Our successful capital raise and organisational changes, announced today, will enable us to scale up our contribution to building a prosperous, socially just, resilient, net-zero and nature-positive economy
Existing shareholders, including Dara Holdings, Deutsche Post Stiftung, the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, André Hoffmann, co-founders of Nordic Real Estate Partners (NREP), Paul Polman and others, have reinvested in the company. And two new investors have joined: Swiss asset manager Lombard Odier Group and the family office of the German construction company, Goldbeck. This capital raise will enable SYSTEMIQ to scale its contribution to building a prosperous, socially just, resilient, net-zero and nature-positive economy.
Martin Stuchtey, SYSTEMIQ’s managing partner since its founding in 2016, is handing over executive leadership to Taraneh Azad and Guido Schmidt-Traub. Together, they will drive a strategy to build out the company’s work on natural capital, circular resources, clean energy and sustainable finance, while expanding into liveable cities, developing a leading analytics hub and growing the company’s international presence.
To scale impact faster, SYSTEMIQ will build ECOSYSTEMIQ, a network of affiliated initiatives that are synergistic to and inspired by SYSTEMIQ. Each initiative will pursue a net-positive business approach, draw from synergies with SYSTEMIQ and attract growth capital with the help of SYSTEMIQ’s wider network. With the help of this network, SYSTEMIQ will continue to provide a unique blend of advisory services, creation and management of coalitions, on-the-ground solutions, and venture capital investments in cutting-edge technologies. We are in a critical decade in world history, which will determine whether development can be sustainable. SYSTEMIQ is committed and well placed to play a crucial role in the necessary transformations.
Martin Stuchtey and Jeremy Oppenheim, who founded SYSTEMIQ and have led the company for more than five years, will each take new roles. Both will remain important shareholders, partners and board members of SYSTEMIQ.
Martin Stuchtey will build and incubate new ventures together with third-party investors within ECOSYSTEMIQ. Jeremy Oppenheim will continue as the Senior Partner of SYSTEMIQ and also support the scale-up of SYSTEMIQ’s investment activities.
The capital transaction, the strategy update and the leadership transition will strengthen SYSTEMIQ’s ability to drive system change, interact with its powerful network of partner organisations, strengthen its attractiveness to the most talented, launch new impact vehicles, shape change narratives and measure system–level impact.
