Startup Basecamp is now Critical Capital Partners.

About Us

We are changing the way
legacy capital finances
critical industrial infrastructure.

Our Mission

Turning urgency into lasting prosperity for future generations.

By partnering with families to finance entrepreneurs and critical infrastructure across civilisation’s foundational sectors, driving a resilient, sustainable and sovereign economy for long term growth

170+

Investors deploying capital

65+

Investments deals supported

25B

Capital to be deployed by the Investors Network

186+

Investors Introductions

Our Team

Guillaume de Dorlodot

General Partner
Founder

Oliver Yorke

Venture Partner & Investors Relation

Benoît Carpentier de Changy

AIFM Partner
(Vault-am)

Stefania Guadalupe Vallejo

Community &
Marketing Manager

Lucas Araujo

Content & Platform Strategist

Larissa Sequeira

Venture Partner
(Former PGIM Director)

Advisors and Experts

Illai Gescheit

Venture Investment advisor (ex. Siemens Energy Venture)

Jonathan Foley

Strategic Decarbonosation solution advisor (Executive Director)

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Justin Sykes

Head of Impact Advisor (Founder and Managing Director)

Deanna Zhang

Strategic Infrastructure Financing Advisor (Investment Banking Director / Lead)

Vuk Trifkovic

Corporate Sustainability Advisor (Partner)

Strategic Scientist
Advisory Team

Strategic Head
of Impact Advisor

From Silicon Valley to Europe & beyond

Our Founding Story

Establishing a robust relationship with exceptional founders and professional investors since 2013.

2013

8 years of built tech-network in Silicon Valley

Startup Basecamp

Strengthened global investor, founder, and expert communities through 170+ events, including weekly pitches, panels, and innovations programs.

Promoted community knowledge with insights from influential entrepreneurs like Guy Kawasaki, Eric Ries or Jason Fried.

Supported 3,000+ international entrepreneurs and tech professionals from 85 countries, raising over $815 mil to connect with the Silicon Valley Ecosystem.

Discover more about our remarkable journey with Startup Basecamp, beginning with the world’s first coliving hotel and launching our Silicon Valley Innovation Labs alongside our co-founder, Maria Scarzella Thorpe.

2021

In Europe... Driving innovation in Climate-Tech

Startup Basecamp

Utilizing our experience and tech network, along with Silicon Valley expertise and resources, we focus on supporting Climate-Tech founders to combat climate change.

We build a strong network:

Conversations with investors and founders revealed a common desire to connect, highlighting a gap in access between them.
To fill this void, we developed a platform and community, organizing events and podcasts to facilitate financing.
Our aim is to cultivate a network that not only fosters shared passion but also strengthens vision and empowers the next generation of Climate-Tech leaders.

2024
& Beyond

Critical Capital Partners

Expanding the scope of our investors to accelerate capital allocation.

After engaging with the Family Office community, we discovered their interest in Climate & Industrial -Tech investments but noted their difficulty entering this market, dominated by top-tier venture capital firms and funds.

Our strong relationships with founders and these venture capital and funds provide us with co-investment opportunities.

Recognizing the need to assist Family Offices, we are excited to open up these opportunities and integrate more Family Offices into this exclusive investor circle.

Our focus now shifts towards enhancing Family Offices'exposure and reach within the private industrial Technology and Infrasrtucture market environment.

Moving forward, we want to extend this exclusive relationship with you.

"All of our choices today will determine the future of everyone on this planet"

Why re-industrializing the real economy matters now?

Capital is moving back to the real economy. Global capital markets are entering a multi-decade shift toward tangible assets in real infrastructure and industry after decades dominated by intangible investments.

Strategic Context

We are entering a hard-asset supercycle:

a structural reallocation of capital into the physical economy — real assets, infrastructure, and production capacity. A $15T global infrastructure gap by 2040 and $68T projected demand mark the scale of this cycle.

Where We Focus

We invest where two systemic forces intersect:

Macro Market drivers such as security, resilience and sovereignty, and Planetary drivers such as climate adaptation and resource resilience. Where these forces converge, structural opportunities emerge: technologies that turn stress into advantage and scarcity into value.

I.Macro market drivers:

Security and defense mobilisation

$2.72T global military spend in 2024, about 2.5% of world GDP; NATO 2% targets support multi year budgets.

De globalisation and industrial policy

$280B US CHIPS and Science Act; €390B EU Net Zero Industry plan; reshoring and friendshoring accelerate.

Re industrialisation & energy abundance

$68T infrastructure needed through 2040 with a $15T shortfall; grid upgrades and storage growing at high double digits; the EU imports about 98% of rare earths.

Allocation shifts and access

Institutions allocate about 4.3% to private infrastructure versus 5 to 6% targets; high quality co investment access remains concentrated, creating room for disciplined family capital.

II.Planetary forces:

The scientific data are not looking good. Our planet is warming faster than expected!

1.63ÂşC

Avg. Temperature Increase
(May 2023-June 2024)

The consequences are very expensive for everyone….

12% World GDP

Estimated Annual Cost for each 1ÂşC Increase

$38T per year

Global Economy Cost Projection Yearly

So much still need to be done...

to limit GHG Emissions and global temperature increase!

What’s the Yearly Reduction necessary to reach net zero by 2050?

37.55 GT in 2023

Annual Production GHG

15 GT (+/-)

Natural reduction (Today)

22.55 GT

Net deficit Yearly

(For Net Zero Target)

And we are in excess…

Amount of CO2 in the atmosphere

ppm: parts per million

Current Situation

> 420 ppm

Target

350 ppm

(Pre 1988)

500 GT (+/-)

Remaining to abate (2024)

The Good news?

The Technologies are there; we need to finance them.

$3.5 T

Yearly New Spending in Low Emission Assets vs Today

$1 T

Reallocated from High to Low Emissions Assets

$2 T

Low-Emissions Assets 

$2.7 T

High-Emission Assets

$9.2 T/Year

Total Spending required
(7.5% World GDP/Year)

We translate systemic forces into co-investment opportunities in Europe and North America.

Our Thesis

Targeting the Four Pillars of the Real Economy

Our thesis is anchored in first principles: every society depends on energy, food, materials, and security. These are the foundations of civilisation and resilience — sectors where demand never stops. By investing in these systems, families capture resilient, risk-adjusted long-term returns while financing the backbone of future prosperity

Energy

Food & Agriculture

The Built Environment

Industry