Goodcarbon

Founded in Berlin in 2021 by Jérôme Cochet and David Diallo, goodcarbon is a digital investment and trading platform focused on the voluntary carbon market. The firm addresses the critical need for high-quality, verifiable nature-based carbon credits by connecting corporations with impactful environmental projects. The founders, who met in 2000 at ESCP Business School, combined their distinct expertise to launch the company. Cochet brings a strong corporate and marketing background from his time at McKinsey & Co and as a Senior Vice President at Zalando, where he founded Zalando Marketing Services. Diallo is a serial entrepreneur, having founded myphotobook.de, epubli.de, and the purpose-led company builder Good Impact Ventures. Their shared passion for environmental sustainability and addressing the climate crisis led to the creation of goodcarbon.

The company operates a platform-based business model, serving as an intermediary between companies seeking to offset their carbon emissions and developers of nature-based solution (NbS) projects, primarily in the Global South. Goodcarbon's revenue is generated through transaction and service fees from investments facilitated through its platform. The firm targets corporations that have already committed to reducing their own emissions and are now looking to compensate for their remaining footprint through credible offsets. To ensure project quality and mitigate greenwashing risks, goodcarbon has developed a proprietary 'Nature Analytics Framework,' which assesses projects against more than 150 data points, going beyond standard accreditations to verify impact on climate, biodiversity, and local communities.

Goodcarbon offers several regulated financial products to its clients. These include spot credits for immediate offsetting, forward credits that allow companies to purchase future credits at a set price, and 'goodcarbon Shares' which represent fractional ownership of a project's future carbon stream. This model provides companies with a way to build long-term, transparent carbon credit portfolios and hedge against future price and volume volatility in the market. By financing these projects, goodcarbon's clients support initiatives like reforestation and ecosystem restoration. The company has secured significant funding to scale its operations, including a €5.25 million Series A round in April 2024, bringing its total funding to over $10 million.

Keywords: carbon credits, nature-based solutions, voluntary carbon market, climate finance, impact investing, decarbonization, corporate sustainability, project finance, ecosystem restoration, biodiversity, carbon offsetting, ESG, climatetech, greenwashing avoidance, carbon portfolio management, sustainable investment, environmental services, emissions trading, reforestation finance, Global South projects, NbS