Trellis Climate: addressing the gap in FOAK financing

Jun 11, 2024

Lara Pierpoint, an expert in climate technology financing, discusses the Trellis climate program by Prime Coalition. She highlights how this initiative provides catalytic capital to bridge the crucial gap between early-stage funding and larger infrastructure investments. Lara delves into the challenges of aligning philanthropic and private capital interests, emphasizing the importance of a long-term vision for climate tech startups. She also discusses the complexities of securing financing and the proactive strategies needed to navigate these hurdles successfully.

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Intro

00:00 • 4min

Catalytic Capital: Bridging the Climate Finance Gap

03:57 • 8min

Navigating Climate Tech Financing

12:16 • 19min

Navigating Development Capital in Climate Tech Financing

30:53 • 5min

Funding Innovation in Carbon Removal Technologies

35:44 • 5min

Navigating Climate Tech Startup Challenges

41:02 • 6min

In this episode, Lara Pierpoint discusses the Trellis climate program developed by Prime Coalition to address the gap in first-of-a-kind financing for climate technologies. The program focuses on providing catalytic capital to support the scaling and commercialization of climate innovations. Lara explains that the program aims to bridge the gap between early-stage venture funding and infrastructure investment, which is crucial for the successful deployment of climate technologies. She also highlights the challenges of aligning the interests of private capital focused on returns with philanthropic capital focused on impact. The program seeks to ensure that the supported technologies have a pathway to scale and can attract traditional investment in the future. In this conversation, Lara talks about the role of catalytic capital in bridging the financing gap for climate tech startups. She explains that catalytic capital funds projects that traditional investors may not be willing to support due to various risk factors. Lara's call to action for climate tech startups is to start thinking about long-term vision and how to cross the financing gap early on.

Takeaways

The Trellis climate program addresses the gap in first-of-a-kind financing for climate technologies.

The program provides catalytic capital to support the scaling and commercialization of climate innovations.

It aims to bridge the gap between early-stage venture funding and infrastructure investment.

Aligning the interests of private capital focused on returns with philanthropic capital focused on impact is a challenge.

The program ensures that supported technologies have a pathway to scale and can attract traditional investment in the future. Catalytic capital funds projects that traditional investors may not support due to risk factors.

Climate tech startups should start thinking about long-term vision and how to cross the financing gap early.

Links

https://www.primecoalition.org/programs/trellis-climate

Report: Barriers to the timely deployment of climate infrastructure

Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-pierpoint-5a740515/

Email us: info@climatetech360.com

Host: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samiaqader/