BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture Fund

What they do

BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture Fund is an investment fund that backs startups and scale-ups committed to the ecological transition with high growth potential. It is managed by the Private Assets division within BNP Paribas Asset Management, the asset management arm of BNP Paribas, and benefits from a partnership with Bertrand Piccard’s Solar Impulse Foundation, whose teams have labelled over 1,500 environmental solutions. The fund targets companies developing innovative technologies aligned with labelled solutions and a proven commercial traction to accelerate their development and generate attractive potential returns for investors.

What they look for

The fund invests in startups and scale-ups predominantly across Europe and North America that support the ecological transition, targeting sectors such as energy transition, sustainable agriculture and food, circular economy, water and ocean management, smart cities, sustainable mobility, and industrial innovation. It focuses on companies with high growth potential and innovative, Solar Impulse Foundation-labelled environmental solutions to accelerate their development and deliver attractive potential returns.

Stage

Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sectors

Climate, Food and agriculture, Proptech, Deeptech, SaaS, AI

Based

Paris, FR