World Fund is a venture capital firm focused on investing in technology companies that have the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions. Their investment strategy is centered around identifying and scaling up climate tech solutions that can make a substantial impact on climate change.

World Fund

We help to decarbonise the global economy.

As a climate tech VC, we are driven by tackling the climate crisis and only invest in technologies with scalable businesses and significant emissions savings potential. We support startups from early to growth stage, focusing on Energy, Food and Agriculture, Manufacturing, Buildings, and Mobility.

Entrepreneurs who understand decarbonisation as a value driver are whom we back; those who think big, act macro; those who build tech for a regenerative world.

💥 Big news: We closed our first fund! At €300M!!! 💥

The largest first-time fund in European climate VC history!

This fund marks a new era for European climate tech for several reasons:

🌍 In addition to renowned, very experienced and successful LPs like for example the European Investment Fund (EIF), KfW Capital or VP Capital, we brought onboard LPs that invested in a first-time VC fund for the first time ever, like the Environment Agency's pension fund, Erste Group (Plavi), or Wiltshire Pension Fund.

🌍 Yes, pension funds invested in a first-time climate VC fund! We have thus addressed an investor group that (especially in Europe!) so far had little to do with venture capital and certainly nothing to do with first-time funds. We believe that this will set a precedent and ultimately help the entire VC and climate sector.

🌍 Bonjour Bpifrance! We are very proud to be the first first-time VC fund you have invested in outside France!

🌍 And yes, World Fund I is the largest first-time fund in European climate VC history! 

🌍 We have managed to build this record-breaking fund in the midst of the most difficult fundraising environment. This was also possible because there is a new openness among institutional investors towards climate funds with partners who have a strong track record.

Thanks to our investors, we’ve already backed numerous incredible startups with huge climate performance potential, including Planet A Foods, cylib, IQM Quantum Computers, Space Forge, ENOUGH, CustomCells , Juicy Marbles, Farmless, ecoworks and aedifion. 

With this capital, World Fund will continue to back entrepreneurs who understand decarbonisation as a value driver. Those who think big, act macro, those who build tech for a regenerative world.

Thank you to those who have backed us to date, and partnered with us to make this record-breaking achievement happen! 

We are just getting started. 

It’s been almost a week since we announced the close of World Fund’s first fund at €300 million - a record for a first-time European climate VC. 

We’re incredibly excited to continue the mission of backing the startups and founders with the greatest climate performance potential. We hope that this will give the whole climate and deep tech ecosystem a needed boost, and begin to help startups bridge the financing gap at series B.  

We wanted to thank everyone who has reached out with congratulations (literally thousands of you), and to all the reporters who’ve covered our story this week! 

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We are delighted to announce that World Fund has joined Mission Zero Technologies’ £21.8 million Series A funding round!

If we’re to stand any chance of keeping global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees celsius, we must remove vast volumes of CO2 from the atmosphere, in addition to combating future emissions, as suggested by IPCC research.  

Mission Zero Technologies, led by Nicholas Chadwick, has rapidly pioneered a versatile new direct air capture technology across numerous industrial use cases, regardless of location or scale. 

Their technology has the potential to remove carbon not in the tonnes - but gigatonnes - which is critical to DAC having real climate impact. 

A shout out to our co-investors, including 2150, Fortescue, Breakthrough Energy and Siemens Financial Services. 

Read more about the news here - Freya Pratty, Sifted:

https://bit.ly/43pNvTU

#climatetech #directaircapture #deeptech #marketing

World Fund’s Daria Saharova has been nominated at this year’s European VC Awards, which is run by our friends at Isomer Capital. 

Daria has been recognised in the field of ‘excellence in European VC’, following a number of high-calibre deals led by her and her team, including Planet A Foods and ecoworks’ recent Series A rounds. 

Nominations are still open until the end of this month. If you know anyone in European venture who deserves a call-out, use the link below!

https://lnkd.in/d39YANca

#isomercapital #europeanVCawards #marketing 

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