Resources

VC Resources

• Venture Deals, 4th Edition → VC 101

• The Power Law

• secrets of sandhill road

• VC Lab

• Decile Base - Your VC Copilot  → ChatGPT for VC

• National Venture Capital Association

• YC Startup Library | Y Combinator

• Venture Unlocked -> Venture NL

• Andy Rachleff on SVB, how to evaluate VCs, market pull indicators, Wealthfront, and more | E1699

Resources

• Climate Founder → resources for climate founders

• Climate Tech Careers → resources for people that want to get into climate

• Climate Capital Stack → list of climate VCs

• CRANE → helps assess the emissions reduction potential of climate technologies.

Books

• Speed & Scale → action plan for decarbonization

• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

• The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

• Investing in the Era of Climate Change

• Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green → mining and battery supply chain

• Investing in the Era of Climate Change

• The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War: LeVine, Steve:

• Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

Newsletters

• Newsletter - Climate Tech VC

• Axios Generate

• Bloomberg Green

• Canary Media

• Intercalation Station (batteries)

• Newsletter | Trucks VC (mobility)

• Newsletter | Fontinalis (mobility)

Reports

• 2023 Impact Investing Update | PitchBook

• CREO Family Office Climate Investing

• De-risking climate change with software | Insight Partners

• Roadmap: Climate and energy software - Bessemer Venture Partners

• BNEF at COP28 | BloombergNEF | Bloomberg Finance LP

• Zero-Emission Vehicles Factbook | BNEF

• 2023 JPM Climate Report 

• Energy Transition Factbook

Interesting VC Articles

• The Pervasive, Head-Scratching, Risk-Exploding Problem With Venture Capital

• Venture Returns With Abe Othman of AngelList | Journal | Kauffman Fellows

• Performance Data and the ‘Babe Ruth’ Effect in Venture Capital | Andreessen Horowitz

• 99 VC Problems But A Batch Ain’t One: Why Portfolio Size Matters For Returns | by Dave McClure, Practical Venture Capital | 500 Hats

• Picking winners is a myth, but the PowerLaw is not | by Clint Korver | The Ulu Difference | Medium

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• Climate Impact Assessment by Prime Coalition and NYSERDA

• The McKinsey report with that oft-quoted but now very outdated chart

• Deep tech startup risks

• Harish Hande multi-solves for triple bottom line with SELCO India

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Credit to Schaffer Ochstein for creating this list: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schaffer-ochstein/