The Energy Transition is the Most Significant Financial Opportunity of the 21st Century

Our team is prepared to identify, nurture & grow tomorrow's climate tech unicorns, today

We help Climate Tech entrepreneurs build, scale, and sell companies. Energy Transition investments require multidisciplinary expertise and traditional VC skills. Requisites include climate change, regulation, structured finance, and policymaking.

Europe is at the forefront of the global Energy Transition

Europe leads the world with ambitious climate goals, innovative policies, and regulations. GNE Finance is a significant player in Europe’s energy transition. We partner with consult the European Commission, World Bank, EIB, and other institutions, since 2017.

European advisory

Since 2016, our Fintech intelligence unit has advised global policymakers. Insights from these business-to-government financing activities inform our investments.

UN sustainable development goals

GNE Finance investments contribute to a sustainable future. Outcomes include accelerating the Energy Transition, reducing CO2 emissions, and fostering local impact. Investments align with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

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Financing for Equity (F4E®) Venture Capital combined with Asset-Backed Financing

Beyond the boardroom, active engagement with high growth companies

F4E® is a flexible financing and investment solution for high growth companies and investors. Our innovative F4E® approach combines traditional VC equity with collatoralization of assets. Our team has real-time visibility and transparency into revenue generation, company operations and nurturing of new and existing clients. F4E® also ensures that our investment evolves along with the growth of the company up until exit.

Our team

We are entrepreneurs, bankers, seasoned finance executives, and climate change technology experts. Though our backgrounds are diverse, we share a higher purpose to contribute to a sustainable future.

CEO & Founder

Davide Cannarozzi

Head of Capital Markets

Alex Rothlin

EU Advisory Director

Valentina Cabal

Head of Equity Funding & Investments

Tomas Roque

Head of Structured Finance

Giovanni Lazzeri

Senior Advisor & Entrepreneur in Residence

Erica Starks

Risk Management and Credit Manager

Borja Gumuzio

EU Project Specialist

Stefania Mascolo

EU Project Manager

Álvaro Salamanca Alcázar

Senior Analyst

Eduardo Menéndez

Junior Analyst

Lidia Casini

CEO & Founder

Davide Cannarozzi

Head of Capital Markets

Alex Rothlin

EU Advisory Director

Valentina Cabal

Head of Equity Funding & Investments

Tomas Roque

Head of Structured Finance

Giovanni Lazzeri

Senior Advisor & Entrepreneur in Residence

Erica Starks

Risk Management and Credit Manager

Borja Gumuzio

EU Project Specialist

Stefania Mascolo

EU Project Manager

Álvaro Salamanca Alcázar

Senior Analyst

Eduardo Menéndez

Junior Analyst

Lidia Casini

Our Team

We strive to improve, compete and maintain an edge vis a vis our peers. This is our entrepreneurial journey. This experience gives us perspective about the challenges you face and how to tackle them. This experience also ensures we treat you with respect, understanding the difficulty in fundraising and company building. You are our customers, we depend on you and we value your experience with us irrespective of whether we end up investing in you.

About

Our vision

We envision a world where the economy operates without damaging the environment. Empowered and conscientious citizens produce, consume, and share resources in a thriving society. The age-old dilemma between economic growth and environmental sustainability is a thing of the past.

Our mission

We’re on a mission to finance the Energy Transition. Venture Capital and structured finance are our tools. Our portfolio of Climate Tech start-ups generates measurable environmental and social impact. Investments result in CO2 reduction, green energy production, energy savings and job creation. We aim to be a reference for energy transition investment and financing.

Who we are

GNE Finance is an investment, financing, and advisory boutique prioritizing positive impact. Founded in 2016, we invest in early and growth stage Climate Tech companies. Portfolio companies have solid financials and a strong environmental and social impact.

Our Story. European Roots, Global Aspirations.

2023

In 2023 we Trademark & Launch Financing 4 Equity. Expected results: increase in customer conversion, business volume and customer retention which will result into a 5x LTV (Life-Time Value of customers) , compared to base case scenario. In 2023, GNE Invest I - HoldCo. opens its doors to qualified early investors in an exclusive Club Deal format. GNE is working with advisors to determine its future legal structure. GNE Invest I is currently executing two investments that totals to a value of EUR 0.7 Mn. 2 investments in execution: 1 in Spain and 1 in Italy. One due-diligence executed. A second one in progress.

2023

2022

In 2022, supported by Repsol and independent investors, GNE Finance establishes its investment vehicle / holding company, GNE Invest I, in the form of a SL (Sociedad Limitada) / LLC (Limited Liability Company). In the same year, GNE Invest I invests EUR1.5M in a Ycombinator digital solar energy start-up for households’ leveraging on blockchain based in Spain.

2022

2019

Repsol Impacto Social invests in GNE and becomes an official sponsor of GNE Finance.

2019

2017

Since 2017, GNE is proud to have served and advised more than 11 projects of the European Commission (Horizon 2020 projects), the World Bank, and European Investment Bank. NE’s advisory track-record in the field of Energy Transition Finance is unique at EU level, with over EUR4Mn of projects awarded by the European Commission, the EIB, the World Bank and other institutional players, during the last 5 years.

2017

Our Investor

Since 2019, we have been backed by the Impact Investment Fund of Repsol Foundation – Repsol Impacto Social. Repsol is a Spanish multinational energy company. It is one of the largest oil and gas companies in Europe and operates in over 30 countries worldwide.

Institutional Partners

GNE Finance is a recipient of multiple Horizon 2020 grants and has served and advised more than 11 European Comission Projects, in addition to collaborations with the EIB and World Bank.

Types of Investments

Through F4E®, GNE practices sustainable investing in two types of assets:

  1. Growth Companies – Equity
  2. Portfolios of projects – Asset-based Financing

Growth Stage Companies' Characteristics

  • Generate recurring revenue: Project sponsors that have a demonstrated business model supported by our F4E model that supports the generation of recurring revenue from year 1 onwards.
  • Diversified Portfolio: High diversification of projects, technologies, and counterparties within the energy transition
  • Manage and controlled counterparty risk: Assured to have managed counterparties with the adequate corresponding profiles.
  • Focused Geography: Principal focus on Southwest Europe with special focus in Spain and Italy.

Portfolios of Projects Characteristics

  • Real Assets: Investments in tangible assets that can be identified, analyzed, and deployed.
  • Green and proven technology: Rigorous technological standard testing and proof of concept are required and are validated.
  • Resilient performance to external shocks: The importance and essence of the Energy Transition, its growth and nature of its services directly counter other external shocks.
  • High SDG impact: GNE projects directly support 8 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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