AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the agrifoodtech ecosystem, upstream technologies — those operating on the farm or in the production of food — are where the greatest climate opportunities are, and investment in these categories will be critical to improving Africa’s climate resilience. million, it’s still clearly under-invested.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

The lead backer on the latest round is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, which explicitly embeds sustainability considerations into its investments. Other "participating" investors are Viking Global Investors, Upfront Investors, Tao Capital Partners and Rock Creek Group. Some of its partners include Kroger (the largest U.S.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 23, 2022

Tender Food raised a $12M seed round , led by Lowercarbon Capital. Greentown alum Mori raised a $50M Series B1 round , led by Prelude Ventures. Criterion Energy Partners received an investment from Patterson-UTI. Greentown Houston startups won big at CERAWeek’s Energy Transition Venture Day pitch competition !

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2023

Funding Peak Power , a provider of energy-optimization software and services, raised a $35M round led by Greenbacker Capital Management. Ambient Fuels , a developer of green hydrogen projects, received an investment from Generate Capital and an agreement from the company to fund up to $250M of green hydrogen infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

“Climatetech” is suddenly the hot new trend in venture capital. For years now, venture investors have stayed away from the cleantech category, a hangover from the Solyndra days that we have thoroughly documented on The Interchange. And have investors internalized the lessons from the previous investment wave?

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Blackrock makes a half-a-bill bet on Oxy’s DAC plant, Stratos, in a bid to capitalize on IRA’s shiny new credits and put DAC on the fast track. The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date. Happy Monday! 

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Venture capital investment in climate tech may have dropped ~40% in the first half of this year amid the broader market slackening, but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the green. All to say, we’ve skewed conservative in our assumptions to estimate the (directional! illustrative!)

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

venture capital firms were on the lookout for cleantech targets, drawn, not least, by the reassurance of a Department of Energy loan program that was busy dispersing $15 billion in loan guarantees. Some have managed to become category leaders. Their total market capitalization as of early November is almost $439 billion.

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CleanTech San Diego

AUGUST 1, 2022

Capital: Since joining the program, SCEIN member companies have raised $234.5 million in private capital and $65.9 XENDEE , South 8 Technologies , Sonocharge , UCAP Power , and Ivy Energy led the private capital raised, and Qubitekk , KIGT , Community Energy Labs , Icarus RT, and TyFast led the public capital raised.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 8, 2022

“Cleantech” became a popular term in the late 1990s and early 2000s used by venture capital investors to describe a variety of green, sustainable and eco-friendly technology companies. SeaAhead has co-invested alongside its fellow Blue Angels.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 19, 2024

We made 37 new and follow-on investments. These projects are ready for catalytic capital to bridge to fully commercial or public financing. Our recent study with Boston Consulting Group found a $150B financing gap for projects between early-stage VC funding and later-stage growth capital, and the gap is widening.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last fall Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt announced that it had raised $600 million in equity to invest in capacity expansion, research and development, and large-scale recycling. The $600 million represented a substantial capital raise for a company that isn’t exactly a household name in the U.S., compared to $2.3

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 5, 2023

The most-read AFN-reported article highlights the continued obsession our readers have with indoor farming; articles about the category have been among our best-read since we started reporting in 2014. The article deciphers why the closure happened, citing the capital-intensive nature of having to run such large vertical farms.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

The Series A funding round investment announced today, which was led by Molten Ventures, is initially aimed at stepping up recruitment and scaling the business, according to Material Exchange chief executive and founder Darren Glenister.

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Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

As venture capital funding falls across the startup landscape, the dollars flowing into climate tech companies dropped ~40% in the first half of 2023. Macro gravitational pull: The overall venture market dropped 53% YoY in Q1 , a further 10% decline from the prior quarter. Quarterly investment totals dropped to $6.6B

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

” The startup raised seed funding of just under $2 million last year from individual investors and firms like Powerhouse Ventures, City Light Capital and Trancoso Partners. Those three joined the new round, led by SJF Ventures, which invested in NEXTracker and groSolar, both of which exited via acquisition.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 21, 2020

Episode 5 with Nan Li of Obvious Ventures “What’s happening in biology is a great case study of what we’re excited by at Obvious broadly, which is the influence of technology in a new space that’s very important for society that happens to be disassociated with the tech industry, but the dynamics of that are quickly changing”?—?Nan

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Heightened focus on ESG in private markets and recent wave of corporate net zero targets have prompted dramatic increase in global climate tech investment, according to new PwC analysis, but fears remain that key technologies are under-funded.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 5, 2023

At SOSV’s Climate Tech Summit last week, Kim facilitated a conversation between investors across the Climate Capital Stack —including government, philanthropic, and private sources of funding—focused on functionally financing those finicky FOAK projects. It's not just about capital taking risk.

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Technology Hydrogen Demand Investment 82

Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When we started Better Ventures in 2011, we had a lot of explaining to do. Back in those days, there were very few venture funds with an explicit mandate to invest in companies focused on positive social/environmental impact and even fewer that were focused on seed stage, mission-driven technology startups.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 8, 2024

While not quite a plug-and-play formula yet, five primary financing buckets repeatedly back up FOAK with bucks: “Super Round” with Equity, Philanthropic or Catalytic Capital, Strategics, Government, and Project Investment. For an intro to the different kinds of funding check out our Climate Capital Stack.)

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Investing in climate funds is great - But it's not the only way to add value European climate tech funds raised $2.6bn in 2021 - an amount double that of the year before. Credit Suisse backed 2150's inaugural urban sustainability fund, which invests in startups changing the way cities are "designed, constructed and powered."

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As always, the venture community is eager to participate in the blooming opportunity this demand represents. According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). What is ‘Climate Intelligence’?

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 59

Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The latest investment in carbon accounting software outfit Doconomy suggests corporate interest is growing in how to make personal carbon budgets a reality. Earlier this week, Swedish software firm Doconomy raised $19m in equity capital led by return investor German venture capital firm CommerzVentures.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Revterra raised a $6M Series A for its grid-stabilizing kinetic battery from Greentown partners Equinor and SCF Partners’ venturing arms. Energy Toolbase launched its newest financing integration partner, Sustainable Capital Finance, on its ETB Developer platform. Deployments + Partnerships.

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T Rex Group

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Now in its fifth year, the Markets Choice Awards – Women in Finance program recognizes the most talented and accomplished women across buy-side and sell- side trading desks, institutional investors, wealth managers, securities exchanges, technology providers, corporate finance, venture capital firms, and startups.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Evolv Ventures launched late last year as the venture arm of ketchup and mac-and-cheese behemoth Kraft Heinz with $100 million to invest in startups. You just invested in New Culture, do you imagine Evolv making many more alt-dairy/alt-meat investments? We’re not sharp-elbowed; we’ll work with anyone.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 9, 2020

One of the hottest 2020 trends in raising capital is infiltrating climate-tech investing. We have formed Climate Real Impact Solutions to help those entrepreneurs gain access to the capital, the connections and the talent they need to take their businesses to the next level while amplifying their climate impact.".

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 20, 2021

What you will notice is not only that the information is organized by categories, but also that the documents provided are listed with some specificity so that information is easily accessed. Due diligence, conceptually, can be separated into three categories: 1. Every data room should have an Index (find an example here ).

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

Its portfolio of early-stage investments also includes Boston Materials , which is working on a carbon fiber composite material that could help lightweight cars and planes; and Rebound Technologies , developing natural refrigerant solutions. What, exactly, falls under the climate tech category?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That stat, drawn from a survey conducted by human resources software company Gusto, is even more astounding when you consider the infinitesimal amount of venture capital that entrepreneurs of the female persuasion typically pull in annually - a mere two per cent, according to ongoing research by Pitchbook.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2023

Historically speaking, venture capital flowing into water technology has been a trickle rather than a flood - an estimated $470m in 2021. That's a mere drop in the bucket compared with the $27bn invested in climate tech in the first half of 2022 alone.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

One investment theme we’re increasingly excited about is synthetic biology, due to its potential to replace carbon emitting production methods for a number of products reliant on fossil fuels, from food and materials to therapeutics and petrochemicals. We’ve made two recent investments in this space?—?in which I’ll get to shortly.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Answering other consumer demands for nutritional value and health foods, other startups in the innovative food category are manufacturing novel ingredients such as algae, novel supplements with custom nutritional profiles for women and children, and replacements for unhealthy and less popular ingredients such as sugar. Novel ingredients.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Answering other consumer demands for nutritional value and health foods, other startups in the innovative food category are manufacturing novel ingredients such as algae, novel supplements with custom nutritional profiles for women and children, and replacements for unhealthy and less popular ingredients such as sugar. Novel ingredients.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC Heather Clancy Thu, 10/08/2020 – 01:45 One of the hottest 2020 trends in raising capital is infiltrating climate-tech investing. You can think of it as an alternative for a late-stage venture capital round, Crane told me last week when we chatted about the venture.

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