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Jacqueline, it's a great pleasure for me to meet you here. And your colleague has spoken so much about cabin equity that I was super, super impressed what you do. And I would love our audience also to understand what you do. And it's not just sustainability or have an Amsterdam, you have in Berlin and you were on stage. And so can you tell us some secret messages which you might not have revealed before, which is really, really close to your heart? Yeah, definitely. And what is close to my heart is. Climate investing, what I'm trying to do with carbon neutrality is to mobilize billions of dollars of private capital to help fund solutions to climate change. And we do that through our climate fund investing platform. So that's the thing I'm most passionate about is wonderful. And what I heard is you are the founder, right? So female founder, I'm sure a lot of people see you as a big role model, in particular also women. I heard also you have already 200 million in your family. Which is quite a lot. In 2 1/2 years, from my experience, you are aiming 10 billion, so you are aiming very big. So like, what is your background? So how did you get there? I have a background as an entrepreneur and as an investor. So as a student, I started my first company, Wow, when it was 24 and now it's the biggest student run strategy consultants in the Netherlands. It's 15 years old this year. And then I started my career formerly in private equity, where I learned all about investing. But after four years I got a bit bored. In private equity investing and I wanted to go back to building so that's when I joined rocket Internet, which is extremely well known in Germany yes and I built their own real estate that firm very Southeast Asia called Lambda and really learned how to build companies from one up to 500 people there in the in a really short amount of time and then I accidentally became an investor again I became a partner in a venture capital fund and then in 2019 I woke up to the climate crisis I really had. In this moment, I was like thinking, like realizing this is the biggest challenge to solve. And so I started carbon equity with the idea of like, how can I bend the river of capital from the old world, from the social worlds to the real world to the new world? I'm doing something really valuable. Yes, exactly. And that's what we tried to do. Now, from your investing point of view, are there specific investments you are looking at or you have a focus or prime objective? Yeah. So it's important to understand that carbonite is not. Itself is venture capital fund, but we democratize access to the world's best climate venture capital and private equity funds. So typically as a private individual you have no access to these. So we need like ���5 million, maybe 10 million euros to invest in Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which is like the number one climate fund in the world. And with carbon dioxide does is we bundle a lot of small individual investors and lower that threshold from investing for 5 million to ���50,000. So with ���50,000 you invest in a portfolio of. 150 to 250 of the world's fastest growing climates tech companies and so this is a way of like pulling capital into this space but making it more accessible, making it more accessible exactly and as a result, people we basically get more capital for climates companies, but on the other hand also allow more people to benefit from the upside from the value creation investing in climate because there can be extremely lucrative. All of these are super high growth companies like 0. Carbon submits the giant batteries for electricity storage. Yeah, the world is so big on one hand and then probably a normal investor, even big investors don't know how to explore that role. So are there specific or to startups? Are you in the startup scene or more in the advanced tech scene? So what is your Yeah, so we invest in e-mail access to both early stage venture capital funds. We technology spin outs out of Harvard University or MIT up. Two companies that have hundreds of millions in revenues are profitable and are sort of, for example, buyout opportunity. So through Carbon X, people invest from early stage, very late stage across the whole spectrum. And how do you do the selection and the due diligence? We have a special team yourself probably you are involved. I assume I'm not involved. Fortunately though, we have in the investment team of eight people, a lot of people who come from Carl and Openvas, which are really institutional, big, big, big managers. And a couple of people come from McKinsey or you specialized in climate technology and energy transactions. So we combine those two disciplines. And so basically we're fintech platform that's democratizes access to climate fund investments at the fight Where this the most exciting you have seen here so far? What is really cool at 5 is that there are some really awesome speakers. For example, Ali Nigma, he I don't know if you saw his dog, he is the founder of Bing, which is the biggest neo Bank of the Netherlands. And it's extremely expiring, inspiring to see like how we build a Unicorn. We have the founder of in 26 here. So for me, it's very cool to see all of these icons here. And secondly, it's cool to connect with other people are in same stage where series they funded company. So you know, a lot of companies going through the same challenges. And yeah, great network sharing. Also the experiences and learning at the end is always very important. Exactly. And how you like the vibe vibe. It's cool. It's, it's, it's relaxed, it's very open. You talk to, you know, you stand next to somebody and have like a, a conversation. So I like that. It's something I generally love about Berlin. So I'm based in Amsterdam and I now indeed recent sales recently spent two weeks in a month in Berlin and it's incredible how open it is every conversation I have, ladies and gentlemen. Open mindedness of the Berlin. Becky, thank you very much. That was beautiful and wonderful having you with us and we'll see you soon again. Thank you.