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Ralph Chang

Ralph Chang

Partner at Motion Capital, a New Zealand venture capital fund focused on decarbonisation and climate tech.

Jul 21, 2026

17:25
You, Ralph?
17:25
Yeah, I think it's growing.
17:27
I think it's growing.
17:28
I think I saw in a report that 2024 was the fastest growing in terms of technology investments, faster than software as a class.
17:40
We'll wait and see what it's like in 2025, but it was back then.
17:44
We're really, and you can see it because of, I guess, the Climate Lab accelerator, the amount of applications we get, they're growing every year and the quality of the applicants and the cohorts are increasing.
17:58
They're getting much stronger and more sophisticated.
CourtneyHOST
19:33
For those who are listening who don't know much about climate tech, are there any companies that you could speak to that could give us like an idea of the, I don't know, different types of companies working in New Zealand or exited or...
1:23
So you've got a dual mandate, haven't you? You invest both for value but also for sort of a social gain, if you like, or for well-being or for strong ESG flavour there in climate?
1:33
Yeah, that's right.
1:33
I mean, our investment thesis at Motion Capital is to invest in businesses, technology businesses, that make it cheaper to save the world than to destroy it.
1:41
So what that really means is we lean into the economics.
1:47
We look at the commercial models, we think superior economics drive adoption, and adoption at scale then drives that decarbonisation.
1:54
So we don't see any trade-off between returns and impact.

5 MINS LATER

7:17
So, I mean, does that sort of narrow the field a wee bit for an outfit like Motion?
7:21
I don't think so.

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