TFN - Transition Finance Network

Easy to get gloomy on the energy transition if you just read the headlines. Filter out the noise though and big secular trends are still rolling on. Debt financing is one – TFN just released its outlook for 2025. ?Get in touch with the team if helpful to discuss this further!

?? TFN - Transition Finance Network just published the "European Climate Tech Debt Outlook 2025" which is intended to help scale-ups, incumbents and investors better understand the challenges and opportunities of bringing debt into hard-to-finance climate technologies. ? Key takeaways: ?? Despite the challenging environment for climate tech in 2024, green shoots are emerging in the banking market and?attitudes towards hard-to-finance projects are evolving. Debt providers venture out past the safer confines of solar and wind projects, particularly in EV infra and BESS where they're taking more risk ?? Debt is often the missing piece?to the puzzle in terms of large volume financing but needs to match the risk/reward profile of a scale-up or project ??? Deal structures and risk appetites in the debt market vary across Europe; local market dynamics are key. Understanding the debt options available, and when to bring them into the capital stack, is crucial for climate tech scale-ups / projects to succeed ? TFN offers financial strategy, fundraising and venture building support to climate scale ups, incumbents and investors with experience across 30+ Climate Tech mandates since 2022. We welcome your perspective and please reach out to our team to discuss further. #TFN #Climatefinance #Bridgingthefundinggap

Happy 2025 from TFN!

Best wishes for 2025 from TFN - Transition Finance Network. ? What will the new year bring for the climate and energy transition? A number of high profile events continued to make headlines over the holiday period (Volocopter being a good example) and point to probably another complex year to navigate. ? However, the energy transition was never going to be straightforward and “in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” (Einstein). Some scale-ups will need to re-assess their funding roadmaps and find strategies to get to commercial traction quicker. Others on the deep-tech end will need to embrace their funding trajectories but build agile cap tables that can carry them through ups and downs. On the M&A / turnaround front real chances are emerging amidst a secular trend (as the energy transition still is), also for incumbents, if you can filter out the noise. ? At TFN - Transition Finance Network we were immensely proud to have helped our clients across 25+ engagements in 2024 (across strategy / venture building, fundraising of equity and debt and M&A), grown the team to 7 and opened up our official offices in London and Amsterdam. We are looking forward to 2025: adding?junior team members in Q1 (do reach out!) and continuing to help our clients navigate the evolving landscape of the energy transition.

Post COP and in the midst of the Northvolt saga we need to focus on understanding (and solving) our Climate Financing Gap more than ever. Do reach out to Lena and Josh if you are at the London Climate Tech Show this week to discuss what does work.

Josh Lister and Lena Groen are joining the London Climate Technology Show next week (27-28 Nov) at Excel London. Talk to Josh and Lena about what's happening in the climate scale up world - the challenges but also the investment opportunities! #TFN #ClimateScaleUps #ClimateTechnologyShow

Meet Josh Lister next week Monday at the ClimateImpact Growth Retreat in London. Talk to Josh about the mission-critical strategies for our climate scale-up clients to achieve sustainable growth. https://lnkd.in/eSctYvGG #TFN #ClimateImpact #Growthinvestments

Tomorrow the Climate Tech Summit Benelux (CTS2024) will take place. Make sure to catch our founder Joppe Schepers who will be speaking at 10.05AM on the climate funding landscape: "Climate-tech today: progress and roadblocks; the 2024 update"! #TFN #ClimateTechSummitBenelux #CTS

We had a great time at The EIT InnoEnergy Business Booster in Barcelona this week. Really inspiring to connect or catch up with promising companies like Methaplanet, Elestor B.V., SeaQurrent?, TaiSan, Nordluft - High-capacity drone systems, Vertequip - Vertical Equipments S.A. and many others. If we didn’t get the chance to meet at the event, please feel free to reach out to Pieter Bautz or Adriaan van Heyningen Nanninga to hear more about TFN - Transition Finance Network and how we can potentially help you with venture building, fund raising or more broadly in your scaling journey. #TBB #climatescaleups #climatefinancing #venturebuilding #EITInnoEnergy #TFN

We are looking forward to be joining The EIT InnoEnergy Business Booster 2024 in Barcelona this week. One of the the largest sustainable energy events in Europe. Come and meet our team members Pieter Bautz and Adriaan van Heyningen Nanninga who will be delighted to chat to you about our most recent climate scaleup venture building and fund raising projects and how we can support you in your climate scale up journey. #climatescaleups #climatefinancing #venturebuilding #EITInnoEnergy #TFN @https://lnkd.in/erpSQNQw