Search for climate-tech unicorns

Start-ups in the climate space are also the focus of philanthropists and impact investors, among others

Bessemer Venture Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm, has an interesting tab on its website where it highlights the start-up investment opportunities it missed. Those lapses included companies like Facebook, Apple and Google, which could have meant billions of dollars in gains. The challenge today, however, is to identify start-ups that are set to play a stellar role in the global energy transition, whether it is designing software, next generation batteries or cars, carbon capture solutions or even nuclear technologies. The investors who can spot the winners in the cycles of innovation and disruption — the unicorns, or