![]() The company has traction working with farmers and industry groups including the largest association of almond growers in the world. Based in California and operating globally, BeeHero manages the largest database of bees & pollination. BeeHero’s platform enables commercial growers to optimize crop-yield for 70% of major commercial crops. By tracking and optimizing pollination in real-time, BeeHero ensures hyper-efficient pollinators that can increase crop yields by 30% on average. BeeHero maximizes crop yields through precision pollination, combining sophisticated machine learning algorithms with low-cost sensors to stimulate full output potential during peak pollination cycles. RFAIF invested alongside ADM Capital, iAngels, FirstTime, J-Ventures, UpWest, Entrée Capital, Good Company, the Arison Group and Gaingels. We are excited for Björn to strengthen our team at Rabo Investments! ![]() Alongside his professional experience in sustainability and circularity, Björn gained expertise in this field during his MBA study at Nyenrode Business University and postgraduate at Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership. Björn has over 20 years of work experience, and most recently was Sustainable business developer at Rabobank, in which his main focus is to support both clients and colleagues on sustainability related matters, such as structuring KPI’s for Sustainability linked loans. Rabo Investments is a strategic investor, and alongside our deep and broad network and knowledge, we are convinced we can be of added value to our portfolio partners to drive their ESG efforts towards a net zero environment. At Rabo Investments, we are truly committed to driving positive ESG change and decided to appoint a dedicated Global ESG function, led by Björn Aarts. We are delighted to announce that Björn Aarts will join Rabo Investments as ESG Director effective 1st October 2022. He currently reads for a degree in Laws at Queen Mary, University of London. Since joining Rabo Investments he has been working on risk-bearing debt and equity transactions.Īrjan graduated with a double bachelor's degree, a double master's degree, and a post-grad in business, economics, international relations and diplomacy from Leiden University, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Australian National University and the Clingendael Institute of International Relations. ![]() He followed his traineeship with a two year tenor at Global Client Solutions, the wholesale unit dedicated to structured and subordinated finance solutions. With experience in debt, equity and hybrid solutions, Arjan is adept to structure tailored solutions for growth companies in whatever lifecycle phase they may be.Īrjan started his career as a management trainee at Rabobank, during which he worked for Global Client Solutions, the Financial Institutions Group and the Mergers & Acquisitions department. She is also board member of several funds and at Matrix/Science Park Amsterdam.įrancis has a graduate degree in Business economics from the VU Amsterdam, and a bachelor’s degree in Art history from the University of Amsterdam.Īrjan is principally focused on working with young, fast growing scale-up companies and more mature mid-market companies. ![]() She is one of the founders of Fundright, a VC initiative to increase diversity in investment funds and their portfolio companies. After that she realised, she missed the impact and the ambition of the investments and she became responsible for setting up and managing early and later stage venture capital funds for InnovationQuarter until November 2019.įrancis choice for the VC/PE world results from a passion for innovation and a desire to make an impact in the world. She decided to switch her career in 2009 to her other passion, art, in working as an exhibitions curator and writing a book about Michiel van Musscher, an unknown portrait painter in the Dutch Golden Age. She joined Private Equity firm NPM Capital in 2000, where she could leverage her business experience as well as her financial expertise in investing in medium to large sized (family owned) companies. Francis spend the early years of her career in international M&A for KPN Telecom, before setting up a global customer care company on behalf of KLM. Francis joined Rabo Investments in November 2019.
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