Climate Finance & VC

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time, and solving it requires more than good science. It requires capital, strategy, and the people willing to take real financial risk on unproven technologies. That is why Climate Finance and Venture Capital comes up again and again on The Grove.

Across episodes, the throughline is this: how do founders attract funding for climate solutions that often carry long development timelines, high capital requirements, and uncertain markets? Guests like Thomas Nann of Allegro Energy speak openly about what it takes to build a company around a genuinely new approach to energy storage, including the investor conversations, the funding gaps, and the moments where the business model has to evolve alongside the science.

What you will find in this collection is not abstract financial theory. These are working founders and investors talking honestly about how climate capital actually moves, where it stalls, and what conditions make it possible for a hard tech company to survive long enough to matter.

If you are a founder trying to understand how to position your company for climate-focused investors, an investor trying to build conviction in an unfamiliar sector, or simply someone trying to understand how money shapes which climate solutions get built, this is a useful place to start. Browse the episodes below to hear those conversations in full.