Technology is bringing about major technological advances that are profoundly transforming our daily lives and promoting human well-being.
At Edmond de Rothschild, we take great care to ensure that our investments have a real impact on the world we live in. That’s why 67% of our Tech Equity strategy created more than two years ago and implementing an SRI approach is invested in themes deemed “Tech for Good“, such as education, healthcare, environmental benefits, cybersecurity, and digital or financial inclusion.
Education brings together technology companies in the education sector, the “Edtech” sector. These companies are radically transforming ways of learning. With personalised, interactive courses available 24 hours a day, they make technology useful for education and training and facilitate the learning path by making it more accessible. On their part, healthcare technology companies, known as Health Tech, are innovative companies that are developing new products or technologies in human health.
Technology companies benefit the environment through energy savings, waste reduction, and responsible consumption and production, thereby contributing to a more environmentally friendly production or industrial process. Additionally cybersecurity companies take part in the protection of persons and the physical and intangible IT assets (connected directly or indirectly to a network) of states and organisations, as well as the protection of personal data. IT and digital security are key to continuing the development of technologies and protecting innovation and human resources.
When it comes to digital inclusion companies, they provide access to digital and technological tools for all populations, including those that otherwise would not have access to them. They aim to enable civil society to have capacity to address the digital divide. Lastly, financial inclusion companies facilitate access to financial services for all populations, including those that traditionally have not been able to access them.
The tremendous pipeline of companies that has been developed in France and Europe for nearly 10 years has benefited from the support of governments, but pragmatic and effective support from investors is essential going forward in order to accelerate their development and thereby enable them to deploy their potential. The stakes are even greater in terms of job creation, governance and sovereignty.
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