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Essay
Pale Blue Dot reflects on five years of organizing The Drop, its annual invite-only climate tech conference in Malmö. The 2026 edition featured 1000+ attendees, 45 side events, and growing focus on hard tech, robotics, data centers.
Five years of The Drop: Why we organize a massive conference each year
Published essay explaining why Pale Blue Dot invested in Distill — an energy grid simulation platform. Distill helps energy companies run thousands of simulations to better place power plants and data centers, reducing costly project cancellations.
Why foresight is the strongest asset for the energy transition
Pale Blue Dot launched Europe/Next, an invite-only gathering of 30 European VC decision-makers to discuss improving the European venture ecosystem, covering fund economics, LP relationships, and mindset challenges.
How do we step up the game for European VC? Why we started Europe/Next
Published essay explaining why Pale Blue Dot invested in Staer — a spatial intelligence layer for mobile robots. Staer provides environment understanding and robot coordination, starting with warehouse logistics.
Why spatial intelligence will power the robotics revolution
Published essay explaining why Pale Blue Dot invested in Pollen — a battery swapping infrastructure for electric mopeds and motorcycles in Europe, built to solve the charging problem for commercial fleets.
Europe's electric transition still leaves two wheels behind
Published essay explaining why Pale Blue Dot invested in Cinqo — an asset-light two-sided marketplace connecting waste processors with businesses, using AI to optimize waste sorting, routing, and ESG reporting.
The waste problem you never see and the startup sorting it out
Published essay explaining why Pale Blue Dot invested in Tangible — a platform connecting hardtech companies with debt capital markets, enabling hardware startups to access non-dilutive capital for manufacturing and scaling.
Published essay explaining why Pale Blue Dot invested in VARM — an insulation company using a reverse franchise model to scale home energy efficiency across Germany and Europe.
The most overlooked energy leak and the infrastructure to fix it