Paris-based Keenest, a climate-focused funding membership, has reached a significant milestone: greater than €10 million has already been raised to assist finance impression startups, seven months forward of its projected targets.
Keenest has managed to double the funding quantity raised in merely three months, when EU-Startups covered that the investment club had raised €5 million.
Jérémie Sicsic, CEO of Keenest mentioned: “Particular person financial savings are a substantial lever for financing the sustainable economic system. By investing immediately in impression initiatives, each citizen turns into a driver of transition, whereas collaborating within the creation of a greener, extra resilient, and extra sovereign economic system.”
Within the 2025 European sustainable finance panorama, Keenest joins a wave of climate-focused funding exercise combining environmental impression with investor returns.
Comparable community-driven platforms like Goparity in Portugal have secured €2.9 million to develop entry to impression initiatives, whereas institutional gamers are scaling up bigger funds – similar to Norrsken’s €57 million Evolve Fund, Suma Capital’s €210 million SC Net Zero Ventures I, and Vireo Ventures’ €50 million Electrification Fund I.
Inside this context, Keenest’s milestone of surpassing €10 million in raised capital positions it as a part of a broader continental pattern towards participatory, clear financing mechanisms geared toward accelerating the low-carbon transition.
Launched in 2023 by Jérémie Sicsic and Renan Labrunie with 300 traders, Keenest now has 3,500 members. Its neighborhood is principally made up of people who wish to give that means to their financial savings. With funding initiatives accessible from €500, the platform has helped finance startups concerned within the ecological transition, similar to Suggestions, Sapiologie, Loewi, OpenClimat, Zilo Énergie, Kolverr, Arkeon Vitality, Fenix Vitality, Seaturns, Leviathan, Monomeris, and Veridian.
Keenest innovates by providing local weather dividends, paid in response to the tons of CO₂ averted by the initiatives financed. The larger the environmental impression, the upper the return. This mechanism creates a virtuous circle for sustainable funding. Keenest goals for an AAR of 20% on investments made, whereas providing liquidity prospects.
Constructing on this momentum, Keenest goals to:
- Implement a non-financial dashboard by the top of 2025 for clear monitoring of impression indicators, together with the primary local weather dividends distributed.
- Finance 20 impression initiatives.
- And, by 2026, the launch of a diversified fund enabling funding in all initiatives chosen by Keenest.
