Jacob van Zonneveld

Sustainability is at an inflection point: show commercial value or risk being sidelined to compliance. Het Financieele Dagblad just ran a feature on how we’re building the future of sustainability work at beSirius for the most critical industry for the energy transition and defense, right here from the Netherlands. Thanks to Jasper Houtman for turning my brain-dump into a story worth reading. 😁 https://lnkd.in/eD7cYX2s

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AI’s Next Battleground: Your Browser I contributed to an article in this morning's Het Financieele Dagblad about a new front in the AI race: the web browser. For years, browsers like Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox have been stable and almost invisible gateways to the internet. Now AI is changing that. Start-ups such as Perplexity and The Browser Company, as well as giants like OpenAI, are building AI-first browsers to get closer to users from the very moment they go online. The logic is simple. Control the browser and you control the starting point for billions of people, along with their data and habits. For Google, integrating AI into Chrome could also disrupt its $250+ billion ad business if AI answers replace traditional search clicks. The browser is no longer just a tool. It is becoming prime digital real estate in the AI era. Full FD article (in Dutch, paywall): https://lnkd.in/eZk3UiVU

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Triodos Investment Management announced a €30 million investment from the Dutch development finance institution FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank and OeEB Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank AG - The Development Bank of Austria in Hivos-Triodos Fonds. Femke Bos, head of impact private debt and equity at Triodos, said: “This new investment by FMO and OeEB marks an important milestone as it is the first time that development finance institutions invest directly in Hivos-Triodos Fonds, allowing us to significantly grow in size while securing a ten-year commitment.” Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/d24Rm3gH * Want to know who is raising, investing, and exiting in Africa? Get Africa Private Equity News’ monthly Dealmaker’s Log – a database of reported investment deals, exits, and fundraising closes. Subscribe now: https://lnkd.in/duy5dWPs

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How do you scale in the age of AI without losing what makes your company work🤔? If there is one person who can answer that question, it’s Marili 't Hooft - Bolle. As the CEO of Trengo, she knows what it takes to scale, lead, and stay human in a fast-changing world. In episode 116, Marili is your guide through today’s AI “Land of Confusion.” Together, we uncover that: 👉 Growth is not about adding people. It is about adding the right structure without slowing things down. 👉 In the AI era, you cannot just build the next version of what you know. You have to reimagine real value for your customers. 👉 True leadership means hiring for complementary skills, not clones of yourself. That is where diversity becomes inevitable. And there’s more. Marili’s reflection on International Women’s Day hits home. If we celebrate women on one day, it implies the other days are not women’s days. Ready to learn how to navigate growth and leadership in the age of AI? Listen to episode 116 of Women Disrupting Tech with Marili ’t Hooft-Bolle. Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e-fReyyX Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3JyCtG1 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eugqmM3B A podcast player near you: https://lnkd.in/e_SZSc3r

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