How to get a job investing millions in planet-saving tech
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The climate tech investing space is growing fast. Curious about how to get involved? Venture firm Lowercarbon Capital "backs kickass companies that make real money slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet." Learn how VCs are enabling jobs of the future to advance ideas like 100% beef that never had hooves, fully electric passenger planes, kelp-farming, carbon-sinking robots, and a fungus that eats carbon and pays farmers. Do these sound like technologies of the future or what? Well, guess what? This future is here. And climate-tech investor Mia Diawara shares what it's like at one of the hottest VC firms in climate investing — and how this engineer, poet and professional dancer found her way to one of the most exciting planet-saving careers.
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