Investor perspectives on Impact & Finance
When is a business model considered circular? A fund with circularity in its name must answer this question.
Andrew Shannon, Partner at Circularity Partners, gives us her answer. A benchmark market method is used to examine the behaviour of the portfolio company's customers.
In addition, Andrew describes how the financing challenges of PaaS businesses can be overcome.
This episode is the sixth in the series PaaS Decoded, 16 conversations about the fine details of product-as-a-service.
People
Andrew Shannon, Partner at Circularity Capital
Patrick Hypscher, Co-Founder of Green PO, Expert in Sustainable Business Models
Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:35 Circular Nature of PaaS
05:53 Benchmarking the circular against the linear model
07:30 Collecting Impact Data
12:38 Account for Rebound Effects
13:22 Screening companies for Circular Character First
15:48 (Not) Using Equity Money to Finance the Assets
20:12 Asset Based Funding
22:42 Subscription Based Funding
23:43 Explosion of Non-Bank Lenders
25:02 Financing early Growth
29:13 Longt Product Lifetime & Short Use Case
32:28 Lasting Products as Foundation
35:15 Rising demand
38:40 Get in Contact
About Circularity Capital, from website:
Circularity Capital was founded as an independent investment manager in 2015, with a mission to deliver value for investors by supporting growth and innovation in the circular economy. We are a supportive hands-on investor and use our team’s specialist expertise and knowledge in the circular economy to support the businesses we back. Circularity’s investors comprise of pension funds, fund of funds, insurance companies and leading single family offices.
Further Links
https://circularitycapital.com/
Transcript
See the episode page for the transcript: https://circularity.fm/circularity-capital-the-assets-influence-on-funding/