Michael Barben

Owner at vpv ag

📍 Zurich, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 32 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Member of the Board
Sep 2022
Econetta ist ein führendes Schweizer Umweltberatungsunternehmen. Wir untersuchen Boden, Wasser, Luft und Bauten auf Schadstoffe und beraten bei der Entwicklung neuer nachhaltiger Produkte. Für eine lebenswerte Zukunft, die sich für uns alle lohnt.
Member of the Board
2019
CLEVERON, an innovative Swiss start-up located in , offers an intelSwitzerland (Bern) and Germany (BW) that offer intelligent, Swiss made system that allows you to save on heating costs and monitor air quality in indoor spaces - clever, innovative & sustainable!
Investmentanalyst
Mar 1994
Experience · 16 entries
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2024
2022
Member of the Board
Sep 2022
Econetta ist ein führendes Schweizer Umweltberatungsunternehmen. Wir untersuchen Boden, Wasser, Luft und Bauten auf Schadstoffe und beraten bei der Entwicklung neuer nachhaltiger Produkte. Für eine lebenswerte Zukunft, die sich für uns alle lohnt.
Member of the Board
Jan 2022
30 Jahre Erfahrung machen CMI zum starken und zuverlässigen IT-Spezialisten. Als Marktführer in der öffentlichen Verwaltung dürfen wir über 700 Städte und Gemeinden, 17 kantonale Verwaltungen und rund 40 Archive zu unseren Kunden zählen.
2021
Member of the Board
Nov 2021
Carnot Capital is a leading impact investment management company, focusing on listed equity. Founded in 2007, the company has built a strong track record by specializing on the topics of energy and resource efficiency. We buy stocks of listed companies with products and technologies that lower the consumption of natural resources. Due to rising scarcity and increasing environmental problems, those companies benefit from structural growth opportunities. The stock picking is based on a value approach, where the quality of the company is central. We only invest in established, profitable companies with strong balance sheets. Since 2013, Carnot Capital is regulated by the Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority FINMA. It operates with the permission as an asset manager for collective investments.
Chairman of the direct equity IC
Jul 2021
Blue Earth Capital is a global, independent, specialist impact investor, headquartered in Switzerland, with operations in New York, London, and Konstanz. We seek to address the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges by delivering measurable impact while aiming for attractive and market-rate financial returns. BlueEarth operates dedicated private equity, private credit, and multi-asset solutions as well as customized mandates. 🌍 GLOBAL PLATFORM We invest globally across all impact sectors, geographies, and the capital structure to scale transformative climate solutions and improve the lives of underserved people. Our PRIVATE CREDIT team focuses on developed and resilient emerging markets to address social and environmental challenges. Our PRIVATE EQUITY PARTNERSHIPS team invests globally in primary, secondary, and co-investments and across environmental and social impact sectors, working in partnership with leading investment managers. Our PRIVATE EQUITY team focuses on direct equity opportunities in companies addressing climate change in the ‘missing middle’ between venture and buyout. 🌍 DUAL MANDATE We combine rigorous impact measurement with an entrepreneurial mindset, targeting solutions that improve access to essential services, promote inclusive growth, and accelerate climate action. We evaluate every opportunity through a dual lens, assessing both financial and measurable impact potential to support transformative solutions at scale where markets fail and needs are greatest. 🌍 END-TO-END IMPACT Blue Earth Capital is owned by the Blue Earth Foundation, a Swiss charity/trust focusing on projects and ventures that help deliver a more equitable and sustainable future. BlueEarth’s profits, including carried interest, are employed by the Blue Earth Foundation to support deep impact initiatives. This ‘end-to-end’ approach acts as an impact multiplier, enabling us to leverage our investment returns for additional non-financial returns.
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