Caroline Bergaud
Role: Associate
Site: CDL-Paris
Stream: Climate
Caroline is an independent fundraising and strategy consultant as well as a business angel with a keen focus on climate and healthtech. She has been working at the interface of government and business for 20+ years and has a sophisticated understanding of how both interplay (or don’t) in enabling and scaling deep tech and climate tech innovations.
Caroline has long been convinced that technology is a deeply political issue and that the deep tech and climate tech innovations the 21st century needs will not scale without strong government support, which has become obvious today from major government initiatives such as the EU’s Green Deal and the US Inflation Reduction Act.
Based on this long-held conviction, Caroline has developed a unique expertise in blending public and private funding sources in her fundraising approach and in helping startups embed policy considerations from the get-go in their business strategy.
When she is not in the trenches strategizing alongside start-up founders, Caroline increasingly acts as an expert to a number of governments in Europe, to the European Commission and to investment funds