Fundraising advisory for climatetech startups

Climatetech founders are solving the most urgent challenge of our time, but scaling impact requires serious capital

Unlike pure SaaS, climatetech deals with hardware, infrastructure, and regulatory hurdles. Investors want clarity, credibility, and structure.

At dups, we help climatetech companies raise capital smarter. Our integrated legal and financial team guides you from strategy to closing, aligning equity, debt, and grant funding into one coherent financing architecture. Because in climatetech, the challenge isn't raising money. It's raising the right kind of money.

Why climatetech fundraising is different

Raising in climatetech means navigating a triple complexity: longer R&D and deployment cycles, with delayed returns, capital-intensive models that require blending instruments, and impact expectations from investors and institutions.

You're often dealing with multiple capital sources (venture capital, corporate investors, development banks, and public grants), each with their own risk profile and reporting standards. We help you connect them all into a single strategy that balances liquidity, control, and scalability.

Our approach to climatetech fundraising

1. Capital strategy design

We start by mapping your capital needs across the next 18 to 36 months: R&D, deployment, and growth. Then we design your capital stack, the right mix of equity, debt, and non-dilutive funding. That can include venture capital and impact investors, climate and energy-focused funds, public or EU grant programs, and project or venture debt.

The goal: a financing path that supports your technology roadmap without eroding control or flexibility.

2. Investor readiness and financial modeling

We translate your impact story into financial terms investors can trust. Our team builds or reviews your financial plan, clarifies your unit economics, and connects your impact metrics (carbon reduction, energy efficiency, sustainability KPIs) to financial outcomes.

We also prepare investor materials (pitch decks, investment memos, and financial models) that speak both the language of impact and the logic of capital. You raise on credibility, not emotion.

3. Legal structuring and negotiation

Climatetech funding often involves complex terms: convertible instruments, public-private co-investments, or cross-border syndicates. We manage the full legal and financial alignment, including term sheet drafting and negotiation, convertible or hybrid instruments (SAFE, notes, mezzanine), governance design and shareholder protection, and closing coordination.

We make sure your deal structure reflects your valuation, your mission, and your investor expectations, not someone else's template.

4. Scaling and future rounds

We don't stop at closing. We prepare your structure for future rounds (Series A, B, or infrastructure-scale financing). That includes cap table management, debt refinancing, and investor reporting processes that meet the expectations of institutional funds or public agencies.

We help you build funding discipline, the foundation of long-term climatetech growth.

What makes dups different

At dups, we merge transaction expertise with sector understanding. We know how climatetech capital works, from early equity rounds to structured project financing.

Our integrated legal and financial approach ensures every layer of your funding works together: equity for flexibility, debt for scale, and grants for efficiency. We're not impact consultants. We're deal advisors who make impact investable.

Deliverables you can expect

We deliver a complete climatetech funding advisory package, including:

• Capital strategy design and funding roadmap
• Financial model and impact-linked KPIs
• Investor materials (pitch deck, memo, data room)
• Legal structuring and negotiation of investment terms
• Convertible or hybrid instrument design
• Closing coordination and investor reporting setup

Each deliverable is tailored to your technology, maturity, and investor mix.