Mar 23Towards a standard new environmental term sheet clauseThis post has been co-authored by Melina Sánchez Montañés, Investment Principal & VP Impact at AENU and Shaun Chaudhuri, Principle at Westly Group and Steering Committee member at VentureESG. Much is always being talked about how words have to be followed by action. At VentureESG, we teamed up with Leaders…Venture Capital10 min readVenture Capital10 min read
Feb 16Supporting your VC portfolio on ESG? A new support tool is here to help youThis post has been authored by Liz Broderick, Head of Network and Portfolio at Kindred Capital and Steering Committee member at VentureESG. After the launch of the portfolio support tool in January for the VentureESG community, we are very keen to share the news about the tool more widely. While…Portfolio Support6 min readPortfolio Support6 min read
Dec 28, 2022VentureESG: 2022 was a big yearWe only started VentureESG 18 months ago and it is incredible to see how much the venture capital ecosystem has moved towards ESG integration in the meantime. …Esg9 min readEsg9 min read
Dec 15, 2022ESG Materiality matters, also in venture capital — new VentureESG white paper publishedFor the last year, Susan Winterberg, author of the groundbreaking Harvard Belfer Center paper ‘Responsible Investing in Tech and Venture Capital’ conducted research in collaboration with VentureESG on how to perform an ESG materiality assessment for Venture Capital. We are very happy to publish the resulting white paper “Materiality Assessment…Esg3 min readEsg3 min read
Nov 30, 2022Hiring diverse boards — barriers, benefits and how VCs can support their portfolio companiesAuthor: Jaskiran Mangat In September we were joined by Chenelle Ansah of Cornerstone Partners, Thane Kreiner who runs the Black Corporate Board Readiness Program (out of Santa Clara University) and Leila Zegna (GP at Kindred Capital) for a deep dive into a key Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) topic: how…Dei5 min readDei5 min read
Nov 22, 2022Internal Fund Management Survey results: promising start but lots to do cleaning up our own housesAuthors: Sarah Kiden, Johannes Lenhard and Ginny Watsham A couple of months ago, we conducted a small pilot of our ‘Internal Fund Management Survey’. The goal: to set a baseline of where Venture Capital (VC) funds themselves are when it comes to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration in their…Internal Fund Management4 min readInternal Fund Management4 min read
Oct 12, 2022VCs are ‘opting up’ with SFDR — findings from our VentureESG SFDR SurveyAuthors: Johannes Lenhard and Joanne Azem The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation, or SFDR, is one of the main drivers for investors to embrace ESG in Europe — including for VCs. …Sfdr3 min readSfdr3 min read
Oct 6, 2022How to write an ESG policy for a VC fund — a practical guideThis post has been authored by Anna Ott, VP People & ESG at HV Capital, and Steering Committee member at VentureESG. It is the second piece in a series of case studies from the VentureESG community. An ESG policy is a vital start to think through and (ideally publicly) communicate…7 min read7 min read
Sep 26, 2022VentureESG goes US — field notes from our summer tripOur co-founders, Johannes Lenhard and Hannah Leach, have spent some time on both US coasts over the last six weeks, and share takeaways below. While our first endeavour to American territory about a year ago did not yield much explicit interest in VentureESG, this time was different. In August and…5 min read5 min read
Sep 15, 2022ESG, ethics, Ukraine and human rights: An interview with Alison Taylor, VentureESG Academic Advisory Board MemberWe have had many one-on-one conversations with Alison, learning about her never-ending wisdom on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and during our VentureESG Academic Advisory Board meetings Alison’s voice is always one of the most engaged ones. We recently found time to sit down to discuss the difference between ethics…Esg7 min readEsg7 min read
