Climate Canals: VC predicts the road to 2030: Climate investment and financing trends and insights.
Welcome back to Climate Canals (formerly ClimateHack Amsterdam!)
Join us and our partner, Epicenter Amsterdam as our expert panel of VCs, Angels, and investment experts predict the road to 2030 for climate financing and investment trends.
Three years out from 2030, the climate milestones that once felt comfortably distant now fall inside a single fund’s investment period. Our panel of VCs and investment professionals will share where they’re placing their bets on the road there: the sectors they expect to break out, the themes shaping their portfolios, and the economic forces moving capital across Europe and beyond. Expect candid predictions on where funding is flowing, which technologies they believe will define the next chapter of climate innovation, and what founders need to show to land on their radar. With 2030 closer than most cap tables would like, one question sits at the centre of the evening: is European climate capital backing the solutions 2030 needs, or only the ones that are easiest to fund?
Following the panel, stay for 30-second community pitches. Are you launching a new product? Are you looking for your next R&D expert or your next CEO? Are you looking for a job or an internship? Join our 30-second pitch session and share your business update with the audience (open to anyone).
We then break for networking drinks and snacks to connect with fellow researchers, founders, and practitioners working at the intersection of technology and climate.
Note: event will be conducted in English
Panel (more coming soon!)
Johan Stins is a Senior Investment Manager at Invest-NL, where he focuses on High Tech & AI. With more than a decade of experience in venture capital, as well as previous investor and CFO roles, he supports ambitious deep-tech companies through complex financing and scale-up journeys. His investment experience spans areas including AI and semiconductors, quantum technology, cybersecurity and advanced manufacturing. Johan is particularly interested in technologies that combine international growth potential with wider economic and societal value. This includes energy-efficient computing and AI infrastructure, which will become increasingly important as demand for computing power accelerates. At Invest-NL, the Netherlands’ national financing and development institution, he helps mobilise capital for innovative companies that strengthen the country’s sustainability, competitiveness and strategic autonomy.
Agenda
5:30 pm - Doors Open
5:45 pm - Panel Segment, Q&A, followed by 30s Community Pitches.
6:45 pm - Networking, drinks and snacks!
8:00 pm - Event concludes
Hosts
Contact: climatecanals@gmail.com
About Climate Canals
Climate Canals (formerly ClimateHack Amsterdam) is a community spotlighting Dutch Climate Tech to enrich and connect the local ecosystem of founders, researchers, innovators, investors, governments, and non profits. We are a fully volunteer run initiative started by two friends and climate advocates: Nhiyc (Nhi) (Founder, Nū Atlas) and Aaron Endré (Founder & Principal, endré).
About Epicenter Amsterdam (Event & Venue Partner)
Epicenter is an innovation community of 20,000+ members and 500+ companies across the Nordics and now, the Netherlands, connecting entrepreneurs, corporates, and investors through knowledge events, accelerator programmes, and industry clusters.
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