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Indico CapitalCheck size: For its sustainable-ocean strategy, Indico currently publishes €100K–€5M investments in startups and SMEs. This is a firm and strategy range—not André's personal authority—and exact initial size, ownership and reserves should be confirmed for each company.
André leads Indico's work at the intersection of commercially scalable technology, sustainable ocean use and systemic regeneration. His development-economics and green-growth background points to companies that can solve material climate or ocean constraints, prove additional environmental or social value and expand across markets without separating impact from financial durability.
Ambitious founders addressing a large ocean or climate problem, a defensible technical or data advantage, credible customer economics, measurable outcomes, evidence that impact strengthens as revenue grows, and a plausible route from Iberian validation to an international category position.
No exhaustive personal pass list is public. His documented mandate implies weak fit for cosmetic sustainability claims, impact without a causal measurement plan, projects lacking scalable commercial demand, extractive models inconsistent with regeneration, and opportunities with no credible global expansion path.
Lead with the ocean or climate constraint, affected customer and ecosystem, why the solution is now technically and economically viable, proof from deployments or pilots, unit economics, market size, impact baseline and KPIs, regulatory dependencies, international expansion path, round and fit with Indico's published €100K–€5M ocean range.
Show that every additional unit of product adoption produces a measurable environmental or social outcome rather than an adjacent ESG claim.
Map resource users, regulators, infrastructure, natural constraints and economic beneficiaries to identify who adopts, pays and captures value.
Define baseline ecosystem conditions, intervention, attributable outcome, measurement cadence and what would happen without the company.
Use a Southern European beachhead to prove demand while identifying which regulations, channels and operating assumptions transfer internationally.
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André Almeida Santos is a Partner at Indico Capital, where the firm's current spotlight says he leads investments in sustainability, regeneration and the Blue Economy. His 25-year international career spans venture capital, economic policy and academia across Europe, Africa and North America, including a decade at the African Development Bank driving green-growth strategies. He is part of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network and holds a postgraduate degree in Finance from Universidade Católica and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.