Upstream Partners

About Upstream Partners

Upstream Partners was founded by Erik Lind Olsen and the Planetary Responsibility Foundation in the fall of 2024 with a presence in Copenhagen and New York. Today, Upstream Partners is a partner-owned and -led company, with Planetary Responsibility Foundation holding a 20% share of the ownership. As a consequence, 20% of the earnings of the company are invested in the nature-conservation and -restoration efforts of the Foundation. The partnership is guided by a non-executive board of directors combining business experience with philanthropical expertise as well as both Danish and US perspectives.

About

Founded: 2024

Employees: 11-50

HQ: København

Organisation type: Company

Specialisations

Biodiversity

Biodiversity in agriculture

Building materials

Circular business models

Circular economy

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Most organizations know where they want to go, but many transformation and sustainability programs stall at the same point: the gap between ambition and the operational reality needed to deliver it.

Upstream Partners help you bridge that gap. We help you understand what is getting in the way, uncover the resource, operational and value chain dependencies behind complex sustainability and transformation challenges, and determine what needs to change to move from ambition to lasting impact.

We are pragmatic changemakers. We combine scientific expertise with practical consulting to bring new perspectives to complex business challenges, support better decisions, and deliver change that lasts. We look upstream to understand what is driving the challenge and identify where change has the greatest impact.