In this article, jointly published with Picus Capital at the close of NYC Climate Week, we examine the intersection of climatetech and fintech, which we believe will undoubtedly continue to be intertwined in the near future. There exists significant opportunity in capital-light fintech solutions that can help tackle the operations of existing infrastructure to create efficiencies in payments, capital formation, asset management and insurance.
The “inconvenient truth” for climatetech investors is clear: historically, businesses promising advances in diminishing humanity’s ecological footprint have been about access to hardware products, with investors deeming them as capital-intensive relative to typical VC-favored capital-light business models.
https://medium.com/fintech-collective/climatetech-fintech-converging-into-the-2020s-88202bc0f526