Coenraad de Vries

After graduating, I held various management positions in banking for almost ten years. In 2006, I decided to turn my hobby of co-creating social entrepreneurship (something I had been doing in my spare time since my studies) into a proper job, by co-founding StartGreen Capital and Oneplanetcrowd with Laura.

Growing StartGreen and Oneplanetcrowd further by creating funding opportunities; that's what I love doing most. With entrepreneurial teams that can excel within a larger structure (cells). Because autonomous teams are best equipped to serve a customer segment. The main challenge here is to create a balance between the entrepreneurial energy of a team and the necessary responsibility, risk awareness, and structural requirements of a finance company.

Accelerating sustainable change
My personal ambition is to accelerate a dual sustainable change in the financial sector. Dual sustainability in the sense of 1) creating financing solutions for entrepreneurs who bring about positive environmental and/or societal changes; and 2) by using financing solutions that are essentially more transparent and have lower transaction costs than regular solutions.