NEW EPISODE OUT NOW 🎙️
Billions in investment capital are sidelined—so how do we get it into carbon capture?
On this week’s episode of Catching Carbon, we sit down with John May , Managing Director of Hamilton Clark Sustainable Capital, Inc. to break down the financial puzzle of carbon capture and sustainable tech investment.
What you’ll learn:
🌟 Where early-stage funding for carbon capture comes from
🌟 Why major banks aren’t investing in first-of-a-kind projects
🌟 How Hamilton Clark connects 400+ institutional investors with new
technologies
🌟 What it takes to secure financing from Series A to full-scale deployment
Whether you're a startup founder, investor, or just curious how business works in sustainability, this episode is a must-listen.
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You have John May joining us from Hamilton Clark. He is the managing director. Hamilton Clark is an investment bank and they are investing in technology startups with the focus on sustainability. But I think it's a little bit of a black box for all of us, for our listeners. What actually goes into getting to that stage? What happens early on? What kind of companies should be thinking about, you know, take what he had learned that lean and create a new investment bank on Wall Street that would. Focus exclusively on sustainability and decarbonization, we do three things. The first thing that we do is we raise equity for these early stage technology companies. The second thing we do raise first commercial scale project financing. And then the third thing that we do is we raise first commercial scale project financing. And the reason that I call it first commercial scale is there are so many industries that are. Decarbonizing for the first time, we will go out to about 400 so-called institutional investor and these infrastructure funds increasingly are becoming more focused on renewables. Start up in some kind of flu capture technology. I come to John May Hamilton Clark and say we want to engage you to help us raise money. You're essentially casting a wide net to your network of 400 industrial funds. They say, you know some of them say interesting technology. I want to be a part of that. You're kind of brokering that deal. If I'm understanding this correctly, is it an equity? Is it still is it 20 now you're kind of establishing a fund or various levels of funding, but is it? Actually safer than they love of capital that are seeking opportunities to invest in the early stage technologies. And we are a broker, we're an intermediary between the early stage technology company and the institutional investor and we bring the two together. One of the biggest issues that we face globally is how do we raise money to get these first of a kind projects built. We don't see Goldman Sachs. Morgan Stanley and Citibank, umm, doing first of a kind projects and then once the design is ready for construction, we raise the construction financing. What size do I need to be or what what amount of money That makes sense. I mean, I I mean a billion dollars to build a prototype in my candidate for your services. But I would say the typical early stage technology company across all sectors and sustainability starts out with a Series A round of somewhere between 5 million and 20 million. College, any of any other, any vertical, any other verticals, hydrogens, CO2, you know, electric vehicles, is that a vertical that you're looking at? Batteries, things like that, Absolutely all of the above. Anything that's that's remotely sustainable, that's decarbonizing any industry is, is what we're about.
