| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.09.2024 | Demex Group Secures $10.25 Million to Tackle Climate Risks | In a world where storms rage and climate change looms, the Demex Group has emerged as a beacon of hope. This Washington, DC-based risk analytics company recently secured $10.25 million in funding. The financial lifeline comes from a Series ... |
| 05.09.2024 | The Demex Group Raises $10.25M in Funding | Bill Clark, CEO Demex
The Demex Group, a Washington, DC-based risk analytics and intelligence company, raised $10.25M in funding.
The round consisted of a Series A and a SAFE funding round, led by Congruent Ventures and included Moxxie Vent... |
| 29.08.2024 | Fleet's $2.5 Million Seed Round: A Game Changer for Commuter Benefits | In a world where commuting is often a tangled web of stress and frustration, Fleet emerges as a beacon of hope. The commuter benefits management platform recently secured $2.5 million in seed funding, bringing its total venture capital to $... |
| 28.08.2024 | Fleet: Commuter Benefits Management Company Closes $2.5 Million (Seed) | Fleet, a modern commuter benefits management platform, announced the closing of its $2.5 million seed round led by Congruent Ventures with the participation of Great Oaks Venture Capital, Plug and Play Ventures, Rally Cap, and Virta Venture... |
| 13.08.2024 | Axiom Space's Leadership Shift: A New Era in Space Exploration | Axiom Space, a Houston-based pioneer in space exploration, is at a crossroads. The company is searching for a new CEO after co-founder Mike Suffredini stepped down on August 9, 2024. This transition marks a significant moment for Axiom, whi... |
| 12.08.2024 | Axiom Space CEO steps down, search begins for replacement | Houston-based space exploration company Axiom Space is searching for a new CEO.
Co-founder Mike Suffredini stepped down effective August 9 as CEO. He cites unidentified personal reasons for his transition from CEO to company advisor. Suffre... |
| 08.08.2024 | Houston's Entrepreneurial Spirit: From Pivots to Positivity | Houston is a city of resilience. Its entrepreneurs embody this spirit, transforming challenges into opportunities. Megan Eddings is a prime example. Her journey with Accel Lifestyle is a testament to the power of adaptability and vision.
Ed... |
| 07.08.2024 | Muon Space: End-To-End Space Systems Provider Closes Over $56 Million In Series B | Muon Space, an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates mission-tailored low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, announced the successful completion of a $56.7 million Series B funding round led by Activa... |
| 07.08.2024 | Houstonian shares journey of entrepreneurship from pivot to exit to focus on inspiring positivity | After years of tolling over her athleisure wear startup, Megan Eddings knew what her company needed for it to be successful, and she knew she wasn't the right person to do it.
Accel Lifestyle, a clothing brand based on Edding's patented ant... |
| 05.08.2024 | Applied Carbon: $21.5 Million Closed To Deploy Biochar Technology, Increasing Soil Health And Sequestering Carbon | Applied Carbon (previously known as Climate Robotics), a company designing automated biochar production machines that convert in-field agricultural crop waste into biochar, announced it has raised a $21.5 million Series A. This funding roun... |
| 31.07.2024 | Breaking: Applied Carbon rakes in $21.5m Series A to sequester carbon at scale via biochar | US-based startup Applied Carbon has raised a $21.5 million Series A for its automated machines that convert agricultural crop waste into biochar in one single pass on the field.
Early-stage investor TO VC led the round; Congruent Ventures, ... |
| 11.05.2024 | Meati Foods: A Fungi-Fueled Success Story | Meati Foods, a Colorado-based food tech startup, has recently secured a whopping $100 million in funding, marking the largest investment in an alternative protein company since 2022. This significant boost in funding comes as the company ex... |
| 08.05.2024 | Brief: Meati Foods raises $100m, rolls out at Kroger nationwide | Fungi-fueled startup Meati Foods has raised more than $100 million in a C-1 round led by Grosvenor Food & AgTech, and has also rolled out its mycelium-based steaks and cutlets into 2,000 Kroger outlets across the US, taking its store co... |
| 20.03.2024 | Toronto Startups AuX Labs & Genuine Taste Join BioCreate Accelerator to Create Alternatives to Cheese and Beef | Two cutting-edge biotech startups from Ontario, Canada — AuX Labs and Genuine Taste — have been selected to join BioCreate, an accelerator program that supports innovative companies in the health, food, agriculture, and cleantech sectors.
A... |
| 04.03.2024 | Fervo Energy: Geothermal Development Company Raises $244 Million | Fervo Energy, a leader in next-generation geothermal development, announced that it had raised $244 million in new funding led by Devon Energy, a shale oil and gas pioneer. And this funding will unlock Fervo’s next phase of growth, deployin... |
| 07.12.2023 | Why Congruent turned down over $300M from LPs for its third climate tech fund | Joshua Posamentier and Abe Yokell have spent the last seven years on the LP circuit, tirelessly pitching LPs on the financial and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) benefits of investing in climate tech.
“We’ve had hundreds — I don... |
| 07.11.2023 | Congruent starts raising fresh $250M early-stage climate tech fund | Venture capital as a whole might be in a bit of a funk, but that’s not true for every investor or sector.
Take Congruent, a climate tech-focused VC: Last week, the firm filed paperwork with the SEC to start raising for a $250 million fund, ... |
| 11.07.2023 | Brief: Pano AI raises $17m growth round to expand its wildfire detection technology | US-based Pano AI has raised a $17 million growth capital round for its technology that can detect wildfires and issue warnings to local firefighters.
Valor Equity Partners led the round with participation from new investors Salesforce Ventu... |
| 21.06.2023 | With $10T on the line, 6 fusion investors explain why they’re all in | Fusion power could be considered the quintessential venture capital bet: It’s expensive and risky, but the potential rewards are enormous. The world paid $10 trillion for energy last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA),... |
| 10.05.2023 | Despite a rocky start, climate tech is in a good position to tackle the rest of 2023 | Last year, climate tech seemed to be invincible while the venture capital and startup worlds were fretting about a downturn and scrambling to conserve cash. Climate tech investors and founders in 2022 may not have hit the heights of 2021 bu... |
| 20.04.2023 | Congruent Ventures gets big AUM boost with $300m Fund III close | |
| 19.04.2023 | Climate tech VC firm closes $300M fund after LPs push for broader investment opportunities | Climate tech may have started the year with a down quarter, but don’t count it out just yet.
Amid a backdrop of depressing figures from much of the venture capital sector, climate tech deals were lower both in value and in deal count. But i... |
| 23.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| 22.12.2022 | The week in agrifoodtech: BigBasket bags $200m, Kodama’s forestry funding, more restaurant tech layoffs | Amid a slew of smaller funding announcements, India-based eGrocer BigBasket secured a $200 million mega-round this week. In agtech, deals from Grow Indigo and others were all about insect farming, forestry and capturing more carbon. Foodtec... |
| 02.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Synthesis Capital closes $300m foodtech fund, e-grocer Astro bags $60m | Though many “instant” grocery delivery startups are in the midst of layoffs, one company in Indonesia bagged a healthy Series B round this week.
Elsewhere, US ag robotics specialist FarmWise teased a new weeding implement along with its lat... |
| 23.02.2022 | 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies | Almost the same size as Florida, global warming has made Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier increasingly unstable. This month, researchers are attempting to reach the “Doomsday Glacier” for study, but icebergs are slowing their progress.
The cli... |
| 07.12.2021 | Stellar Growth Defined Bee’s 2021 Amid Adjustments to “New Normal” | As COVID-19 drags into another year, we feel lucky that from our vantage point we see a silver lining. 2021 was a year in which we, along with much of the world, learned whether we could stand steady on the ever-shifting grounds that have b... |
| 10.11.2021 | Climate fintech company Evergrow nabs $7M seed from XYZ Venture Capital, Congruent Ventures and First Round | Evergrow, a stealth climate fintech startup, just landed over $7 million in seed funding.
With a two-pronged approach, Evergrow aims to be the world’s first dedicated carbon offtake company — rapidly funding climate developer projects and i... |
| 29.07.2021 | Meati must meet manufacturing & scale challenges head on after its $50m Series B coup | The alt-protein segment is bursting with startups hoping to capture growing consumer and investor interest in the space. There’s an ever-growing number of meatless options at the supermarket and on restaurant menus. For Boulder, Colorado-ba... |
| 30.04.2021 | Fervo Energy Company announced that it has received $28 million in funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, LLC, 3x5 Partners, Congruent Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group LLC, Elemental Excelerat... | On April 30, 2021, Fervo Energy Company closed the transaction. The company received $1,676,004 in its final trance. The transaction was led by Capricorn Investment Group LLC with participation from existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ve... |
| 23.04.2021 | Congruent Ventures raises $175M for climate tech fund | Early-stage VC firm Congruent Ventures has raised $175 million for its second sustainability-focused fund, surpassing a target of $125 million. The vehicle will be used to invest in startups developing technology to address climate change. ... |
| 22.04.2021 | As capital pours in to climate investments, Congruent Ventures closes on $175 million for early-stage bets | Congruent Ventures, the early-stage investment firm focused on technologies and services designed to avert the current climate emergency, has raised $175 million in financing for its latest fund.
The firm, which now has $300 million in asse... |
| 29.10.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Colorado’s Meati secures $28m for whole-cut alternative meats | Alt-protein is easily the hottest food trend in the world right now, at least as far as venture capital is concerned. A Coloradan startup has just entered the fray with new products and $28 million in Series A funding.
Meati’s funding round... |
| 06.10.2020 | A clean energy company now has a market cap rivaling ExxonMobil | The news last week that U.S. utility and renewable energy company NextEra Energy briefly overtook ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco to become the world’s most valuable energy producer shows just how valuable sustainable businesses have become. It... |
| 21.06.2020 | Energy investment roundup: $50M for drinking water from solar-powered ‘hydropanels’ | Despite this miserable year, renewable energy has seen a modest wave of VC and corporate investment in 2020. pv magazine has logged it here. The wave continues:
Blackrock-led $50M gets water from a solar-powered panel
Zero Mass Water raised... |
| 12.06.2020 | Updated: A roundup of venture capital funding in clean energy | Venture capital investors and their funds are still hungry for deals in cleantech and renewable energy.
Although high-profile energy investments in today’s era have tended towards batteries and energy storage — here are some recent funding ... |
| 12.05.2020 | Ex-Tesla product exec raises $10 million for his mission to upgrade the lowly fuse box | Arch Rao closed the $10.1 million financing round for Span, his company pitching homeowners on an upgrade to the fuse box, in the middle of February.
The company had already seen what was happening in China and had a sense of how tough thin... |
| 12.05.2020 | Span wins $10.2 million to modernize the home electrical panel, ease shift to solar, storage and EVs | Span just landed $10.2 million in venture capital to modernize and replace one of the more basic and ubiquitous pieces of home electrical hardware — the electrical panel. Span’s ambition is to “transform the electrical panel into an intelli... |
| 16.01.2020 | Leap | When USV started looking closely at the energy sector, we were excited to find networks on multiple levels: at the grid level, a network of electrons; at the market level, a network of transactions and financial products; and at the data le... |
| 14.11.2019 | Recycling robots raise millions from top venture firms to rescue an industry in turmoil | The problem of how to find the potential treasure trove hidden in millions of pounds of trash is getting a high-tech answer as investors funnel $16 million into the recycling robots built by Denver-based AMP Robotics.
For recyclers, the com... |
| 12.09.2019 | Bellwether Coffee checks sustainability, fair wage boxes for impact fund DBL | “Bellwether Coffee has a dream team of sustainability and coffee experts and is addressing a large market ripe for improvement. It fits squarely into DBL’s investment themes regarding greener ag, better economics to farmers, and the electri... |
| 03.12.2017 | With $1M in funding, Phase Genomics looks to crack genetic codes and discover unknown bacteria | Phase Genomics co-founders, Shawn Sullivan (left) and Ivan Liachko. (Phase Genomics Photo)
Bacteria lurk pretty much anywhere you look, in numbers and varieties worthy of a horror movie. The challenge for scientists who actually want to pry... |
| 06.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, July 6 | THREE UNRELATED THINGS
FALSE START: The finance world experienced a big letdown yesterday, after reports that JP Morgan might enter the bidding for Worldpay, a UK-based payment processor worth nearly $10 billion.
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