(Medium) It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago, the seeds of VentureESG were yet to be planted. Initially, we even had trouble finding people in the venture capital world who knew what ESG was, let alone those who were actively engaging with it, in any meaningful manner. The typical response when we started talking to funds was ‘errr, we have an exclusions list — is that what you mean?’ As we were only starting to learn more ourselves, we began with bringing funds together to help one another collectively answer these questions and fill in the gaps; and so VentureESG was born as a collective effort, an ESG-self-help group for VCs.
Twelve months later and we have grown into a strong and engaged community of 200+ VC funds, 70+ LPs and an 18 academic-strong advisory board. It’s been a whirlwind of calls, shared google sheets, frameworks, workshops, the occasional sceptic-heavy conversation; yet despite how excited (and amazed) we are to see where we’ve got to and where the industry as a whole is moving, one thing is clear: we are all still very much at the start of this journey.
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