ClimateHack Amsterdam: VC Predicts the Road to 2030 - Climate Investment & Innovation Landscape
We're back with our first 2026 event and you're invited!
We're bringing together leading VCs and investment professionals to share their predictions on how the climate investment landscape will evolve between now and 2030.
As we approach critical climate milestones, how are investors positioning their portfolios? What sectors are primed for breakthrough growth? Where will the biggest funding and innovation opportunities emerge across Europe and beyond?
Our expert panel of investors will offer insider perspectives on investment themes, investment priorities, the economic forces driving sustainable innovation across Europe 's market dynamics, and the technologies they believe will define the next chapter of climate innovation.
What you'll gain:
Unfiltered insights from VCs actively deploying climate capital
Investment trend predictions for the road to 2030
Understanding of where funding flows are heading
Understand the local climate innovation landscape
Network with founders, investors, and climate ecosystem leaders
Join our meetup for entrepreneurs, professionals, investors and climatetech enthusiasts to network and hear from climate industry speakers.
Who should attend: Climate founders seeking funding intelligence, fellow investors, policy professionals, sustainability consultants, and anyone tracking the evolution of climate capital.
Come for the honest conversations, stay for the connections that move climate solutions forward.
Whether you're just starting your climate business, looking to connect with startups to invest in or want to network with other like-minded professionals - this event is for you.
The event is free but registration is necessary.
Panellists:
Guusje Delen, Senior Venture Developer @ Big Circle Ventures. Guusje is a senior venture developer at BigCircle Ventures. BigCircle Ventures builds new cleantech ventures from the ground up. Starting with untapped innovations from high-potential deeptech research, they first create, then fund and scale startups that tackle critical challenges in the energy and material sectors. While delivering both impact (climate and circularity) and financial returns (on derisked early-stage assets), they help strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity, resilience and strategic autonomy.
Chianna Shah, Investment Portfolio Manager @ Climate KIC. Chianna Shah is an Investment Portfolio Advisor at Climate KIC, supporting 100 climate tech start-ups across 27 countries. Climate KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community. We are here to help create climate-resilient societies and fight the climate breakdown, building better futures for local communities, globally. Working hand-in-hand with government agencies, corporates and investors across the globe, we use innovation to mobilise systems change and bridge the gap between climate commitments and current reality. Together with our partners, we orchestrate solutions and facilitate learning to fuel faster and more ambitious climate action.
Omer Ginor, Venture Partner & Country Manager (NL) @ Asterion Ventures. Omer is Country Manager for Asterion Ventures, where he leads the firm’s investment and community-building activities in the Netherlands and the region, and supports early-stage founders as an active investor and partner. He also advises startups on commercial acceleration and fundraising, and mentors teams in energy and agri-food. With 15 years of prior experience as an operator in startups and scale-ups, he brings a hands-on, practical perspective to investing, driven by a strong belief that technology is essential to fixing our climate challenges - and that communities play a key role in startup success. Asterion Ventures is a Paris-based climate-tech investment platform and one of the most active early-stage sustainability investors in Europe. Asterion backs ambitious founders across climate and sustainability technologies, combining capital with hands-on support. Its hybrid investment model mobilizes a 900-strong community of business angels and private investors, gathering a critical volume of expertise, networks, and operational support around each startup to accelerate their path to scale.
Meron Mekonnen, Investment Associate @ LUMO Labs VC. Meron Mekonnen is a VC at LUMO Labs. LUMO Labs is an impact-driven investment fund focused on emerging and disruptive technologies, including AI/Data, Blockchain, IoT, Digital Security, and AR/VR. We invest in early-stage founders developing solutions that contribute to key UN SDGs: Health & Wellbeing, Quality Education, Sustainable Cities, and Climate Action. We believe that emerging digital technologies can significantly improve the quality of life and drive long-term societal and environmental impact. Through our bespoke LUMO program, rooted in our experience as entrepreneurs and investors, we provide hands-on guidance, strategic support, and long-term partnership to help founders scale sustainably. Our network, and how intentionally we use it, is a strategic and distinctive differentiator for LUMO Labs.
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Q&A: you will have the opportunity to ask questions to our local speakers.
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).
Networking with Food & Drinks
Date & Agenda:
4:45pm - Doors open
5:15pm - Panel session
5:45pm - Audience Q&A
6:00pm - 30-second community pitches
6:15pm - Drinks + Snacks + Networking
7:30pm - Event concludes
Language: English
Venue Partner: About Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) Institute
The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) was founded by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with the mission to solve complex metropolitan challenges. AMS Institute stands as a beacon of innovation, education, and entrepreneurship, with the mission to bring together academics, researchers, startups, and industry partners to develop sustainable urban solutions that improve the quality of life in cities.
The research portfolio revolves around six urban challenges that cover the most important urban transitions, with the aim of making cities more sustainable, livable, and resilient. AMS Institute runs over 125 research projects, all defined and executed by interdisciplinary consortia of knowledge institutes, public and private partners, in close collaboration with the City of Amsterdam.
Directly jump to the project portfolios per urban challenge: Smart Urban Mobility | Urban Energy | Climate Resilient Cities | Circularity in Urban Regions | Metropolitan Food Systems | Responsible Urban Digitization
AMS Institute facilitates interdisciplinary research and fosters collaboration among public, private, and academic stakeholders. We also provide a platform for startups and innovators through programs like the AMS Startup Booster, where we support early-stage ventures in scaling impactful urban-tech solutions.
How to get to AMS Institute:
By Train: The nearest train station is Amsterdam Centraal. From there, it’s a 20-minute walk or a short tram/bus ride (plus 5-10 minute walk).
By Bus/Tram from Centraal:
Bus 22 (Muiderpoortstation) get off at Kattenburgerstraat/Kadijksplein.
Bus 43 (Borneo Eiland) get off at Piet Heinkade.
Tram 26 (IJburg) get off at Muziekgeb. Bimhuis.
By bike: Cycling is one of the easiest ways to reach AMS Institute. Bike racks are available on-site.
Car parking: You can park at the nearby Oosterdok Parking Garage. It’s about a 10-minute walk from AMS Institute.
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About the Organizer:
ClimateHack is a community-driven platform that inspires, highlights and connects climatetech entrepreneurs and innovators. With meetups across the globe, a weekly climatetech industry newsletter, weekly reports on climatetech, and an annual summit.
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