Impact Alpha

APRIL 21, 2023

ImpactAlpha, April 21 – Last year, climate tech investing was a bright spot in an otherwise challenging fundraising market. The post Deal spotlight: The new, uncomfortable reality for climate tech VC appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The talk among startups.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The post The Brief: Climate Week’s brighter outlook, naming rules for ESG funds, European climate tech VC, impact notes, messiness and mutuality in measurement appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Sign up for next week’s Call: The employee-ownership edge. Companies prosper when workers benefit from the value they.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Climate tech investments from venture-capital and private equity fell 40% in 2023 as economic uncertainty and geopolitical conflict dent investor confidence, according to PwC’s 2023 State of Climate Tech report, published on 17 October.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2022

Audio journalist Molly Wood, formerly of Marketplace, explores learnings from reporting her podcast "How We Survive," about how tech can help us adapt to climate change — and her pivot to become a climate tech VC.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The post The Brief: Enterprise tech and small-business capital, finance justice, student-led VC, climate-proof coffee, disinformation risks, criminal-justice footprints appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The Call No. 31: Optimizing for Impact. Many thanks to the hundreds of Agents of Impact who joined yesterday’s.

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TechCrunch: Climate

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Equator, an Africa-focused climate tech VC fund, led the round, which also had the participation […] © 2024 TechCrunch. Roam, an EV startup based in Kenya, has raised $24 million in a Series A round, including up to $10 million debt commitment from the U.S All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 25, 2023

Climate tech investment landed in the spotlight in 2022. eGrocery, food delivery) saw valuations nosedive and VC dollars dwindle, climate tech investment “hovered at historic highs,” according to PWC’s State of Climate Tech 2022 report. While other sectors (e.g.,

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TechCrunch: Climate

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Amini, a Kenya-based climate-tech startup bridging the environmental data gap in Africa, has raised $4 million in seed funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures and the Female Founders Fund.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

ImpactAlpha, June 22 – In the crowded climate tech investing space, it helps to be a specialist. Overture VC, an early stage venture. The post Overture raises $60 million debut fund to help climate tech founders tap into government support appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This climate tech moment is different from Cleantech 1.0 ’s days, when VCs alone pumped expensive equity into energy commodities businesses, is the depth and breadth of specialized climate tech capital support. Heck, the climate capital stack is different now from when we first named this newsletter.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 25, 2024

World Fund invests in Europe’s early and growth-stage climate startups. The three-year-old, Berlin-based VC firm crossed the €300 million mark for its first. The post World Fund raises €300 million venture fund for European climate tech appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 11, 2021

This VC has a message for climate-tech entrepreneurs: Prove it Heather Clancy Tue, 05/11/2021 – 04:15 Sometime over the past year, climate tech outbuzzed AI, and that hype is leading would-be backers to rethink their valuation models. billion tons of CO2-equivalent by 2050, Miller said.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In the world of venture capital, climate tech is about as hot as it gets. In the first two quarters of 2021, climate tech companies raised $16B from VCs. It's never been a better time to be a climate tech entrepreneur. It's easy to get lost in the noise -- so what does the hard data say?

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 27, 2024

Mexico City-based climate tech VC. Santiago-based biotech company Done Properly uses fermentation to produce healthy and sustainable food alternatives, including meat and additives. The post Mexico’s Savia Ventures backs Chilean alt-protein startup Done Properly (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 11, 2021

This VC has a message for climate-tech entrepreneurs: Prove it Heather Clancy Tue, 05/11/2021 – 04:15 Sometime over the past year, climate tech outbuzzed AI, and that hype is leading would-be backers to rethink their valuation models. billion tons of CO2-equivalent by 2050, Miller said.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 11, 2023

During the SOSV Climate Tech Summit 2023 and in a conversation with SOSV Founder Sean O’ Sullivan, long-time venture capitalist Vinod Khosla spoke with great optimism about the growth of geothermal and its role in the transition away from fossil fuels. That means drilling to greater depths than we can drill today,” Khosla said.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 21, 2023

ImpactAlpha, May 21 – Climate investor Kim Zou launched Climate Tech VC in 2020 to track trends in climate tech investing. million to ramp up climate-tech data insights appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The post CTVC secures $1.8

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 2, 2021

During the height of the pandemic in 2020, venture capital poured into climate technologies at record levels. Venture investments in climate tech topped $17 billion in 2020 across more than 1,000 deals. She’s also the host of Watt It Takes , the entrepreneurship series about founders tackling climate change.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Venture and growth form the foundational layer of the climate capital stack, setting the stage for subsequent project finance and debt layers to finance the best solutions, and cross the valleys of death into broad deployment. 2024 is looking to be a critical year as climate tech continues its journey from the lab to large scale deployment. 

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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. amount of dry powder available for climate tech. illustrative!)

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Look forward to 2024 predictions from many of your favorite clairvoyant climate voices. Meta-Headlines of 2023 As our beloved industry matures, our hope for when climate tech grows up is for it to “become boring.” 🧑‍💻 COP28 was climate tech-ier than ever.

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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We read a lot about Climate Tech, and the VC investments about to revolutionize and accelerate the Energy Transition. Gerard and Laurent wanted to know more. And there is no better place than Silicon Valley to hear it directly from the source. What are the trends? Where to invest? What strategy?

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Companies ready to cross the bridge will have already traversed several valleys of death, first proving their tech works in a lab, then progressing to pilots to demonstrate their technology can work in the real world. But we’ve built a VC-to-PF Duolingo to get you started.  Fluency in project finance takes years.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Our team is proud to unveil Sightline Climate , our new market intelligence platform for the new climate economy. More than 20 leading investors, corporates, and governments already use the platform including the US Department of Energy, BHP, and Galvanize Climate. After all, the new climate economy has grown beyond VC.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 9, 2023

ImpactAlpha, January 9 — Climate tech proved resilient last year relative to other VC sectors more impacted by the global economic slowdown. The post A passel of clean energy deals to kick off the new year appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But as other residential DER tech has advanced -- EVs, batteries, smart panels, and so forth -- has solar been dethroned as the anchor product in this space? It just raised a $20m VC round and announced an integration with Alexa. Solar scaled first to become king in residential smart energy. What will scale to the mass market?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But new PwC report warns 'rapid injection of capital, talent and public-private support' still required for climate tech to deliver on its massive promise. Venture capital (VC) investment in climate tech grew five time faster than the average seen across the market as a whole between 2013 and 2019, according to fresh findings from PwC.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

Alongside Lowercarbon Capital , home to a slew of hot climate tech startups, is The Nature Conservancy, which recently began investing in young companies that can speed the spread of soil health improvements. The startup is backed by unusually diverse array of funders.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Accelerate is a fast pitch competition featuring startups across the circular economy value chain.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

That’s the time horizon for many “tough tech” companies in energy that are developing new semiconductors, industrial processes, chemical production methods, and long-duration storage innovations. The first cleantech bubble showed the limits of VC in backing tough, capital-intensive tech.

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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. If climate tech is truly a resilient trend, what’s going on with the current funding slump? Investors spent a lot of money in 2021 and 2022.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

EIT InnoEnergy and Santander Asset Management are partnering on the new, yet to be named, climate tech investment vehicle. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. Innovation is critical to helping achieve net zero by 2050.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

While overall startup funding is down this quarter because of the economic disruption brought on by COVID-19, entrepreneurs focused on solving climate-related problems have been bucking the trend. Climate Tech. I think it gives confidence to put more product on the shelf. Food & Agriculture. Food Waste. Sponsored Article.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 8, 2024

For an intro to the different kinds of funding check out our Climate Capital Stack.) The state of your tech will determine what you can do. Start with the technology – how de-risked is the tech, how long has the pilot been running? Do you look in the mirror and see a climate unicorn?   Alignment.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

And with September fast approaching, that means it’s almost time for conference season - in particular, the annual whirlwind that is New York Climate Week! Where we’ll be at NY Climate Week New York Climate Week is so, well, New York. Is it just us starting to get that back to school feeling? Let us know !

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Innovative climate solutions are entering the spotlight, but deploying those key technologies requires resources. We’ve covered the climate capital stack —from the flow of VC dollars to the challenges of accessing commercial debt. — three climate policy packages since 2021. Total funding: $1.2T

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. But whether all this DAC will be net climate positive (and carbon negative) remains to be seen. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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