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CTVC has built the leading voice in climate innovation and now we’re expanding our platform to meet the growing demand for deeper data and insights-based on the four pillars below:
1) Data-first, and further. The root of our reporting has always been our data. We’ve been obsessively tracking the thousands of companies and capital allocators pushing for a low-carbon future and built the taxonomy for climate tech from the ground up. But to properly cover this ever-expanding and evolving ecosystem, we’re going further than funding. An alphabet soup of rounds doesn’t always translate into success, but real projects on the ground, commercial contracts, and partnerships do.
2) Climate (and coverage) is one connected system. Climate tech is a mental framework for building a low-carbon future. That framework is how we understand, decarbonize, and adapt to our warming world. Solutions are connected and cyclical-clean electrons (renewables) need durable storage (batteries) to drive electrified transport (EVs) and zero-emission buildings (heat pumps). Our research approach to breaking down these markets will be as intertwined and relational as the clean electrons and molecules flowing through these systems. Sectors don’t stand in siloes.
3) Implementation takes integration. While I was an investor at Energy Impact Partners, I observed firsthand the realistic challenges of disruptive innovators and corporate customers partnering on scalable implementation. Net zero won’t be solved by startups and venture capitalists alone, nor will it be solved by corporates sticking to the status quo. It requires 1) corporates that buy and build, 2) governments that catalyze, 3) investors who fund and scale, and 4) founders who innovate. Similarly, our aperture will cover all four key sets of players.
4) Bridging the innovation-deployment gap. As the market bridges from VC-backed innovation to real-world deployment, so will our coverage. Deep decarbonization of the global economy still requires new technologies to come up the curve, and there are still hard problems to solve. If climate tech is to go the way of solar and wind, project development and financing for emerging technologies like green hydrogen and long-duration energy storage need a common language and set of data to scale.