Serhat Aydogdu focuses on global investments at the LeapFrog Climate Fund, covering clean energy, e-mobility, food and agriculture, and circular economy across Africa, India and Southeast Asia. He has around 17 years of experience spanning infrastructure finance, renewable energy development and principal investing. Before LeapFrog, he held senior investment roles at Just Climate, Seaya Andromeda and Centricus. He began his career in Goldman Sachs's Investment Banking Division, spending five years across the firm's infrastructure and renewables coverage groups in London on large-scale renewables, regulated utility and transmission and distribution transactions. He holds a BSc in electrical engineering and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.

LeapFrog Investments

LeapFrog Investments is a leading purpose-driven investor in emerging markets, managing capital on behalf of global institutional investors under a "Profit with Purpose" mandate. The LeapFrog Climate Fund deploys growth equity cheques of typically $25-60 million into businesses scaling climate solutions across Africa, India and Southeast Asia, focused on four core sectors: clean energy, e-mobility, food and agriculture, and circular economy / built environment. The Fund partners with founders and management teams building distributed energy, grid infrastructure, electric mobility, climate-resilient supply chains and resource-efficient industrial businesses in some of the world's fastest-growing and most climate-exposed markets. Current portfolio includes ReNew, one of India's largest pure-play renewables platforms, alongside a growing pipeline of energy, transmission and adaptation-focused investments across the firm's target geographies.