| Date | Title | Description |
| 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... |
| 13.03.2024 | Quaise Energy Secures $21 Million to Revolutionize Geothermal Energy | Quaise Energy, a game-changer in the geothermal energy sector, has raised $21 million in Series A1 funding to accelerate its terawatt-scale deep geothermal technology. This funding will fuel field operations expansion and supply chain enhan... |
| 12.03.2024 | Quaise Energy Raises $21 Million to Accelerate Terawatt-Scale Deep Geothermal Energy | New funding will expand field operations and secure supply chain toward clean energy abundance
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 12, 2024–
Quaise Energy, the company unlocking terawatt-scale geothermal, announced today the closing of a... |
| 01.06.2023 | 🎥SCiFi Foods on cultivated meat unit economics: ‘We can make a blended product commercially viable without needing crazy-scale bioreactors’ | Some commentators argue that cultivated meat faces intractable challenges at food scale, and that growing meat in bioreactors at scale is a food tech fantasy. So are they right? It all depends on your approach, says Joshua March, cofounder ... |
| 17.05.2022 | Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 | TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q... |
| 26.04.2022 | Pyka Closes $37M in Series A Funding to Accelerate Aircraft Deliveries and R&D | “We are extremely pleased with this successful raise and the opportunities it affords Pyka to rapidly boost our manufacturing and begin executing on our more than $320 million in MOUs and commercial agreements from customers,” says Pyka CEO... |
| 17.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m | Licious, an India e-commerce marketplace for meat, scored $150 million in Series F-plus investment this week, while California’s Bear Robotics bagged $81 million for its robot restaurant servers. Over in agtech, Local Bounti snapped up a ri... |
| 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... |
| 19.07.2021 | Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today.
The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
| 19.07.2021 | BREAKING: Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today.
The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
| 17.12.2020 | Energy storage investments 2020: VC and equity firms put more than $500 million in these 25 battery startups | With U.S. energy storage growing a lot this year, and poised to accelerate next, conditions are fertile for VC investors to look for startup innovation.Source: Wood Mackenzie
Here’s a long and incomplete list of where venture firms are putt... |
| 29.10.2020 | Arable raises $20m Series B funding for global expansion, starting with Brazil | San Francisco-based crop management platform Arable has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by local VC firm Prelude Ventures.
The round also included participation from new investors such as M20 and Nassau Street Ventures, as well a... |
| 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... |
| 25.09.2020 | Morning Brief: California modernizes its distributed energy interconnection rules, Pine Gate launches wave of Michigan solar | California adopts first interconnection rules to utilize hosting capacity results: The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued sweeping changes to Rule 21, the rules under which distributed energy resources, like solar power an... |
| 22.09.2020 | Cleantech investing: Carbon tracking and sequestration startup wave, SPACs for late-stage energy transition capital | Renewable Properties, a developer and investor in small-scale utility and community solar energy projects in the U.S., raised $30 million from funds managed by CarVal Investors, an alternative investment fund manager. Aaron Halimi, founder ... |
| 17.09.2020 | Morning Brief: Duke Energy reaches deal with Sunrun, Vote Solar to modernize rooftop PV in South Carolina | Duke Energy reached a deal with Vote Solar, Sunrun, and renewable energy advocates to modernize rooftop solar in South Carolina: Duke’s agreement with solar installers, environmental groups and renewable energy advocates, if approved by reg... |
| 16.07.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Sericulture startup Mori raises $12m Series A to preserve food with silk | So, common sense was wrong. It turns out you can eat silk! But before you drag out that Kimono of yours and swiftly devour it in celebration, hold on a second — you need a crucial bit of cutting-edge protein extraction technology first.
Ent... |
| 14.07.2020 | Update on Natron Energy, sodium-ion battery builder with $35M from ABB, Khosla, Chevron | We reported on battery builder Natron’s $35 million investment round last week — but wanted to provide an update on the company’s markets and technology from people familiar with the firm.
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Natron Energy, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based star... |
| 08.07.2020 | Natron Energy, developer of sodium-ion batteries, raises $35M as investment in storage surges | Natron Energy, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup developing a battery using Prussian blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, raised $35 million in series D funding led by ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital and V... |
| 03.06.2019 | LevelTen Energy raises $20.5 million for its renewable energy marketplace | LevelTen Energy, a marketplace that consolidates renewable energy projects and potential buyers to lower prices for aggregated buyers and expand the market for sellers, has raised $20.5 million in a new round of funding.
Investors in the ro... |
| 02.04.2018 | What is the Prototypical Agtech Exit? | The headline-making agtech exits of 2017 generated cautious optimism among investors and stakeholders, but as industry thinking moves along, a new conversation is emerging around what the acquisitions of Blue River Technology by John Deere,... |
| 02.11.2017 | Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? | St. Louis has worked hard to be a magnet for Fortune 500 companies. Nine members of this elite class call the city home, not the least of which is multinational agricultural giant Monsanto.
Walmart has more than 20,000 employees in St. Loui... |
| 14.02.2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| 14.07.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Ripple Foods Raises $30m from Google, Khosla, S2G, Tao, Soil Disease Testing Kit Raises $4m, more | Ripple Foods Raises $30m from Google Ventures, Khosla, S2G, Tao Capital
Ripple Foods, which makes non-dairy milk products with eight times the protein as almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk, has closed a $30 million Series B round ... |
| 26.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 26, 2015 | Fanatics secured $300M; Spoonflower announced $25M; Velostrata raised $14M
Velostrata provides on-demand hybrid cloud software that decouples compute from storage. What that does is enable enterprises to stream production workloads to and f... |
| 02.05.2014 | EnergySavvy Raises $7M | EnergySavvy, a Seattle, WA- and Cambridge, MA-based provider of energy efficiency cloud software to utilities and state programs, raised $7m in funding.
The round was led by Prelude Ventures, with participation from existing investor Pivota... |
| - | Former Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer launches climate investment firm: ‘We need business’ to solve climate change | Former Facebook chief technical officer Mike Schroepfer is launching a climate venture capital investment firm, Gigascale Capital, along with climate investors Victoria Beasley and Evaline Tsai.
Schroepfer has been funding scientific resear... |
