.vc summer review, we look back and reflect on the past few months, full of gratitude for all the support we have received along the way.

👉 Access our summer review here: https://lnkd.in/d4Fqz7fc

Axel Roitzsch Sandro Stark LoopID Christian Adler Alexis Gamboa Learn.xyz Christian Byza Renoster Saif Bhatti The Landbanking Group Dr. Sonja Stuchtey Particula Nadine Wilke Timm Reinsdorf Senken Adrian Wons ReFi Talents

🚴♂️ Bikes enabling economic freedom in Africa, 🧪 AI enabling groundbreaking sustainable materials, and lots of hugs 🤗 …

Vanagon Rooftop time again! Always a pleasure welcoming new guests and re-connecting with Vanagon friends and family while overlooking beautiful Munich. This time we hosted a special event edition on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 together with the wonderful Margaret O'Connor of Launch Africa.

🌍 Margaret is a chairperson at Launch Africa, a Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa. Margaret brought along Chris Ehl of Wahu!, offering electric bikes for and from Africa. Mobility means freedom and can secure economic success. In order to afford a Wahu! bike, buyers have the option to work for a delivery service for two years to pay off their bikes and then build their own business around it.

🗣️ Axel Roitzsch moderated the event and Sandro Stark gave an update on our fund, Vanagon.vc, a Munich-based VC investing in planet-positive frontier tech startups.

👩🔬 We also welcomed Barbara Bachus, COO of ExoMatter, to give a short talk on their AI solution revolutionizing materials. Today, materials R&D is still largely based on trial & error experiments and thus only considers a tiny fraction of the gigantic possibility space of materials. ExoMatter clients, including several DAX companies, can use the solution to tap into completely new materials optimized for chemical, physical, and engineering properties, as well as for cost and sustainability - e.g. carbon footprint, land and water use, recyclability, and minimized toxicity. A game-changing solution for building a resilient economy based on regeneration and circularity.

🔄 Afterwards, we got together in circles to further exchange on the topics presented. We very much enjoyed the inspiring talks, exchanging with everyone and - as you can see in the big photo - squeezing our wonderful portfolio founders Adrian Wons of Senken, as well as Nadine Wilke, Timm Reinsdorf, and Carsten Hermann of Particula - two of our portfolio companies which have been "particularly" popular with US investors lately. No pun intended.

Thank you to our wonderful co-host, presenters and guests! 
Andy Goldstein, Silvia Erika Sommer, Ina Murke, Carla Murke, Elisabeth Platzer, Amela Turkmanovic, Philipp von der Schulenburg, Dr. Stefan Sambol, Stephan Rauscher and many more

📅  Looking forward to our next event!

🚀 We kicked off the 2nd cohort of our ReFi Talents global online education program yesterday! Of the 200 talents admitted to the cohort, 150 were present in our session. After our vibrant first cohort, I was super excited to, once again, feel the collective energy from professionals from the finance, sustainability, and technology space and from all over the world - all eager to learn about how to change the world for the better with technology. 

🇪🇨 🇭🇰 In the breakout session, I had the pleasure to talk to participants from countries such as Ecuador, India, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Germany and learn about their motivations to join the program.

🎙 Afterwards, I had the honor to hold the keynote speech of the kick-off session. I talked about my journey that led me to founding Vanagon.vc together with my partners Axel and Sandro and to initiating the ReFi Talents Program together with our portfolio company Particula and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. 

🌊  After touching on climate change and planetary boundaries, I introduced the concept of the #Twin #Transition, the dual mega transformation towards a regenerative economy, driven by frontier software technologies such as AI and DLT. And as Vanagon’s investment focus is based on the Twin Transition, I also showcased several our our portfolio companies who are using the latest technologies to regenerate nature at scale and to drive the circular transformation of our industries.

💥 I cannot wait to see the power of this amazing group of participants and mentors unfold. I am also excited that several of our portfolio companies will hold some of the keynote speeches of the upcoming sessions. Furthermore, we will offer an opportunity to #understand #climate #change in #record #time. Stay tuned!


📚 About ReFi Talents: 
Together with the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and movers & shakers in the NatureFintech space, we at Vanagon.vc have co-initiated and co-designed this global online education program. The 18-week long program has 3 phases that help professionals from various backgrounds and career stages to quickly get onboarded to regenerative finance and the regenerative economy. The goal of the program is to guide the way for talents to get active and become entrepreneurs, technologists, regulators, investors, or influencers in the space and to drive the transition to a regenerative economy via technology. Participation is free of charge.

🙏 A special thanks to all those who are making the program possible! Abdullah Melik Yildiz Daniel Holk Nadine Wilke Christian Adler Elias Ayrey (PhD) Esther Val Donny Lewis Dr. Oliver Krause Afina Suleimanova Alex Hong Diana K. H. Sunny Jiang Marco Barbosa Alison Filler, all other mentors, speakers and sponsors.

“In our current economic system. You can earn much easier money by destroying nature and not by protecting or restoring it. And this is a field that is, fortunately, changing now with nature tech”.

🌱 Excited to share our latest conversation with Susanne Fromm, co-founder of Vanagon.vc, a pioneering VC firm based in Munich! We discussed the fascinating concept of nature as an asset class and how Vanagon Ventures is investing in the twin transitions of digitalization and decarbonization. 

Tune in to learn more about the cutting-edge technologies and transformative potential within the climate tech sector. 🌐💡

Link to the episode 👇 
https://lnkd.in/dn4iAHbZ
#VentureCapital #NatureTech#ESG #Digitalization #Decarbonization #ClimateTech #GreenTransition

Vanagon.vc, eine in #München ansässige Risikokapitalgesellschaft, die in umweltfreundliche Spitzentechnologien investiert, hat ihre Investition in LoopID bekannt gegeben. Das #Startup entwickelt digitale Lösungen für die entstehende #Kreislaufwirtschaft, die es Marken ermöglichen, profitable Kreislaufgeschäftsmodelle zu entwickeln, Kosten und Kundenbindung während des gesamten Produktlebenszyklus zu verbessern und neue Nachhaltigkeits-vorschriften einzuhalten.

Mehr zum #Deal hier 👇
#Investment #Growth #KI #Innovation #Technologie #VC #VCMagazin Christian Adler Alexis Gamboa Susanne Fromm Joerg Walden Sandro Stark Axel Roitzsch

🐛💥 These little fellas truly understand exponential growth…  Vanagon.vc Rooftop Pitch & Lunch time again! We regularly host events for our investors to facilitate in-depth exchanges under the motto "Invest together, learn together." This time a family office edition, which we were delighted to co-host together with the wonderful Elisabeth Platzer, Nihal Alan Wuerst, and Carina Platzer.

After we welcomed our 40 guests on the rooftop terrace overlooking Munich, my co-founding partner Sandro Stark presented our fund, Vanagon.vc, a Munich-based VC investing in planet positive frontier tech startups.

Afterward, we had the pleasure of hearing three keynote presentations: the first two Vanagon portfolio companies, and the third one, Bionsect, was brought to our event by our co-hosts.

1️⃣ Dr. Sonja Stuchtey from The Landbanking Group kicked off by showing a brief excerpt of recent CNN news summarizing extreme weather events around the world, emphasizing the urgent need to mitigate and adapt to climate change. She then introduced her company and their platform, Landler, based on AI and remote sensing. Landler allows for nature restoration at scale by enabling ecological evaluation and monetization of natural capital by turning nature uplift via regenerative agriculture or other regenerative land use practices into valuable financial assets. 👨🌾

2️⃣ Christian Adler introduced LoopID, their AI-powered software-as-a-service solution to create and manage semantic digital twins of physical products that comply with the upcoming EU Digital Product Passport regulation. LoopID offers recommerce platforms,  end-to-end traceability tools as well as  features allowing customers to chat with products such as their running shoes or washing machine to inquire about product properties, repair, take-back, or resale. ♻️

3️⃣ Till von Geldern-Crispendorf BIONSECT showcased their production of alternative animal proteins using …  insects 🔍🐛. These little fellas truly understand exponential growth: Within 6 weeks, 1kg of mealworm larvae becomes 75kg. After another 6 weeks, it becomes 5.6 tons, then 420 tons, and finally 31,500 tons of larvae. Vertical insect farming enables a zero-waste circular economy. Waste streams from the food industry are upcycled into high-quality proteins, mostly used for animal feed. The larvae manure is also utilized as an organic fertilizer. 


We were delighted that the event was so well received by our guests and also we very much enjoyed the presentations and meaningful networking in a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere. 🤝✨

🙏🌟 Special thanks to our wonderful co-hosts from ECN Performance! Your support made the event truly memorable. We also thank all attendees for their enthusiasm and participation. We look forward to continuing these fruitful conversations and collaborations.

#Vanagon #Pitch&Lunch #FrontierTech #VC #NatureTech #CircularEconomy #Munich #FamilyOffice

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that Vanagon.vc has invested in LoopID, a leader in AI-powered solutions for the circular economy. ♻️🌍

Our current linear economy — extracting, producing, and discarding after use — leads to pollution, emissions, and biodiversity loss. 


🔍 THE LOOPID SOLUTION:

LoopID develops cutting-edge digital solutions that help maintain resources within the economy, encouraging sustainable product use. Concretely, LoopID enables brands to adopt profitable circular business models, improve cost efficiency, and enhance customer engagement throughout the product lifecycle. Their platform also ensures compliance with new sustainability regulations, particularly the upcoming EU Digital Product Passport regulation.

Core Features:
	•	AI-Powered Digital Twins: Semantic digital twins of physical products.
	•	Secure Take-Back Systems: Facilitating product returns and recycling.
	•	Recommerce Platforms: Supporting resale and reuse.
	•	End-to-End Traceability: Tracking products from creation to end-of-life.

Focus Sectors:
	•	Electronics/ICT
	•	Textiles/Fashion
	•	Real Estate

LoopID collaborates with industry leaders like Infineon Technologies to create tailored solutions for these sectors.


🤝 THE FOUNDERS:

	•	Christian Adler: Former AI expert at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), with degrees from LMU Munich, UC Berkeley, and Leuphana University. He brings vast experience in digital transformation.
	•	Alexis Gamboa: Expert in digital twins, with a background from EY, the Technical University of Munich, and Costa Rica. Both founders met at CDTM in Munich and participated in accelerators at UnternehmerTUM (Xpreneurs) and UC Berkeley.


💶 CO-INVESTORS:

Apart from Vanagon’s investment, LoopID benefits from significant funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) and has joined the Silicon Valley-based B2B Alchemist Accelerator, which has also invested in the company. Furthermore, Joerg Walden, a circularity veteran and founder of iPoint Systems, co-invests with Vanagon.


💬 Christian Adler: "With their support and trust in our team and capabilities, Vanagon enables us to focus on the development and deployment of our solution together with our partners at high speed and also provides us with access to other top-notch investors and advisors, such as Jörg Walden. Our goal for the coming months is to further demonstrate and scale our solution in key markets to accelerate the circular transformation of our economy."


At Vanagon, we look forward to supporting LoopID in paving the way for a  circular economy. 🌱 With their deep domain and technology expertise, the LoopID team has managed to not only leverage frontier technologies such as AI and blockchain to allow companies to intelligently comply with upcoming digital product passport regulation, but the solution also allows for a completely new level of engagement between products and customers.

#CircularEconomy #AI #GreenTech

Call for applications! 🌏 👩💻 🎓  For all who would like to learn more about #Planetary #Boundaries and how next gen software technologies, in particular #Blockchain in combination with #AI and new #IoT, drive solutions accelerating the transition to a #regenerative #economy.

Together with the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and movers & shakers in the NatureFintech space, we at Vanagon.vc have co-initiated and co-designed a global online education program. 

📣 This is a Call for Applications for the next and only ReFi Talents cohort in 2024: An 18-Week Mentoring Program Empowering Talent for Leadership in the Regenerative Finance Space

The program has 3 phases that will help ambitious talents to quickly onboard to the regenerative finance ecosystem. The goal of the program is to guide the way for talents to get active and become entrepreneurs, technologists, regulators, investors or influencers in the space to drive the transition to a regenerative economy via technology. This program is free of charge (EUR 0), you just have to apply.

The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center will admit a maximum of 200 participants to this program starting on July 22, 2024. 
👉  Application Deadline is June 30, 2024.

Read more here about how to apply:
https://lnkd.in/dqfShzad

Abdullah Melik Yildiz Daniel Holk Sandro Stark Axel Roitzsch Esther Val Alison Filler 🟠 Jong-Chan Chung

🌍🔄  𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀... This was the topic of my talk at the 25th Entrepreneurship Forum of the INSEAD Alumni Association Germany (IAAG), which this year was fully dedicated to #Artificial #Intelligence 🤖.

The event was an awesome convergence of insightful talks by leading minds in AI and inspiring conversations with the participants 💡🤝.

🌱🔄 During my session, I discussed the #twin #transition, the dual mega transformation driven by the green transition of our economy and the new wave of frontier technologies such as AI, distributed ledger technologies, and new kinds of data sources/IoT 🌿🖥️.

I also highlighted several examples of companies in the Vanagon.vc portfolio using AI for regenerative and circular use cases.  For instance: 

- 🌳📡  Companies using remote sensing and AI to track and assess nature restoration at scale - such as The Landbanking Group (AI-based platform enabling risk mitigation and investments in planetary-scale nature restoration) or Renoster (bringing deep transparency into the carbon markets via remote sensing and machine learning - reviewing existing and monitoring new carbon projects) 🌍🔍.

- 🌱📊 Our portfolio company Senken, the world’s 2nd largest marketplace for removal carbon credits, is using AI to measure the carbon sink potential of climate projects offered on their platform. Furthermore, Senken uses AI to benchmark the footprints of the corporates they work with 🏢🔍.

- 🤖🏭 Also in the digital industrial space there are compelling use cases. We will shortly announce an investment in an ♻️ AI-powered circularity software and are currently in due diligence with other AI-powered digital industrial startups. Stay tuned.

It was an honor and pleasure to speak at & participate in this valuable conference and to listen to the presentation of fellow speakers! 🎤🎉
Thank you to everyone who attended, presented, and made this event a memorable experience 🙏✨.  And of course, a huge shoutout to the wonderful team who pulled up this event: Margret Dupslaff, Benjamina Mirnik-Voges, Charly Sayn-Wittgenstein, Kristin Torre Vinuesa, and Verena von Guionneau.  

#INSEAD #EntrepreneurshipForum #AI #RegenerativeEconomy #Innovation #Sustainability INSEAD

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