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July 5, 2022

Climentum launches €150m climate fund to back moonshot sustainability startups

And it’s not going to be investing in software companies


Tim Smith

5 min read

Most people are in agreement that the world needs to wake up and find solutions to the climate crisis. What's less universally agreed on is how best to do that.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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