![]() ![]() It’s given me access to investment opportunities that I never would have had, previously. I’ve been investing on Angel List for two years now, joining the syndicates of others. And through the ability of investors to join syndicates, they can draft on the knowledge and expertise of others. It’s a landscape-leveler for startups and investors alike. It turns a process (raising money for your startup / investing in startups) that was previously shrouded in mystery, hugely time consuming, and heavily dependent on knowing the right people, and flattens that process. ![]() AngelList is the Right PlatformĪngelList itself is a disruptive innovation for startup investing. Some of that funding will come as early-stage government R&D funding. But that’s poised to change with Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zukerberg, and a coalition of governments and large investors aiming to boost cleantech R&D funding to $20 Billion per year. Venture funding in cleantech has been low in recent years. But the point where renewables amount to more total new energy on the grid each year than fossil fuels is now in sight. Fossil fuels still produce more total new energy each year, due to the intermittency of renewables. Investment is GrowingĬlean energy spending around the world hit a new record of $329 billion in 2015, topping the previous record of 2011, and nearly 6 times the amount the world spent in 2004.Īnd for the first time in history, the world installed more peak capacity of clean electricity generation than fossil electricity generation, as the chart below shows, in GW of new capacity per year. That means both a need for investment in R&D and an opportunity for the companies that create the new innovations that power the world, and the investors who back them. Energy storage and clean transportation are both closer to one tenth of one percent of the scale they need to be at.Įnergy transitions are huge undertakings. Today we’re only 1% of the way into that transition. That transition will involve tens of trillions of dollars of investment. And every unit of renewables deployed brings down their price, making them more competitive. The trajectory of policy is towards ever more downward pressure on fossil fuels. We’ve coupled the price of energy to the ever-decreasing price of technology. Wind power, electric vehicles, IoT, and software platforms that manage and accelerate clean energy are all booming in capabilities and plunging in price. Batteries are poised to follow a similar price decline. The cost of solar power has plunged by a factor of four in the last five years, with more reduction to come. Clean energy is a technology that truly is disruptive. The word “disruption” gets thrown around a lot. If you’re an angel investor, I invite you to come join me. Today I’m taking a new step: I’m launching an AngelList Syndicate specifically focused on investing in clean energy technology. I’ve been quietly investing in startups in that space as well. I’ve been writing and speaking about the incredible pace of solar, wind, and storage for years. ![]()
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