Clean Energy Ventures invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing global climate change.
Clean Energy Ventures invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing global climate change.
We back big ideas and bold entrepreneurs seeking to gain commercial superpowers, combining traditional venture capital and financial alignment with the scale and customer access of a global energy management and automation leader. Climate Tech
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13 Earlier-stage climate technologies require significantly more capital than venture capital firms tend to provide in other tech sectors (such as software) but have significantly higher risk profiles than private equity and infrastructure funds are willing to underwrite. To achieve d...
Venture capital investments in climate tech have soared in the past five years. “First there was the Industrial Revolution, then the Digital Revolution, and now we are in the Climate Revolution,” as former Techstars COO and 9Zero Ventures founder Scott For...
Accelerators, angel investors, seed funds, venture capitalists, and private equity firms poured $7.6 billion into climate-tech startups across December 2021 and January 2022. Temasek was the most active investor during the period, participating in six funding rounds, including the $200 million raise...
Zooming in on venture capital, equity raised by climate-tech firms only made up 12% of the total global venture financing in the first half of the year, down from 16% in the same period a year before. One of the reasons for this drop could be the surge in investor fascination with ar...
Cleantech and climate-tech describe the green and clean technologies that venture capital investors were turning to in increasing numbers as the next big thing in technology investing after the collapse of the tech boom in 2000. Billions are pouring into the business of decarbonization, betting on ...