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David Helgason

Founder, Transition Global

About

David Helgason co-founded Unity and served as CEO for 12 years, bringing game engine and developer platform experience to climate investing at Transition Global, where he treats climate as a systems challenge rather than a narrow sector. He approaches climate investing with a "gaming the climate crisis" mindset focused on experimentation and building enabling platforms, while creating Transition Labs as a hands-on program to help climate startups scale with shared resources and networks. David Helgason co-founded Unity and served as CEO for 12 years, bringing game engine and developer platform experience to climate investing at Transition Global, where he treats climate as a systems challenge rather than a narrow sector. He approaches climate investing with a "gaming the climate crisis" mindset focused on experimentation and building enabling platforms, while creating Transition Labs as a hands-on program to help climate startups scale with shared resources and networks.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Early Stage VC
Convertible Note
Sectors
Climate
Energy
SaaS
Deeptech
Hardware
Transportation

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $5M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
Europe