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Author Archives: Aleksandra

  3. Talk to Your Building. Get Insights. Take Action. Next Sense launching the Building Intelligence Centre.

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    We are proud to see our portfolio company Next Sense launch the Building Intelligence Centre (BIC), which marks a step-change in how commercial buildings manage their energy, cost and comfort.

    The premise is elegantly simple yet quietly radical: you can now pose a question to your building and receive a substantive answer.

    You might ask what is driving energy use, where costs are quietly creeping upward, whether occupants are comfortable, or how the space is being used.

    The BIC does not stop at answering these questions. Powered by agentic AI and supported by Next Sense’s Building Performance Experts, it interrogates issues, identifies their root causes and recommends the appropriate course of action. This is precisely the kind of energy and cost efficiency that was simply unattainable before AI.

    What impresses us most, beyond the product itself, is the sheer quality of execution. Bringing something this ambitious to market demands a formidable team, and this one has delivered.

    Our congratulations go to Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Enrico Rosa, Pim Rutgers and everyone at Next Sense on this exciting milestone!

    Your buildings can converse now, and it is well worth listening to what they have to say.

  4. Rafel Jorda Siquier, CEO of Open Cosmos shares the vision and impact behind their latest milestone

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    In a compelling interview with Forbes, Rafel Jorda Siquier, Founder and CEO of our portfolio company Open Cosmos, shares the vision and impact behind their latest milestone: the launch of ‘Posidonia’, the first satellite funded by the Balearic Islands.

    From tracking coastal erosion and wildfire risks to studying climate change impacts and managing tourist flows, Open Cosmos is proving how accessible space technology can directly address regional sustainability challenges and drive local economic diversification.

    We are proud to support Open Cosmos as they make space technology a force for positive environmental and economic impact.

    Read the full interview HERE.

  5. Open Cosmos – ”Image of the Week”

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    Critical climate challenges demand more than observation. They demand insight that arrives fast enough to act on.

    Space technology has become indispensable to how we understand and respond to environmental risk.

    From detecting active wildfires as they unfold to guiding emergency teams through unfolding disasters, satellite data is reshaping our capacity to protect communities and ecosystems alike.

    At ETF Partners, we back companies proving that innovation and environmental impact reinforce one another rather than compete.

    Our portfolio company Open Cosmos exemplifies this conviction.

    Their latest ‘Image of the Week’ shows Earth observation at its most consequential: satellite imagery that lets researchers and responders track wildfire behaviour and assess environmental damage with a clarity that was, until recently, out of reach. This is data with a purpose. It informs decisions where the stakes are highest and the margins for delay are slim.

    The planet’s most pressing problems will not be solved by any single tool. But the ability to see clearly, in near real time, is a foundation everything else builds on.

  6. Inspiring updates from our portfolio company, Hellas Direct!

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    Inspiring updates from our portfolio company, Hellas Direct!

    Alexis Pantazis, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Hellas Direct, recently joined the global Endeavor Greece community in Athens for the 108th International Selection Panel and Worldwide Leadership Offsite.

    Serving on the panel alongside esteemed global leaders, Alexis helped select 28 standout entrepreneurs across 16 companies who are reinforcing the pivotal role that high-impact founders play in shaping our collective future.

    We are proud to back Alexis, Emilios Markou, and the entire team at Hellas Direct as they continue to lead with innovation, support the wider entrepreneurial ecosystem, and champion sustainable progress.

    Read Alexis’s full reflections HERE.

  7. Fairly Made’s Mission Report 2025

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    Transparency now creates tangible value for fashion brands. That is the argument our portfolio company Fairly Made® makes in its Mission Report 2025.

    As co-founders Laure Betsch and Camille Le Gal set out, 2025 was a year in which Omnibus discussions in Europe and the weakening of several US and EU sustainability rules left compliance looking like unstable ground. The brands that had already invested in product-level data were the ones able to anticipate risk and show their impact.

    Fairly Made® traced 78,633 products, a 40% rise, and completed more than 60,500 life-cycle assessments. Digital Product Passports on the platform drew 180.7 million views, thirteen times the year before. The average carbon intensity of a T-shirt measured on the platform has fallen from 5.33 kg to 3.71 kg CO₂eq since 2023.

    That is what farm-to-garment mapping looks like when it starts to compound. The new Supply Chain Intelligence module now ties that traceability data to social, environmental and geopolitical risk, which is how a mapped supply chain becomes one a brand can run.

    Credit to Laure, Camille, and the entire Fairly Made® Made team. The full report HERE.

  9. GigaCloud and Cubbit partner to deliver sovereign, resilient S3 cloud storage to Ukraine and Poland

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    Important progress from our portfolio company, Cubbit!

    We are pleased to share that Cubbit is partnering with GigaCloud, Ukraine’s leading cloud provider, to deliver sovereign, highly resilient S3-compatible storage to organisations across Ukraine and Poland.

    Through this collaboration, GigaCloud will deploy Cubbit’s DS3 Composer across five data centres spanning three strategic availability zones: Kyiv, Lviv, and Warsaw.

    At a time when geopolitical volatility and cyber risk are reshaping the requirements of digital infrastructure, traditional centralised storage models are increasingly exposed.

    Cubbit’s geo-distributed architecture offers a fundamentally different approach, strengthening data sovereignty, enhancing resilience, and reducing single points of failure.

    This partnership represents a meaningful step forward in delivering next-generation cloud infrastructure to sectors where security and continuity are mission-critical, including government, defence, financial services, and retail.

    We congratulate both the Cubbit and GigaCloud teams on advancing a deployment of clear strategic relevance.

    Access the full press release HERE.

  10. Lucy Rands on how to align massive impact with Venture Capital returns

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    Our Partner, Lucy Rands, recently appeared on the Raising Europe podcast. Lucy sat down with host Tom Guinness to discuss how ETF Partners – The Environmental Technologies Fund aligns massive planetary impact with venture-scale returns.

    In this deep-dive discussion, Lucy breaks down our core investment thesis and shares actionable insights for founders. Key takeaways from this episode:

    ♻️ Impact Meets Economics: Why true impact investing goes far beyond traditional ESG, and how to back growth-stage businesses (Series A to C) while maintaining a clear path to venture returns.

    ♻️ The AI Application Layer & Defensibility: AI poses massive energy consumption challenges, but the real opportunity lies in vertical-specific AI applications that use proprietary data to build unbreakable moats.

    ♻️ Tactical Fundraising for Founders: How entrepreneurs can turn VC conversations into productive business development opportunities, even navigating rejections to secure client and investor introductions.

    ♻️ Deep Tech & Future Horizons: Lucy’s perspective on evaluating risk across quantum computing, tracking critical software metrics like Net Revenue Retention (NRR), and what she looks for in a ‘must-back’ founder.

    Listen or watch the full episode below.

  11. 10 years of Riverlane: The quantum leap from theory to industry

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    Congratulations to our portfolio company Riverlane and Founder and CEO Steve Brierley on reaching a significant milestone: 10 years of pioneering innovation in quantum computing.

    A decade ago, quantum computing was largely confined to academia, with widespread scepticism around whether practical, useful systems would ever emerge. Steve and the Riverlane team took a different view.

    Today, the field has evolved rapidly from theoretical exploration to a scaling global industry. Central to this progress is quantum error correction, the critical layer required to make quantum computers reliable, scalable, and commercially viable. Riverlane has positioned itself at the forefront of this challenge, building the infrastructure needed to unlock the full potential of quantum systems.

    We are proud to have partnered with Riverlane on this journey and to support their mission to develop the foundational operating system for the next era of computing.

    A decade of meaningful progress, with much more to come.

    Read Steve’s full blog post on the evolution of the industry HERE.

  12. Cubbit playing a leading role in shaping Europe’s digital future

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    Fantastic to see our portfolio company, Cubbit, playing a leading role in shaping Europe’s digital future.

    At the recent WMF – We Make Future innovation festival in Bologna, co-founders and co-CEOs Alessandro Cillario and Stefano Onofri met with Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy at the European Commission, alongside other senior European stakeholders.

    As Europe recalibrates its digital priorities, the need for sovereign, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure has become both strategic and urgent. Cubbit’s geo-distributed cloud architecture offers a compelling alternative to traditional models. It enhances data privacy, reduces systemic risk, and materially improves the sustainability profile of data storage.

    This is not a distant ambition. It is infrastructure being built and deployed today.

    Read more HERE.