Pale blue dot

I had a great conversation with Simon Leich about climate change not being a "thesis" but a macroeconomic shift - and one of the largest we probably have seen. A lot of people talk about AI today, but AI is a solution to a problem, this macro-shift is THE PROBLEM: https://lnkd.in/dKZsnssE

We are thrilled the announce our latest investment in Maiven to back the brilliant founders Larsen Mabika and Georgie Steele MEng on their journey to make climate policy simple! Welcome to the portfolio ❤️ 🌍 Over the last 15 years, businesses have faced an average of 54 new climate policies every year—a constant influx that creates risk, confusion, and missed opportunities. Maiven cuts through the noise by pinpointing which policies matter most, clarifying their impacts, and guiding you to take decisive action. 👏 Maiven has already secured a partnership with Climate Impact Partners, to help their customers understand how carbon policies affect their climate goals and how to use credits for compliance. 🌟 We are joined in this round by some our favorite European investors Ada Ventures and Tiny VC as well as some great angels. Excited to embark on this journey with all of you! 🚀 Visit www.maiven.tech to find out more!

We are proud backers of William Pelton, Nicolas Kral, PhD and team as they revolutionize agriculture with Phytoform’s AI-driven DNA discovery platform. 💫 🍅 Their technology accelerates the development of climate-resilient crops, making breeding faster, more precise, and sustainable. Instead of years of trial and error, Phytoform’s approach pinpoints and applies beneficial genetic changes in a fraction of the time, transforming the future of our food system. Watch below to learn more about the amazing technology Nicolas has led the development of. https://lnkd.in/eDTHc3_i

📣 We’re Hiring Are you a creative storyteller who knows how to craft engaging content and think outside the box? If so, we want to hear from you! We’re looking for a Brand & Content Lead to maintain and elevate our brand with fresh storytelling and innovative ideas. This is a unique opportunity to work closely with our General Partners, portfolio companies, and broader community. To learn more about the role and how to apply, click the link below.👇 https://lnkd.in/dcwzUWGb

The past four days were spent deep in the winter wonderland of Finnish Lapland, with some of the most ambitious, inspiring, and kindest people we have the pleasure of working with: our Pale blue dot founders. ❤️ No pitch decks. Just raw, uninterrupted time together—surrounded by snow, huskies, reindeer, and the kind of conversations you can’t force in a boardroom. 🎿 Between cross-country skiing (where many of us flopped spectacularly), sauna talks, and long dinners, we found something invaluable: space. Space to be vulnerable, to ask the hard questions, and to share the wins and struggles of building something from the ground up. To everyone who joined us—thank you, for your honesty, your energy, and for reminding us why community matters so much in this journey.

It is with great pride that we share a significant milestone in the development of Skylark, Cosmic Aerospace's all-electric aircraft: flight testing of CX-2, our 1/10th scale demonstrator. The attached video is a compilation of flights that were conducted at the CSU Drone Center in Ft. Collins. We extend our sincere gratitude to the CSU flight test team for their invaluable assistance in achieving this important milestone. Beginning with a clean sheet, the engineering team at Cosmic designed, tooled, built, and tested CX-2 in only four months. This rapid turnaround was achieved by focusing a highly integrated team on executing a learning-based development system rather than the traditional task-based system used at most aerospace companies. Effort was focused on our highest risk areas, and the scope of the project was continually scrutinized, eliminating any features that were not absolutely necessary. Unproductive meetings were abandoned in favor of building the aircraft, and functioning hardware served as the measure of progress rather than tedious status reports. The result was a superb final product designed and built in record time. I invite you to view the results of our efforts.

This week General Partner Heidi Lindvall had the pleasure to attend TECHARENA to take part in a panel on "The Power of Investing Beyond the Norm". The panel was moderated by Mimi Billing and the stage was shared by the inspiring Olu Oyinsan, MBA and 🌎 Gillian Muessig to discuss the opportunities that exist in investing in unconventional themes, people and geographies. Heidi also addressed the recent announcement to widen our communication around climate tech to cover all sectors and focus on optimisation, adaptation and pioneering 🌍 Thank you to all the people behind TECHARENA with a special thanks to portfolio founder Mikaela Larsell Ayesa for her brilliant part in this years event 🌟

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Stop talking about labels and get back to work It is obvious that climate change is worse than ever, with escalating problems and the risk of an irreversible point of no return. It is the one topic on which we should all be united and work on, but climate as a term has become politicized, limiting, and narrow. When we started Pale blue dot in 2019, “climate” wasn’t an investment sector, and for us, it was always a lens to view the world. Recent years, the word climate has become synonymous with a very narrow set of problems and how to invest, which we don’t subscribe to. Due to this, we no longer call ourselves a climate fund. Pale blue dot is a fund backing our future with the belief that good and ambitious people are the biggest bottleneck to solving problems. Due to climate pressure, every single process will be redesigned, which is the largest macro-shift for both humanity and venture. We expect to invest under three headlines: Optimize, Adapt, and Pioneer. - Within Optimize, industrial processes, homes, transportation, supply chains, and many more areas are being electrified, information digitalized or created, and processes tuned with AI. To keep what we are doing but more efficiently. - Within Adapt, we see new data obtained to understand risks, mitigate them, or adapt to them, and new supply chains or products are developed to increase resilience and handle the complex new world—to change how we live and work. - Within Pioneer, we see novel solutions to new challenges—how to block the sun from heating the globe, harness new energy, travel and move goods in ways we didn’t even imagine possible, and, in general, allow the unbounded imagination of founders. Venture capital and technology alone are not the answers, but if used well, they can play an important role in transforming our society. Fundamental companies will be built and invested in, whether you call them “climate” or not. We back those who dare to build important things! - Joel, Heidi, Hampus https://lnkd.in/dHKGb-A6

Happy to see Planet A Ventures and Systemiq Capital join us in Podero! 🚀