Guus Verhees

Managing Partner, SHIFT Invest
Guus Verhees, an early impact investor who championed standardized impact measurement to attract large investors, uniquely backs deep-tech environmental and industrial startups through slow, proof-driven starts and founder honesty.
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About Guus Verhees

Guus Verhees was investing in impact-focused startups years before it became a common approach, and he has pushed for standardized impact measurement so that more large investors can support early-stage climate companies. He also stands out for backing deep-tech companies like Robin Radar and Jungle through slow starts—sometimes starting with a small loan before committing to a bigger investment—based on founder honesty and proof that the technology truly stood out, building a track record centered on environmental and industrial companies such as Protix, Vandebron, and ChainCraft.

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SHIFT Invest has a dedicated Impact Committee of outside experts that has spent over a decade screening investments and sharpening companies' theories of change, ties part of its team's success fee to the fund's environmental impact performance, and uses the planetary boundaries framework to guide its sector strategies and map portfolio exposure. It also runs a dedicated Thematic Technology Transfer Fund with Dutch technical universities and TNO to commercialize deeptech from research institutions, invests across all stages from pre-seed to growth, and has brought in corporate investors like KLM, NS and Royal Schiphol Group specifically to help decarbonize mobility and logistics.

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