People think of it primarily as meaning shipping and fisheries. Trade and transportation. And shipbuilding. But there’s more. It’s also about food and feed. Tourism, leisure, and energy. And aquaculture and carbon capture. And it’s also about all the technologies and industries that depend on and derive from these fields…

Newspapers, conferences, podcasts, book publications around the globe are suggesting that the moment has arrived: Impact investing has become mainstream. It is no longer a religious debate on the boundaries of impact investing that determines whether the USD 1 trillion threshold has been surpassed. New targets are proposed: USD 30…

One of the more encouraging developments for those of us who worry about tomorrow, is the impressive growth of the field of impact investing in recent years; a breath of fresh air against a historical backdrop of businesses driven exclusively by profit. This is about investing in businesses that…

According to estimates, the pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation by 4–6 years. Whilst differences across Europe persist in terms of small businesses’ readiness to digitalise — due to connectivity matters, or lack of skills and resources to invest, the past year has also shown that the imperative for digitalisation…

This is what young people think: in a new collaboration between the EIF and the group of gen-z and millenials at EU&U, we look into whether online platforms are the enemy or the unlikely savior of Europe’s SMEs. The article is written by Pietro Valetto and Joshua Michael Devine (EU&U). …

I joined the VC industry in May 2008. Debaeque Venture Capital was raising at that moment its third investment vehicle and they hired me after the first closing of the fund to support the two partners in all investment and monitoring activities. I was the happiest man on earth. I…

The current market crisis triggered by the spread of Covid-19 has led to the biggest market decline since the financial crisis in 2007. Whilst the full impact on the global economic landscape can only be assessed once the virus spread has been contained and timeframes for lockdowns in countries across…

Imagine a world without VC (venture capital). Without access to a time machine (think ‘Back to the Future’), it’s pretty difficult to do. Or is it? We have created a simulation which shows what companies would have looked like between 2007–2014 had they NOT had the VC backing to support…

Meet Dr Marco or Marcia. He or she is between 45 and 54 years old, likes studying. A lot. So much that they are likely to hold a PhD, MBA or at least a Masters, probably in business, economics or STEM. However, the hard work does not stop there. They…