Aleksandra, Author at ETF Partners

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

22nd July 2026 10:15 am Comments Off

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.

Remy de Tonnac on personal challenges of leading as entrepreneur

14th July 2026 2:31 pm Comments Off

Our Senior Partner, Remy de Tonnac, recently sat down with Thérèse LEMARCHAND, founder of MAINPACES, for an insightful and deep-diving interview exploring leadership, navigating crises, and the mindset required to build a sustainable future.

As a firm dedicated to backing pioneers who tackle the climate emergency, we know that driving real impact takes endurance.

In this discussion, Remy shares his perspective on how leaders can maintain focus, balance intensity, and steer innovative businesses through turbulent times.

Read the full interview HERE.

ETF Partners releases 2025 Impact Reports

7th July 2026 12:20 pm Comments Off

Episode 39: The Race to Useful Large-Scale Quantum Computing with Matthijs Rijlaarsdam

6th July 2026 12:25 pm Comments Off

Shippeo named a leader in G2’s Summer 2026 Grid Report and the La French Tech 120 winner

1st July 2026 9:38 am Comments Off

Two recent recognitions for our portfolio company Shippeo point to the same underlying truth: it is building a solution the market genuinely needs and trusts.

The first award comes from the people best placed to judge. Shippeo has again been named a Leader in G2’s Summer 2026 Grid Report, a leading industry distinction earned directly from the supply chain teams who rely on the platform every day.

The second speaks to its fantastic trajectory. Shippeo has been named to the La French Tech 120 for the second year running, a programme that salutes France’s highest-performing scale-ups with outstanding international growth — earning such distinction for consecutive years confirms that Shippeo is a standout in the European tech ecosystem.

Recognition from your customers and recognition from industry pundits rarely arrive by accident. Together, they reflect a company executing strongly with conviction.

Congratulations to the entire Shippeo team on both achievements.

Find out more HERE and HERE.

Quantum computers edge toward industrialisation

29th June 2026 7:00 am Comments Off

Today’s line between building a quantum computer that impresses in the headlines, versus one that is of commercial value, can only be crossed through error correction. Our portfolio company Riverlane is at the heart of solving this challenging bottleneck.

In a new piece in InformationWeek, Riverlane’s VP of Engineering, Marco Ghibaudi, reframes how the industry should think about the problem. Quantum error correction is not identifying simple flaws to be easily patched, as it is a complex systems challenge.

Getting it right means orchestrating four layers in concert: hardware, control systems, classical processing and software. A genuine QEC system needs all four configured and working together, and most systems today are missing at least one. That gap is precisely what stands between quantum’s promise and its greater adoption.

Marco’s full take on quantum’s march toward industrialisation is worth reading HERE.

Open Cosmos’ CEO joining London Tech Week dinner at 10 Downing Street

25th June 2026 9:34 am Comments Off

The future of UK tech is being shaped in rooms that matter, and our portfolio company Open Cosmos is in them.

Founder and CEO Rafel Jorda Siquier recently joined a London Tech Week dinner at 10 Downing Street, alongside senior Ministers and leading figures from across industry.

As the political landscape shifts, sustained cross-party commitment to innovation matters more than ever. A resilient technology sector is built on lasting alignment between those who create, those who fund, and those who govern.

We are proud to back Open Cosmos as they scale, harnessing space data to serve a more sustainable planet and strengthen the UK’s position as a hub for innovation.

Fairly Made announced the winner of the LVMH Best Impact Award at VivaTech 2026!

24th June 2026 9:02 am Comments Off

Huge congratulations to our portfolio company Fairly Made®, winner of the LVMH Best Impact Award at VivaTech 2026, presented in person by Bernard Arnault. 🏆

The recognition caps four years of work alongside the LVMH maisons in support of the group’s Life360 sustainability strategy, with co-founders Camille Le Gal and Laure Betsch receiving the award on stage.

What makes this so significant is what it represents. It’s proof that traceability and transparency are no longer a compliance exercise in fashion, but a genuine driver of value that the industry’s most prestigious houses are choosing to build on.

Fairly Made® Made has been making that case for years, and to see it endorsed at this level is a powerful signal of where the sector is heading.
This is exactly the kind of conviction we back at ETF Partners – The Environmental Technologies Fund, where founders prove that sustainability through innovation can reshape an entire industry.

Congratulations to Camille, Laure, and the whole Fairly Made team. As they put it themselves, they’re just getting started. ✨

Read the press coverage HERE.

Photo: Courtesy of LVMH

ETF Partners named a finalist for Impact Investor of the Year!

16th June 2026 4:01 pm Comments Off

We are honoured that ETF Partners has been named a finalist for Impact Investor of the Year: Environmental at The Real Deals Sustainable Investment Awards 2026.

Since our founding, we have held a simple thesis: that the most consequential companies of this era will be those that align environmental imperatives with enduring commercial value. This nomination belongs to the entrepreneurs who prove that thesis daily, and to the investors whose confidence sustains our work.

The winners will be announced in London on 8th October. Congratulations to all our fellow finalists, and thank you to the Real Deals team for the recognition.

SaaScceleration with AI: Notes from a Front Row Seat

2nd June 2026 12:25 pm Comments Off

Australia’s big opportunity to transition to EVs

28th May 2026 9:05 am Comments Off

Australia has a big opportunity to transition to EVs.

Globally, around 25% of new cars sold in 2025 were electric. In Australia, EVs were still less than 15% of new car sales in March 2026, barely up from 13% the year before. Most cars rolling off Australian lots still run on petrol or diesel, and they could be on the road for the next 15 to 20 years.

This piece in The Guardian by Adam Morton looks at why Australia has been slow off the mark and what is finally starting to shift. Tightening fuel-efficiency standards, an emerging secondhand EV market, and a closing price gap are all moving the dial.

The standout, though, is the running-cost case. Using data from our portfolio company Amber Electric, energy analyst Simon Holmes à Court has built a tool that compares the cost of running an average petrol car with an average EV. Over the past month:

– An average EV travelled more than 40km on $1 of energy
– An average petrol or diesel car travelled less than 5km on the same dollar
– Amber’s own smart-charging customers went further still, about 160km per $1

That is the kind of evidence that turns abstract climate policy into a household decision. Software like Amber’s is doing the quiet work of making the energy transition real, especially while fuel prices remain elevated globally.

Read Adam’s piece HERE.

Zoe VanderWolk at Invest Europe’s inaugural Impact Gathering in London

26th May 2026 3:03 pm Comments Off

Zoe VanderWolk recently represented ETF Partners at Invest Europe’s inaugural Impact Gathering in London, hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. The event marked the first time Invest Europe had created a dedicated gathering focused fully on impact, building on the momentum of its annual ESG Gatherings and bringing together the PE and VC community for a practical discussion on how impact is delivered in practice.

Zoe delivered a practical presentation to Invest Europe members on ETF Partners’ impact-carry methodology, sharing how impact can be embedded into investment structures and aligned with measurable outcomes.
The discussion spanned value creation, impact measurement and reporting, incentives and alignment, regulatory developments, responsible AI and the evolving role of impact in areas such as defence.

For ETF Partners, the level of engagement was a timely reminder that sustainability and impact are increasingly being judged not by intention alone, but by evidence, execution and the ability to demonstrate measurable outcomes.

Amber raises $78.5m to supercharge its international leadership in battery automation

ETF Partners leads the €300M Series C for Open Cosmos

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