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June 19, 2024

‘We’ve acquired quite a lot of money’ - serial French entrepreneurs launch €130m climate fund

The new fund will focus on early-stage startups at the intersection of deeptech and climate tech


Wind, a French early-stage VC founded by serial entrepreneurs Thierry Vandewalle and Xavier Gury, has closed a first €90m of a targeted €130m fund dedicated to European deeptech startups in the climate sector.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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