In today's urgent crisis, it's more important than ever to understand the investment climate in cleantech and sustainable solutions. Foresight recently partnered with a number of organizations, including the Vantec Angel Network, Entrepreneurship at UBC, SFU Venture Labs and Spring Activator to host an online event to help investors to recognize and benefit from the growing demand for high-impact climate solutions, and to showcase some promising climate positive companies.

What is the Economic Climate for Investing?

Jeanette Jackson, CEO of Foresight led a panel discussion "Investing after COVID-19" where investors spoke about the investment climate in cleantech. Overall, despite the current COVID-19 crisis that is putting the reins on the economy, the panel believed it was a good time to invest.

The economic crisis is different from 2008 Great Recession in that the banking sector is not at risk. In fact, they believe that Cleantech is more economically viable overall now due to several issues:

• Energy Demand is still high, and growing
• Oil Demand is dropping
• If the project/technology was viable pre-crisis, it will be viable post-crisis

Investors will be looking at a 2 year runway on balance sheets, syndicate deals and partnerships, revenue sharing models, and for the next while will be focused on their existing portfolio companies and making sure they can weather the storm.