El Naggar: 80% of recent climate capital went to growth and late-stage PE
Mona El Naggar · Investors riff on the new era for climate investing · Oct 16, 2023 · at 16:56
Mona El Naggar highlights how climate investing has matured compared to Cleantech 1.0, noting substantial capital availability for scaling companies.
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“80% of the money that was raised for climate over the past few years has gone into growth investing, private equity, you know, the kind of later stage, and that's really quite helpful as well.”
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