Francetic: Buoyant Ventures targets digital climate software over hard tech
Amy Francetic · Live: How AI could supercharge climate tech · Apr 12, 2023 · at 11:35
Amy Francetic, managing partner at Buoyant Ventures, explains her venture fund's investment criteria during a panel on digital climate tech.
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“We're looking for digital technologies that we define as software, including AI, and simple hardware, so we're not investing in the hard tech like a lot of the great things that are happening here at Greentown Labs. We're investing in simple sensors that are collecting unique data that the software can use”
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