ClimateTech Confluence: 🌎 Cocktails and Networking at SF Climate Week
​Cathay Innovation, Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Aramco Ventures, TDK Ventures, and HSBC Innovation Banking invite you to join a gathering during SF Climate Week. This exclusive networking event will be hosted at La Mar on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.
​Set against the backdrop of the San Francisco Bay, this event serves as a convergence of thought leaders in the climate innovation sector. The gathering will be a platform for dialogue on discovering, funding, and scaling innovative solutions for climate challenges and an opportunity for investors, innovators, and change-makers to connect, share insights, and forge partnerships that can accelerate the transition to a more sustainable and resilient world.
​What to Expect:
​Unrivaled networking opportunities with leading corporations, visionary investors, and groundbreaking founders in the climate and tech sectors.
​Insightful discussions on how start-ups and innovators can interact with the largest companies in the world who are helping lead the investment charge in ClimateTech.
​Drinks and light bites on the outdoor deck of La Mar, with views of the SF Bay.
​Join us to discuss shaping the future of climate tech investment and deployment at scale. This event is invite-only so RSVP now to secure your place among those leading the charge in climate innovation.
​About the hosts:
​Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund
​The Climate Pledge Fund is Amazon’s $2 billion venture capital program that invests in companies pioneering climate technologies that can help Amazon and others to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon future. The Climate Pledge Fund has invested in 25 companies as of March 2024, each offering a climate technology or service that can help Amazon decarbonize its business. By investing in, and then becoming customers of emerging climate technologies, The Climate Pledge Fund is playing an important role in Amazon’s broader Climate Pledge goal to reach net-zero carbon across its operations by 2040.
​Aramco Ventures
​Aramco Ventures (AV) is the corporate venturing arm of Aramco, the world’s leading integrated energy company. Headquartered in Dhahran with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Aramco Ventures’ mission is to invest globally in start-ups and technologies that have strategic relevance globally and to Aramco's business, with the ability to scale and disrupt. For more information about Aramco Ventures, please visit www.aramcoventures.com.
​​Cathay InnovationÂ
​​Cathay Innovation is a multistage venture capital firm, affiliated to Cathay Capital, investing in founders building transformative businesses across Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America and Africa. Its platform connects founders with investors and its ecosystem of leading Fortune500 corporations to help startups scale and transform industries with consumer to enterprise and AI solutions in commerce, fintech, digital health and mobility/energy. Founded in Paris in 2015, Cathay Innovation now manages over €2.5B AUM with local offices in Berlin, San Francisco, Shanghai and Singapore and has invested in over 100 startups including Chime, Pinduoduo (NASDAQ: PDD), Glovo, Wallbox (NYSE: WBX), Owkin, Getaround, Ledger, ZenBusiness, Alma, Descartes Underwriting and more. To learn more, visit us at www.cathayinnovation.com or follow us on LinkedIn or X at @cathayinnov.
​HSBC Innovation Banking
​Combining deep expertise with dynamic agility, HSBC Innovation Banking is a trusted partner for those reshaping the world. From equity-funded, venture-backed start-ups and scale-ups to the Venture Capitalists who support them, our shared ambition for our clients helps turn their vision into reality. We are a 700+ strong global team created to support fast growing technology companies with banking and finance, with expertise on the ground in the US, UK, Israel, & Hong Kong. HSBC is also specifically dedicated to supporting the ClimateTech and sustainability ecosystem and recently announced  $1B in financing to ClimateTech companies.
​TDK Ventures
​TDK Ventures Inc. invests in startups to bolster innovation in materials science, energy/power and related areas typically underrepresented in venture capital portfolios. Established in 2019 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of TDK Corporation, the corporate venture company’s vision is to propel the digital and energy transformations of segments such as next-generation transportation, robotics and industrial, mixed reality and the wider IoT/IIoT markets. TDK Ventures will co-invest and support promising portfolio companies by providing technical expertise and access to global markets where TDK operates. Interested startups or investment partners may contact TDK Ventures: www.tdk-ventures.com or contact@tdk-ventures.com.
​By registering for this event, you agree to share your registration information with the organizers of SF Climate Week.