A Guide to Financing the Future
A Guide to Financing the Future
Not just raising money. Raising the right kind of money.
Most hard-tech and deep-tech founders learn the capital stack the hard way. Equity, debt, grants, and project finance all behave differently, want different proof points, and speak different languages. Pick the wrong one, and you can spend months chasing money that was never going to say yes.
This session is a practical guide to finding the right capital for where your company is today, then securing it quickly and competitively. We'll outline how the different types of funding line up against company stage, then discuss with founders who've raised capital across different structures, including asset-heavy startups building a more complex capital stack, about how it all comes together in practice.
You'll leave with a clearer sense of which capital fits your stage, what each type of investor is looking for, and how to talk about your company to fund the future faster and more easily.
Who should attend?
Hard-tech and deep-tech founders and operators thinking about their next raise, especially real-world startups with assets.
Hosts
Bill Green, Founder & Managing Partner at Climate Adaptive Infrastructure. Thirty years across banking, private equity, and venture capital; previously Senior Managing Director at Macquarie and CEO of its renewable energy holdings.
Aishwarya Dahanukar, Co-Founder & CCO at Tangible. Twenty years in the debt capital markets across investment banking, rating agency, portfolio credit risk management and fintech credit/funding before co-founding Tangible, which helps hard-tech founders raise structured debt.
Hampus Jakobsson, Co-Founder & General Partner at Pale blue dot. Fifteen years of financing early-stage concepts and ideas.