Claes Fredriksson: Raising $65 Million To Create

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Claes Fredriksson, CEO of Liquid Wind, shares his journey of raising $65 million from top-tier investors without following traditional VC paths to create carbon-neutral eFuels. Liquid Wind has raised over $80M in total funding, growing from a three-person idea to 85 employees.

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I mean I think when we got started our timing was absolutely perfect. It was early in the green boom and then we had by by mainly by luck the biggest shipping company in the world MK they decided to go for green emethanol in and we started at 17. So we we spoke to them a lot in 2018. In 2019, they make the big announcement, we're going fully green. And we said, we're we're done.

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