Why Invest In Climate-Tech Now?

PARKING UPDATE:

Rowling Hall is located at 300 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. on the northeast corner of Guadalupe and MLK.

The entrance to the Rowling Hall parking garage is on 20th Street just east of Guadalupe. When you turn on to 20th Street, you’ll see the parking garage entrance immediately on your right. Once you park, take the parking garage elevators up to the 1st floor of Rowling. Exit the parking elevator lobby and go to your left, and you’ll see another set of elevators that you can take up to the 4th floor to get to RRH 4.408

Why Invest In Climate-Tech Now?

Climate-tech is entering a new epoch in which the next wave of unicorns and generational companies are being built. For decades, many have associated climate-tech with altruistic but highly risky, capital intensive, investments, dependent on regulatory support or challenging technology breakthroughs. But today, the landscape has fundamentally shifted: massively falling costs have made renewable energies cheaper than conventional fuels, with clean energies on pace to cover all the world’s additional new energy demand in the next three years; while maturing supply chains and standardization of financing have de-emphasized needs for technology advancement in wide ranging business models and industries. These trends are driven by fundamental economic and social tailwinds: The acceleration of climate change has made carbon risk quantifiable and unavoidable in investment planning; consumer sentiment has driven major commitments and billions of investments by corporations toward emissions reductions. City, state and regional regulations have pre-empted national and international regulations. And ambitious regulations in the US and EU are driving trillions of investment and innovation in the coming decade. In this panel we will bring together leading investors and founders to discuss the seismic trends driving opportunities in climate-tech, near and longer term opportunities, and challenges.

Panelists

- Colleen Konetzke, Principal at Ironspring Ventures

- Shiri Freund Koren, Climate-Tech Investor

- Scott Nguyen, Founder of Bodhi

- Peter Sopher,  Investment Partner at Clean Energy Ventures

When:  Thursday, February 22th, 5:30-8:00pm 

5:30pm – 6:15pm: Drinks, appetizers, networking happy hour 

6:15pm – 7:15pm: 45min panel discussion; 15 min Q&A

7:15pm – 7:30pm: Quick self-intros from Austin-based cleantech start-ups and VCs 

7:30pm – 8:00pm: More happy hour, drinks and food Sponsored 

Location: 

Robert B. Rowling Hall,  Auditorium 4.408

300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78705