Ford: General Atlantic may launch a dedicated climate and sustainability fund
Bill Ford · Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03) · Jul 22, 2021 · at 26:43
Bill Ford, CEO of General Atlantic, outlines the firm's evaluation of new growth equity strategies around climate change and energy transition.
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“One area we have our eye on right now that we're spending quite a bit of time on is climate, sustainability, and energy transition, because we are starting to see more and more deal flow that in our core sectors like technology that are focused on this very, very important issue, and we're seeing a lot of a lot of entrepreneurship and a lot of innovation going at the major global problem of climate change and the need to transition the energy sector from carbon-based energy to alternative energy. So that's an example where I think some of our schools might be highly relevant to investing in that area, and it might call for a separate pool of capital, but that's sort of how we think about it.”
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