FUND 01 / CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILITY
Capital alone won’t get MENA climate to scale.
MENA+ · Built locally. Connected globally.
a $40M climate & sustainability venture fund across MENA+
A focused early-stage fund backing climate and sustainability founders solving regional problems with global scaling potential.
// the market is early, and accelerating
Acute climate pressure across MENA+.
Capital has not followed the need.
That delta is the opportunity.
$631M
$2.7T
reached the region historically
needed annually by 2030
Historical funding and annual need are distinct measures. Blocks not to scale.
7+ COUNTRIES SINCE 2019 · NOT TOURIST VC
Markets most pan-MENA funds avoid at early stage: a structural entry-price advantage.
Companies designed to scale into structurally larger TAMs with premium pricing.
7+ countries since 2019, 300+ engagements. This is not tourist VC.
The next decade of climate solutions won’t be invented in San Francisco or Berlin. They’ll be invented where the heat is rising fastest, and built by the founders who can’t afford to wait.
global average water stress in the region
regional food import dependency
global average warming rate // IPCC / World Bank
> the challenges set the timeline. the founders are already building.
// PLNT OS / FLOW DIAGRAM / v.01.001
INPUT / TALENT
Technically rigorous, capital-efficient climate founders: engineers, agronomists, chemists, operators trained where things actually have to work.
INPUT / CAPITAL
More sustainability capital is being mobilised here than anywhere on earth: sovereign-adjacent allocators, family offices, net-zero corporates seeking credible vehicles.
INPUT / CHALLENGES
Water stress at multiples of the global average, the highest food import dependency anywhere, energy systems under accelerating policy compression.
PLNT OS · SYSTEM THESIS
Between the challenges that won’t wait. Between the capital that backs it. Between the talent that builds it.
// built locally · validated regionally · scaled globally
Capital is the easy part. Market entry, regulatory navigation, hiring, the right next investor: that’s the hard part. We built the operational machinery to deliver it. That machinery is the product.
// PILLAR 01 · OPERATING SYSTEM
A portfolio operating system that compounds the institutional knowledge of every company we’ve supported. A senior team’s worth of leverage on day one.
// PILLAR 02 · HUMAN NETWORK
An eight-year-old operator network: innovation consulting, venture-building muscle, corporate partnerships, regulatory access. We don’t outsource value-add.
Operators who have actually built in the region, backed by an independent, majority-external Investment Committee with binding vote.
// THE GP · OPERATOR-TURNED-INVESTOR
Founder & General Partner, Betaventures · CEO, Betawaves · MENA Ambassador, Incider Circle (WEF)
// EDU · MSc Digital Economy (Maryland @ MSB) · MSc Engineering, Dipl.-Ing. (Leibniz Hannover)
Majority-external. The GP alone cannot approve a deal.
COMING SOON · Q3
Short-form clips from the PLNT team and ecosystem partners (operators, founders, regulators and LPs) on the questions shaping climate capital in MENA. Drops monthly, starting Q3.
Founders, investors, partners, press: one form, straight to the team. We read everything.
RESPONSE WINDOW · A FEW DAYS
// RECEIVED
Thanks. It’s with the team.
We read everything and reply within a few days.