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The SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct. 25-26 / free & virtual / register now) gathers the top entrepreneurs, investors, and organizations in climate tech. Throughout the Summit, VC funds and federal agencies will be hosting live breakout sessions where summit attendees can meet team members and ask live questions. If you’re a founder, you won’t

In June 2022, Singapore’s sovereign investment fund Temasek—which had a portfolio valued at USD288 billion as of March 2022—launched GenZero, the world’s largest climate tech fund with $3.6 billion in backing. At the SOSV Climate Tech Summit GenZero’s CEO Frederick Teo will discuss how his team plans to accelerate progress towards net-zero emissions.

VCs from Voyager, World Fund, Earshot and Transition will speak at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit

Khosla Ventures, MCJ Collective, and WorldFund are running breakouts at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit.

With the world emitting about 50 gigatons of CO2e per year, IPCC scientists are convinced that a climate disaster is unavoidable unless we remove carbon from the atmosphere. So too is the White House, which increased the 45Q tax credit for carbon capture in the Inflation Reduction Act (aka, the climate bill) from $50 to

Much of the VC industry is in retreat this year, but early-stage climate tech investors are charging ahead. In fact, seed deals in climate tech doubled year over year in the first half of 2022.

NotCo CEO Matías Muchnik joins the SOSV Climate Tech Summit to discuss how his company’s plant-based dairy and meat might outcompete livestock. A food tech unicorn based in the US and Chile, NotCo and its proprietary AI, named Giuseppe, have engineered a plant-based milk claimed to taste, cook, and blend just like cow’s milk. And it’s on grocery shelves today.

Dandelion CEO Kathy Hannun and Quaise CEO Carlos Araque join the  SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct. 25-26 / free & virtual / register now) for a panel on rethinking and scaling geothermal. Born at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Dandelion brings geothermal heating and cooling to residential homes. Dandelion’s proprietary drills make a hole that is only a few inches wide, minimizing the cost for consumers and the impact on their property. Investors in Dandelion’s $30 million Series B included Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, GV, and NEA. 

f you could direct $40 billion towards the world’s most critical climate technologies, which would you choose? For Jigar Shah, Director of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), that’s no hypothetical.

According to investor Chris Sacca, “The climate is f’d.” The billionaire founder of Lowercase Capital is known for his investments in Uber, Twitter, Instagram, Stripe, and other famed unicorns. He came out of retirement in 2021 to “unf**k the planet” with Lowercarbon Capital, his new venture firm. Armed with $1.15 billion in capital across two