​You built the technology. Investors are also underwriting a second product: the financial package around it.

​That means the model, the structure, the risk allocation, and the return story, and most founders don't realize they have to design it until a deal stalls. Investors who finance first-of-a-kind hardware will walk you through what makes that package credible, and where Triangle founders often leave money and leverage on the table.

​You'll leave knowing what belongs in your data room, how investors read it, and what to fix before your next conversation.

​Speakers

​Joe Darcy

​Joe Darcy is an Investment Director at Volvo Group Venture Capital, focused on North America. With a background in venture investing and financial services, he works with startups developing technologies that advance transportation and industrial innovation.

​Jennie Graham

​Jennie Graham is a Senior Associate at Burnt Island Ventures, a specialist water-sector venture fund, and a Board Observer for Cala Systems and Waterly. She invests at the intersection of climate adaptation and community resilience, with a focus on water infrastructure, AI for risk and operations, flood prediction, treatment and reuse, and water demand management.

​Jennie moved into venture while earning her MBA at Duke, where she worked on deals at Ecosystem Integrity Fund and as a Venture Fellow at Towerview Ventures. She attended Duke as a 2021 Fulbright Scholar and received the Sir Cyril Taylor Memorial Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Earlier, she supported artisan entrepreneurs across Afghanistan, Myanmar, and the Middle East at a social enterprise, and held advisory and leadership roles at The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network and Oxford Entrepreneurs.

​Josh Grehan

​Josh Grehan is Partner at Helios Climate Ventures. He brings a depth of operating experience in a range of industries. Most recently Josh helped grow Finch Therapeutics from 10 to over 200 people and raised over $300M in private and public financing including leading Finch's $1B IPO. Before Finch he served in the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Special Assistant to Minister Dion. The Arctic was part of his portfolio.

​Josh is originally from Lily Plain, Saskatchewan but now calls Durham, NC home. He was awarded a Davis Scholarship to attend Princeton University and later won the Sachs Scholarship to pursue a master's at the University of Oxford where he graduated with distinction. In his spare time he is a Big Brother and loves getting out on a bicycle, be it mountain, cyclocross, or road. He has served on several boards including Princeton University.

​Christina Pastoria

​Christina Pastoria is a manager in the Climate Finance group at RMI, working to improve access to low cost financing for industrial decarbonization projects. She helps lead RMI's Deal Lab initiative, which aims to create lighthouse transactions that accelerate market learning by establishing replicable deal structures, developing innovative risk management solutions, and translating between mature capital providers and project developers. Her current portfolio includes e-fuels, low-carbon building materials, and industrial heat decarbonization. Christina holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in International Relations from Michigan State University and an M.A. in Applied Economics and an M.S. in Sustainable Systems from the University of Michigan

​Location

​​American Underground @ATC

​📍 324 Blackwell Street, Bay 9, Durham (map)

​​Questions?

​Learn more about Raleigh-Durham Climate Week plus get answers to your FAQs here: www.raleighdurhamclimateweek.com

​​Partners

​Raleigh-Durham Climate Week is made possible by an Impact Partner Grant from the City of Raleigh.