European Circular Bioeconomy Fund

As the first private venture capital impact fund exclusively dedicated to the (circular-) bioeconomy, ECBF aims to catalyze the transition towards a sustainable future.

Together with passionate and visionary entrepreneurs, we speed up the shift from a fossil-based to a circular bio-based economy and contribute to achieving the European Green Deal goals to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050.

For this purpose, we build pan-European market leaders by investing EUR 300m in growth-stage companies with high potential for innovation, favorable returns, and sustainable impact. In syndicates with private and public investors, we are offering flexible financing tools from equity to mezzanine.

Our investment team at brings over 100 years of VC and industry experience and has international, resilient networks consisting of investors, companies, industry experts and regional organizations in the bioeconomy.

With team members from 14 different nations, the ECBF combines diversity, economic and scientific expertise,
longstanding experience in various fields, as well as an entrepreneurial spirit.

Its team members have set up five funds and have gained experience with more than 2,000 financing transactions and more than 100 exits.