Twynam

Twynam is a climate tech venture capital firm backing founders globally with novel technologies to decarbonize the Earth, operating as the venture arm of the Twynam Group, an Australian family office originally rooted in agriculture. Founded in 1969 (with dedicated climate tech investing since the early 2000s) and led by CEO Johnny Kahlbetzer, the firm is headquartered in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia. Beyond climate tech investing, the broader Twynam Group maintains a regenerative agriculture and property development portfolio, reflecting its origins as one of Australia's major agricultural producers before transitioning into a diversified investment firm. Its sector focus spans food and agriculture, clean energy, the built environment, waste and circularity, ocean health, and direct carbon sequestration, prioritizing "hard tech" solutions that outperform incumbents on cost and performance to drive adoption-led decarbonization. Twynam invests globally from pre-seed through Series B, with the Twynam Earth Fund extending access to outside investors, including family offices in the US and, more recently, Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. The firm has made 13 disclosed investments to date, including Blue Frontier, a next-generation air conditioning technology company. Its investment approach favors bold ideas and remarkable teams tackling truly difficult decarbonization problems rather than obvious or incremental bets, backed by an investment team with two decades of sector-specific experience and a preference for businesses with genuine scale potential.