Access to Climate Tech Fund II
Our investment strategy
Get broad exposure with a single investment covering different strategies, regions, and sectors. Invest in the future of climate and Europe.
Enable breakthrough climate solutions
Diversify with 100+ pioneering climate tech firms shaping the future. Explore those already part of Access to Climate Tech Funds by creating an account.
As a global leader in the green hydrogen space, Sunfire is on a mission to expand the impact of clean power by turning it into renewable gases and liquids.
Mainspring is developing a clean on-site power generation technology that enables affordable and reliable electricity while providing flexibility to the grid.
Luxwall's Net Zero Glass improves energy efficiency for existing buildings, reducing utility costs as well as carbon emissions.
Metafuels powers the future of aviation with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), to help make affordable low carbon aviation a reality.
This US-based company was founded out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which turned into a commercial mission to decarbonize cement.
Noon Energy is developing a low-cost battery for medium-duration electricity storage. It accelerates the energy transition by fixing the intermittency problem of renewable energy.
Ampd energy aims to enable a smart, fully automated, emissions-free and connected construction site by providing smart batteries to manage energy usage onsite.
Swap is bringing healthy and affordable plant-based meat alternatives for people who want to reduce their meat consumption without compromising taste or texture.
Koloma is a US company in stealth mode with a mission to extract naturally occurring hydrogen that is continuously generated underground.
Miraterra is a sustainable agriculture company pioneering the use of Raman Spectroscopy and machine learning to create a highly accurate, cost-effective soil measurement tool.
CF Pathways aims to help large companies navigate their net zero transitions by providing comprehensive sustainability services and energy solutions.
Disperse is on a mission to make the construction industry more efficient and sustainable through productivity systems, which can effectively track and help manage construction activities.
Twelve is on a mission is to eliminate global emissions and build a fossil-free future by making the world’s most critical chemicals, materials, and fuels from CO2.
Frequently asked questions
Most of our funds do not offer liquidity itself. You may be able to sell your investment to a third party but Carbon Equity will not find an investor for you and it is not guaranteed that you would be able to sell your investment against the full value at that time. Provided that the purchaser is a qualifying investor, we will accept them. A small administrative fee of EUR 500 will be charged for the onboarding and legal documentation.
Carbon Equity Access to Climate Tech Fund II is structured differently from our other funds and will provide a limited option to request for a redemption (subject to certain restrictions and discounts).
When you invest in the stock market, you are investing public companies. A public company is one that has held an initial public offering (first sale of stock to the public) and whose shares can be bought, sold or traded on a stock exchange.
Carbon Equity focuses on private equity, which is an asset class focused on acquiring ownership stakes (equity) in privately held companies (i.e. not listed on a stock exchange). The investment horizon, cash flows and other investing dynamics are different within private equity compared to stock marketing investing. You can read more about that in the how it works section below.
After you finalize your subscription to a fund, you are ready to invest. We will hold a closing every few months in which we accept investors who finalized their onboarding process. In the closing you will be legally accepted as an investor in the fund and shortly afterwards you will receive a capital call. A capital call is the request to transfer (part of) your committed investment amount.
Certain minimums may apply. Generally speaking, the first capital call will be the higher of €100,000 or 25% of your commitment. The remainder of your commitment will be called over roughly 5 years in semi-annual installments which depend on the expected calls from underlying funds (e.g. roughly 5-10% of the commitment will be drawn every 6 months).
If you qualify as a professional investor or if you invest in one of our funds specifically aimed at investors who commit to investing below €100,000, the minimum capital call will be different.
Carbon Equity funds typically have a duration of 10-13 years, just like the private equity funds Carbon Equity invests in. During the first 3-5 years, these funds invest part of the money into startup and scaleup companies. The remaining years they use to continue investing in, growing and selling these companies.
If you invest with Carbon Equity, you commit money for the full lifetime of the fund. That doesn’t mean you don’t see any money back before the end date. Any time a portfolio company is sold or goes public, you receive your share of the proceeds. It is expected that, on average, you get your initial investment back within 5-7 years, and further distributions in the years thereafter.
First, we assess how committed a fund is to impact. Funds can prove their impact commitment to investors in several ways, including its impact mandate, impact goal, impact thresholds, impact sourcing and impact incentives. Then, we thoroughly vet a fund on its climate impact. We do so using our proprietary climate impact scorecard that requires input on 40+ questions across 12 topics.
