Pia Laguna de la Vera

Pia Laguna de la Vera is an investor on the investment team at World Fund VC, currently based in Berlin, Germany. At the firm, which operates as Europe's largest climate tech venture capital fund with a €350 million target volume, she focuses on deal sourcing and pipeline management. Her investment strategy targets high-emitting sectors such as energy, manufacturing, and agriculture, specifically backing technologies capable of reducing emissions by at least 100 megatons of CO2 equivalent. Her academic background includes studying business administration at the University of Cologne and comparative literature at Freie Universität Berlin. Additionally, her daily work supports a venture fund backed by notable investors such as Verena Pausder and Mario Götze. Laguna de la Vera maintains a primary focus on scaling early-stage climate technologies to achieve measurable decarbonization across global supply chains.