Keenest is a digital investment platform that lets individual French investors fund vetted early‑stage climate‑tech startups with a focus on measurable decarbonisation. The service curates the top 1 % of projects using a proprietary scorecard, offers tax‑advantaged structures and transparent impact reporting via Climate Dividends, and charges a 7 % placement fee plus carried interest on exits.
Funding
$582.7K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Investors seeking both financial returns and measurable climate impact lack accessible, transparent avenues to fund early‑stage climate‑tech companies, while many promising projects struggle to secure capital without incurring high platform fees or complex fundraising processes.
Solution
Keenest operates a digital investment platform that connects individual investors with vetted climate‑tech startups across high‑emission sectors such as mobility, energy, industry, building and agriculture. The platform curates a top‑1 % selection of projects using a scorecard that evaluates carbon‑reduction potential, economic viability, and team quality, ensuring each opportunity can deliver measurable decarbonisation. Investors can commit capital in minutes, benefit from a favourable tax framework (up to 50 % deduction), and receive impact reporting through the standardized Climate Dividends metric (1 t CO₂‑eq avoided = 1 dividend). Keenest charges a single 7 % fee on the invested amount and a 15 % carried‑interest on realized gains, with no annual or membership fees, and provides full 360° support to the funded companies, from due‑diligence to post‑investment community engagement.
Target Audience
Primary customers are individual French investors—high‑net‑worth individuals, tax‑optimising savers, and impact‑focused retail investors—who want to allocate part of their portfolio to early‑stage climate‑tech ventures.
Features
- Proprietary scorecard methodology assessing impact, market size, business model and founding team across 15 criteria
- Standardised impact measurement via Climate Dividends (1 t CO₂‑eq avoided = 1 dividend)
- Integrated tax‑advantaged investment structures (JEIR, PEA, PEA‑PME, apport‑cession) offering up to 50 % deduction
- End‑to‑end fundraising support for portfolio companies, including documentation, communication and community leverage
- Transparent fee model: 7 % of committed capital plus 15 % carried interest on exits, no annual or subscription fees
- Online account creation, KYC verification and investment execution within minutes
- Community portal enabling direct interaction between investors and project founders