Despite our strong affinity for stacked bar charts and running the numbers every week, the genius animating climate innovation today is the many individuals shaping the world through their work day in, day out. We collected a breadth of perspectives on this year, next, and the many people and things Read more…
There’s deep tech, and then there’s molten star power tech. Fusion is the latter. If it works, it has the potential to transform energy from a resource to a technology. If it doesn’t, our odds plummet of staying under a catastrophic level of global warming through deployment of just existing Read more…
Obama was spotted at COP26 pouring over a book with a title sure enough to compel any climate-inclined former President to pull it off the shelf: Speed & Scale. The book reads like a techno-optimist’s action plan for solving climate change - because it is. Author John Doerr is perhaps best known for his Read more…
Founded by the team pioneering GE’s strategic investing model, Energy Impact Partners has built an energy & industrial coalition with reach across the often distant worlds of utilities and climate tech startups. After a successful first fund five years in the making, EIP just announced a $1B “gigafund” backed by Read more…
“Cute little impact fund that you’ve got there!” Christian Hernandez jokes at the launch of 2150’s debut $312m fund. Hernandez, Nicole LeBlanc, and their co-founding team have been around big construction, urban tech, and institutional funds before but are bringing their diverse experiences and capital to the yard to invest Read more…
VCs often wax poetic about the magic of “founder-market fit.” But in academia, it’s the exception not the norm that potential founders manage to bridge the science-to-market gap. Ilan Gur, founder and CEO of Activate, puts it best: “technical ideas aren’t the limiting factor to impacting global change. The binding Read more…
Amidst the week’s twitterpation over mega AUMs, a new fund stood out to us from its bigger peers for its thoughtfulness and targeted approach. The $120m Elevate Future Fund, a sub-fund of Energy Impact Partners (transparently: where Kim is an investor), looks to expand access and opportunities for underrepresented entrepreneurs Read more…
Proterra boarded the SPAC bus this week, going public through a merger with ArcLight Clean Transition Corp at a $1.6b valuation. In addition to minting a new portfolio unicorn, it’s been a big week for early Proterra investors G2 Venture Partners - the firm announced Fund II. G2 will use Read more…
Venture capital is some of the most expensive money out there for founders. For hardware climate businesses, financing projects - especially risky early projects - can land companies in the Valley of Death and keep innovations from reaching deployment. In this conversation, Scott Jacobs, CEO & Co-founder of Generate Capital, Read more…
With a fresh $175m in the bank from an oversubscribed fundraise, Congruent Ventures is well positioned to support early stage climate tech founders through this supercycle. But it’s hardly just capital that sets Co-Founder and Managing Partner Abe Yokell apart, he hard earned the nomer of “cleantech venture OG” through the whiplash of Read more…