Shopify: 3 lessons from investing $55 million in 40 carbon removal startups
GreenBiz
JANUARY 2, 2024
Shopify’s head of sustainability, Stacy Kauk, shares secrets from four years of investing in early-stage carbon removal.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 2, 2024
Shopify’s head of sustainability, Stacy Kauk, shares secrets from four years of investing in early-stage carbon removal.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 2, 2024
Shopify’s head of sustainability, Stacy Kauk, shares secrets from four years of investing in early-stage carbon removal.
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GreenBiz
APRIL 12, 2023
In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, here’s how startups could incorporate impact investing into their treasury management.
GreenBiz
JUNE 4, 2021
Second quarter food startup roundup. Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. Now Pivot and rivals have competition from Kula Bio , a startup that raised $10 million last month on the back of claims that its microbes can replace up to 80 percent of farms’ nitrogen use. . Fri, 06/04/2021 - 02:30.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 5, 2023
ImpactAlpha, December 5 – The impact investing arm of microfinance company FINCA backed Berlin-based Euclid, which connects smallholder farmers in Africa and Latin. The post FINCA Ventures invests in health access and financial inclusion startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
After a slow start to the year, funding in climate tech startups returns to the financial highs of 2021’s bull market.
GreenBiz
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A roundup of second-quarter developments among startups in the food and agriculture industry.
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2021
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PV Tech
OCTOBER 9, 2023
French startup Heliup has secured €10 million in an investment round of financing for a 100MW lightweight module assembly line in France.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 25, 2024
Editor’s note: This guest post is sponsored by Impact Ventures by J&J Foundation, which supports ImpactAlpha’s Investing in Health coverage. The post Elevating Outcomes Beyond Clinics: Investing in diverse-led startups to advance health equity in the US appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Funding for innovation in food and agriculture systems is due for a reality check after years of startup overvaluation.
TechCrunch: Climate
MARCH 20, 2024
The new firm follows the startup studio model, hoping to tap into a likely wave of climate-related investments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Charged
AUGUST 10, 2022
Iberdrola , a Spanish electric utility, plans to invest in the solid-state battery startup Basquevolt via its start-up program PERSEO. Basquevolt plans to establish technological support and a research team at the Alava Technology Park in Spain, and to develop prototype cells and a pilot production line in 2025.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 31, 2020
Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life. At Circularity 20, GreenBiz’s online circular economy event, five startups presented their potentially world-altering ideas during the Accelerate competition. Holly Secon. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 01:00. minute pitch of their technology to the audience.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 18, 2023
The post Embrace the rainbow: The investment case for LGBT fund managers and startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Adaptability and innovation are a recipe for success in the dynamic world of entrepreneurship. For LGBT folks, these two words are deeply ingrained.
Charged
MAY 22, 2023
Volvo has invested in bidirectional EV charging startup dcbel. Rising energy prices coupled with frequent blackouts are challenges faced by consumers today, and our investment in dcbel and their technology can help alleviate those challenges for our customers.”
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., Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.]
PV Tech
OCTOBER 25, 2023
German technology group and PV component manufacturer Heraeus has acquired an undisclosed stake in French PV manufacturing startup Holosolis to support the development of its planned 5GW module assembly plant in Hambach, France.
GreenBiz
JULY 9, 2020
How tree-planting startup Propagate Ventures monetizes land conservation. In May, I spoke with another intriguing agroforestry startup, Propagate Ventures , part of the fall 2018 cohort at Elemental Excelerator. It analyzes the costs of the investment, the potential revenue, the labor implications and the anticipated yield.
Michael Grossman
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Marketers Won’t Bite You It’s a difficult task for most startups to determine when they need to bring marketing help to the team–and when I say marketing, I don’t mean sales. I was on the phone earlier today with a CEO of a startup in the cleantech space which saw the world through that exact lens.
GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2022
Breakthrough Energy and homebuilder Lennar's investment arm co-lead $64 million Series A round for low-carbon cement producer Terra CO2 Technology.
TechCrunch: Climate
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
In another sign of the scramble to accelerate the uptake and transformative potential of artificial intelligence, Dutch recycling giant Bollegraaf Group is making a strategic investment in UK AI startup Greyparrot, which uses computer vision for waste analytics.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Now, their early-stage cleantech startup, Pipeline Organics, is seeking further support. The team impressed judges, winning the Enterprise Award worth £5,000, and picked up the top prize in the Startup category, winning a further £3,000 and mentorship to help them take their business idea to the next level.
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
ImpactAlpha, November 13 – Financial services firm SBI Holdings has directly invested in several startups on the continent. The post Novastar Ventures secures $40 million for African impact startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha. It’s now backing Novastar to.
Michael Grossman
MARCH 27, 2023
As a startup, there is no demand for your solution or euphoria around your product. If history is any guide, there will be a short period of introspection and risk-averse behavior for those who typically invest in project development and Series A & B level companies. What's next for climate tech financing?
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 9, 2024
The accelerator will advance six startups’ climatetech solutions and foster potential development, investment, and commercial partnerships with Saint-Gobain Somerville, Mass. Saint-Gobain is a longtime, dedicated partner of Greentown and its startup community. and Houston, Texas, Jan. and Houston, Texas, Jan.
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2020
Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million. 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. Heather Clancy. Tue, 05/26/2020 - 06:01.
Renew Economy
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Australian Renewable Energy Agency to invest $1.64 million in EnergyLab to help the climate and cleantech accelerator support the next generation of renewable startups. The post EnergyLab lands more funds to support next generation of renewable startups appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The post Elemental Excelerator invests $12.5 million into 15 climate tech startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Oct. 17 – Elemental Excelerator, a Hawaii-based nonprofit climate tech investor, is known for spotting and nurturing climate tech talent working on.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
New report says venture capital investment in low-carbon building startups hit a record $2.2 billion in 2022.
Canary Media
JANUARY 5, 2024
Canary Media chronicles many of the bold venture-capital investments made in cleantech, but the flip side of that coin is that most VC-funded startups fail. While billions are being invested in shiny technologies such as nuclear fusion, carbon dioxide removal and sustainable aircraft fuels, billions will surely be…
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 18, 2021
The post FullCycle Climate Partners invests in water-tech startup InPipe Energy appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Aug. 18 – More than 1,000 terawatt-hours of energy are needed to pump, treat, and distribute water globally each year. Portland, Ore.-based.
Renewable Energy World
JANUARY 11, 2022
Startup Delorean Power LLC said that Greenbacker Capital Management made a $20 million strategic equity investment into the company. In addition to the Greenbacker investment, Delorean said it is working to raise a “significant” amount of asset-level capital to support its project pipeline.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
ImpactAlpha, February 23 – India is emerging as a hub for high-value, deep science tech startups working on breakthrough solutions to climate change, The post ‘Deep tech’ impact investing in India appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
ImpactAlpha, February 14 – The impact tech fund of BFA Global invested $1.8 The post Catalyst Fund seeds nine African climate tech startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha. million in companies that “directly empower farmers, healthcare providers, waste.
Business Green
MARCH 6, 2024
Investment in climate-related financial technology firms reached $2.3bn across US and Europe, according to new data from CommerzVentures
Greentown Labs
APRIL 24, 2023
Over the past six months, the Greentown Go Make 2022 cohort of five climatetech startups has been working closely with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) (“MCA”) and the M-Lab Companies to accelerate partnerships to deploy and commercialize supply-chain-decarbonization solutions.
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. While that pattern is still true, there is an encouraging shift in the right direction.
Greentown Labs
MARCH 24, 2022
Venture capital has long been a boys’ club that’s been tough for women to penetrate, and climatetech investment is no exception. The statistics are even more grim for BIPOC women founders: startups led by Black or Latinx women combined raised merely 0.64 Women VCs are twice as likely to invest in female founding teams.
Energy Central
MARCH 24, 2024
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Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
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Impact Alpha
MARCH 15, 2021
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Impact Alpha
AUGUST 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, August 10 – EIT Food makes early investments in European companies advancing a sustainable food system. The initiative of the European Institute for Innovation Technology committed bridge funding to help 13 startups weather COVID disruptions and continue research and development. The post EIT Food invests €5.5
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