Stanford Energy Seminar | Financing a Climate Technology Startup | Craig Tighe, DLA Piper

The Stanford Energy Seminar has been a mainstay of energy engagement at Stanford for nearly 20 years and is one of the flagship programs of the Precourt Institute for Energy. We aim to bring a wide variety of perspectives to the Stanford community – academics, entrepreneurs, utilities, non-profits, and more. 

About the talk

This session will provide an overview of different ways that a climate technology startup can raise capital and obtain other support at the pre-seed and seed/series a stage of its development.

Craig Tighe is a partner in DLA Piper’s Silicon Valley office. He focuses his practice on representing emerging growth companies and their investors and lenders, with a concentration on the Climate Technology sector. He has worked with companies and financing parties in a wide range of Climate Technology businesses, including solar, batteries, electric and autonomous vehicles and energy and water conservation. He represents a number of venture capital firms as well as the corporateventure arms of energy and
utility companies and handles investments from the seed stage to exit events. In addition, Craig assists several startup accelerators. He regularly counsels clients on fiduciary and environmental, social and governance matters.
Craig serves on the advisory boards of several climate and environmental nonprofits and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Zoological Society.
He regularly teaches a clinical course on representing startups at UC Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings Law School). Craig also teaches international business negotiations to government lawyers in East Africa through DLA’s New Perimeter program.
He is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Wesleyan University.

Anyone with an interest in energy is welcome to join! You can enjoy seminars in the following ways:

• Attend live. The auditorium may change quarter by quarter, so check each seminar event to confirm the location. Explore the current quarter's schedule.
• Watch live in a browser livestream if available. Check each seminar event for its unique livestream URL.
• Watch recordings of past seminars 
  • Available on the Past Energy Seminars page and the Energy Seminars playlist of the Stanford Energy YouTube channel
• (For students) Take the seminar as a 1-unit class (CEE 301/ENERGY 301/MS&E 494)

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