Mercado Libre taps Pachama to monitor and manage its $8 million investment in...
Mercado Libre, one of the largest e-commerce and financial services company from Latin America by market cap, has selected the startup and Y Combinator alumni Pachama as its strategic partner in...
View ArticleWorkrise, once known as RigUp, raises $300M at a $2.9B valuation
Workrise, which has built a workforce management platform for the skilled trades, announced today that it has raised $300 million in a Series E round led by U.K.-based Baillie Gifford that values the...
View ArticleLaser-initiated fusion leads the way to safe, affordable clean energy
Siegfried Glenzer Contributor Siegfried Glenzer, a recipient of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, is a professor and high-energy-density division director at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator...
View ArticleA road map for climate investors
Arvind Gupta Contributor Share on Twitter Arvind Gupta co-leads Mayfield’s engineering biology practice and is founder and venture adviser at IndieBio. He is the co-author of "Decoding the World,"...
View ArticleThe climate policies tucked into Congress’ budget package are signals to...
Eric Kosmowski Contributor Share on Twitter Eric Kosmowski is managing partner at the Princeville Climate Tech Fund. Brett Hauser Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Hauser is a board member at Aligned...
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Is that weed you’re smoking green enough?
For most of the world’s industries, sustainability is an exercise in correcting the mistakes of the past — from changing mindsets to the very machinery used. But for the fledgling cannabis industry,...
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Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid...
Husk Power Systems, a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years....
View ArticleKyoto Fusioneering secures $11.7M to build out its fusion reactor technologies
With startups getting into nuclear technology, it’s no surprise to see more fundraising happening. Now, Kyoto Fusioneering, a fusion energy startup based out of Japan but increasingly expanding abroad,...
View ArticleChina’s EV upstarts are building their own investment powerhouses
The investment game going after automotive startups is getting more competitive in China with not only established venture capital firms joining the fray but also industry veterans. Two...
View ArticleThe US just announced that cars will have to be a lot more fuel efficient by...
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a dramatic change to domestic fuel economy standards, a crucial step toward putting more electric vehicles on the road while reducing dependence on...
View ArticleUS Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will speak at TC Sessions: Climate
It’s hard to believe that, despite a scientific consensus and mountains of verified evidence, climate change has become a global political football. And yet here we are. All the innovative climate...
View ArticleSamara is building tech to switch Spain’s households onto solar energy
Despite being one of the countries in Europe with the most hours of sunshine, Spain has extremely low levels of household solar installations. Madrid-based Samara, a startup founded in May this year —...
View ArticleThese four iconic European founders plan to kick the asses of VCs who never...
Until recently, Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of Wise, and Sten Tamkivi, co-founder of Teleport, had banded together as a sort of “mini Angel brand” known as “Taavet+Sten.” Tamkivi has done around 50...
View Article4 climate tech investors sound off on Supreme Court’s EPA ruling
This week’s Supreme Court decision to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions may not have been unexpected, but it was still a bombshell. Not only did...
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Look out Putin — Ukrainian woman invents ‘solar for balconies’ to wean Europe...
Much has been made of how European countries are, on the one hand, supporting Ukraine in its fight against the heinous and illegal invasion by Russia but at the same time remaining heavily dependent on...
View ArticleHere’s how Manchin and Schumer’s surprise 725-page bill could boost climate tech
Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, pulled a fast one yesterday. After months of opposing major climate legislation, citing inflation risks, he suddenly changed his tune. Last night,...
View ArticleFord locks in solar energy deal with DTE Energy
Ford said Wednesday it has reached a deal with DTE Energy to power its electricity supply in Michigan with clean energy, a step toward its goal to become carbon neutral by 2050. The automaker’s deal...
View ArticleClean energy investments may close 2022 hitting new heights, setting stage...
In case anyone asks, 2022 was all about energy — natural gas, oil, renewables, all of it. Natural gas prices surged early as Vladimir Putin’s poorly thought-out decision to invade Ukraine slashed gas...
View ArticleDutch clean energy investor SET Ventures lands new €200 million fund, which...
New climate tech VC firms have emerged in recent years, but existing ones are also raising larger funds. Founded in 2007, Dutch firm SET Ventures is one of the latter. Its fourth fund, which just...
View ArticleThis startup is making manure out of other biogas power plants and now has...
Working away on his PhD in Munich only a few years ago, Stephan Herrmann (now a doctor) couldn’t have conceived of a time when his idea for a carbon-negative power plant would attract millions in...
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