Category: Publications

How to finance the scaling of breakthrough climate technologies? Many climate tech startups and scaleups struggle to secure the necessary financing for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) facilities – even with existing offtake agreements. Venture capital financing, the most common form of startup finance, is usually not sufficient to meet the investment needs of hardware startups. However, loans…

Policy paper: “Green Public Procurement – Stimulating climate-neutral demand for a competitive EU net zero economy: A case study of Germany” The public sector awards contracts worth around 500 billion euros a year in Germany alone – equivalent to around 13% of gross domestic product. Such massive purchasing power can be leveraged to reduce greenhouse…

Brief analysis of election programs for the 2021 federal election Germany’s climate protection targets are playing an important role in this year’s federal election. The upcoming federal government faces major challenges to restructure the economy and promote climate-neutral technologies as an added value for climate protection. Within this framework, innovations and climate tech startups are…

Technical innovations are crucial on the road to climate neutrality: However, young companies in the field of climate protection still have difficulties in Germany in financing their innovative solutions. Especially in the early stages after startup, many climate tech startups lack capital, especially for investment-intensive innovations such as hardware-based climate technologies in sectors like power…

The German basic materials industry (steel production and processing, cement production, and production of basic chemicals) emits large quantities of greenhouse gases. Although various innovative technologies are ready to decarbonize production processes, the current market environment hardly allows investments in these technologies. At the same time, due to long investment cycles and path dependencies, these…

Technical innovations are a crucial component in achieving climate neutrality. A large part of the emission reductions required for this will have to be achieved through technologies that are not yet scaled in the market today. So in order to have the right technologies available at the right time on the road to climate neutrality,…

Technical innovations are a decisive contribution to climate neutrality. However, there is often a lack of knowledge transfer from research to practice. Spin-offs are too rare, patents too often gather dust in a drawer, potentials remain unused. Many new and groundbreaking ideas are being generated at German research institutions in particular. The task now is…

The report “Investing in Net Zero – Assessing Germany’s venture capital potential in climate tech” highlights the investment opportunities for building and developing new climate technology startups that could deliver impactful technologies across all sectors of the economy in Germany. The analysis draws on detailed market forecasts to identify opportunities for climate tech entrepreneurs and…