How to raise funding in ClimateTech - Peet Denny of Climate VC

<p>Peet Denny, the founding partner at Climate VC, which is a new venture fund investing in climate tech ventures, and the fund is based in the UK. Climate VC is planning to actually fund a hundred startups over the next three years.<br/><br/></p><p>In today’s episode, we discuss how he built his company from the ground up.</p><p><b>EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS</b></p><ul><li>[00:55] Peet&apos;s personal background &amp; journey</li><li>[3:28] How the machine learning model works to track rainforest destruction</li><li>[5:03] Climate VC journey and thesis</li><li>[7:22] The SEISEIS fund impact on Climate VC</li><li>[9:22] Peet&apos;s climate tech funding opinion</li><li>[11:27] Peet&apos;s advice to climate tech founders currently fundraising</li><li>[13:14] Climate tech startups space</li><li>[16:05] Focusing on the promiseland not the problems</li><li>[18:08] Biggest rules for success in funding a startup</li><li>[20:12] Peet&apos;s Investment decision-making process</li><li>[22:04] Managing vision &amp; division in a startup</li><li>[23:20] Characteristics of a great founder and team</li><li>[25:33] Peet&apos;s 10-year vision</li></ul><p><b>KEY LESSONS &amp; QUOTES</b></p><p>“Being quite on top of your game in understanding where your impact is coming from. And having the long-term view of making that more and more sophisticated over time, will make it easier for you to raise money.” [12.11]<br/><br/></p><p>“We wanna see a team that will just roll over all of the rocks in the road without breaking the pace. Typically founders are amazing problem solvers and that&apos;s why we love them and need them in our lives. ” [16.22]<br/><br/></p><p>“ If a potential customer is excited about a product, then that&apos;s so much of the problem solved. ” [18:19]<br/><br/><br/>“If you look at a founding team as a team and not as a set of individuals, it doesn&apos;t really matter who you are as long as you&apos;re great in some way” [24:37]<br/><br/></p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/impacthustlers">Support the sh