Across Europe

WE BACK THOSE
ENTREPRENEURS WHO

Understand
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think big
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act macro
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build tech for
a regenerative world

Those entrepreneurs

portfolio

who understand decarbonisation
as value driver

Next generation
battery recycling

CYLIB

a collective of creators  
who do food, science, and art

JUICY MARBLES

European quantum 
computing leader

IQM

DECARBONIZING BUILDINGS
MADE EASY

Aedifion

A NEW ERA
OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD HAS BEGUN

planet a foods

Plant trees with
your steps

Treecard

Making Space Work
for Humanity

space forge

FULLER SHELVES AND
FEWER WRITE-OFFS

fresh flow

delicious, nutritious,
sustainable

enough

planet friendly
proteins

FARMLESS

Power at scale,
without the footprint.

hyperscale power

At the heart of the future
of cooling.

barocal

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THOSE BACKERS

a team of investors, activists, entrepreneurs, comms experts, scientists and engineers

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Climate Performance Potential (CPP)

The Gateway
to our Backing

World Fund only invests in startups with huge climate performance potential.

We have developed our own science-based methodology in-house in collaboration with TU Berlin, Project Drawdown and Project Frame. In addition, every assessment goes through an independent external validation.

INTRO

The
Gateway to
our Backing

Quantitative Analysis

First, we quantitatively analyze the potential CO2e savings of a startup’s technology, including a life-cycle assessment.

STEP 01

Quantitative 
Analysis

qualitative assessment

Second, we take a qualitative assessment on environmental and social impact, utilizing the IRIS+ metrics.

STEP 02

qualitative
assessment

regenerative
world check

Lastly, the technology needs to fit into our vision of a regenerative world, based on four pillars:

Renewable energy, Full material circularity, Regenerative systems, Climate & social equity.

STEP 03

regenerative
world check

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Lithosquare raises $25M to expand and break critical minerals bottleneck with AI-powered geology platform

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Barocal raises $10M to disrupt century-old cooling industry with breakthrough materials technology

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‘Europe's Power Play’, from venture firm World Fund with contributions from NATO Innovation Fund and Kaya Partners, details Europe’s current ‘power crisis’ and how to fix it.

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White Paper: Europe's Power Play

Robotics is shifting from “Can we build it?” to “Can we deploy it?”

Why We Invested in Hyperscale Power: Electrification and compute needs are scaling faster than the power infrastructure beneath them.

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ENTREPRENEURS WHO