Cleantech/Energy Startups – prospects and challenges
Peet Denny, Founder and Climate VC
- Start  Wednesday 26 Feb 2025 5:00pm
- Finish Wednesday 26 Feb 2025 6:00pm
- Venue Brasenose College
- Postcode OX1 4AJ
Join the OES in their next speaker event this term. Peet Denny will be joining them to talk about the prospects and challenges of building a cleantech/energy startup.
As a Founding Partner of Climate VC, Peet is a seed investor investing in technologies that have a clear path to at least 10MtCO2e-scale annual impact. Their mission is to find, foster and fund crazy, unusual, and innovative startups who want to have a global and gigatonne-scale impact on the climate. He is also the founder of the largest UK AI community outside of London.
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MT26 Energy Seminar – Week 6: Looking at the big picture: aligning energy, climate, food, water and nature security
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