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Funding / InvestmentActiveChris Sacca's $2.4 billion climate investment fund. The single most connected entity in geoengineering: funds the research (Harvard SGRP), lobbies for policy (SilverLining), AND invests in deployment companies (Stardust Solutions lead, Rainmaker). Occupies every seat from science to profit.
Key Facts
- Manages $2.4 billion in assets
- Led the largest geoengineering startup investment ever ($60M in Stardust Solutions)
- Also invested in Rainmaker (cloud seeding) and Marine Cloud Brightening Project
- Donates to Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program (nonprofit research)
- Funds SilverLining ($20.5M coalition) which lobbies Congress for SRM programs
- This is the full loop: fund research, lobby for government support, invest in the company that gets deployment contracts
- Chris Sacca is Italian-Irish American, not Israeli — but his fund is the bridge between geoengineering research and profit
Who's Behind It
Chris Sacca
(American)Cofounder & Managing Partner
Italian-Irish American. Born May 12, 1975 in Lockport, New York. Father Gerald Sacca (attorney, Italian descent from Calabria). Mother Katherine (Irish descent, SUNY professor). Georgetown Law grad. Early investor in Twitter, Uber, Instagram. Billionaire.
Connections
Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program
Donor to nonprofit research program that produces models showing SRM 'could work.'
[Harvard SGRP funding page]SilverLining
Funder of advocacy organization that lobbies Congress, State Department, and international bodies for SRM research and governance.
[SilverLining public disclosures]Both Sacca and Gates donate to Harvard SGRP. Gates funds the research through FICER ($8.5M+); Sacca funds the research AND invests in the companies that profit from deployment. Two sides of the same pipeline.
[Harvard SGRP funding page]