SOVC Climate Tech Summit
@bentzen attended a free, online climate tech summit on Sept 26/27, 2023
SOVC Climate Tech Summit Recap:
- VC-focused summit
- subjects included meat alternatives/lab-grown meat, shipping, nuclear, ag, manufacturing, scaling carbon capture, grids.
- lots of talk about data, data transfer, data management, data centres, and of course AI
- almost all of this tech requires/creates vast amounts of data and that data will need to be handled and stored in some way
- Some of the VCs noted it’s taking 8-10 months to completion for funding from VCs (compared to 1-month a year ago) but that VCs are backing climate companies because of the urgency of the climate emergency
- day 1 videos https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP90YAdRPFxra_mJPxcioP8S7uRdU3Ff&si=2PxrcA9ZhiThM4U2
- day 2 videos https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP90YAdRPFwlgKROFw072RwjJ8NdOk6w&si=Lw_X3V7bRBBcHM3u
Some of the VCs that were involved:
https://www.preludeventures.com — they invest in compute
https://www.materialimpact.com
https://www.mcjcollective.com | MCJ Collective · Luma
https://www.solvay.com/en/innovation/solvay-ventures