Investment

We invest in ambitious start-ups and help them realise their impact potential

We back ambitious founders building commercially scalable solutions for the green transition. As active, hands-on pre-seed and seed investors, we partner with companies where impact and growth scale together, working side by side to build the future we need.

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What We Look for in the Ventures We Back

01
Impact & commercial potential

We back ventures where the business model is the sustainability contribution, and where every step toward impact also fuels commercial growth.

02
Founders with an edge

Teams with the outstanding technical and commercial edge; we step in alongside them with hands-on experience, deep knowledge, and broad support to make their ventures scale.

03
Future defining technology

We look for breakthrough innovations that leap past incremental change, reshaping industries, unlocking markets, and accelerating the green transition at scale.

04
Societal resilience

We invest in ventures that strengthen society's ability to withstand and adapt, from energy independence to resource security, building resilience that scales across markets.

THE FOOTPRINT FUND I

  • Stage

    Pre-seed & seed
  • Ticket size

    €0.5-2m
  • Fund size

    €73M
  • Fund type

    Article 9
  • Geo

    Northern Europe
  • Vintage year

    2024

Our portfolio

We invest in start- and scaleups with a direct link between commercial scaling and clear sustainability contribution, run by founders dedicated to creating real impact.

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A venture fund powered by a large team of experts

Our model means that our startups gain access to not only investors, but an extended team of experts, entrepreneurs, and advisors with deep knowledge in various areas such as commercial excellence, sustainability, R&D, marketing & communications, and much more. When we invest, we all get involved.

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The fund team

We have a core fund team involved in every investment we make, supported by the whole Footprint Firm.

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We invest early and are in it for the long run

We’re in it together, side by side with founders, sleeves rolled up, moving from vision to venture to scale. With deep sustainability expertise, hard-won experience, and a powerful network, our people become your people – accelerating what must happen.

Our Value Creation House is how we back founders from day one through growth, building together at every stage of the journey.

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Funding
Commercial leads
  • Leveraging our large client base
  • Leveraging our platform
  • Using AI to identify leads
Commercial & operational excellence
  • Operational model
  • Market analysis
  • Go-to-market planning
R&D technical excellence
  • De-risking tech
  • Milestone idenitification
  • R&D organization setup
Marketing & communication
  • Value proposition
  • Brand strategy
  • Marketing strategy
Finance & reporting
  • Professionalization
  • Financial modeling
  • Capital allocation
Sustainability
  • Sustainability strategy
  • Article 9 readiness
  • Impact quantification
  • EU Taxonomy alignment
Board & governance
  • Active board member
  • Support in board building
  • Healthy founder-board dynamics
Team resilience & DEI
  • Recruitment support
  • Leadership facilitation
  • Founder resilience
  • DEI resources & networks
Tech & AI
Enabling foundation

Our investment verticals focus on solutions that accelerate the green transition

  • Our current linear ‘take-make-waste’ system use 60% more resources than the earth can generate every year. We invest in solutions that enable reuse, upcycling and recycling of waste streams to enable a circular economy.

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The future worth backing will not arrive by chance

This is a decisive moment. The Footprint Fund invests in breakthrough solutions that can shift systems and restore balance, pairing venture returns with measurable impact. The future won’t happen by chance. Come venture with us.

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Venturing into a future worth building

Impact supporters podcast

Impact supporters is a podcast by The Footprint Firm. It's where founders, investors, and system-changers talk honestly about building the future. Each conversation unpacks what it takes to scale bold ideas into lasting impact - front frontier technologies to new business models driving the green transition.

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Come venture with us

Pitch usabout mailto:pitch@thefootprintfirm.com

Pitch us

Have a venture where impact and growth scale together? We invest early and work side-by-side powered by the whole Footprint Firm team.

Pitch us about mailto:pitch@thefootprintfirm.com

Belinda has a marketing background that includes diverse roles across start-ups, media agencies, and tech companies. Throughout her career, she has focused on driving strong business results through marketing and media efforts, by having a strong understanding of the product/service, market, and consumer.

Before joining The Footprint Firm, Belinda spent 4 years at Google in Copenhagen. As an Industry Manager, she was responsible for a portfolio of clients across different industries with focus on driving business growth through digital marketing and transformation. Her primary focus was to identify shared areas of opportunity between clients and Google, create a plan to unlock this potential, and manage both internal and external stakeholders to bring it to life.

In addition to her core role at Google, Belinda’s passion for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) drove her to lead all DE&I programs and initiatives in Denmark alongside the Country Manager. Her role was to understand the needs of the local market, identify key priorities, and coordinate across leadership and employee groups to drive the most impactful initiatives.

Belinda’s experience also includes working for an agency within WPP, the world’s largest advertising agency, as the digital lead for large clients across multiple markets. This role included strategic marketing work, with a focus on efficiency and processes. Belinda is originally from South Africa and began her career at a start-up in Cape Town delivering media, digital, and technology solutions to clients across a broad range of industries.

Belinda holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Brand Communication from Vega School of Brand Leadership, a university in South Africa.