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Imagine sailing through fundraising rounds, proving your breakthrough technology's potential, only to hit a roadblock when you get to scaling up and building a commercial plant. Some call it the "commercial valley of death." The assumption is that once climate tech solutions are proven, then industry/corporates will scale them. The reality is they're pressured to invest where there's immediate shareholder value. #mindthegap Prime Coalition’s Trellis Climate Program wants to bridge that gap. Here's how: 🌍Tapping Philanthropy: They take a unique approach by tapping into philanthropic funds to fuel high-impact projects during the middle stages, where traditional capital falls short. 🌍 Investing in Innovation: For climate tech founders, this funding model offers a ray of hope. While there are plenty of early-stage funding options, Trellis Climate fills a crucial gap by propelling proven technologies toward commercialization. 🌏Philanthropy as a Catalyst: By using philanthropic dollars as catalysts, they attract infrastructure investors willing to take calculated risks. Together, they pave the way for scalable climate solutions. Trellis Climate is getting started with investments in startups Ample Carbon and Ebb Carbon. Lara Pierpoint #ClimateTech #Startup #Innovation #Philanthropy

Climactic, a climate tech-focused investment operation started by Raj Kapoor and Josh Felser, has closed a $65 million inaugural fund. The fund will be used to support founders launching climate tech software companies. 🌱 💻 Kapoor and Felser believe that driving net-zero goals in the top 50 companies’ supply chains can significantly impact climate change. They see software as the key to achieving this goal, aiming to leverage efficiencies in the sector to make substantial contributions to addressing environmental challenges. #climatetech #climatetechinvesting #climatetechfund #esg #esginvesting #esgsolutions #netzero #netzero2050 #netzerotransition

20 funds earmarked to go towards climate this year 💰 2024 has started off with a succession of new climate fund announcements From dedicated climate tech VCs, to the more generalist funds with a climate angle. Here at ClimateHack a total of 20 announcements in January, some of which are still in the fundraising process, others which are full committed and ready to start deploying. Yet despite the promising early start, many insiders still agree, ClimateTech funding is still away from where it needs to be and far more capital (particularly at the scale up stages) needs to make its way to into this space - expect to see many more announcements in the months ahead. ✨ Let's meet them ✨ Apax, Innovation Endeavors, New Forests, Vidia Equity, Plural, Blue Earth Capital AG, Speedinvest, Giant Ventures, AC Ventures, Future Energy Ventures, Revo Capital, Practica Capital, Bramble Partners, Envisioning Partners, Eatable Adventures, Vectr7 Investment Partners LLP, Kost Capital, SMOK Ventures, Carbon13, One Acre Fund https://lnkd.in/eFYYHxTx PS if you’re a founder in climate tech looking to raise VC funding this year, then the HackSummit is an unmissable event. Apply for tickets https://www.hacksummit.co/

🌍 Check out part 2 of our blog series on how we integrated a climate resilience lens into our post-investment support. Explore what we learned from speaking to our portfolio about how they think about the climate-related risks and opportunities facing their businesses and customers. #climateresilience #impactinvesting #postinvestmentsupport Mercy Corps Ventures

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What does it take to take on climate change? Join me during Climate Tech Week in NYC when I chat with a group of startup founders doing their part to help save the planet. I'm hoping to learn why and how they chose their solutions, what's standing in their way, and how they're managing those obstacles. https://lnkd.in/gjhMG6FR Join our conversation. If you've got questions for these startup founders about how they're delivering on their mission to help make a difference, please share them below. See you there! #climatetechweek #startups #sustainanbility #investing

Climate tech start-ups in Australia and New Zealand are raising large sums of money thanks to pioneers including Climate Salad. Learn more here about some of the start-ups investors are picking and how they are innovating. #innovation #climatetech #Australia #NewZealand #investment #startups https://lnkd.in/g5sxZKB8

🌏 Leaders who helped shape the State of Climate Tech Q1 2024 report In our latest report, the State of Climate Tech for Q1 2024, we tightened the lens on non-dilutive funding, and specifically, non-dilutive funding as an accelerant for startups within climate tech. To enrich our analysis, we featured Frederico Bilelo Gonçalves, Partner at Innovation@edp, where he commented on EDP Ventures’ investment ethos as a CVC as well as their thoughts on non-dilutive funding. He mentioned, “EDP Ventures is highly receptive to exploring non-dilutive funding structures in our portfolio companies and we encourage it. Many of our investees have experienced significant benefits from leveraging non-dilutive funding to expedite their technological advancements without prematurely diluting the founding team's ownership stake.” Explore more of Frederico Bilelo Gonçalves’ responses by accessing the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eVR7Anky

🌊 Attending the Blue Venture Forum's #investment summit in #portland #maine November 9th? 🦀 I'm looking forward connecting with founders and investors next week focused on #blueeconomy #bluecarbon #oceanconservation #seaweed and anything in between. As Climate Collective is building out our #nature and #biodiversity community we're taking a closer look at how to support to the #blue ecosystem. 🌊 State of Maine is unique in its high-tech approach to supporting and growing a blue economy #ecosystem with Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Gulf of Maine Ventures, and The Roux Institute at Northeastern University joining hands to support #startups #innovation and #climatetechnology 🌊 Running Tide is perhaps the most well known example of Maine-based innovation making waves (!) on the international stage. But more are to come 🔜 🐟 If you're an early stage #bluetech founder - consider applying to the Blue wAIve Accelerator 👉 see link in comments - before November 13th. Blaine Grimes Hope Hopkins MassChallenge Justin Manley Oceankind Tim Agnew Bold Ocean Ventures Luke Holden Luke's Lobster Struan Coleman WWF Andrew Hume Brad Rochlin Marty Odlin Mowgli Holmes Jonathan Kirk Cody Simms Steffen Knodt Dr Richard Lilley Benjamin Chesler Chris Wolfel #carbonremoval #cdr

Over the last few months I have been actively researching and diving deeper into the European climate tech space. This is a truly exciting area that is not only predicted to grow tremendously in the upcoming years, but also (and most importantly) is an area we all need to be paying attention and focusing on today. In 2022 almost 19bn USD of fresh capital were raised by the European clean tech and climate tech pioneers and newcomers (a 14% increase over 2021). If you are interested in the space, have a look at the European Climate Tech 2023 report put together by Founders Forum Group. It's a great source of information and inspiration #climatetech #climate #startups