# Why Virta Ventures is looking for equity-light and asset-heavy climate tech investments

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Podcast: [ImpactAlpha Podcasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/impactalpha-podcasts-606137)
Published: 2026-04-03T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/episodes/Why-Virta-Ventures-is-looking-for-equity-light-and-asset-heavy-climate-tech-investments-e3hbul6
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## Resource

Russell Sprole of Virta Ventures joins David Bank to talk about why Virta expanded its equity-light, software-focused climate-tech investment strategy to include hardware, AI and blended capital stacks. Virta Ventures has been an active and early user of ImpactAlpha Edge, ImpactAlpha’s premium platform of data and tools for fund managers and other Agents of Impact. For more on the firm check out out David's piece on the firm's strategy from last year.

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