Icelandic startups tackle energy resilience under extreme conditions
GreenBiz
JUNE 16, 2022
Iceland, the land of fire and ice and ambitious clean energy goals, is a land well-suited to troubleshoot energy resilience.
The Brief: Catalyzing climate resilience for small farmers
Impact Alpha
APRIL 15, 2024
In today’s Brief: Featured: Adaptation Finance For these tech startups and investors, the next big thing is climate adaptation. The post The Brief: Catalyzing climate resilience for small farmers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings Agents of Impact!
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Post-pivot, African tech startups are peddling pandemic resilience
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
ImpactAlpha, November 4 – As Africa’s economies restart from COVID lockdowns, the businesses on the fastest path to recovery are tech startups helping improve the resilience of the continent’s small business sector. The post Post-pivot, African tech startups are peddling pandemic resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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AI startup speeds up the creation of climate-resilient crops
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
The Durham, North Carolina–based startup, which pitched onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield […] Creating crops that’ll endure climate change — think worse droughts, heat waves and pests — is a time-consuming and costly feat.
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How this startup uses data to facilitate resilience in the face of deep climate uncertainty
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
A Q&A with Geospiza cofounder Sarah Tuneberg about the innovative risk assessment platform and its commitment to driving resilience for communities, enterprises and the globe.
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Seven blue economy startups secure seed funding to enhance climate resilience in Africa
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The post Seven blue economy startups secure seed funding to enhance climate resilience in Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Restocking local fish supplies. A marketplace for seaweed farmers. Triggering Exponential Climate Action, or TECA, invested.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024
Greentown Labs
MARCH 26, 2024
Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup is participating in Go Build 2023.
IBM commits $45 million for AI-powered climate resilience solutions
Impact Alpha
MARCH 13, 2024
Startup accelerators backing early-stage AI-driven solutions geared towards making cities safer, more resilient and sustainable aren’t new (see, “Urban-X aims to accelerate startups. The post IBM commits $45 million for AI-powered climate resilience solutions appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Benioff-backed software startup helps companies get smarter about climate risk
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2021
Benioff-backed software startup helps companies get smarter about climate risk. The hope is that companies can use this data not just for disclosure but to take real action to shore up their resilience and physical integrity over time, Bassi said. Heather Clancy. Thu, 06/03/2021 - 01:30.
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Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million
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.
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Home batteries are more than just a backup
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
A rapidly growing startup sees them as a path to virtual power plants, and a key to making the grid more sustainable and resilient.
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Social Distancing Is Rewriting the Cleantech Startup Survival Guide
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 11, 2020
According to a New York Times analysis , 6,000 people at 50 startups have lost their jobs since the middle of March. Startups in travel, consumer goods, or fintech are the hardest hit by the current economic freeze. NEXTracker has more than 30 gigawatts of resilient and intelligent solar tracking systems across six continents.
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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 14, 2021
It’s easy to see what’s motivating India’s emerging ecosystem of sustainable technology startups with a glance out the window from the office of Sangam Ventures in Gurugram, just outside of Delhi. In response, a vibrant ecosystem of sustainability-oriented startups, investors and incubators is taking shape in India today.
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The Brief: Resilient microgrids, energy access relief, assisted e-commerce in rural India, Australia’s impact startups, microfinance in Bolivia, care economy
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Featured: Microgrids Outages in Louisiana make ‘resilience’ the watchword as electricity grids are rebuilt. The post The Brief: Resilient microgrids, energy access relief, assisted e-commerce in rural India, Australia’s impact startups, microfinance in Bolivia, care economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2023
Greentown Labs
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Sixteen startups joined our climatetech community during some of the hottest days of the summer in Q3 2023, working on breakthroughs such as reliable energy storage , detection of green-hydrogen gas leaks , and carbon-footprint reductions in the trucking industry.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2023
Greentown Labs
JUNE 21, 2023
Seventeen startups joined our community Q2 2023, working on innovations ranging from smart sensors for wind turbines, to energy-efficient air conditioning, to a combo of water desalination and carbon capture. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!
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The Brief: Net-zero water, principled voting, end of Indie.vc, southern resilience, vegan startups, Kenyan artisans, rolling impact tech fund
Impact Alpha
MARCH 3, 2021
The post The Brief: Net-zero water, principled voting, end of Indie.vc, southern resilience, vegan startups, Kenyan artisans, rolling impact tech fund appeared first on Impact Alpha. Featured: Net-zero means water, too, for corporations serious about climate risk.
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Greentown Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments of 2023
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities. The startup also secured up to $50M in debt financing.
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Diageo launches climate solutions fund for African smallholder farms
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Startups aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate and biodiversity impacts can apply for funding.
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The Brief: Election takes, resilient tech startups in Africa, Virginia’s Opportunity Zones, crowdfunding for clean energy, consumer lending through the crisis
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
The post The Brief: Election takes, resilient tech startups in Africa, Virginia’s Opportunity Zones, crowdfunding for clean energy, consumer lending through the crisis appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Whatever the final results of yesterday’s U.S. ImpactAlpha is looking to Agents of Impact to chart the new narrative.
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Verizon's Dylan Siegler on their new Climate Resilience Prize
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Sherrie Totoki, Director of Startup Programs at GreenBiz, interviewed Dylan Siegler, Corporate Social Responsibility Strategist at Verizon, during VERGE 21 (October 25-28, 2021). This video is sponsored by Verizon. View archived videos from the conference here: [link]
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2022
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!
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Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience
Greentown Labs
AUGUST 17, 2022
That’s why we convene our startups, partners, and investor network four times a year for our Sector Pitch Day series, each time exploring innovation areas and opportunities present in a particular sector. Check out all of our startups that are developing agricultural solutions here ! Interested in attending?
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2022
Greentown Labs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Resiliency + Adaptation.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2023
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Sixteen startups joined our community Q4 2023, working on innovations as diverse as low-emission steel production, hydrogen electrolyzers, and lightweight, flexible solar panels. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup was previously a Greentown Go Energize 2022 participant.
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Modular Microgrid Startup Raises $300 Million
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 28, 2020
Startup Scale Microgrid Solutions won a $300 million commitment from investment firm Warburg Pincus this week, an unusually robust vote of confidence in the tricky microgrid market. The everyday bill savings pay down the cost of resilience. SMS sells modular microgrid products to commercial and industrial customers.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!
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Greentown Labs’ Startups Milestone: $1 Billion Raised
Greentown Labs
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
We’ve also seen new nonprofit and startup support organizations invest philanthropic capital into climatetech startups, including VertueLab , Clean Energy Trust , and Prime Coalition. And if you’re an investor interested in engaging with our startups, please let us know here !
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Greentown Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments of 2021
Greentown Labs
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Climatetech startups receiving funding, partnering with key stakeholders, and deploying their tech around the world! We couldn’t be more proud of our members’ hard work, resilience, and accomplishments throughout 2021. The post Greentown Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments of 2021 appeared first on Greentown Labs.
A wave of climate-conscious startups are brewing ‘beanless coffee’
Grist
APRIL 17, 2024
And today, a new wave of startups is entering the coffee-imitation game, motivated by the threat climate change poses to the world’s coffee supply. When Anderson first began reporting the story, “as someone who drinks coffee and is attached to coffee,” she was highly skeptical of what these startups were offering.
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As Iran-backed groups attack Red Sea ships, investors are backing startups assisting global cargo
TechCrunch: Climate
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Multiple shocks to global supply chains brought about first by the pandemic and more recently by Iran-backed Houthis targeting cargo ships in Red Sea have shown there’s a need for greater resilience in global shipping. At the same time, the pressure to reduce both costs and carbon footprints continues apace.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2023
Greentown Labs
MARCH 21, 2023
Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!
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#Greentown10: Greentown Launch Propels Startup-corporate Partnerships to Commercialize Climatetech
Greentown Labs
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
#Greentown10 is a celebration of the startups, partners, ecosystem collaborators, and other climate champions who have worked together over Greentown’s first decade. Both startups and corporates have enormous roles to play in tackling the climate crisis, and their impact is most significant when they work together.
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Navigating Situations Outside Your Startup’s Control: Altaeros’ Story of Resilience
Greentown Labs
APRIL 22, 2020
The startup, which was one of the founding members of Greentown , began by using its aerial platform as an airborne wind turbine. While there’s no easy time for a startup to pivot, Altaeros was in a particularly tight spot—they’d just raised a round of funding. Glass offered two pieces of advice for fellow startups.
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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2021
Greentown Labs
MARCH 24, 2021
The Greentown Labs community continues to grow and we’re excited to introduce you to the 16 climatetech startups that joined our Boston and Houston incubators in the first months of 2021! Meet these startups that are powering the climatetech revolution: Agtech + Water. Electricity. Want to engage with the Greentown community?
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Icelandic startups tackle energy resilience under extreme conditions
Business Green
JULY 1, 2022
Beyond the country's decarbonisation of electricity, it is supporting startups and entrepreneurs filling in technological gaps to reach full decarbonisation. High on the menu of challenges to work out: resilience. As a good startup founder would, Ásgeirsson has tested this.
Resiliency in Times of Uncertainty
Clean Energy Trust
APRIL 8, 2020
Wild Lupine at the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin Resiliency is a familiar word for those working on solutions for clean energy, decarbonization, and environmental sustainability. So, as you might imagine, the word “resiliency” has become a mantra and mindset out of necessity for us. Preparedness requires resources.
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The Brief: Emergency student aid, Franklin Templeton acquires Athena, climate-resilient agriculture, Senegal’s startup act
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 8, 2020
The Brooklyn-based education startup calls itself a “tech-enabled anti-poverty company.” As The post The Brief: Emergency student aid, Franklin Templeton acquires Athena, climate-resilient agriculture, Senegal’s startup act appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact!
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Four San Diego-Based Cleantech Startups to Pitch at National Renewable Energy Labs Industry Growth Forum Competition
CleanTech San Diego
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
GridWrap , SiLi-ion , TYFAST , and Looq AI , four local energy startups engaged in Cleantech San Diego’s Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN), are among the finalists in the national cleantech competition – selected for their potential to break new ground in the national and global transformation to a clean energy future.
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Four San Diego-Based Cleantech Startups to Pitch at National Renewable Energy Labs Industry Growth Forum Competition
CleanTech San Diego
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
GridWrap , SiLi-ion , TYFAST , and Looq AI , four local energy startups engaged in Cleantech San Diego’s Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN), are among the finalists in the national cleantech competition – selected for their potential to break new ground in the national and global transformation to a clean energy future.
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California Energy Commission Grants Cleantech San Diego Follow-On Funding to Continue Momentum of Energy Startup Accelerator
CleanTech San Diego
JUNE 14, 2021
SCEIN is an accelerator program for clean energy startups based in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Imperial counties that are developing technologies to help California meet its clean energy goals. Cleantech San Diego launched the program in 2016. Share this.
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Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency
TechCrunch: Climate
MARCH 26, 2024
As the planet warms due to human-caused climate change, damage from wildfires has increased with it. The amount of forest area burned by wildfires increased 320% from 1996 to 2021, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System.
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AI Startups Raise Funding to Help Utilities De-Risk Dangers of Climate Change
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
But utilities around the world are facing similar risks as they seek to decarbonize their generation fleets and make their grids more resilient to extreme weather events that are becoming more extreme and more common. Myst AI: Smarter energy forecasting from "non-stationary" data.
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