Fika with climate tech investor Robina von Stein: “VCs need to be more creative”
10 maj 2025
08:26
Contrarian Ventures is a Baltic-born climate tech VC firm that has supported more than 70 founders across 11 countries. Principal Robina von Stein, who lives in Munich, shares why she champions more cross-sector collaboration and creativity in Europe’s VC world.
This is the latest installment in our series of Friday ‘fika’ chats, where we enjoy a Swedish-style coffee and cake break with brilliant minds from Europe’s impact community.
This is the latest installment in our series of Friday ‘fika’ chats, where we enjoy a Swedish-style coffee and cake break with brilliant minds from Europe’s impact community.
You’ve just launched the 2025 edition of The Climate Brick, which is a manual for climate tech founders and workers. Tell us a bit about that?
"The Climate Brick is a blueprint to help climate tech founders navigate the journey from pre-seed to scale. But the Brick isn’t just for founders. Scaling climate tech is a team sport. It takes VCs, infra funds, banks, corporates, universities, even governments pulling in the same direction. That’s...