'Easier ways to make money': Do venture studios for climate tech actually work?
15 Jul 2026
07:16
Venture studios have the potential to birth valuable companies tackling really big problems.
But whether the model for climate tech companies works depends on who you ask.
We put the question to two European investors that have pioneered the model, one that later adopted it, and another that decided to scrap it after three years trying to make it work.
"Really coming in at the ground floor and looking at these big problems, and [asking] what is the optimal company we could build in that sector, appealed to us much more than building a fund," Benjamin Tincq, founding partner at Marble, tells Impact Loop.
But whether the model for climate tech companies works depends on who you ask.
We put the question to two European investors that have pioneered the model, one that later adopted it, and another that decided to scrap it after three years trying to make it work.
"Really coming in at the ground floor and looking at these big problems, and [asking] what is the optimal company we could build in that sector, appealed to us much more than building a fund," Benjamin Tincq, founding partner at Marble, tells Impact Loop.
At the turn of the decade, as sustainable investment surged, a new breed of climate tech investor appeared across Europe: the venture studio.
Designed to create companies from scratch, venture studios supply the idea, the founding team, or both, in exchange for a stake. (At least that’s the basic concept – no one seems to be able to agree on exactly what a venture studio is).