What role does venture capital have in bringing carbon-cutting technologies to reality? Does it prop up bad ideas or free outrageous ones? In this episode, Bloomberg Green’s Akshat Rathi talks to Gabriel Kra of Prelude Ventures about the role venture capital plays in boosting the US cleantech industry and how the new US climate bill is changing the startup landscape.

Read more about the battery startup QuantumScape that Kra mentions as a key success story for VC funding.

Read a full transcript of this episode, here.

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Why venture capital is crucial to the climate fight with Gabriel Kra