Our Approach

Our vision is of an economy in which people can thrive while respecting social and planetary boundaries.

WHY ?

Today’s linear economy and fossil fuel-based consumption patterns are closely linked to global warming, local and regional pollution, and extractive practices that threaten soil quality, biodiversity and other vital natural resources.

Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics offers a useful framework to guide us towards an economy in which humanity can prosper within an environmentally safe and socially just space, between social and planetary boundaries.

Doughnut Economics Action Lab
Doughnut Economics Action Lab
Guibert del Marmol, Lunt Foundation and Caholic University of Leuven
Guibert del Marmol, Lunt Foundation and Caholic University of Leuven

To remain within this safe and just space, a new economic model is needed: one that moves away from the linear economy and contributes to a more sustainable and regenerative use of our planet’s limited resources.

OUR MISSION

We enable equity and debt financing to local initiatives and privately held companies which, through their products and services, implement sustainable solutions, particularly in the renewable energy and sustainable food sectors, favouring circular economy approaches and aligning with the principles of People, Planet and Prosperity.
We support these initiatives and companies in their development and growth, while aiming to generate attractive risk-adjusted financial returns together with significant positive impact for our investor clients.

Consume better with less

Our clients invest in projects and companies that help transform food and consumer goods value chains through responsible consumption and more circular approaches.

Consume better with less

Our clients invest in projects and companies that help transform food and consumer goods value chains through responsible consumption and more circular approaches.

Use energy wisely

Our clients invest in projects and companies that offer smart living solutions through decarbonized mobility, energy efficiency, decentralized renewable energy supply and storage, and more efficient buildings and infrastructure.

Use energy wisely

Our clients invest in companies that offer smart living solutions through decarbonized mobility, energy efficiency, energy supply & storage, and efficient buildings

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

IMPACT VENTURE

IMPACT GROWTH

Stage: innovative start-ups requiring venture capital


Sectors:
sustainable food providing solutions to the food transition


Financial criteria:
post-revenue, proven product-market fit


Geography:
France and/or Spain


Investment Tickets:
between €100k and €500k

Stage: innovative companies requiring growth capital to continue trajectory


Sectors:
sustainable food, responsible consumption, mobility, energy & housing


Financial Criteria:
EBITDA positive or clear commercial track-record (min. EUR 4m revenues, strong growth) and pathway to profitability


Geography:
Europe


Investment Tickets:
between €4m and €15m

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

IMPACT VENTURE

Stage: innovative start-ups requiring venture capital


Sectors:
sustainable food providing solutions to the food transition


Financial criteria:
post-revenue, proven product-market fit


Geography:
France and/or Spain


Investment Tickets:
between €100k and €500k

IMPACT GROWTH

Stage: innovative companies requiring growth capital to continue trajectory


Sectors:
sustainable food, responsible consumption, mobility, energy & housing


Financial Criteria:
EBITDA positive or clear commercial track-record (min. EUR 4m revenues, strong growth) and pathway to profitability


Geography:
Europe


Investment Tickets:
between €4m and €15m

WHAT WE OFFER

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A focused platform,
built over fifteen years

We have advised more than €280 million in investments since our founding in Geneva, regulated by FINMA and operating with a team that has lived through full investment cycles across our investment sectors. We do not claim to invest across the whole sustainability landscape. We invest where we have genuine expertise, proprietary deal flow, and the network to add real value beyond capital.

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A team that knows these sectors from the inside

Our senior professionals combine deep operational knowledge of sustainable food and renewable energy with a network spanning Europe — entrepreneurs, co-investors, and intermediaries we have worked with across multiple cycles. In private markets, proprietary deal flow comes from relationships and sector credibility. That is where we invest our time, alongside capital.

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Flexible access for institutional investors and family offices

Alongside our fund strategies, we structure bespoke mandates — dedicated portfolios, co-investments, and single-asset SPVs — for European institutional investors and family offices who opt for either diversified exposure or targeted, high-conviction positions alongside our core strategies. The most productive relationships we have built are with investors who share our conviction in the sectors, not only the return targets.

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Impact managed as a discipline, not a reporting exercise

For each investment, we define measurable impact drivers at time of investment— not retrospectively. We track them through the holding period and actively manage them alongside financial performance.

Since 2010, Quadia has been a pioneer in impact investing and has developed proprietary tools for each of the three pillars defining impact finance

Intentionality

Our unique mission is to support portfolio companies in the transformation of their business practices, in line with the principles of People, Planet and Prosperity

Intentionality

Our unique mission is to support portfolio companies in the transformation of their business practices, in line with the principles of People, Planet and Prosperity

Additionality

We collaborate with our investees to define strategic impact objectives and specific Impact Roadmaps that create value for the company and its shareholders

Additionality

We collaborate with our investees to define strategic impact objectives and specific Impact Roadmaps that create value for the company and its shareholders

Measurability

We apply a unique framework of metrics to set impact targets and track progress towards achieving them

Measurability

We apply a unique framework of metrics to set impact targets and track progress towards achieving them