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Our climate news coverage consists of the latest startups and investments in solar energy, greentech, renewables, food tech, alternative proteins, as well as circular economy and carbon capture efforts. We also cover research into climate change and how technology can be used to track and mitigate severe weather and climate-related disasters.
Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales
Small operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change.
Redwood Materials is partnering with Ultium Cells to recycle GM’s EV battery scrap
Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, will be recycling production scrap for batteries going into General Motors electric vehicles. The company announced Thursday…
Meet the Finnish biotech startup bringing a long-lost mycoprotein to your plate
The best known mycoprotein is probably Quorn, a meat substitute that’s fast approaching its 40th birthday. But Finnish biotech startup Enifer is cooking up something even older: Its proprietary single-cell…
For this episode of Equity, we spoke to two Aussie VCs: Dan Krasnostein of Square Peg and Gabrielle Munzer of Main Sequence.
Ore Energy emerges from stealth to build utility-scale batteries that last days, not hours
Ore Energy emerged from stealth today with €10 million in seed funding. The company hopes to make grid-scale batteries that are cheaper and longer lasting.
Bill Gates-backed wind startup AirLoom is raising $12M, filings reveal
The company is hoping to produce electricity at $13 per megawatt hour, which would be more than 50% cheaper than traditional onshore wind.
Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells
Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But like people, most decline with age. In California, for example, the amount…
Porsche Ventures invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performance
All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batteries charge more slowly as the liquid electrolyte inside thickens.…
ETF Partners raises €285M for climate startups that will be effective quickly — not 20 years down the road
The European venture capital firm raised its fourth fund as fund as climate tech “comes of age.”
Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there’s important information missing too.
Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but wind farms come with an environmental cost as wind turbines can…
Forget EVs: Why Bedrock Materials is targeting gas-powered cars for its first sodium-ion batteries
Bedrock Materials is developing a new type of sodium-ion battery, which promises to be dramatically cheaper than lithium-ion.
Quilt heat pump sports sleek design from veterans of Apple, Tesla and Nest
The heat pump startup unveiled its first products and revealed details about performance, pricing and availability.
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers
Charging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwelling EV drivers to charge overnight.
Berlin-based trawa raises €10M to use AI to make buying renewable energy easier for SMEs
Trawa simplifies energy purchasing and management for SMEs by leveraging an AI-powered platform and downstream data from customers.
Paris-based VC firm Blisce launches climate tech fund with a target of $160M
Paris-based Blisce has become the latest VC firm to launch a fund dedicated to climate tech. It plans to raise as much as €150M (about $162M).
Alora Baby aims to push baby gear away from the ‘landfill economy’
Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle of a product
Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team
Here’s what one insider said happened in the days leading up to the layoffs.
Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste
Usually, when something starts to rot, it gets pitched in the trash. But Joanne Rodriguez wants to turn the concept of rot on its head by growing fungus on trash…
After a $20M Series A funding, Germany’s Insempra plans eco-friendly lipid production
Lipids are fatty, waxy or oily compounds that typically come in the form of fats and oils. As a result, they are heavily used in the production of beauty products,…
Thomas Li was working at Point72, the hedge fund founded by notorious investor Steve Cohen, when he realized that the financial industry relies heavily on manual data entry processes that…
Electricity Maps calculates the carbon intensity of electricity consumption to optimize usage at scale
If you’re an electricity nerd, chances are you’ve already spent quite a few hours looking at Electricity Maps and its mesmerizing export flow animations. This open source data visualization project…
Plenty of founders have a difficult decision to make early in their journey: where to set up shop. For deep tech founders, the decision is complicated by the fact that…
Companies focused on reducing CO2 emissions raised big sums, second only to Q3 2023.
Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s Builders Vision puts S2G on a path to independence
Walmart heir Lukas Walton, worth $28 billion, is bringing on new limited partners to expand S2G’s investment reach.
Productive solar technologies draw investors as global off-grid solar sector funding slumps
Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) technologies, especially those in the solar irrigation and cold chain segment, saw increased investor interest last year, despite a 43% funding slump recorded in…
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The ‘valley of death’ for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up
It’s easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It’s much harder once they need money to scale.
Bringing down skyscrapers’ sky-high carbon footprint with Joselyn Lai from Bedrock
Joselyn Lai appeared on TechCrunch’s Found to discuss her company and its hopes of driving down the cost of a proven technology to address the…
Texture makes a bid to become the world’s go-to platform of the energy transition
The startup, founded by an Arcadia alumnus, seeks to become a common data collection and sharing platform for renewable power sources like wind, solar, and batteries.
A few weeks back, TechCrunch ventured out to New Jersey to pay an early visit to HAX’s Newark offices. As much as I complained about the 90-minute commute in from…
