Precision Agriculture: Does Local weather Tech VC Cash Circulation Into Agri-Chemical compounds & Monocrops?

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In my expertise, local weather tech enterprise capital cash just isn’t so totally different from common VC cash. They nonetheless make investments solely in hockeystick kind corporations, lengthy pictures which may go bust fast, or would possibly go huge. VCs make 20 bets hoping that one in every of them turns into the following Uber and makes up for the remainder of the misplaced thousands and thousands.

I spent a summer season attempting to pitch local weather tech traders to put money into CleanTechnica and most VCs didn’t even return my messages, even heat ones, even intros made on LinkedIn, you identify it. I networked. I hustled. I understood media just isn’t a hockeystick kind of funding profile, however supplied that CleanTechnica may assist help the remainder of their portfolio by selling the remainder of their corporations (so long as we disclose it and make it clear, I noticed no concern with that, if it helped promote local weather stability, I’m all for it).

Hilariously sufficient, those self same VCs nonetheless rent costly PR corporations who simply pitch their story concepts to CleanTechnica. And we at CleanTechnica have to sit down and be good and attempt to reply with empathy whereas we watch the just about pure propaganda media corporations of the world get inordinate quantities of free Darkish Cash to hawk anti-clean tech affect.

I’ll comply with this put up with an evaluation of 1 clear tech funding that aligns some VC cash with company strategic cash, and immediately invests in an organization that helps big agribusiness maintain their monocrops working longer and immediately pays for chemical compounds made out of fossil fuels. I’m not against it, as you’ll see.

Simply fascinating how the cookie crumbles, isn’t it?

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