Iris ten Have

Founding Principal

2024 - Current

Visionaries Tomorrow is the early-stage industrial climate 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.

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

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.