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David Helgason

Co-Founder & Independent Director, Unity Software

Search every verified David Helgason interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In April 2025, David Helgason announced that Transition Ventures, where he is a co-founder, had raised a second fund of $150 million. Helgason said the fund is focused on backing founders with deep technical expertise who are working on energy, hardware, and industrial infrastructure. He described the firm's investment framework as being centered on "planetary boundaries" and addressing resource constraints, including the increased demand for compute and power driven by AI. Helgason stated that the fund seeks founders who are "incredibly ambitious and want to kind of rewrite the physical world" and replace what he called "the old industrial system." Helgason noted that the venture landscape is shifting as software becomes cheaper to create, and he cited SpaceX as a playbook the firm finds compelling. He also mentioned that Transition Ventures has invested in a company developing small modular nuclear power plants, a type of business he said would have been "unimaginable" in Europe a decade ago.

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“But no, but but um what uh unfortunately happened is I mean Trump is one thing and and sort of the stuff over there, but it's it's the war, right? And and the war has triggered this kind of series of worries about wars and it's just very very hard for people to think about long-term potential problems when there's a short-term acute problem near them. Um so um that's sad. The good thing is a lot of the climate soluti”

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