Value Factory Ventures, together with Pinea Partners and Proba, is launching the new company Proba Projects and providing pre-seed funding for its launch. Proba Projects develops and finances projects that accelerate the sustainability transition of agricultural and bioenergy value chains. Kevin Duisters will become CEO of Proba Projects, and Sander van Heteren CFO.
From climate ambition to concrete projects
Proba Projects brings farmers and cooperatives together with suppliers, traders, buyers, and financiers. The company focuses, among other things, on projects that reduce fertilizer-related emissions. This approach is also relevant for bioenergy feedstocks: lower emissions during cultivation reduce the CO₂ intensity of the fuels produced from them.
By bringing together the right partners and financing, Proba Projects helps implement and scale sustainable solutions.
A complement to Proba
Proba provides the standards, monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV), and certification used to measure and certify the impact of emissions-reduction projects in agricultural value chains. This gives demonstrable emissions reductions commercial value for parties across the agri-food value chain.
Proba Projects complements these services with project development and financing. The company provides upfront financing for the necessary investments, ensuring that funding is available when measures need to be implemented. This creates an integrated approach: from developing and financing projects to measuring and certifying the resulting Scope 3 emissions reductions.
“Proba Projects helps food companies move from ambition to implementation. By combining project development and financing with Proba’s expertise, we can achieve impact on a much larger scale.” ,” said Sander van Heteren, CFO of Proba Projects and Investment Manager at Value Factory Ventures.
The establishment of Proba Projects builds on Value Factory Ventures’ existing investment in Proba.
