2025 Climate Investment Bootcamp in Hong Kong
(In Person)
One-day interactive in-person course will equip you with all the essential investment skills to create a positive impact and financial return.
The 2025 event is jointly partnered with Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi) and Hong Kong University Sustainability X-Lab.
Date: May 19, 2025
Climate Investing: Transition our society to net zero with a sound financial return
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According to the agenda of UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021, in order to help our society transition to net zero by mid-century and keep 1.5 degrees within reach, at least $100bn in climate finance per year is needed by 2020 from developed countries.
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Venture capital funding plays a key role to enable sound new technologies and business solutions to hit the market. The past 10 years have witnessed a boom and bust of venture investments in the area of “clean technologies”. With the promising signals of global government’s net zero commitment, and increasingly mature clean technologies such as solar, wind and electric vehicles, venture investments in climate space have reached all time high in 2020. However, despite the hype, climate investing space is complicated with policies and technology uncertainties. In this course, we aim to provide an overview of the current government policies, industry trends and much needed solutions in the climate space. Additionally, we will cover specific resources that investors should be aware of when investing in climate technologies, in order to have reasonable financial return expectations.
In this program, you will...
Learn current global climate policies and mandates, and what those mean for industry opportunities​
Understand the challenges in investing in clean technologies and how to avoid them to achieve sound financial returns
Sharpen your fundamental investment skills by working on real deals with lively discussions with industry experts
Learn what solutions are really needed to combat climate challenges ​
Meet like-minded climate investors and form a co-investing network
This Program is for...
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who want to gain a comprehensive knowledge and network on climate investing should participate in the course
Corporates/Businesses
Asset Managers
Individuals/Angel investors
Professors and Industry Expert Lecturers
Professor Ilya A. Strebulaev
Professor Strebulaev is an expert in corporate finance, venture and angel capital, innovation financing, corporate innovation, and financial decision-making. He also is the founder and director of the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative.
The David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jane Ge
Jane Ge is both a seasoned climate tech investor and a policy researcher. She is an affiliate researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on clean energy and climate policy research. Jane is the founder of Vectors Angel, and was previously with Goldwind Capital (Corporate venture at Goldwind), Tsing Capital (China Environmental Fund) and UC Berkeley's deep tech accelerator CITRIS Foundry.
Managing Partner at Vectors Angel, Policy Researcher
Yixing Xu
Yixing Xu is the Research Director of Breakthrough Energy Sciences. Breakthrough Energy is the umbrella name of several organizations, founded by Bill Gates in 2015, that aim to accelerate innovation in sustainable energy and in other technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He works with a diverse team of research scientists, data scientists, software engineers for projects related to clean energy.
Research Director of Breakthrough Energy Sciences
1 Day Intensive Program Plan
GUEST SPEAKERS : LEADING CLIMATE TECH EXPERTS
CASE STUDIES, DEAL DISCUSSION
Jing (Jane) Ge
Jane Ge is both a seasoned climate tech investor and a policy researcher. She is an affiliate researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on clean energy and climate policy research. Jane is the founder of Vectors Angel, and was previously with Goldwind Capital (Corporate venture at Goldwind), Tsing Capital (China Environmental Fund) and UC Berkeley's deep tech accelerator CITRIS Foundry
Managing Partner, Vectors Capital
Zhang, Xiaoling
Professor & Director of Hong Kong University Sustainability X-Lab
Professor Zhang is a Full Professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Real Estate and Construction and Director of the Sustainability X-Lab. A Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2022–2024) and among Stanford’s top 2% most-cited scientists in Environmental Engineering, her research spans urban ecology, energy, pollution, and SDGs. Professor Zhang uses systems modeling, AI, and geospatial analytics to explore net-zero solutions in buildings, transport, and cities. With 300+ publications in top journals and leadership roles in journals like Land Use Policy and npj Urban Sustainability, she also serves on major research panels and environmental institutes in Hong Kong.
Pang Lee
Partner, Cooley Hong Kong
Pang Lee routinely advises on partnership, corporate and securities law matters related to the organization and investment in private funds and strategic investments in the tech industry. Pang has worked closely with members of the Hong Kong start-up community cultivating its emerging companies ecosystem, with a particular focus in healthcare and emerging technology companies. Pang regularly advises private fund managers and institutional investors on United States and Hong Kong regulatory, corporate governance, and risk-related matters.
“Vector’s Bootcamp was a best-in-class learning experience. Their rigorous, evidence-based overview of climate solutions and the role of climate deep tech in decarbonization set the stage. Intensive, hands-on learning followed and included doing due diligence on real startups. As an investor, I went from zero to 100 in a very short time, and I felt competent to make my first angel investment as a result.”
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- Tory Read, Founder, Studio Kakapo
Previous Bootcamp Participant
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Format and Duration :
Duration : 1 day
Date : May 19, 2025
Location: Hong Kong
Format : Mix of speaker lectures and real company due diligence
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Application due : Space limited. First Come First Serve.
Tuition : $499 USD. Discounts available for Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi) member and Hong Kong University staff member. Reach out to learn more. Free for Limited Partners of the Climate Frontier Fund.