Season 3: Episode 5 - Romain Diaz, Founder of Satgana

Season 3 Finale episode is out now, wrapping up this season focusing on Circular Economy!

Featuring Romain Diaz, Founder of the Europe and Africa focused climate impact fund, Satgana. Romain's humility and graciousness is so wonderful and inspiring! Amazing to hear about how he and his team are leading the fund's investment and advisory activities guided by their ethos and passion for solving for the climate crisis. 

Romain shares his story of starting as an entrepreneur in Morocco, followed by experiences in South Africa and ultimately following his passion to set up Satgana. He talks about risk-appetite while also being laser-focused on the climate - problem space, and at the same time combining his expertise in emerging markets to find high potential start-ups beyond Europe in African markets like Ethiopia, where VC investments are marginal to date.

Satgana's portfolio companies in Circular Economy, highlighted in this episode are as follows:
- Kubik, Addis Ababa: turning plastic waste in low-carbon, affordable housing
- Onima, Paris: producing sustainable alternative protein from beer yeast
- Loewi, Paris: accelerating the transition to electric bikes with a full-stack refurbishment platform
-  Arda, London: transforming waste feedstock into biomaterials for use in fashion, automotive and other sectors

Tune in to this episode to hear the conversation with Romain Diaz from Satgana, and don't forget to share your feedback!

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