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Iris Ten Have

👩‍🔬Trained chemist turned VC investor || Click 🔔 for science-based insights into climate technologies

Berlin, Berlin

Invests in

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  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founding Principal

    2024

    Visionaries Tomorrow is the early-stage industrial deep tech fund under Visionaries Club. We are investing in the next generation of era-defining companies rebuilding the world’s largest industries for a brighter tomorrow. We supercharge our portfolio founders by leveraging the deep industrial access and high-growth scaling expertise of our Visionaries Club LPs, some of the world’s most influential industrial giants and unicorn founders.

2022 - 2024

  • Senior Investment Associate & Lead Scientist

    2024 - 2024

    Extantia is a climate-first venture capital firm accelerating the path to a decarbonised world. I combined science with climate tech investing at Extantia. Apart from the in-house chemist, I was also a thought leader and investment team member.

  • Head Of Science

    2022 - 2024

2022 - 2024

  • Advisor & Co-founder

    2022 - 2024

    CO2NVERT was trying to disrupt the fossil-fueled commodity chemicals industry by developing a process to convert greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into ethanol. After winning an international competition and raising a first round of funding, we eventually decided to shut down the company because our hypotheses didn't work out. We learned first-hand what many fellow climate tech founders are battling with day and night: Green chemicals need to be at price parity with the grey alternative to capture a meaningful stake of the market.