venture capital

“I do worry that nuclear is for example, one of those technologies where, Where government needs to move the needle more because it just isn't on a time scale that fits a ten-year investment fund, you know, in venture capital.”

“The main mistake I see early stage founders making is that as soon as they think they're ready to raise, they start, they go out to VC. And they're not thinking about the long game when they do that. Because there's only a certain amount of money that you're g…”

“You can go through every single accelerator, even in the climate space, and they will all be setting you up to raise VC. There's not that much of how do we build a coalition. There's all how do we just graduate you to getting a pile of money so then you can go…”

“I would create a program for founders who have technologies that are not a good match for VC, but which are so needed. Specifically, things around protection. And preservation, especially in the light of fires and floods, and the types of adaptation we need to…”

“So many of the conversations were around how do we become one of the top three companies in the world. They weren't about how do we utilize this unique technology to Help specific communities or sectors of the market that no one else is addressing. It was just…”

“VCs started to head to the Gulf states a while ago, right, like a decade ago, to court some of that region's enormous Capital reserves not only because there was a lot of it to go around, but because also on the demand side of that, Gulf state allocators were …”

“I think the drop-off rate Across venture capital in general, separate from climate tech and all of our specific quirks is extremely high. I think it's like only 25% go on to raise like a fund three or something like that.”

“There is a lot, there are many up-and-coming companies within the startup space that are VC-backed, that are exploring these technologies and wanting to bring them to scale.”

“I think venture is the superhero of the climate movement, right? Like, venture steps up in ways that other capital allocators really are not”

“If you look at the data for how much money flows into climate in the US, like, VC is not the dominant.”

“Venture debt is underwritten against your next venture raise. It's not underwritten against anything else.”

“The challenge that I have with that group of investors is that oftentimes the advice that they give to founders, or the guidance that they give to founders while they're on their boards, is often not as informed as it should be, but is given as very definitive…”

“From a VC perspective, you're like now combining hardware with biology, With software, like talk about like the double black diamond of a startup, like that's really difficult.”