(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

[Extract] "The future is already there, it's just not equally distributed" - John Robinson - Mazarine Ventures


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John is a Partner and Co-Founder of Mazarine Ventures. Mazarine is an impact investor backing young technology companies with innovations that address some aspects of water risk, including quality and quantity. 


When you're working in the Water Industry, it is tempting to go for broad quotes like "Water is Life." Sure, that's true. But it might be a bit too general of a statement to be translated into concrete business.


That's why John and his founding team at Mazarine have been clear from Day Zero when they wrote their investment thesis: in the Age of Climate Change and its extreme events, galloping urbanization, or increased water scarcity, water is a risk.


New technologies can help our World mitigate that risk, and this, in all the dimensions of the ESG framework. Hence, speeding up the time-to-market of these emerging solutions induces an impact, turning Mazarine Ventures into an Impact Investor.


In my conversation with John, we'll explore how that twist in the definition of water-related challenges and opportunities translates into concrete steps and how Mazarine articulates its actions from its Labs to its Fund I, Fund II, and Bluehouse investment funds. 


You'll get to understand why the exit is fully part of the impact process, which type of capital is the most important at which stage of a company's development, and how Mazarine ambitions to find entrepreneurs that have been to the future and came back. 


There's much more to unpack in this week's conversation with John, so we'll swiftly take off. But while you buckle up, if you like what you hear, please remember to share that episode with a colleague, a friend, or an entrepreneur you know that shall definitely reach out to Mazarine! Steal their phone, subscribe them to the podcast, and come tell me on LinkedIn what you liked or didn't like about it! Come on do it, and I'll meet you on the other side.


Find out how Mazarine Ventures sees Impact Investing as a tool to mitigate the Water Risk!


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