El Naggar: Nuclear energy deployment does not fit 10-year venture fund cycles
Mona El Naggar · Investors riff on the new era for climate investing · Oct 16, 2023 · at 40:37
Mona El Naggar, partner at Valo Ventures, discusses why her fund remains cautious about investing in nuclear power despite technological interest.
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“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.”
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