KOMPAS VC

Savia Ventures is a Latam-based impact investing VC firm, seeking to capitalize on the huge market opportunity in LatAm´s climate tech startup sector. We invest in teams driving anew era of sustainability in LATAM, with priority on these six verticals: Energy Mobility Blue Economy Agtech, Foodtech & Land Use Climate Fintech & Carbon Tech Industry, Manufacturing & Built Environment

TUM Venture Labs are new entrepreneurial innovation hubs re-enforcing in a unique way tech-based business creation at the interfaces of engineering, natural, life and data sciences and medicine. The joint initiative of TUM and UnternehmerTUM supports entrepreneurial talents in tech-based business translation from science, offering an entire ecosystem with the necessary development environments. Our offers range from technical and social infrastructure to entrepreneurship training and support through our top-class industry and investor networks. Discover and strengthen your entrepreneurial qualities and develop a business idea into a successful enterprise at TUM Venture Labs! Our offerings for talents and founders Whether you are a student, a scientist or a well-established team, the TUM Venture Labs offer tailored support within your technological domain. Various formats along our four pillars are available to you -- from initial inspiration to founding your company. Training formats to deepen specialized knowledge in an application-oriented way, to develop start-up ideas or to grow personally. Domain-specific startup support on your journey from initial idea or technology to starting your venture. Our network of top-class entrepreneurs, mentors, industry partners, scientific/domain experts and investors. Access to spaces and infrastructure in the form of workstations, labs or technical infrastructure (e.g. MakerSpace), individually tailored in each Venture Lab. Discover and strengthen your entrepreneurial skills and develop your business idea into a successful company at the TUM Venture Labs! 11 Venture Labs with entrepreneurial know-how in your tech-domain In order to bring high-tech start-up projects to success, teams need deep knowledge of technology, management know-how as well as specific industry and market understanding. The TUM Venture Labs can support you in enriching your tech know-how with management expertise and deep understanding of your industry and market. To this end, the TUM Venture Labs focus on 11 technology domains and thus create a support offering that specifically addresses the needs of founders and founding teams in the respective technology fields. Discover the Venture Lab that's right for you! Aerospace ChemSPACE Built Environment Robotics/AI Food/Agro/Biotech Software/AI Healthcare Quantum Additive Manufacturing Sustainability & Circular Economy Legal Tech Colab Additional venture lab "mobility" is currently being planned.

We look for startups to address global climate and UN Sustainable Development goals in the following areas: Low carbon mobility solutions Sustainable Energy & Resource Optimization: We're looking for companies that can help power our societies with cleaner energy and optimize our resource utilization to hand over our beautiful earth to the next generations. Sustainable Food & Agriculture: We look at solutions that enable a regenerative and carbon-negative economy, such as alternative protein, ag innovation, carbon sequestration, and blue economy. Sustainable production and heavy industry: We support innovative technologies and solutions eliminating carbon from society in industry, such as alternative plastics, sustainable materials, and processing Decarbonized built environment: We support innovations that contribute to energy efficiency, low carbon construction, and end-use. Integrated Solutions: Further holistic decarbonization efforts such as carbon capture, circular economy, climate risk, insurance tech, green finance, behavioral change, consumer B2B+B2C solutions including carbon accounting, reporting, and more Vectors Impact Pledge We are dedicated to supporting companies that can create a positive impact in solving global challenges. We encourage our portfolio companies to sign the Vectors Impact Pledge, which they quantify their current positive impacts and their long term impact goals

Steel stands strong at the heart of society. It is one of the strongest, most durable and versatile materials that exists on this planet. Our customers and communities are relying on us to drive sustainability of the industry and built environment – global decarbonisation, renewable energy transition and sustainable outcomes. This is not a problem we can solve alone. We bring extraordinary teams together in the transformation of breakthrough ideas into reality. This is why BlueScopeX™ has been formed. Our mission To identify new ideas and support extraordinary teams in the transformation of those ideas into reality. This will build positive momentum across steel, construction and related industries, to help deliver a more sustainable future for us all; and for generations to come. As a partner, we can provide:Deep Knowledge & Industry Expertise: We have a deep understanding of the industries in which we operate and unrivaled insight into the challenges and opportunities that exist. Networks & Connections: Our global network and broad relationships afford us both global reach and scale. Capital: We not only have the capability to invest early, but also to continue to do so in the later rounds. How we investSeed capital, as well as the later rounds. In companies across the globe. To strengthen exceptional teams. Our investments BlueScopeX™ will invest in two key areas: End-to-end decarbonisation of the iron making process: Breakthrough technologies that reduce carbon emissions in any aspect of the iron and steelmaking process. Technologies that enhance efficiencies in the built environment: Industrial and commercial building products, systems and solutions that can enhance efficiencies across the industry.

Climate VC is a UK-based EIS fund that will invest in over 100 climate tech companies within the next 3 years, across pre-seed and seed. Our ticket sizes will vary on a deal by deal basis, usually £25k - £350k. We need to look at how to decarbonise every aspect of our day-to-day life and the economy. That means changing the way we; grow food and what we eat, move around, generate electricity & make things. The solutions, some established, some crazy, are being dreamt up by bold founders. We want to help ignite that early spark.

While VCs seek the next hot thing, great returns will be realized from the revolution of existing industries.Background Over 400 years ago humans became curious about inventing ways to regulate and control temperature. By 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel started developing a simple mercury thermostat to regulate temperature and by 1906 Mark Honeywell would unveil the first programmable thermostat allowing customers to control heat levels and automatically pre-set temperatures. Fast forward a century and there are now 750 million thermostats in operation in the United States alone. While there have been small strides in the evolution of the device by major incumbents, a very small percentage of those devices were built to save energy and take advantage of the advances in low cost sensors, WiFi connectivity and automation. Through valiant execution, a focus on customer usability and leveraging software to ‘learn’ user habits over time, Nest Labs was able to apply ubiquitous technology to transform an industry that was large yet forgotten by most investors. Just four years after starting the company, Nest catalyzed the ‘smart home’ movement by turning a simple temperature regulator into a gateway and platform. We call this process the Evolution of Industries. How it happens The Evolution of Industries happens when technical innovation is paired with operational excellence to transform a large, often antiquated, industry. Nest, Microsoft, SpaceX, Square and Amazon are all examples of companies and technology platforms that fit in the Evolution of Industries model. The goal of these companies was not technical innovation but rather mass adoption and disrupting the status quo. For Amazon, it was displacing brick and mortar retail with an online marketplace for goods. For Microsoft, a PC on every desktop. For SpaceX developing a reusable rocketship. For Square, making small merchant credit card payments mainstream. For Nest it was fundamentally re-designing the thermostat to serve as the central hub for anything related to the home. The evolution of industries results in creative destruction of old business models and technology. Microsoft killed the typewriter as the primary form of word processing. Another telling example was the transformation in the photography industry with Kodak’s rise and fall. The company was founded in 1888 and at the height of its success the company employed 150,000 people and controlled 90% of film sales and 85% of camera sales in the US alone. Fast forward to 2012 when the company eventually filed for bankruptcy, it became clear the company had not evolved its legacy business model fast enough to compete with the evolution of digital photography and the proliferation of popular photo sharing apps like Instagram. The cycles of innovation To recognize the importance of the Evolution of Industries as an investment thesis, one has to recognize that the innovation driven economy is not linear or exponential but rather cyclical, an idea first pioneered by the Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev in the 1920s and brought to mainstream thought through the work of Joseph Schumpeter, the father of Creative Destruction theory. The cycles or waves arise from the bunching of basic innovations that launch technological revolutions that, in turn, create leading industrial or commercial sectors. But the time between these technical innovations can take decades: it took about 50 years between the steam engine and the railway cycle, and almost 40 years between the petrochemical revolution of the mid-1960’s till the IT revolution of the 2000’s. During the down cycles, value is most realized not through inventing new technologies but rather through the dissemination of the recently discovered technology into existing industries. Many of the greatest technology companies of our era were both incepted and grew during major down cycles. ARM, which now powers a majority of the world’s smartphones, was founded in the downturn of 1990. Cisco, which has become the dominant network and infrastructure vendor of our time, was founded and hired its first CEO shortly after Black Monday in 1987. Electronic Arts, a pioneer in electronic gaming, was founded in the middle of the Great Depression in May 1982. More recently Airbnb, Spotify and Stripe were all founded in the midst of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. How to win Winning in the Evolution of Industries takes different forms. But an analysis of winning companies show a few key ingredients around founders, timing, and operational execution. As with all forms of innovation, the hero is the entrepreneur. But founders in the Evolution of Industries have particular traits that set them apart: they are valiant operators as opposed to ardent technologists. And they are obsessed with mass adoption over a particular product vision. It’s no surprise that Microsoft won over Apple in the PC battle of the 1980s because Bill Gates was obsessed with cost, which drove mass adoption, while Steve Jobs was obsessed with perfection. Similarly, Tony Fadell became obsessed with developing the most usable thermostat for energy savings, which led to mass adoption and ultimately a home automation ecosystem. Being a “first mover” is also not a requirement for companies focusing on the Evolution of Industries, in fact it can be a hindrance. Founders need to time the market, waiting on the technology to not only be available, but also widespread and cost effective. New technologies are frequently utilized as a solution looking for a problem to solve, but the best founders focus on applying existing and well understood technology to markets that have been underserved by prior advancements. Climate Corporation, for example, wasn’t the first company to use historical weather data to inform growing behavior - since 1818 the Farmer’s Almanac has a storied place on the bookshelves of growers. However, Climate was able to apply data analytics to better leverage soil and field data in assisting farmers with improving crop yields while also providing downside risk mitigation. Bringing disruptive technology to antiquated industries will also require entrepreneurs with strong operational backgrounds. Successful founders need to combine industry knowledge with a focus on execution and scaling the product. In the case of Square, accepting credit cards was not the challenge, instead it was scaling up their product and getting it into the hands of small merchants across the country. Their operational excellence allowed them to build valuable partnerships and distribute their product through high volume retail channels such as the Apple Store.