{"id":129776,"date":"2021-11-01T06:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/will-this-generation-of-climate-tech-be-different"},"modified":"2021-11-01T06:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:23:32","slug":"will-this-generation-of-climate-tech-be-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/will-this-generation-of-climate-tech-be-different","title":{"rendered":"Will This Generation Of \u201cClimate Tech\u201d Be Different?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-this-generation-of-climate-tech-be-different.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no question about it: climate technology is in again.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several quarters, entrepreneurial activity and investment interest in climate tech have skyrocketed. New funds devoted specifically to climate have launched at an astonishing rate in 2021: from blue-chip venture capital firms like <a aria-label=\"Union Square Ventures\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usv.com\/writing\/2021\/01\/usv-climate-fund\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.usv.com\/writing\/2021\/01\/usv-climate-fund\/\">Union Square Ventures<\/a>, from large private equity players like <a aria-label=\"TPG\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-07-27\/tpg-raises-5-4-billion-for-climate-fund-chaired-by-hank-paulson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-07-27\/tpg-raises-5-4-billion-for-climate-fund-chaired-by-hank-paulson\">TPG<\/a> and <a aria-label=\"General Atlantic\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/general-atlantic-fundraising-climate-tech-6ab61180-856a-468c-83ed-f65052df6101.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/general-atlantic-fundraising-climate-tech-6ab61180-856a-468c-83ed-f65052df6101.html\">General Atlantic<\/a>, from a whole new breed of climate-specific VCs like <a aria-label=\"Lowercarbon Capital\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/08\/12\/chris-saccas-lowercarbon-capital-has-raised-800-million-to-keep-unfcking-the-planet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/08\/12\/chris-saccas-lowercarbon-capital-has-raised-800-million-to-keep-unfcking-the-planet\/\">Lowercarbon Capital<\/a>. Scarcely a day goes by now without a climate tech startup announcing a major new funding round. A whopping <a aria-label=\"$49 billion\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/sponsor\/svb\/increased-investment-in-climate-tech-aims-for-a-clean-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/sponsor\/svb\/increased-investment-in-climate-tech-aims-for-a-clean-future\/\">$49 billion<\/a> of venture capital funding will pour into climate tech in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>BlackRock CEO Larry Fink aptly captured the current ebullience when he <a aria-label=\"declared\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/25\/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-next-1000-unicorns-will-be-in-climate-tech.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/25\/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-next-1000-unicorns-will-be-in-climate-tech.html\">declared<\/a> last week that \u201cthe next 1,000 unicorns\u201d will be in climate tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no question about it: climate technology is in again. Over the past several quarters, entrepreneurial activity and investment interest in climate tech have skyrocketed. New funds devoted specifically to climate have launched at an astonishing rate in 2021: from blue-chip venture capital firms like Union Square Ventures, from large private equity players like TPG [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}