Investment capital comes with all sorts of strings attached, especially for early-stage companies. The capital also comes with all sorts of investors attached, too, which begs a very important question for founders to consider: how do different types of early-stage investors work with founders?

Investment capital comes with all sorts of strings attached, especially for early-stage companies. The capital also comes with all sorts of investors attached, too, which begs a very important question for founders to consider: how do different types of early-stage investors work with founders?

We’ve been talking about capital raising in our most recent Startup Playbook posts, which got me thinking: we need to talk about capital.

Let’s start with a truism of life: things take longer than you expect. That is definitely the case when it comes to raising capital for your climate tech startup.

Let’s start with a truism of life: things take longer than you expect. That is definitely the case when it comes to raising capital for your climate tech startup.

Categorize your climate technology to define how it will contribute to a healthier planet.

As we mentioned in the last Startup Playbook post, the next ten posts will focus on what a climate tech startup needs to do to succeed: build a great, scalable product.

The Startup Playbook’s first ten posts focused on all the elements climate tech founders must consider when building their business––financial controls, intellectual property, cap tables, data rooms, and more!

As the founder of a climate tech startup, your responsibility is to bring together the numerous and necessary elements that will make it successful––the technology, capital, team, vendors, customers, and more. But the most critical piece of them all… It’s YOU!