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Solving the FOAK puzzle — Addressing Capex financing for first-of-a-kind plants in the green transition

“The green transition requires Infrastructure-like ticket sizes with a VC-like risk appetite“ as one of our friends in the investor space put it. As such tickets are unlikely to emerge as a significant financial product in the ecosystem, we need to find creative ways to overcome the challenge with the existing ecosystem players.

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Why Invest in ZeroPoint: A Sustainable Future for Data Centers

ZeroPoint’s technology can drastically increase the energy efficiency of servers, delivering up to 50% more performance per watt by removing unnecessary information from the memory. This means that data centers can maximize performance and reduce energy consumption.

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Why did we invest in Entocycle?

We finally have a solution to decentralize and localize production, solve the global feed shortage and accelerate the transition towards low-carbon alternative proteins, all at once.

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Why did we invest in Qvantum ?

Europe is the world’s fastest growing heat pumps market. Heat pumps are favored by European government policies suggesting a trend of rapid adoption and a mass scale-up.

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Why did we invest in Wayout?

Wayout’s business concept of producing water locally means dealing with several sustainability challenges at once. We have a 360-degree approach to water supply. It is one of our success factors.

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Why we invested in one • fıve — a startup reimagining sustainable packaging products

Conventional plastics contribute about 4.5% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (World Economic Forum, 2021) — not to mention the numerous negative impacts on human health and biodiversity (more on that here). That’s why we’re so excited to invest in one.five. They are bridging the gap between research and commercialization to bring more sustainable alternatives to conventional plastics into the market.

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