I am interested in ClimateTech buyside roles but concerned about being pigeonholed as an energy investor long-term.
Is this a valid concern?
Would exits to different verticals (eg consumer, software) or generalist roles be difficult?
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In ClimateTech and would say it depends. Think the space in its current form is too new to really have examples of people exiting to other verticals.
Climate is such a broad range of companies that your fund strategy and stage would likely have more nuance on exits. In general, would say climate has more hardware exposure on average and generally geared B2B. I think on one end of the spectrum, if you only do investments in “DeepTech” hardware companies that are still effectively science bets with commercialization in 3-5 years, you will be more siloed vs. working on enterprise software companies with climate applications.
When looking at funds, if you want greater optionality, would try to weight to software investments with some track record on B2C if possible. Would say the universe of ClimateTech specific funds is still pretty small, so hard to be specifically picky if you are targeting the space.
In general, view the VC skill-set as fairly transferable between sectors but a more diversified experience in Climate would likely help give you that flexibility (as expected).
Happy to answer any other questions as well.
Extremely helpful, thank you very much
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