VentureESG LP Community

Since the beginning of VentureESG in 2021, we have been in touch with a growing group of asset owners and asset managers with allocations in VC, because:

  • Regulations and ESG requirements are increasingly enforced and translated by LPs.
  • LPs have enormous power again in this buyers market — including around enforcing ESG.

Our separate LP community has hence grown to over 110 limited partners, including state funds, endowments, pension funds, fund-of-funds, and corporates.

Members of the free LP community get:

  • Access to our LP Notion resource page

  • Invitations to our bi-annual LP community calls

  • Participate in our LP working groups (EU/UK, US, and Emerging Markets)

  • Speaking opportunities at conferences, such as at SuperVenture or FRAME

Making LP expectations transparent

We have been conducting research on LP behaviour in VC since 2022, supported by Luminate and recently Project Liberty. Our goal: provide transparency to VC managers and other LPs about what the top institutional LPs in VC are demanding when it comes to responsible investing and ESG. 
 
We published our first white paper, in 2022, based on interviews with 22 institutional LPs. Our second white paper, based on both an LP survey and 26 interviews, was published in February 2025. 

Invest Europe and VentureESG: ESG reporting harmonisation

In 2024, we tackled the task of LP ESG reporting harmonisation with Invest Europe. Over the course of many meetings with key European state LPs – EIF, KfW Capital, BPI France, Enterprise Ireland, Tesi, Invest-NL and AP6 – we published an updated reporting template as a result.

Aligned with key regulation and frameworks – PAIs, EDCI, ESG_VC, CSRD – this exercise will make reporting more proportional and faster for most startups in continental Europe, freeing up time for ‘doing the ESG work’.

We also worked with key software providers to enable the transferring of data inputs and outputs across platforms resulting in a machine-readable template.