Mar 8Empowerment, Equity and Equality: ETF Partners Celebrates IWD 2023Since its foundation in 1911, International Women’s Day has become a key moment to celebrate women’s success and to reinforce the commitment towards all aspects of gender equality across the globe. …Venture Capital3 min readVenture Capital3 min read
Feb 22Optimism in the face of climate change’: ETF Partners launches “How We See the World in 2023”Drawing on over 15 years of experience leading the market in sustainable investing, we have published its latest investment paper, outlining the ways we can harness purposeful and principled investment to face the challenges of creating a sustainable world. The means and methods of tackling climate change can seem an…Sustainability2 min readSustainability2 min read
Feb 16‘Someone had to build the data infrastructure to make this moment matter’:A Q&A with Net Purpose Founder and CEO Samantha Duncan Tell us about yourself I started my investment career at Goldman Sachs in the mergers and acquisitions team, facilitating multibillion dollar transactions in the healthcare space in Australia. I joined in 2007 and in the space of two years, I…Sustainability4 min readSustainability4 min read
Jan 20Room for Optimism as we Enter 2023, Despite the Most Seismic Macroeconomic Challenge of the Modern EraPermacrisis, the word of the year, according to the editors of the Collins English Dictionary. Defined as ‘an extended period of instability and insecurity’, it is certainly an accurate encapsulation of the past twelve months which have borne witness to a land war in Europe on a scale not seen…Sustainability5 min readSustainability5 min read
Jan 52022 success makes us optimistic and realistic for 2023Rob Genieser and Patrick Sheehan, Managing Partners, ETF Partners For the past couple of years, year-end roundups that have looked back have invariably commented on the bountiful successes during the “good times” and then provided exuberantly optimistic forecasts for the coming year. This time, for many pundits that is far…Sustainability5 min readSustainability5 min read
Oct 26, 2022‘We want to reset the throwaway society’: A Q&A with Modern Milkman CEO and Founder Simon MellinTell us about yourself I grew up in the food industry — my granddad was a farmer, and my dad was a butcher. I worked with them both and got a really broad understanding of food production as a child. After I finished school, I trained as an engineer in…Sustainability4 min readSustainability4 min read
Jul 11, 2022‘We are facilitating the new paradigm of the software designed car’. : A Q&A with Basemark CEO and founder Tero SarkkinenTell us about yourself and why you founded Basemark I’m Tero Sarkkinen, the founder and CEO of Basemark. I’ve been running software companies for over 20 years and the previous company I founded is called Rightware, which operates in the field of automotive user interface software. I started Basemark in…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
May 18, 2022The more we grow, the more sustainable we are — it’s a win-win business’: a Q&A with SOS Accessoire’s CFO Cédric Van Der BorghtTell us about yourself and how you joined SOS Accessoire Prior to joining SOS Accessoire, I spent five years as an audit manager at Deloitte and worked in a variety of roles for global companies like Conforama. I moved on to become a financial controller for Buffet-Crampon, a global brand…Sustainability5 min readSustainability5 min read
Mar 8, 2022Recognising and reflecting on International Women’s Day 2022Recent years have brought great strides towards gender equality, yet there is still much work to be done in closing the gender pay gap, democratising access to healthcare, ensuring women’s safety, and more. These are necessary steps to make a better world for us all, since when women thrive, we…International Womens Day6 min readInternational Womens Day6 min read
Feb 8, 2022We have grown a team that can help combat climate change — a Q&A with Normative co-founder Kristian RönnTell us about yourself and how Normative was founded Before founding Normative, I was working at the University of Oxford assessing the policy implications of global risks such as climate change. I discovered a group of people there who later became known as the Effective Altruism community. They were interested…Sustainability4 min readSustainability4 min read
