Verdant Earth

♻️ Nicht erst seit dem Start der EU-Taxonomie hält das Thema #ESG Einzug in alle Unternehmensbereiche und beeinflusst Geschäftsmodelle – auch in der Finanzwelt. Daher bot Mastercard gemeinsam mit der Factory Berlin beim ersten Mastercard ESG Fintech Meet & Pitch spannenden Fintech-Newcomern und ihren Ideen eine Bühne. Warum sollte Nachhaltigkeit also ein integraler Bestandteil der Unternehmensstrategie sein und auf der C-Level-Agenda oberste Priorität haben? Das diskutierte Andreas Spengel von #Mastercard mit seinen Jurymitgliedern: 🌐 Melina Sánchez Montañés, Principal & VP of Impact von AENU 🚀 Karo Hajduk, Founder of Growth & Glory & Thursday Dinners 🌱 Sebastian Neumann, Head of PHINEO Startups 🔗 Michaela Fleischer, Chief Operating Officer bei Finoa Beim Pitch-Wettbewerb präsentierten fünf Fintechs ihre Lösungen, mit denen sie einen positiven Beitrag für unsere Gesellschaft, Umwelt und Wirtschaft leisten möchten:   🌟 Marco Barbosa von impactMarket bietet eine dezentrale Plattform zur Armutsbekämpfung und ermöglicht einen besseren Zugang zu Finanzmitteln. 🌟 Agnieszka M. Walorska 🇺🇦 von mika macht kleine Unternehmen mit einer ganz neuartigen Buchhaltungslösung wettbewerbsfähiger und effizienter. 🌟 Mátyás Báthory von Nooxit automatisiert mit seiner KI-Plattform Kreditorenprozesse und hilft Kosten einzusparen.  🌟 Ludolf Ebner hat mit Yoosh Financial Technologies Europas erste Debit- und Kreditkarte für Online-Spieler:innen geschaffen und bringt Cashbacks aus dem Alltag in die Gaming-Welt. 🌟 Tassilo Weber von Verdant Earth ermöglicht Finanzinstitutionen und Unternehmen mit KI, ihre Investitionsentscheidungen holistisch, datenbasiert und umweltfreundlich zu treffen.   🏆 And the Winner is… Verdant Earth 🏆 „Die zukunftsweisende Lösung von Verdant Earth hat die gesamte Jury überzeugt”, kommentiert Dr. Andreas Spengel, Senior Vice President Fintech, Platforms and New Verticals bei Mastercard. „Ihr Ansatz, mit künstlicher Intelligenz datenbasierte und ökologisch nachhaltige Anlageentscheidungen zu treffen, wird eine Blaupause für zukünftige Geschäftsmodelle sein.” #Fintech #PitchCompetition #Taxonomie #Impact #Sustainability #ThrowbackThursday

This week I will be at NOAH Conference in Zurich, representing Verdant Earth. Let me know if you are there and want to meet over a coffee. #noah #conference #sustainability #biodiversity #naturetech #sustainablefinance #sdg #impactinvesting

Tomorrow I will be at DeImp Festival as part of a panel discussion on the topic of Regenerative Finance (ReFi) or How to leverage Web3 for increased trust & integrity in environmental markets. ReFi is a nascent approach to finance around the idea to align economic activity with the principles of sustainability, regeneration, and societal well-being. It envisions a financial system that not only generates profits but also actively contributes to restoring natural ecosystems, fostering inclusive communities, and promoting long-term economic stability. Most ReFi projects are based on blockchain/Web3 and share the vision of a decentralized alternative to the current financial system. I personally have a less idealistic and rather pragmatist view on ReFi. While I subscribe to the overall values, I doubt that creating an alternative financial system will have the needed impact in time. The mostly centralized market for sustainable finance will grow to $30 Trillion over the next decade. At least some of those trillions need to flow into efforts that conserve and regenerate nature and biodiversity. I see great potential in applying the values and blockchain-based tools to the current financial system, in order to increase the chances that nature-positive investments really have the desired impact. Maybe this won’t decentralize the financial system, but it will help to make nature sit at many of its tables. The future might be decentralized, but the present economic crisis is too urgent to exclude compromises. Anyway, looking forward to an interesting discussion. #refi #biodiversity #naturetech #web3 #blockchain #sustainability #finance #sustainablefinance

Verdant Earth won the pitch competition on the FinTech ESG event by Mastercard and Factory Berlin! What excites me the most about it is that the topic of biodiversity could win at a FinTech event hosted by one of the world's leading financial service providers. There is a plethora of business cases for financial institutions to invest in nature-positive businesses and biodiversity restoration and conservation. However, those business cases still need to manifest themselves more in the form of startups and initiatives, and the word needs to be spread among major asset managers. So I'm happy that we could provide another little signal in that direction. Many thanks to the jury (Melina Sánchez Montañés, Andreas Spengel, Michaela Fleischer, Karo Hajduk, Sebastian Neumann) and fellow founders I had the honor to share the stage with (Agnieszka M. Walorska 🇺🇦, Marco Barbosa, Ludolf Ebner, Alexander Buyanov, Mátyás Báthory). #biodiversity #fintech #esg #pitch #naturetech #sustainability #mastercard #berlin #sustainablefinance #assetmanagement

Verdant Earth joined the ClimateX Accelerator program by Berlin Innovation Agency (BIA). It's an 8-month program for climate tech startups in Berlin that does not only include great mentoring, workshops, events and access to a dedicated network, but also the Berlin Startup Stipend by the European Social Fund. Looking forward to an enriching experience! #startups #accelerator #berlin #naturetech #climatetech #founders #esg #esf #sustainability #biodiversity

Verdant Earth won #1 in the soonami.io GmbH hackathon in the category AI/Web3 for Good! Now already some days ago, it was an enriching experience that urged us to focus in terms of product and presentation while separating tasks in an effective way. Looking forward to the next development steps. Thanks for the great team work, Paul Peschel and Wu Kai-Ti🦋! #biodiversity #hackathon #ai #web3 #sustainability #gis #naturetech #sdg #mrv #refi