Climate Techies Startup-VC Investor Speed Dating & Fundraising Mixer

Climate Techies Startup-VC Investor Speed Dating & Fundraising Mixer

Your chance to pitch your climate or sustainability startup to top climate investors for feedback and possible funding for your business.

By 4WARD's Collaborative Climate DOERs

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Monday, May 27 · 8 - 9am PDT

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Online

About this event

(Climate Techies Members-Only) Climate Startup-VC Investor Speed Dating

For more info on Climate Techies membership & perks, please visit: climatetechies.com

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Want to pitch your climate or sustainability startup to an experience climate tech or impact investor for feedback on your pitch and possible follow-up meetings and funding? Then this is the event for you!

Don't miss your chance to meet experience climate investors, pitch your startups, meet other founders and possible securing funding for your business.

Date/Time: Monthly on Last Monday of Month @ 5-6pm CET


Participating Investors (research their focuses ahead of time to choose appropriate Breakout Room to join/pitch):

Regular Monthly Investors:

  • Manuel Heckman: Greencode VC: Early-stage digital-first green transition in Europe.
  • Sunay Gupta: Sagana : Series A global investor: hard to decarbonize industries
  • Puja Balachandar: Carbon13: early stage climate tech startups
  • Fahir Han: Angel investor, ex-founder of Carbon13
  • Carl Ilies: NCA VC: focused on decarbonizing large German corporates & industry: energy, carbon capture, circularity, supply chain, built world..
  • Steffen Ehrhardt: Syndicate Lead & SICTIC: ex Global Program Manager Sustainable Development Startups @ Google
  • Teruko Kyuden: Caygan VC: global seed-Series A: energy, waste, manufacturing, materials, food & ag


Occasional Surprise Guest Investors:

  • Diego Mendez: Plug and Play: ex-Material Scientist VC passionate about sustainability, focused on Energy Transition & Climate.
  • Nic Gorini: SpinVC: focused on early stage consumer, circularity, waste mgmt and retail
  • Felix Krause: Vireo VC: early stage EU climate, mobility & electrification
  • Ben Haag: Oil and Gas Climate Initiative: Series A+ Energy, Infrastructure and Climate Tec


Dates: Please review schedule and choose time/date that best suits you

NOTE: Pitching opportunities will be FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE so be sure to RSVP and join early to ensure you have a slot to pitch


NOTE: This event is part of our 4WARD's Climate Networking Membership and platform and is being offered free for a limited time for serious climate professionals interested in trialing but a small portion of our high-value 4WARD membership (only $120/yr or $12/ mo)


Have you checked out 4WARD's Climate Country Group & City Resource Hubs on Circle and introduced yourself to the community? If not, you should ASAP


Start your free 90-day trial: 4ward.vc/join


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Frequently asked questions

How much time will we have to pitch?

Each startup (depending on alloted time and number of attendees) will have up to 5 mins to pitch their startup?

Which investors will I/can I pitch?

You should research attending investors interests/focuses ahead of time and join the Breakout Room from your preferred investor.

What is the format of the pitching/matchmaking?

There will be a Zoom call with multiple Breakout Rooms lead by each investor listed above. Startups will join the Room of their choice (based on investor and availability) and have 5 mins to pitch their startup followed by ~2 mins of investor feedback.

Is there a specific pitching order?

First come, first serve... show up early and join the Breakout Room of your favorite investor (or whichever has space) to be sure you get a chance to pitch. If not and there are too many companies, we host these monthly so be sure to RSVP for next month's session as well.

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4WARD's Collaborative Climate DOERs

About 4WARD's Collaborative Community: the largest local-to-global climate network

Powered by a team of experienced founders, builders and doers alongside dozens of local and sector-focused community volunteers, 4WARD is building a worldwide movement of climate professionals and stakeholders dedicated to collaboratively tackling climate change before it’s too late.

By bringing together startups, corporates, investors, governments and ecosystem players in an open and partnership-focused capacity, we’ve built a platform to help our members accelerate their climate mission and impact at a global scale.

Join the largest local-to-global community of climate DOERs, leaders & innovators with regular events in 45 cities worldwide plus a robust online member networking & collaboration portal to connect with high-level climate & sustainability professionals across sectors and geographies to, collaborate and advance your careers and climate missions together and move the world 4WARD…

Learn more and join our global movement at 4ward.vc/join

Membership Perks Include:

  1. Member-Only Events & Networking: 25+ online and in-person networking events per month
  2. Regular member meetups in 46 cities globally
  3. Premium Listing in our Public Climate Solution Database
  4. Robust online member networking & collaboration platform
  5. Unlimited access to databases & resources (climate VC & climate solutions database etc...)
  6. Monthly Startup/VC Speed Dating
  7. Monthly Mentor Office Hours
  8. $227k in free perks & credits like AWS, Segment, Azure etc...

NOTE: This event is part of our 4WARD Climate Community Membership and network and is being offered free for a limited time for serious climate professionals interested in trialing but a small portion of our high-value 4WARD membership (only $120/yr or $12/ mo).

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