Recent 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…

Tell 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…

Authored by Zoë VanderWolk, Head of Investor Relations & Sustainability, ETF Partners It was perhaps inevitable that interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) accelerated in 2021. This year, we’ve seen immense positives — Morningstar reported that ESG assets under management (AUMs) grew to nearly $2 trillion in the first…

Lucy Rands, Investment Manager at ETF Partners, explores new data from our portfolio company, TravelTime, which indicates that in 2020 there was a 1700% surge in travel searches by foot. According to Lucy, such a trend can have massive environmental benefits in a post-pandemic world. It is fair to say…

1. Tell us about Vulog and your company’s mission? Vulog is the leading tech provider for the world’s largest shared mobility companies. Thanks to our technology, we are transforming cities globally by ensuring that clean, shared and electric mobility is accessible for all. We were founded in Nice, France in…

1. Tell us about ELeather and your company’s mission? To understand our mission you only have to look back at our founder, Chris Bevan, who was an entrepreneur and inventor with a passion for solving problems. He recognised a huge waste stream in the leather industry some twenty plus years…

Founded in 2015, Urbantz is a last-mile delivery management platform for enterprises designed to respond to the delivery needs of retailers, logistics operators, e-commerce, grocery players, among others. Urbantz provides an enterprise SaaS solution for real-time visibility and complete control over the entire last-mile delivery chain. Tell us about Urbantz and your company’s mission? In a nutshell, Urbantz…

Founded by Oxford and Cambridge graduates Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos and Roberto Coustas in 2017, DeepSea specialises in using artificial intelligence to improve vessel performance monitoring and optimisation in the shipping industry. Roberto, with everything that’s gone on this year, what are the lessons you’ve learnt and how are you applying them…

Anthony Finbow is the CEO of Eagle Genomics, the software platform supporting organisations to solve the grand challenges in life sciences. With an early career covering engineering, law and finance, he has spent the last twenty years building and running technology businesses in a variety of sectors. What is Eagle…