20: From founder to climate investor - Talk with serial entrepreneur and investor Tim Schumacher

SustainNOW Podcast - Learn from entrepreneurs & scientists about climate solutions

English - May 30, 2023 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MB
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In today's episode, I am speaking with Tim Schumacher. Tim is a German Investor and Entrepreneur with a long-term focus on Impact and Climate. He co-founded and led the publicly traded Sedo.com as CEO for ten years.

Since 2012, he has founded and invested in multiple start-ups like Eyeo (makers of Adblock Plus), SaaS.group, Zolar, CarbonCloud, Pachama and Ecosia. Tim Schumacher also very recently co-founded the World Fund which is a 350 Millionen EUR VC fund focusing on Climate Startups who have the potential to save 100 Mio Co2.

In this episode, you will learn about Tim’s journey from an entrepreneur to an investor, climate activism as a teenager and as well his Top 3 bets in the Climate Tech sector.

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