Big Easy Ideas

S3: EP3 | Investors & Climate Tech Startups


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Investment in climate tech startups doubled from 2020 to 2021. With over $40B deployed across 600 deals in 2021 alone, climate tech investing is one of the hottest growth areas within venture investing. What is driving this trend and where is the opportunity frontier for climate tech going? Chante Harris is a leading pressed and seed-stage investor, go-to-market expert, and supporter of early stage climate tech startups. Hank Torbert is an experienced executive, operator, and private equity investor specializing in industrial tech. John Elstrott is a co-founder of Resource Environmental Solutions, a global ecological restoration leader. He recently co-founded an ecological venture design studio, Applied Ecological Institute, and a VC fund: EcoExChange. The design studio has launched its first two ventures: Climate Foods and StratifyX. Together, the three panelists will discuss how investors look at opportunities in climate tech and the unique outlook that founders must have to build in the "hard tech" space.

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