The Capital Stack for Climate Hard Tech

A moderated conversation spanning the full financing journey, from first cheque to first plant. Hard tech runs on patient capital: long development cycles, capital-intensive milestones, and a demonstration or first-of-a-kind (FOAK) plant before there’s a customer. Venture investors and project finance specialists from coast to coast get into where each kind of capital fits, and where it doesn’t: how early-stage venture terms differ from project finance terms, what convinces an investor to back a first plant, what almost killed a deal, and how government funding and strategic partners fit alongside both. Built for founders navigating that transition and for investors on either side of it.

Devin Campbell, Founding Partner, The New Industrial Corporation

Trish Nixon, Venture Partner, Amplify Capital

Caroline (Lester) de Bossart, Director, Grantham Foundation

Ka-Hay Law, Chief Investment Officer, NorthX Climate Tech (Moderator)