Investing in Green Tech
AQUATY Partners with Business Angel Club Partners in Clime to Support Sustainable, Scalable Innovators
AQUATY has joined forces with Partners in Clime to facilitate investments in green tech startups. Founded in Stuttgart in 2022, Partners in Clime is a Business angel club dedicated to funding green tech startups. The new partnership allows investors to invest in these startups with minimal legal and regulatory hassle.
Partners in Clime screens startups in the sustainable investment sector and presents them to their network of investors, who independently decide whether to invest. With investments starting from 10,000 euros, funds are bundled together to maximize impact. The club also supports startups and their founders throughout the growth phase, ensuring continued development and success.
Commenting on the partnership, Alexander Grimm, Managing Director of AQUATY, says: “Partners in Clime is driving sustainable investments that tackle climate change and promote eco-friendly innovation. Together, we can facilitate these investments and make them more cost and time-efficient. This aligns perfectly with our goal to make private market investments as accessible as public markets.“
Using blockchain technology, AQUATY's platform fully digitalizes the investment process. Their so-called Multi-SVP framework enables Partners in Clime to manage multiple investments under a single special purpose vehicle (SPV). This approach eliminates the need to set up separate entities for each investment, reducing time, cost, and administrative burden.
At the same time, Multi-SVP allows investments to be split into individual securities, providing flexibility and ensuring that these securities remain tradable. This digital-first approach not only offers greater transparency, flexibility and liquidity, but also lowers financial barriers to entry, enabling investors to build a diversified portfolio and spread risk across smaller ticket sizes.
Kai Blisch, Founder of Partners in Clime, says: „By handling all necessary paperwork and compliance requirements digitally, AQUATY helps us to focus on what we do best: identifying and supporting green tech startups and bringing them together with interested investors. Their platform simplifies our operations and ensures that our investors can co-invest seamlessly and securely. We are very happy to work with them.“
This partnership between AQUATY and Partners in Clime represents a significant step forward in making sustainable investments more accessible and efficient, fostering innovation and collaboration in the green tech industry.
About AQUATY
AQUATY is a fully digital platform that makes venture capital and private market investments more efficient, accessible and liquid. By reducing the traditional complexities and transaction costs, AQUATY empowers founders and investors to engage in venture capital investment opportunities. The platform's applications include digital settlement of investment processes, facilitation of secondary transactions, and management of virtual stock programs (ESOP). The company is headquartered in Münster, Germany, and backed by renowned investors such as Berthold von Freyberg and Mirko Novakovic.
About Partners In Clime
Partners in Clime is a collective of seasoned entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors dedicated to supporting green tech founders. By providing capital and mentoring, they aim to empower the next generation of innovators focused on making a meaningful impact on the planet. Partners in Clime invests incompanies that strive to balance economic success with ecological responsibility, fostering sustainable development and growth.
