Tom Whitehouse, CEO at Leif Capital, moderated a discussion comparing cleantech investment with the first decade after the millennium.
Gina Domanig, managing partner at Emerald Technology Ventures, a multi-corporate-backed venture capital firm in Switzerland, Canada, Toronto and Singapore.
“Change has been quite dramatic. Not only the terminology has changed over the past 20 years, but the ecosystem has changed quite dramatically. If I think of 20 years ago, I think it is actually very nice to be considered an impact investor. Back then impact investor meant kind of a charity. So, we called ourselves sustainability and it was very difficult even to get the message out. But the dealflow back then in the early 2000s was very capex heavy, engineering projects looking for someone who cares. Even though today what we do is 50 per cent energy related, back then a lot of the deals were power generation.
So that has changed dramatically. The sector is, even within energy, a lot more…
