Clara Ricard

Partner, Transition
With a machine-learning and robotics background turned climate investor, Clara Ricard focuses on hardware and industrial deep tech, publicly sharing go-to-market and team lessons and favoring disruptors over incumbents.
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About Clara Ricard

Clara Ricard built a technical background in machine learning and robotics before becoming a climate investor, which lines up with her focus on hardware and industrial deep tech and her sharper stance that "hardware can scale as fast as software, China proved it." She also writes directly about the companies she works with, covering topics like deep-tech go-to-market and team-building lessons from Solugen, and traces her investing approach back to a lesson from her time at McKinsey that incumbents won't change the world.

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Climate, Energy, Deeptech / Hardware, AI, Transportation
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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$1M–$8M

Transition positions itself as India's first venture fund focused specifically on the energy transition, backing engineering-led hardware companies working on real energy infrastructure—like power electronics, batteries, and hydrogen systems—instead of software or general sustainability businesses, and it builds its portfolio around complementary rather than competing companies so founders can share supply chains and expertise. Its investors include many operators who have built and sold engineering businesses, giving startups direct help turning pilots into sales, and the fund also looks to bring energy research happening outside India into the country to set up local manufacturing for global markets.

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