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Chasing Uncompromising Impact Unicorns with Norrsken VC
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Stockholm-headquartered Norrsken VC is on a mission to find not just unicorns but impact unicorns, startups valued at over $1 billion which at the same time can impact the lives of more than 1 billion people, Agate S. Freimane said on the sidelines of TechChill startup conference in Riga. |
May 23, 2022 |
Speedinvest Looks For Further Climate Tech Investments
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Speedinvest was among the first European early-stage VC firms when its founders started to take Silicon Valley's getting-hands-dirty practices from their own entrepreneurs' journey to the Old Continent, said investor Andreas Schwarzenbrunner. Vienna-headquartered Speedinvest has invested in some 250 companies, including 20 investments in climate tech startups. The firm manages assets of about half a billion euros. ** A few key takeaways from Andreas Schwarzenbrunner: ** "I think there's a gap between the software digital-focused climate tech companies versus ones that are really into more development of new ideas, R&D, infrastructure, and hardware." ** "I think there the investor scene needs to adapt because if you're serious about climate tech, and if you are serious about decarbonization, and reducing emissions, the investor scene, including us, has to realize that there is no way around hardware. At the end of the day, if you really look at the hard problems in climate tech, there are so many things that can't be solved otherwise. It's about reducing emissions when you use concrete and steel; it's about new ways of electrified mobility and charging infrastructure. If you look at energy storage and hydrogen solutions, there's no way around building the storage facilities and all those things. Investors need to adapt and realize that if you're serious about it, you have to tackle these problems." ** "We also see that this climate tech is basically a maturing asset class ... you can see the rise of investors in climate tech, money that goes into that space. And for us, we also want to double down on this, and we want to continue to invest and even invest more in climate tech companies over the years to come." ** |
May 16, 2022 |
Fixing the Mess We Created, Tackling Climate Emergency with Carbon13
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Carbon13 backs early-stage climate founders in launching their business ventures, says co-founder Michael Langguth, making it one of the first climate-focused accelerators. |
May 09, 2022 |
Sustainable Transformation in Focus for Japanese New Nordic Fund Nordic Ninja
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Sustainable transformation and overall net climate impact are in focus for Rainer Sternfeld, managing partner at a 100 million euro fund Japanese investment Nordic Ninja when he seeks investment opportunities among Nordic and Baltic startups. |
May 02, 2022 |
Why Old-School VCs Struggle to Get Into Climate Investing? With Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz
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The public sector could boost climate tech development when many funds struggle with fitting climate into their 10-year lifecycle, says investor Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz, who was co-founder of impact investment firm Expon Capital and an early investor in companies like GetAround and Glovo. |
Apr 25, 2022 |
Unhooking Europe, Led by Baltic Founders with Change Ventures' Yrjö Ojasaar
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We spoke with Yrjö Ojasaar, co-founder of Change Ventures, about the investment firm's focus on founders from Baltic countries and he shift in global trends towards climate tech. |
Apr 18, 2022 |
Finding Radical Climate Solutions with Pale Blue Dot's Hampus Jakobsson
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We spoke with Hampus Jakobsson, co-founder of Pale Blue Dot, on how climate problems could be fixed and what are the biggest challenges. |
Apr 11, 2022 |
Deepdive of East Europe Startup World with Flashpoint's Alex Konoplyasty
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We spoke with Alex Konoplyasty, co-founder of Flashpoint Ventures, about big global trends, the possible implications of the war in Eastern Europe, and why it's still early days of greentech investments in the region. |
Apr 04, 2022 |
Urgency of Tackling Climate Change with Balderton's Shikha Ahluwalia
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We spoke with Shikha Ahluwalia about the climate's role in all investment decisions, Balderton's own green strategy, and how to invest in climate-friendly companies across the sectors. |
Mar 28, 2022 |
Big Game of Energy Transition with Helen Ventures' Terhi Vapola
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We spoke with Terhi Vapola about climate tech, energy transition, and Helen Ventures' investments in the fields like EV charging and power grid optimization. |
Feb 28, 2022 |