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Our platform approach across funds & syndicates - Early, Growth, Bio, and Syndicate - has allowed us to build expertise in specific verticals and across stages while leveraging efficiencies of scale. This means our founders have access to several Partners, dozens of network resources, & thousands of LPs to accelerate growth. Hey founders: welcome! We’re building a community of ambitious entrepreneurs who are radically impacting the human carbon footprint. Why us: We are founders ourselves We bring actionable advice and empathy as we understand what it takes to build exponentially impactful businesses. We are strongly networked With 2k+ founders, operators, and enthusiasts in our community, we help founders find the best talent, customers, strategic partners, and investors. We are both business savvy and deeply technical Our team has a Cambridge PhD and a Harvard MBA; a chemical engineer and a CPO. We see non-obvious opportunities and help founders create massive value. We are here to help We’re often told that we add the most value per dollar invested :) We launched our founder community this fall to help our founders learn from each other and guest speakers, including Tier 1 climate investors and experts in PR, non-dilutive fundraising, and more.

With each investment we consider the lasting impact on future generations. Our primary focus is on supporting growth companies. Building stronger and more sustainable companies in order to accelerate positive change, our mission is making impact mainstream. Vision on impact At SevenGen, we believe that a sustainable world can be achieved through individual choices. Your choices of today conduct the impact for generations to come. As meaningful impact is driven by innovative companies that offer sustainable solutions to a wide audience, we focus our investments on sectors with the highest positive impact on climate. To achieve this synergy, we rely on our extensive experience and network. Our managing partners have consistently delivered both impact and strong financial returns since 2015. Identifying and supporting impactful opportunities, SevenGen builds upon a rigorous investment approach and solid knowledge of the field, to accelerate positive change through growth capital. Vision on investing SevenGen prioritizes companies with strong management, clear risk profiles, solid governance, high impact potential and a commitment to setting the new standard to their industries. Within our field, we target companies with the ability to be price competitive in order to reach a wider audience and make their products mainstream. How we create value in our portfolio? Through strategic planning for growth and strengthening of teams using our ambassador network. We offer disciplined financial management and pursue international opportunities. Our commitment to transparency and accountability ensures we closely monitor and adapt to financial, impact, and operational metrics, driving long-term success for our investments. Team Allow us to introduce our dedicated and dynamic team: Frederik Deutman, Pieter Smit, and Rass Butt, all armed with extensive expertise in driving positive change through climate impact investments. Core to our success are our joint values of ambition and reliability, connecting to whom we work with and for, thinking beyond generations and adding a bit of fun into each endeavor. Join us on our exciting journey towards impactful and profitable investments.

Our mission is to mobilise all market players and create tools to catalyse the transition to a sustainable economy. OUR WHY We’ve all been there - asking ourselves what WE can do about climate change. We’ve already cut flying, reduced meat consumption, and ordered less on Amazon. But all these measures sum up to a low single-digit CO2 tons reduction. We realised that we need to look at our workplace to have a real impact. How can we dedicate our time and resources to have a significant impact on humanity’s biggest challenge? This is how Extantia’s team came together. For us, as successful investors, unicorn founders, climate scientists & policy experts, it was a no-brainer. At Extantia, we combine our know-how in different areas to move the needle on climate change.

Those who create breakthrough ideas the fastest will generate new markets, exponential financial returns and a better future for us all. Aera VC will be right behind them. What? Aera VC is an early-growth fund investing in deep tech ventures that accelerate the world towards a sustainable future. Why? We believe sustainability is the largest investment opportunity of our life time. We have been generating outstanding financial returns since 2016 while investing in the pursuit of a better world. How? Our portfolio companies are the best illustration in what we believe can be achieved and what we aspire to. As we build a global portfolio and back future icons, we are proud that nearly half of Aera portfolio companies are co-founded by women, more than 3x the industry average. HOW WE INVEST The Aera Questions Will this idea transform the status quo towards a fundamentally better outcome for society and our planet? Are these outstanding founders striving to be the best in the world and the best for the world? Will this industry look radically different if this product, service or business model succeeds? OUR BEGINNINGS The Start of a New Era Aera VC was incubated by the Aera Foundation, which was established by Aera VC’s co-founder Derek Handley and his wife Maya. The Foundation is a registered charity that invests in imaginative ways to improve the state of our people and planet. The Foundation’s genesis was to incubate an initiative with transformative positive potential that could also generate long-term financial benefit. The Foundation is a key stakeholder in Aera VC. Aera is the Latin root of the word era: of our time. Maya and Derek chose this name to work on endeavours representative of the change needed for our generation. We are here to build towards this change for the long term, fundamentally shifting the world’s axis towards a sustainable future and a new era. Our logo expresses the world under protection yet with direction upwards, forwards, into the beyond.

We bring together investors and operators from Silicon Valley & beyond who are at the intersection of climate and technology to accelerate solutions to climate change. Our collective members have built companies like Tesla, Stripe, Google, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, DoorDash, Twitter, Slack, Square, and Airtable, as well as VCs like AngelList, Techstars, 500 Startups, Next Play Capital, and Lyft Ventures.

We aim to drive sustainable projects and business models that create positive environmental and social impact.