VC | E517 | Jacqueline van den Ende & Dougie Sloan on rewiring capital for climate impact and making everyday investors part of the solution

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Welcome to a new episode of the EUVC Impact Highlight, where we bring you the people and perspectives pushing the boundaries of purpose-driven venture. This week, August Solliv sits down with Dougie Sloan, Managing Director, Impact Venture at Better Society Capital, and Jacqueline van den Ende, Co-founder & CEO of Carbon Equity, to explore how we unlock billions for climate action by rethinking the very architecture of venture capital.
Together, they dive into how Carbon Equity is turning everyday citizens into climate LPs, why “retail” doesn’t mean amateur, and how tech, transparency, and trust can finally bring impact investing to scale.
This episode’s themes:

• Why climate finance is stuck—and how we build new pipes
• Reimagining access: giving more people a seat at the capital table
• The rise of the prosumer LP: conviction, education, and agency
• Bridging alpha and impact without trade-offs
• Redesigning private markets for participation at scale

Here’s what’s covered:

• 00:30 Jacqueline’s journey: from traditional VC to climate capital rebel
• 02:15 The climate capital gap: why only 2% of VC goes to climate tech
• 03:45 Institutional capital vs. bold innovation: the trust mismatch
• 05:30 Rethinking “retail”: building for a sophisticated next-gen LP
• 07:00 Tech as an enabler: onboarding, transparency, and scale
• 08:45 What private market investors need (and don’t get today)
• 10:00 Productizing the LP experience: clarity, ownership, conviction
• 11:45 How Carbon Equity builds education into capital deployment
• 13:00 The vision: mobilizing the masses without dumbing things down
• 14:30 Impact with returns: challenging the trade-off fallacy
• 16:00 What’s next: tokenisation, retail regulation, and unlocking access