Interview - Lara Pierpoint

Release date: Tuesday, June 11th

Lara discusses the Trellis climate program developed by Prime Coalition to address the gap in first-of-a-kind financing for climate technologies. The program focuses on providing catalytic capital to support the scaling and commercialization of climate innovations. The program aims to bridge the gap between early-stage venture funding and infrastructure investment, which is crucial for the successful deployment of climate technologies. It seeks to ensure that the supported technologies have a pathway to scale and can attract traditional investment in the future. In this conversation, Lara explains that catalytic capital is used to fund projects that traditional investors may not be willing to support due to various risk factors. Lara's call to action for climate tech startups is to start thinking about long-term vision and how to cross the financing gap early on.

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