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Venture capitalist and San Francisco 49ers co-owner Gideon Yu is on the lookout for more climate tech investments after backing direct air capture startup 280 Earth, the investor tells Axios.
Why it matters: Yu sees climate as the existential crisis of our generation and is serving as executive chairman of the company that spun out of Google's X, the innovation lab and so-called moonshot factory.