Get bite-sized summaries of all roundtable discussions from The Drop 2025.

Investing & Impact

Italy + Climate: the next big thing in venture?

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Built Environment

Bio-materials for building:
where AgTech and ConTech join forces

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Grid & Energy

Navigating the Future of Commercial & Industrial Energy

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Investing & Impact

EU climate tech meets US markets

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Built Environment

Extreme heat: investment strategies for the highest risk area of adaptation

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Corp/Gov/Uni Collabs

Finding Urgent Buyers: Collaborating with governments and industries

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Grid & Energy

Dual-use fusion technologies - Harnessing risk-mitigated stellar returns

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Biodiversity & Food

Investable business models in nature

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Adaptation & Risk

We need more time...how to geo-engineer us out of this mess

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Geopolitics & Policy

Are the current political anti-climate winds good for climate tech?

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Investing & Impact

Technoeconomic analysis for early stage founders

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Robotics

Physical AI: A lot of hype, but where should climate founders focus?

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Grid & Energy

Venturing Into Geothermal

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Non-Mainstream Investing

What’s Next for Carbon Removal?

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Compute

Beyond gas and nukes: a first principles approach to data center decarbonization

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Circularity

Circularity: to invest or not to invest

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Grid & Energy

Navigating Different Chemistries in the Future of Li-Ion Batteries

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Grid & Energy

Industrial energy resilience: how start-ups are strengthening Europe’s C&I powerhouses

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Grid & Energy

DevCos for Climate Infrastructure

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Biodiversity & Food

Technical Leaps, Real-World Impact: The Next Decade in Food & Ag

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Investing & Impact

VC doing Venture Building

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BioTech

Bio-manufacturing: growing a cleaner means of production

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Non-Mainstream Investing

Climate solutions-as-a-Service: hype or real solution for faster asset deployment?

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Scaling

How (Whether) PortCos Can Do More with GenAI

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Investing & Impact

From Mine to Market: Financing the Future of Critical Minerals

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Biodiversity & Food

Water as an investment megatrend?

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Investing & Impact

The Climate and Investment Case for Sustainable Consumer Brands

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Grid & Energy

An ageing power grid - to what extent can advanced grid tech help us bridge the infrastructure gap?

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Grid & Energy

Electrifying industrial heat on Europe’s grid

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Geopolitics & Policy

Global Go-to-market (GTM) strategies in High Geopolitical Tensions

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Geopolitics & Policy

Guns or Climate: Where is the red line in European VC?

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Non-Mainstream Investing

Last mile, last chance? Overcoming market precedent to decarbonise urban logistics

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Compute

Are data centres really the biggest climate problem of the 2020s?

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Adaptation & Risk

Accelerate Adaptation & Resilience innovation!

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Biodiversity & Food

No one wants to change what they eat - what will actually move the needle?

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Scaling

Navigating the Transition to First-OAK (FOAK) and Nth-OAK (NOAK)

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Grid & Energy

The Dawn of Nuclear Energy

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Grid & Energy

Where is the insurance industry?

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Grid & Energy

Energy Supply 2.0: Smart, Resilient, and Distributed

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Compute

Climate and chips: compute as an environmental imperative

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Grid & Energy

Is Dual Use tech Climate-tech 2.0?

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Investing & Impact

Beyond CO₂: Navigating Complexity in Nature-based Investing

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BioTech

Is the Industrial Biorevolution Ready to Scale?

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Biodiversity & Food

Soil as the super solution to climate and health

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Global South

The Global South Doesn’t Need Your HQ. But It Might Need Your Business Model

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Circularity

Critical Metals, Circular Future: Unlocking Value from E-Waste

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Non-Mainstream Investing

Pulling Methane from Thin Air - Innovations in Methane Mitigation and Removal

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Built Environment

Old, New, Smart, Green: How to Reinvent Buildings for the Future

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Investing & Impact

From Vision to Value: Making Climate DeepTech Pay Off

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Circularity

Unlocking circularity in steel, aluminum, and copper: Critical materials for the energy transition

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Geopolitics & Policy

The rise of China: A guided deep-dive into what China means for founders, investors, & operators

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Circularity

Refurb is the new build: but will the hype survive its supply chain?

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Adaptation & Risk

From Combustion to Conductivity: Europe's Path to Critical Mineral Sovereignty

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Investing & Impact

Deep Tech or Safe Bets? Decoding Climate Funds Investment Strategies

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Compute

Building the green AI stack: from chips to code

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Compute

AI + Deeptech: the start of a new tech supercycle

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Robotics

Physical AI for Automation - reliable, adaptable automation for the real world

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Scaling

Blended Finance for the Transition

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BioTech

Can biotech ventures in food tech deliver on their promise?

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Grid & Energy

“Plaid for climate” - where are the $1B API opportunities?

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Corp/Gov/Uni Collabs

Winning the Build: Sales & Adoption Lessons for Startups in the Construction Project Delivery Chain

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Scaling

How Climate Tech Can Survive The Capital Freeze

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Scaling

Leveraging Debt to Unlock Strategic Growth Opportunities

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Non-Mainstream Investing

Consumer startups are the most impactful startups

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Global South

Why Africa’s Climate Tech Future Should Be on Your Radar - and in Your Portfolio

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Geopolitics & Policy

Is There Still a Global Marketplace for Climate Tech?

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Robotics

Rise of the machines: Achieving massive scale with frontline robotics

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Biodiversity & Food

Food security is topping national agendas — is RegenAg the key to sustainable, resilient food systems?

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Non-Mainstream Investing

How Quantum Innovation Can Accelerate Decarbonization and Resilience

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Grid & Energy

Gridlocked or Gridready? Rewiring Networks for a Net-Zero Future

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Adaptation & Risk

Regenerating Resilience

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Investing & Impact

LPs should catalyze impact optimized return

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Built Environment

'Cement'-ing change - routes to decarbonize concrete

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Geopolitics & Policy

When is it appropriate for a VC to speak out politically?

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Biodiversity & Food

Biodiversity-Enhancing Technologies: What is it and how to finance?

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Non-Mainstream Investing

Testing the Investment Thesis for CDR in 2025

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Investing & Impact

Vibe Coding and AI Workflows for Non-Technical VCs

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Compute

AI at the Edge: The Future of Computing Infrastructure and Energy Systems

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Global South

De-risking Africa investments when the U.S. steps out: who and how?

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Adaptation & Risk

Climate Adaptation Tech - What is VC backable?

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Corp/Gov/Uni Collabs

Starting (and maintaining) corporate partnerships for global expansion

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Adaptation & Risk

AI's moment to shine: Earth Observation, Novel Materials, and the Role of Tech in Saving the Oceans

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Circularity

Redefining Resources: Unlocking Circularity & Waste-to-Value Opportunities

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Investing & Impact

Venture Philanthropy, bridging the early stage funding gap for climate moonshots

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Grid & Energy

Do we need base load power in a renewable energy world?

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Grid & Energy

Fusion: Will it make or break your portfolio companies?

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Biodiversity & Food

Decarbonising agriculture: how do we solve nitrous oxide emissions from fertilisers?

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Geopolitics & Policy

Critical material supply chains & geopolitics

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Compute

AI for Net-Zero Retail: Driving Sustainable Sourcing & Operations in Fashion & Food

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Grid & Energy

Balancing the Grid with AI

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Biodiversity & Food

Hard lessons from a decade of burned capital—and why resilience has made agrifood investable again

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Corp/Gov/Uni Collabs

Cracking the campus: what’s next for commercialising academic research?

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Grid & Energy

So we have nuclear fusion, now what?

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Adaptation & Risk

Climate Risk and Insurance: What are the opportunities?

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Scaling

Transitioning from Startup to Scaleup - Bridging the funding gap

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Investing & Impact

Is venture capital working for deep tech innovation?

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