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SCALING CLEANTECH SUCCESS

Source:“ Cheaper, faster, better: A formula for cleantech scaling success” – McKinsey

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companies have raised approximately US $ 166bn in equity, representing 45 % of all cleantech equity raised since 2015

THE AVERAGE CLEANTECH INVESTMENT DEAL IN 2025 WAS

US $ 16M

UP FROM US $ 5M IN 2015

Approximately US $ 80BN

in debt has been deployed since 2015, with two-thirds raised in just the past three years

highlighting growing lender confidence in the cleantech sector as technology models are proven and mature
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