We had the chance to speak to Larissa Skarke, a climate tech investor at one of Europe's leading climate tech VCs – World Fund. In this interview, she sheds light on the fund’s philosophy and reveals its remarkable founding story. Larissa also shares the fund’s sweet spot for investments, so deep-tech startups – tune in! 

World Fund is committed to supporting startups from the early to early growth stage, with a specific focus on Energy, Food and Agriculture, Manufacturing, Buildings, and Mobility. When considering investments, the fund assesses startups' climate performance potential, seeking to back entrepreneurs who view decarbonisation as a value driver. 

In this interview for the EIC Scaling Club, Larissa Skarke underscores the World Fund's unique advantage: a powerful blend of scientific and financial expertise. This combination allows the fund to significantly impact the ventures it invests in by sharing its technical and entrepreneurial know-how. The fund also aims to collaborate with corporates, exchanging insights to better understand their specific needs.

We spoke to Larissa at the Ignition Forum, one of four EIC Scaling Club events, connecting startups with industry experts and investors. World Fund eagerly hopes to build mentorship through this platform, contributing to the promising scaleups that are tackling some of the most pressing world problems.

See our full interview with Larissa Skarke in the video below, or visit our YouTube channel.

About the EIC Scaling Club

The EIC Scaling Club is a curated community where 120+ European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators and other industry stakeholders to spur growth.

The top 120+ European deep tech companies will be carefully selected from a pool of high-growth scale-ups that have benefitted from EIC financial schemes, other European and national innovation programmes, and beyond.

The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership by Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.

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