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Insights into Climate-Tech Investment Evolution Since 2016! 🌍💡 Future Energy Ventures has been pioneering ClimateTech investments since 2016, witnessing fascinating sector developments. We identify three significant phases: Phase 1 (2016-2018): In the early years, as one of the first ClimateTech VCs, we observed existing industry players exploring novel ideas. The focus primarily revolved around strategic reevaluation and envisioning the future landscape of their respective businesses. Phase 2 (2019-2020): The narrative shifted towards heightened awareness of climate change, extending beyond corporate circles to encompass financiers and entrepreneurial teams. Governments commenced issuing sustainability declarations, catalyzing increased interest among investors and startups towards climate-centric endeavors. Phase 3 (2021-present): Currently, we find ourselves amidst a phase marked by mounting pressure on governmental entities to overhaul market structures in favor of climate protection. It's becoming increasingly evident that our current endeavors fall short of catalyzing the requisite transformative change. These phases delineate sector progression, emphasizing a commitment to a sustainable future. At Future Energy Ventures, we're proud to drive innovative solutions for combating climate change and making a positive global impact. What do you think the next phase will look like? Let me know in the comments! #ClimateTech #Sustainability #FutureEnergy #Innovation #ClimateChange #VentureCapital

🚀 New Post Alert: The Role of Investors in Shaping Climatech 🌍 In the third part of our Climatech series, we dive deep into the world of venture capital and climate technology: 🔍 Highlights: Investor Secrets: Discover what leading climatech investors are looking for in startups. Hot Trends: Learn about the latest investment trends in energy storage and carbon capture. Success Stories: See how strategic investments have led to massive environmental impact and market success. #Climatech #VentureCapital #Sustainability #Innovation #Investment #CleanTech

A really insightful 🚀 article by Chloe Coates from Zero Carbon Capital covering how they asses emissions reduction potential with startups. Here are some takeaways: 1️⃣ I have learnt about Prime Coalition’s Priject Frame Community and its mission to help investors with emissions impact methodology, guidance and events. The value that it brings is helping VCs get their heads around emissions potential assessment. 2️⃣ Zero Carbon puts the Emissions Reduction Potential (ERP) at the start of the funnel when they screen startups as an early indication if they would fit their thesis. 3️⃣ both direct emissions reduction technologies and facilitating or enabling technologies are assessed. 4️⃣ They work backwards from year 2050 and make educated projections with three key principles - transperancy of assumptions and data, conservatism to not overestimate impact and robustness of analysis and data sources. 5️⃣ They are using ERP units hence Baseline emissions per unit product. This is extremely important as it links the emissions with a tangible product the business is building weather it’s per kg hydrogen or per EV. The world of emissions reduction assessment is very fluffy and this brings it to reality. 6️⃣ The link to The article includes the use cases assessing NitroFix with an Amonia production emissions reduction and Echion Technologies where they assume 20% acceleration of using EVs with the technology and ERP of at least 0.6 GtCO2e. Assessing the potential impact of an early stage technology and business in the climate space on emissions reduction is extremely challenging in my view and require high levels of stamina to take risk and conviction mainly in the size of the problem and the ability of the founders to build the technology and scale it. One thing that it is not is easy💪🏻 Pippa Gawley Alex Gawley Sarah Jones #venturecapital #climatetech #deeptech #earlystage #innovation #investmentprocess #investments #impactinvesting 🧠 Views, thoughts & insights are my own 💭

Climate tech investments have increased 40x in the last 10 years. (Holon IQ 2023). Venture capital funds are devoted to green tech, clean tech, and climate tech & the sector is consistently invested in even when the markets go down! It's so inspiring to see how many people are thinking outside the box and coming up with incredible innovations to create a better world. #sustainability #technology #innovation #greentech #cleantech #climatetech #venturecapital #betterworld

"I truly believe that this is the time to invest in GreenTech ventures. In fact, we believe that the next wave of unicorns will be green technology companies that can help us accelerate the transition that helps us solve these existential challenges." Rashmi Kumar was joined at the #AVCJForum by Poman Lo of Century City Holdings Limited, Alison Ewings of QIC, Martin Yung of HarbourVest Partners and Toby Belsom of Principles for Responsible Investment to get their expert insights on the investor ESG expectations from private markets. Watch the full session on-demand now: https://lnkd.in/eVqwZBvR

While software companies have traditionally been the focus of venture investment in the tech sector, it’s time for us to emphasize a different approach. Hardware companies, or those that design and manufacture physical products, have the potential to make even greater strides in the fight against climate change. But why should we take “moonshots” on hardware companies, rather than software? The answer is simple: Hardware has the ability to drastically reduce carbon emissions on a much larger scale.

PitchBook just shared a report on why "Transit Tech" is going to be a strong place to invest in the coming years. We tend to agree and believe jawnt will be one of the leading companies in the space https://lnkd.in/gbDkGmfy #transittech #vc #venturecapital

Investment in #climatetech has dropped 40% in the last year. Still, it is faring... not as horribly as other tech sectors. With the increasing urgency to revolutionise the way we produce and consume energy, we need all the means and technologies we can get. Read my interview with Anton Arts, Managing Partner at SET Ventures, which recently announced its latest fund, to learn more about the VC's #investment strategy, and why the #energy transition is also a generational opportunity.

🤔 Articles 6, 8, 9? What is it all about? What does this classification cover? 🇪🇺 The EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) sets out a classification system in which financial actors must classify their funds according to the degree of ESG integration in their investments. (1) 🎤 Wait no longer and attend the investor conference of the IMPACT FESTIVAL to get more insights into those questions. After attending the panel discussion with Carsten Auel, Anna Trendewicz, Toba Spiegel moderated by Xavier Sarras, and the keynote of Tim Schumacher, you will be unbeatable on those questions! 🚀 The selected start-ups of the Global ClimateTech Bootcamp (organised together with the Impact Hustlers team) will also be pitching their ideas: Airteam Aerial Intelligence, Avol Aerospace, Bovlabs , CollectiveCrunch, ELECTRON aerospace, Floodlight, Onego Bio, phelas, Ravel, THOLA. 🌐 Meet our investor partners, and get the chance to take part in exclusive networking sessions: 4P CAPITAL, Ananda Impact Ventures, better ventures, Bundesinitiative Impact Investing, blueworld.group, capacura, Capnamic, Capricorn Partners, Future Energy Ventures, Futury Capital, Helaba Digital, HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds, NIXDORF Kapital AG, Rethink Ventures, Saxovent, Strategic Business Innovator Berlin, T.Capital, Vertevis Capital Partners, Wi Venture, World Fund, ZINTINUS. 🎟️ Get your ticket for the investor conference: https://lnkd.in/epgHg4P6

Last week was eventful and prosperous for many climate tech companies in terms of funding. Here’s Climate Insider’s weekly report on funding across various sectors, including carbon management, data analytics, and climate risk tools: 👉 Downforce Technologies, a global climate tech company, has closed a $4.2 million funding round led by Equator VC to scale its Downforce technology, which measures and predicts soil organic carbon levels. 👉 Paris-based Climate Tech startup Estuaire has secured €2.2 million in Seed funding, led by Satgana, to advance its data analytics platform. 👉 GV (Google Ventures) led a £14m ($18m) investment in Climate X, a London-based startup specializing in climate risk tools for financial institutions, to support its expansion into the US market. 👉 e-Zinc has secured USD $31 million in additional funding, following a successful Series A round totalling $25 million, led by Evok Innovations, with contributions from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and others. 👉 Samsara Eco has raised AUD$100 million/USD$65 million in its latest funding round, led by Temasek and Main Sequence, with participation from other notable investors. 👉 char.gy, a London-based EV charging company, has secured a £100 million investment from the Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund, managed by Zouk Capital LLP. 👉 Vertus Energy, led by Benjamin Howard, an Austrian waste-to-energy startup, has secured €8.75 million in seed funding led by Energy Capital Ventures, with participation from other global investors. 👉 Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. has raised $375 million in its Series G round, led by Sutter Hill Ventures and T. Rowe Price Associates, with participation from new and existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Coatue, and Perry Creek Capital. 👉 Rondo Energy announced €75M project funding with Breakthrough Energy  Catalyst and the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support three industrial decarbonization projects in Europe. 👉 M2X Energy Inc. announced $40 million series B Funding to accelerate commercial operations. The Series B financing round led by Conifer Infrastructure Partners, with participation from Breakthrough Energy Ventures (“BEV”), @Eni Next, Add Ventures by SCG, and Autodesk Foundation. 👉 Cleantech startup Aikido Technologies has raised $4 million for their low cost floating offshore wind solution. 👉 LiveEO, a Berlin-based provider of satellite analytics, has raised €25 million in a Series B funding round. Previously, the company secured €19 million in funding in 2022. The investment round was led by NordicNinja VC (which invested in Griffin and Onego Bio) and DTCF | DeepTech & Climate Fonds. #ClimateTech #Funding #CarbonManagement #DataAnalytics #ClimateRisk #ClimateTechFunding #ClimateTechInvestment #ClimateInvestment #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #StartupFunding