Frey Lindsay

Reporter, Frankrike

frey@loop.se

Impact Investing

Expert: Why impact valuation is catching on

Av Frey Lindsay29 juli

Clara Calipel and Ciaran Humphreys. Photos: press

The EU budget needs more conditionality to drive climate investment, say researchers

Av Frey Lindsay28 juli

Daphni Venture partner Anita de Voisins. Photo: Daphni

Investor interview

'There's an economic value which is under-exploited' – why this VC is raising €100m to back underrepresented founders

Av Frey Lindsay16 mars

This week in EU policy: Funding, more funding and a big social impact study

Av Frey Lindsay18 maj

Sofinnova Partners Chairman and Managing Partner Antoine Papiernik

Biotechnology

European VC Sofinnova announces €1.2bn for impact and health innovations

Av Frey Lindsay4 mars

Ole Margraf, Carbon Equity, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Photo: press image/TT.

Biodiversity

'Biodiversity is getting sidelined entirely' – EU budget plan sparks backlash from impact scene

Av Frey Lindsay22 juli

Edoardo Righetti (CEPS), Emily Ritchey (Transport & Environment), Sebastian Pohlmann (UP Catalyst) and Tuija Kalpala (Betolar). Photos: press and collage Impact Loop.

Greentech

The race is on for critical minerals – these impact firms are working to secure the EU's supply

Av Frey Lindsay14 juli

Lexi Novitske in Greenland. Photo: Lexi Novitske

INTERVIEW

"I finished the trek with a broken leg": Impact Investor Lexi Novitske on her brutal Arctic journey

Av Frey Lindsay25 juli

climate tech

What's in a name? Why VCs are debating the term 'climate tech'

Av Frey Lindsay11 feb

OroraTech's management team, led by Martin Langer, CEO and CTO. Photo credit: AP Photo/Eric Thayer/TT and press image.

climate tech

As California burns, this European spacetech firm could help predict the next wildfire

Av Frey Lindsay13 jan

Frey Lindsay, Impact Loop. Collage: impact Loop.

Impact Policy

This week in EU policy: State aid overhauls, support for green trucks, and the EU looks to the stars

Av Frey Lindsay30 juni

Social Impact

DEEP DIVE: Looking to improve people's lives? Here are 12 leading VCs focussed on social impact

Av Frey Lindsay11 mars

Hydrogen

Hydrogen 2.0: Meet 10 impact firms powering the green hydrogen revolution

Av Frey Lindsay20 juni

Foodtech

Plant-Based Meat Now (Allegedly) Tastes as Good as Animal-Based

Av Frey Lindsay9 maj

Foodtech

'There isn’t a green premium anymore': B2B foodtech surges as plant-based meat stalls

Av Frey Lindsay13 maj

Europe

EU just announced €800 billion in defence funding – what does it mean for impact firms?

Av Frey Lindsay5 mars

Arturo Benito, Impact Bridge, Heidi Lindvall, Pale Blue Dot and Svein Ove Langeland, Momentum Partners. Wildfires in LA in the background. Photo: AP/TT.

Adaptation solutions

'It's clearly under-invested': Why VCs are turning to adaptation solutions

Av Frey Lindsay30 jan

Climate Change

Europe’s climate-health crisis: can impact investors fill the funding gap?

Av Frey Lindsay31 juli

Johanna Maurel and Tiphaine Guerout, founders of Koovee. Photo: press image.

Foodtech

Will 2025 be the year edible cutlery gets its seat at the table?

Av Frey Lindsay17 jan

Impact Loop's Frey Lindsay trying meat substitutes. Photo: private.

Foodtech

Plant-based vs real meat: indistinguishable? We put new research to the test

Av Frey Lindsay2 juni

Funding Rounds

"Biodiversity is the next frontier" – this VC-turned-founder just secured €1.5m to save ecosystems with AI

Av Frey Lindsay2 dec

Some of entrepreneurs and investors in our deepdive. Pictured: See bottom of article. Photos: press.

Energy

From renewables to smart EV charging: Impact Loop's 10 hottest energy grid startups (in Europe)

Av Frey Lindsay6 okt

This week in EU policy: Funding, more funding and a new UK-EU relationship?

Av Frey Lindsay20 maj

France

France: Impact startups punch above their weight for funding in November

Av Frey Lindsay4 dec

climate tech

This impact investor travelled the world searching for carbon removal projects. Here is what she found.

Av Frey Lindsay23 jan

Kapsera

Bio-capsules startup raises €4.2m to improve human and animal nutrition

Av Frey Lindsay6 dec

Impact trend spotting

Spanish state pours millions into impact – this is where the money's going

Av Frey Lindsay13 jan

Plant-based meats

Selling vegan? Don't talk about the climate – this factor is more important

Av Frey Lindsay25 feb

France

Ten French transport startups you need to know about in 2025

Av Frey Lindsay17 dec

Cambridge Climate tech's Sylvie Russell and Sam Goodall

deeptech

'It's now or never' - cleantech leaders respond to fresh funding for Cambridge tech scene

Av Frey Lindsay25 feb

MEP Pascal Canfin, Renew Europe, Jana Bour, Impact Europe, Malo Bourel-Weeger, Mouvement Impact France and Servane Metzger-Corrigou, Ring Capital.

'It can’t be yesterday's innovation' – impact voices weigh in on EU’s new scaleup plan

Av Frey Lindsay21 maj

Benidorm mayor Antonio Pérez Pérez and Benidorm's Sierra Helada Natural Park. Photo: Media images/Impact Loop

Spain

This charter holiday hotspot wants to become a European innovation hub

Av Frey Lindsay10 feb

Sencrop co-founders Michael Bruniaux and Martin Ducroquet. Photo: Sencrop.

Agritech

'The mission stays the same': French weather tech founder opens up after exit to French giant

Av Frey Lindsay23 jan

Some of Europe's family offices (see names at the bottom of the article). Photo: Press and collage by Impact Loop.

Impact Loop exclusive

Family offices: Meet 25 European dynasties open to new impact investments

Av Frey Lindsay1 apr

This week in EU policy

This week in EU policy: Historic agreement and impact firms to shape AI policy

Av Frey Lindsay16 apr

This week in EU policy: Carbon leakage, vehicle circularity and a competitive green transition

Av Frey Lindsay24 juni

Open Ocean General Partner Tom Henriksson

"Unique data is really the key" – this veteran tech VC shares which AI is really worth investing in

Av Frey Lindsay3 apr

Investor update

Europe's hottest impact trends for 2025: What are top investors betting on?

Av Frey Lindsay3 dec

Exclusive interview

Why this impact team is trekking for a month across Greenland

Av Frey Lindsay24 apr

Adaptation solutions

Climate adaptation: meet the founders building tech to tackle extreme weather

Av Frey Lindsay30 jan

News

Ten French Impact Analytics Startups to Watch

Av Frey Lindsay15 dec

This week in EU policy: Is the EU slipping on clean aviation fuel?

Av Frey Lindsay17 juni

EU's defence focus risks sidelining cleantech innovation, warns Green MEP

Av Frey Lindsay10 apr

News

Finnish forestry co-op takes "big step forward" in climate-friendly textiles

Av Frey Lindsay26 feb

Ledningsgruppen för Demea Invest. Michel Chabanel, Stéphane Villecroze, Sophie Paturle, Fabrice Vidal och Antoine Troesch. Foto: pressbild.

Impact Investing

New European impact investment company – VC giants join forces

Av Frey Lindsay14 jan

This week in EU policy: More money for defence and the Blue Economy shakes off its Covid blues

Av Frey Lindsay27 maj

femtech

"Women's health is a no-brainer" – the €100m deeptech fund on the hunt for FemTech

Av Frey Lindsay8 maj

Professor Patricia Crifo, Demeter's Managing Partner Stéphane Villecroze and Impact Loop reporter Frey Lindsay. Collage by Impact Loop.

Analysis

'Climate adaptation can't wait – but there is one big problem facing the scene'

Av Frey Lindsay3 feb

Yann Marteil, Matthieu de Chanville, Sébastien Guillaud and Thierry de Panafieu, co-founders of Shift4Good.

Impact Investing

Vroom! French VC raises €220m to electrify transport sector – starts search for 12 new impact startups

Av Frey Lindsay27 jan

Europe vs US

'We’re taking Europe for granted' – is the EU startup scene ready for a comeback?

Av Frey Lindsay14 jan

Parts of the Blue Earth Capital team. Photo: Blue Earth Capital.

Impact Investing

This global investor just won Impact firm of the year: 'Proud to be recognised'

Av Frey Lindsay4 mars

Sten Tamkivi, Catharina Sandberg, Alessandro Zaccaria and Christian Andersson. Graphic: Impact Loop.

Impact Investing

The impact investors going into defence tech (and those staying out of it)

Av Frey Lindsay11 apr

Some of the H&M Global Change Award 2025 finalists

Sustainability

H&M Foundation's 'Oscars' for fashion innovation - meet the European finalists hoping to win

Av Frey Lindsay11 mars

eSmart Systems CEO Henrik Bache (Photo: press)

Energy

This Norwegian AI scaleup wants to modernise grid maintenance – and now plots global expansion

Av Frey Lindsay19 okt

Friedrich Merz, front right, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after the German national election. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP).

Germany

German election: what a Merz-led coalition will mean for impact companies

Av Frey Lindsay24 feb

Charles Lester, Data Manager at Rho Motion and Mobility Sweden’s chief economist Sofia Linder. Photo: press and collage by Impact Loop.

Electric Vehicles

Green shoots for Europe's EV market in 2025

Av Frey Lindsay3 feb

Biodiversity

Looking for biodiversity funding? These five VCs are leading the way

Av Frey Lindsay24 juli

Stéphane Villecroze, Managing partner at Demea Invest. Photo credit: press image.

BIG INTERVIEW

'We'll share everything' – merged VC giants to focus on adaptation and climate

Av Frey Lindsay14 jan

Investor interview

France’s top impact seed fund looks to Western Europe: 'A lot to gain in this situation'

Av Frey Lindsay14 apr

Electric Aircraft

How this founder will bring a hydrogen plane to market – in just six years

Av Frey Lindsay16 dec

This week in EU policy: Major renewables conference, a focus on Oceans and trouble from Berlin

Av Frey Lindsay10 juni

This week in EU policy

This week in EU policy: Rollbacks in agricultural policy, and (possibly) more rollbacks to come

Av Frey Lindsay13 maj

Impact Policy

This week in EU policy: Big plans for energy, defence and biodiversity

Av Frey Lindsay28 apr

This week in EU policy

This week in EU policy: Climate battles, sustainabilty standards and too much tax talk

Av Frey Lindsay23 apr

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Photo: Emil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix.

EU unveils steel and metals plan – what's in it for the impact scene?

Av Frey Lindsay20 mars

climate tech

"This is a moment for Europe to lead" – Swiss AI startup Jua targets climate resilience and European sovereignty

Av Frey Lindsay6 aug

Carla Reihle, Astrid Hartwijk and Luciana Tapia Rattaro. Photos: press

Hydrogen

Where are the women in green hydrogen?

Av Frey Lindsay8 aug

Syroco

Software solution to cut maritime emissions backed by leading French investors

Av Frey Lindsay9 dec

Giusy Cannone, partner at Primo Climate and biomaterial from portfolio company Krill Design. Photos: press

Exclusive interview

New Italian climate-tech VC makes first investment – with more on the way

Av Frey Lindsay12 feb

An image of the European Union and euros

The EU wants to free up more citizen capital for investment, how much might go to impact?

Av Frey Lindsay24 mars

Funding

“Positive and Energised” – a long-running vision to make plastics from cow’s milk gets new funding

Av Frey Lindsay4 dec

Impact Bridge investors Arturo Benito (left) and Íñigo Serrats (right). Photo: Impact Bridge

Social Impact

Spain's biggest social impact fund scales up with new debt funding: 'There are huge opportunities'

Av Frey Lindsay24 feb

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and MEP Tom Berendsen. Photos: Alexis Haulot/EP and Martin Lahousse/Wikimedia. Collage by Impact Loop.

Impact Policy

MEPs push to fast-track Clean Industrial Deal – and unlock more cleantech funding

Av Frey Lindsay19 juni

Tom Duncan and Rishabh Khanna. Photo: Press images

ClimateTech

Climate-tech AI startup Earthbanc's revenues soar fivefold

Av Frey Lindsay22 juli

Marble founding partners Jonny Everett and Benjamin Tincq

climate tech

'25 problems, but the will to build ain't one' – leading impact firm puts out tough call for climate tech founders

Av Frey Lindsay5 mars

Biomass and biochar innovators. Photo: press

ClimateTech

Europe’s carbon sink is shrinking: meet the biomass and biochar innovators fighting back

Av Frey Lindsay29 juli

Agritech

Everyone's talking about methane-cutting cow feed (again) – what's going on?

Av Frey Lindsay19 dec