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In brief: Mustard Seed makes growth equity deal debut

The impact growth equity platform co-founded by KKR's former European impact lead has made its first investment. Link to article:…
January 9, 2025 Read More

MS+Partners makes investment into ILERNA

Lleida/London/Zurich/Paris, December 2024 - Mustard Seed + Partners ("MS+Partners") is pleased to announce it has agreed to invest into ILERNA,…
December 24, 2024 Read More

Former KKR Europe exec returns with impact fund

Stanislas de Joussineau co-founded Mustard Seed + Partners a little over a year ago. Link to article: https://www.newprivatemarkets.com/former-kkr-europe-exec-returns-with-impact-fund/
November 26, 2024 Read More

Nick O’Donohoe reflects on the impact investing sector ahead of stepping down from BII

Our Advisory Board member Nick O'Donohoe, CEO of British International Investments, shared valuable insights on the impact investing sector evolution over…
September 10, 2024 Read More

How a data-driven approach improved how we source great impact ideas

In MSM, we invested in 37 companies in the past 3.5 years, putting the average at one investment per month.…
August 23, 2024 Read More

Can the world of fashion reveal the next big winner in food?

Food for thought — trending in fashion meets foodie disruption. Until now, at the consumption level, startup-led innovation has been…
July 23, 2024 Read More

Putting money where your mouth is — impact incentives for fund managers

Incentives are everywhere and dictate our behaviour, as individuals and as organisations. The energy transition that we are currently witnessing…
May 23, 2024 Read More

Unbundling the truth in carbon footprint measurement

We hardly ever hear someone questioning how accurate a given business’ revenue figure is — so why do we do…
April 23, 2024 Read More

Meet our Venture Partner: Tessa Clarke

OLIO connects neighbours with each other, and volunteers with local businesses, so that surplus food & other household items can…
March 23, 2024 Read More

Impact: the new toolbox for product managers that want to win

A year ago, a group of brilliant people working in product (Camille Coyac, Sara Guerreiro de Sousa, Pedro Saleiro, and…
March 23, 2024 Read More

Building insights on a boring topic: does founder reporting predict venture performance?

MSM is an early-stage venture capital impact fund that invests in companies addressing social and environmental challenges. We invested in…
December 23, 2023 Read More

How we built a VC platform to serve impact founders across Europe — part 2 of 2

This article is the second of two posts for VC platform managers and investors, explaining how we have built a…
November 23, 2023 Read More

How we built a VC platform to serve impact founders across Europe — part 1 of 2

This article is the first of two posts for VC platform managers and investors, explaining how we are building a…
November 23, 2023 Read More

A sneak peek into the MSM investment process — what founders can expect from us

One of the most common questions we get asked in an initial call with founders is how our investment process…
November 23, 2023 Read More

An understated obsession — why founder ownership matters so much to venture capital

WHY IS FOUNDER OWNERSHIP IMPORTANT? Early signs of trouble. Excessive founder dilution is a sign of trouble. Either the business…
November 23, 2023 Read More