1.5° Ventures

Great to be part of the Breakthrough Energy Summit in London this week! Solving the #FOAK challenge through smart financial structuring is precisely how the exceptional founders of our portfolio companies are growing their business. Keep up the stellar work! ecoLocked, Heatrix, ICODOS, Spark e-Fuels, WeDoSolar

Important work on the role of Offtake Agreements in Climate Tech. While not a silver buller, busting order books and/or longterm offtake agreements are a necessary, though not sufficient condition to become eligible for debt and PE finance.

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐩 - 𝐀𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 🌍🛠️ 🏗️ The #construction industry stands at a pivotal crossroads where innovation meets necessity. With #climatechange knocking on our doors louder than ever, there's an urgent call to action resonating throughout the sector. Every brick laid, every beam installed, every building erected contributes to the sector's GHG #emissions, exacerbating the #climatecrisis and its dire consequences. 💡 But amidst this challenge lies an unprecedented opportunity for #innovation and progress. Enter climate tech #startups - the unsung heroes of our time. These #pioneers are not just disruptors; they are catalysts for change, wielding cutting-edge technologies and ingenious solutions to tackle the climate crisis head-on. Thank you Dr. Mario Schmitt (ecoLocked) and Emanuel Heisenberg (ecoworks) for your great contributions to our panel and the hard work you and your teams put into #decarbonizing the construction industry. 🤝 Climate tech #innovators and #founders need the right political conditions and a suitable market #framework to found, scale and finance their solutions. That's why we as Tech for Net Zero teamed up with World Fund and decided to bring the two worlds of #politics and #climatetech together by initiating this new format. Many thanks to Parliamentary State Secretary Dr. Franziska Brantner for taking the time to share the #government's position and its efforts in reaching the climate goals and promoting the climate tech industry. We appreciate the constructive dialogue with the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz and look forward to the next exchange. 🎤 Also, many thanks to our great moderator Miriam Partington (Sifted), to everyone who helped organizing the event, and to all our participants who contributed to the event's success! Stay in touch and see you at the next occasion. Together, we will keep on working hard to promote the climate tech #ecosystem and to raise synergies for making our technologies the true climate #gamechangers and #planetsavers. Tech for Net Zero World Fund Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) Future Energy Lab Tobias Lechtenfeld Danijel Višević Pia Dorfinger Julian Joswig Nicole Keating Maria Leis Miriam Partington Sibylla Heckmann

Thinking of a career in #climatetech ? Dive into this comprehensive guide on decarbonizing #chemicals . Learn how disrupting the fossil chemical industry with emission-free carbon-based chemicals can drive the transformation of industries from fertilizers to packaging to textiles towards sustainability. Great weekend reading, with special thanks to our friends at Zero Carbon Capital!

I've spent the past few weeks speaking with engineers, chemists, and all sorts of technical people. Why? At 1.5° Ventures we help technical founders turn their research or fundamental technology into a fast-scaling climate business, with the potential to reduce hundreds of megatons of CO2e every year. Are you or someone you know potentially interested in the founders' journey? We have limited capacity to support one or two more teams in the first half of 2024. Drop a comment or reach out via DM, I'd love to speak with you! #engineering #climateemergency #startups #nogreenwashing #nobullshit

Great success for Spark e-Fuels! What a recognition on a world stage to be among the top class of efuel companies world wide. Congrats!

Great success for Spark e-Fuels! What a recognition on a world stage to be among the top class of efuel companies world wide. Congrats!

🌟 As the year winds down, it's time to celebrate accomplishments of our portfolio companies, while keeping the eye on the guiding #northstar: getting our economies to #NetZero! 🌍🎉 This year's been full of #learning - far beyond bringing together exceptionally strong teams with top-notch climate tech. Scaling up breakthrough solutions is equally about navigating #investmentrisks, #facilityfinance, and getting #offtakers on board early on. 🌱💡 Launching a climate tech startup? It feels a lot like climbing a #mountain! Yes, we bagged many achievements along the way, but the real magic happens at the summit, where the technology can have a significant #impact on emissions. 🏔️🌿 🌟 The call-to-action is louder than ever, at COP28 and beyond! We need more strong tech founders, chemists, engineers, and innovators, that have the deep tech knowledge and experience to build transformative climate solutions. That is why in #2024, we will be onboarding the next cohort of founders, to launch climate tech ventures with groundbreaking technologies, offering a wide menu on operational guidance and strategic counsel. 🌱🚀 A heartfelt shout-out to our partners and friends who have been pivotal on our shared journey, though first and foremost a huge congratulations to our stellar founders at ecoLocked, ICODOS, Heatrix, Spark e-Fuels, and WeDoSolar for all their achievements this year. Your get-go attitude have enriched this year immeasurably. 🙌🎊 Huge thanks also goes to Breakthrough Energy , the Tech for Net Zero team, the Energy Resilience Leadership Group, and the many research centers and universities in our network - thank you for your ongoing support and collaboration, we couldn't have done it without you! 🌟 Lastly, a merry cheers to our office mates at Climentum Capital, Climate Insiders, KOMPAS VC, and Cleantech for Europe - always a blast having you around. 🎅✨ Wishing you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season and a spectacular New Year ahead! 🎇 Cheers, Jeff Katz, Dr. Julian Weisbrod, Tobias Lechtenfeld #ClimateTech #2024 #HappyHolidays #SeasonsGreetings

It's fantastic to see the vital interest of Brandenburg's Minister of Transport, Guido Beermann, in e-fuels for aviation. We connected over the joint goal of building a clean industry for Brandenburg and Berlin!

How do we unlock the potential of #SustainableAviationFuels? How do we build a cost-efficient ecosystem, establish value chains, and make confident investment decisions? 🌍✈️🌱 Spark e-Fuels is proud to partner with the global thought leaders of Strategy& and PwC for their latest study about the most pressing challenges to #SAF development and corresponding solutions. Together, let’s get the SAF industry kickstarted! Great job Dr. Jan H. Wille, Dirk Niemeier, Anna Went, Florian Schäfer and colleagues! Download the full study here: https://lnkd.in/ewHsMPHQ #SustainableAviationFuels #eFuels #eSAF #ClimateTech #CleanTech #GreenEnergy #EmissionsReduction