For this episode, Antonin Léonard sat down with Aurore Falque-Pierrotin, CEO and co-founder of Darwin Data.

Aurore started her career in strategy consulting in London before spending seven years in venture capital, where she became partner at 31.

Driven by the desire to build rather than just invest, she co-founded Darwin Data with the conviction that carbon accounting — representing only 14% of environmental impact — was not enough.

Darwin Data is a SaaS platform that helps companies and financial institutions measure and manage the five pressures on nature identified by the IPBES: climate change, land-use change, overexploitation of natural resources, invasive species, and pollution.

Unlike carbon, these risks are localized and multidimensional — a cubic meter of water in the Sahara doesn't have the same impact as one in Paris.

The platform processes 250 million data points per computation and works through consulting partners like Deloitte and Carbone4 to reach end clients.

In this conversation, we explore:

→ Why carbon is only 14% of the environmental problem and what the other 86% looks like

→ How nature risk is already impacting businesses operationally — from water stress near Lille to tripling commodity prices

→ Why Darwin chose an indirect go-to-market through consulting firms rather than selling directly

→ How AI and the post-Covid world changed the rules for building a startup on an emerging market

→ What the ESG backlash of 2025 really meant for the nature market — and why it's not all bad news

→ The launch of "Charles", Darwin's conversational AI agent named after Darwin himself

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