S5E16 - How to Mitigate 4 Shades of Water Risk Through Impact Investing - a podcast by Antoine Walter

with 🎙️ John Robinson - Partner & Co-Founder at Mazarine Ventures 

💧 Mazarine is an impact investor backing young technology companies with innovations that address some aspects of water risk, including quality and quantity.

What we covered:

🌊 How Quality and Quantity of Water represent increased risks across the industrial and municipal value chains 

🧮 How the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework is a potent way to rank and evaluate a company's impact 

🤝 How Mazarine Ventures builds upon four lanes: Labs, Fund I, Fund II and Bluehouse 

💰 How Funding mechanisms evolve from one Lane to another and why 

🌍 How exiting from an investment is not only a financial milestone but also an opportunity to have an impact 

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How there are four types of capital: human, social, intellectual, and financial, and what the most important is in the early stages of a water company 

👨‍🚀 How Mazarine Ventures looks for start-up founders that have been to the future and came back 

📈 How the real challenge for companies Mazarine backs is not to create a product but to get it to the market 

🟢 What an evergreen fund is, how it works and why it was the right fit for Fund I companies 

💪 How all parameters play in Mazarine’s decision to invest, but the quality of the founder’s insight trumps it all 

🧩 How the chemistry between the impact investor and the early-stage company is key to assembling the puzzle pieces 

🌱 How Fund II and Labs were built out of frustration to not fitting promising concepts into Fund I 

☑️ How many investors just check the “water box” and move on - and what consequences it has 

🚀 Capital-light innovations, IoT, the biggest risks as an early-stage impact investor, passing of the baton as a start-up founder, having a convincing grasp of the customer... and much more!

🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥   

      

➡️ Come say hi to John on LinkedIn            

➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on How Impact Investment can Mitigate Water Risk  

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