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German politicians, foundations, startup founders, state development bank KfW Capital — and none other than American billionaire Bill Gates — met in Berlin yesterday morning to discuss a topic crucial to Germany’s future competitiveness: financing climate tech.
Gates spoke broadly about his experience funding capital intensive climate technologies in the US.
Elsewhere at the conference, there was an idea proposed about launching a fund — comprised of public and private capital — to help climate techs build first-of-a-kind…