Kevin Brennan

Self Employed

2025 - Current

Kevin Brennan Coaching & Consulting

2023

Advisor

2025

Venture Partner

2023

Expanding Antler's institutional investor and Founder network.

Associate Partner

2022 - 2023

Antler is an early-stage (pre-seed) venture capital platform with the mission to back exceptional founders globally. Antler runs in-residence Founder programs - in 26 countries - to offer entrepreneurs co-founder matching, business model validation, initial capital injection and opportunity for follow-on funding. Antler has helped build more than 1,000 startups across a wide range of industries, and aims to back more than 6,000 by 2030. I worked to expand Antler's investor network expansion into US and Canada institutions, having been invited into Antler's expert advisory network in 2020. And I wrote two Antler Insights White Papers "What's the Future of VC?" (June 2023) and "Venture Investing In The Downturn" (November 2022).

Advisor

2023

Advisor

2023

Investment Committee

2022

Advisor

2021 - 2024

Principal

2013 - 2022

Equilibrium builds and manages sustainability-driven real asset investment strategies in food & agriculture, water, waste and energy sectors that are part of the energy and carbon transition infrastructure. I was part of the Capital Markets team that between 2014 and 2021 raised $2.5 billion across agriculture (permanent crops and controlled environment mega-greenhouses) and infrastructure (water, waste and renewable energy investments). I worked in particular with large institutional investors in the US and Canada.

Managing Director

2010 - 2013

Terra Global Capital is a specialist asset manager in forest and agricultural carbon projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I worked with Founder Leslie Durschinger, a leading practitioner in agriculture and forest carbon finance, to launch and build the asset management function alongside project origination and development core business. Today, I continue to be a member of Terra's Technical Advisory Board and on the Investment Committee of the Terra Bella Fund. My work at Terra included: - Building network of investor relationships across European and US institutional investors, driven by investment opportunities from climate mitigation projects. - Structuring and capital raising for Terra's private equity-type carbon project finance vehicle, the Terra Bella Fund. We won a $40 million anchor investment from OPIC, the US Development Finance Bank, in a competitive tender of 88 proposals advised by Cambridge Associates. - Originating and negotiating Terra's first carbon emission reductions purchase agreements, including sale of emission reduction offsets to Microsoft and major European utility. - Building Terra's fund model for the Terra Bella Fund. - Co-authoring White Papers on financial structuring and market framework development for emissions reductions markets from forest and agricultural carbon sectors.

Portfolio Manager

2008 - 2010

Launch and portfolio management of NAT-CAP, the Natsource Carbon Asset Pool, a €130m carbon investment fund, supporting Egbert Liese. We signed 33 emission reduction purchase agreements in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in China and Eastern Europe, on behalf of EU utility and government clients.