The Rise of Green Unicorns: Can Canada become a cleantech leader?

Andrea Zanon Confidente
4 min readMay 1, 2024

With the surge of climate-focused startups achieving billion-dollar valuations, does Canada have the potential to become a global cleantech leader?

Green unicorns are one of the most exiting investment trends in recent years. These clean-tech startups are not only achieving billion-dollar valuations, but they’re doing it at an impressive pace, reaching the billion-dollar status in just four years compared to the typical seven years for more conventional startups.

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Andrea Zanon Confidente

Performance advisor with over 20 years experience across entrepreneurship, sustainability and partnership. Now focusing helping people investing in themselves