[Live @ Supercluster] #2: Investing in industrial green tech with Marc Lechantre (Axeleo)

🌊 Marc Lechantre on industrial decarbonization.

We’re joined by Marc Lechantre, Partner at Axeleo Capital’s Green Tech Industry Fund. After 15 years in the automotive industry, Marc now backs the founders building the factories, materials, and energy systems that actually move the climate needle.

In this episode, we dive into industrial climate tech, and unpack what it really takes to finance, scale, and de-risk hardware-first startups in Europe.

We covered:

→ Why software alone won’t solve climate change

→ The real funding gap in industrial climate tech

→ How to de-risk industrial investments

→ Why Europe still has a shot at re-industrialization

→ What VCs often miss about hardware risk, and why it’s different, not worse

→ Why “green premiums” are over, and climate solutions must now win on cost

→ What investing actually looks like when you’re building physical infrastructure

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