Bart Nollen
Meet Bart
Investor
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bart Nollen is a circular economy entrepreneur, investor, and sustainability innovator dedicated to biodiversity conservation and regenerative business models. As Co-Founder of Dayrize and Chairman at Flash Forest, he drives nature-positive solutions that integrate technology, finance, and environmental impact. With expertise in renewable energy, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable proteins, Bart is committed to disrupting industries through circular innovation and ensuring that economic growth supports biodiversity protection and ecological resilience.
Areas of activity:
Reforestation / Rewilding
About:
Bart Nollen is an entrepreneur, investor, and sustainability advocate specializing in circular economy, ecosystem services, and biodiversity restoration. With a strong background in business development, finance, and disruptive innovation, he has dedicated his career to creating scalable solutions that align economic growth with ecological conservation.
As Co-Founder and Board Member at Dayrize, Bart is pioneering impact measurement technology, helping businesses and consumers assess and reduce their environmental footprint at the product level. His work is driven by the vision of bringing global consumption within planetary boundaries and promoting regenerative business models.
Bart also serves as Chairman of Flash Forest, where he supports the use of drone technology for large-scale reforestation—an innovative approach to accelerating biodiversity recovery and carbon sequestration. Through Circular Investment, he funds impact-driven projects in the clean energy, sustainable food, and bio-based economy sectors, ensuring that investments contribute to nature-positive solutions.
With a postgraduate diploma in AI from Jesus College, Oxford, Bart is also at the forefront of leveraging artificial intelligence for environmental sustainability, integrating big data, remote sensing, and predictive analytics into conservation efforts.
Passionate about preserving biodiversity and fostering sustainable development, Bart continues to push the boundaries of innovation to create business models that regenerate, rather than deplete, our planet’s natural resources.
Involvement:
Dayrize
Dayrize can intelligently gather data from publicly available sources, meaning you can get started with little to no data. We also give you the option to introduce your product data via our intuitive API connection, CSV files or using publicly available sources. Our algorithm analyses every data point, detects anomalies and produces a quality rating.