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Christian Garcia

Managing Director and Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

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Christian Garcia frames space technologies explicitly as climate tools rather than space for space's sake, emphasizing how launch capacity enables satellites to detect methane leaks and monitor carbon sinks as core decarbonization infrastructure. He argues that achieving climate impact requires building very large, profitable companies, stating there's no world where you can have impact unless you build a huge company, making him unusually direct about tying deep decarbonization to outsized commercial outcomes. Christian Garcia frames space technologies explicitly as climate tools rather than space for space's sake, emphasizing how launch capacity enables satellites to detect methane leaks and monitor carbon sinks as core decarbonization infrastructure. He argues that achieving climate impact requires building very large, profitable companies, stating there's no world where you can have impact unless you build a huge company, making him unusually direct about tying deep decarbonization to outsized commercial outcomes.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Sectors
Climate
Energy
Food
Ag
Transportation
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - $50M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA
Europe