One other day, one other greenback, and one other VC fund launches. However, refreshingly, this one will particularly deal with the United Nations Sustainable Growth Objectives.
Prediction Capital is a brand new VC sprung out of the Swiss Household Workplace infinitas Capital, the funding agency of former entrepreneur and investor Robin Lauber, and fashioned along with Christopher Chuffart and Kilian Graulich. The fund, which has hit its first shut of €30M, will give attention to startups protecting ConsumerTech and FinTech primarily within the German-speaking DACH area.
One other focus will likely be on companies that embrace the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs), specifically Good Well being and Wellbeing, High quality Training, Gender Equality, Respectable Work and Financial Progress, Lowered Inequalities, Accountable Consumption and Manufacturing, Local weather Motion, Peace, Justice and Sturdy Establishments and Partnerships for the Objectives.
To date it’s invested in Heritas, Foodetective (On-line Infrastructure & Intelligence of the Service provider Business
, raised $2M) and Home of Change.
Lauber has been in actual property but additionally introduced Dunkin’ Donuts to Switzerland the place he efficiently exited the enterprise in 2020. Chuffart was most not too long ago at Mountain Companions, a Zurich primarily based VC earlier than transferring to i2i Logic (Australian company finance FinTech) to open their European HQ. Graulich is former McKinsey & Firm.