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| 10.04.2024 | Houston energy innovation leader calls for collaboration to tackle the industry's biggest hurdles | When Barbara Burger moved to Houston a little over a decade ago to lead Chevron Technology Ventures, she wondered why the corporate venture group didn't have much representation from the so-called energy capital of the world.
“I had no comp... |
| 10.04.2024 | Houston tech company building a next-generation space station has new investor | Houston-based Starlab Space, which is developing a commercial space station, has enlisted a high-profile investor — Japanese industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi.
With the addition of Mitsubishi, Starlab now boasts three equity partners. The ... |
| 05.04.2024 | Houston physicist scores $15.5M grant for high-energy nuclear physics research | A team of Rice University physicists has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Physics for their work in high-energy nuclear physics and research into a new state of matter.
The five-year $15.5 m... |
| 16.08.2023 | Navigating disaster response: Symposium on climate resilience highlights advancing equity for people of color | 1,765+ housing and community development professionals to attend Chicago conference
Chicago, IL, Aug. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An Aug. 23 symposium in downtown Chicago will present solutions to build climate-resilient communities. Clima... |
| 16.05.2023 | Without Black representation in climate tech, ‘the planet will burn’ | Historically, the Black community in the U.S. has been disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change. Relegated for decades to a vulnerable economic and social class, the community is nearly always at risk of facing the brunt... |
| 09.05.2023 | BlocPower Partners with Town of Peterborough, NH to Pilot Building Electrification Program | PETERBOROUGH, N.H. (PRWEB) May 09, 2023
BlocPower, a national climate tech company focused on decarbonizing aging buildings, and the Town of Peterborough, New Hampshire announced a pilot partnership to help upgrade the town’s building stock... |
| 03.04.2023 | Meet the One Planet Advisory Council, a group of sustainability leaders supporting Insider's special climate coverage | Hervé Duteil, Cynthia Williams, Elijah McKenzie-Jackson, Omar Elmawi, Donnel Baird, Alyssa Gilbert, Abigail Ross Hopper, and Jacqueline Patterson Insider
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Insider has convened an advisory council of experts to support our special cli... |
| 03.03.2023 | Microsoft and Kimbal Musk invest in climate startup BlocPower to decarbonize buildings across the U.S. | About a year ago we wrote about BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that’s decarbonizing buildings across the U.S. by removing greenhouse gases and emissions associated with existing and new buildings and replacing them with gr... |
| 01.03.2023 | BlocPower Receives Over $154M in Funding | BlocPower, a NYC-based climate technology company focused on greening America’s buildings, received over $154m in funding.
This included over $24m of Series B corporate equity led by VoLo Earth Ventures and $130m of debt financing led by Go... |
| 20.01.2023 | The City of San José Awards BlocPower a Large-Scale Building Electrification and Workforce Development Project to Electrify Households | “We’re extremely excited to partner with the City of San José on its superb efforts to fight the effects of climate change, bring environmental and economic relief to its residents, and create exciting new green economy jobs,” said Donnel B... |
| 24.12.2022 | BlocPower Achieves Significant Climate Business Momentum in 2022 | NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 24, 2022
BlocPower, a leading national climate tech company focused on greening and electrifying aging buildings, announced significant momentum in 2022. BlocPower signed contracts to electrify all buildings in maj... |
| 10.12.2022 | BlocPower CEO Donnel Baird Named TIME’s Inaugural “Dreamer of the Year” as Part of its “Person of the Year” Celebration | NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 10, 2022
BlocPower, a leading national climate tech company focused on greening aging urban buildings, today announced that its founder and CEO, Donnel Baird, was the inaugural recipient of TIME’s 2022 “Dreamer of ... |
| 18.11.2022 | The 10 people transforming sustainability - from Patagonia's founder to the CEO of BlocPower | Jesse Grant/Getty Images; Courtesy of Vaishali Nigam Sinha; Linda Zhang; Matt Wong/Insider; Dina Averuk/Insider; Campbell Brewer; Matt Jones/Insider; Philips; Mandel Ngan/Getty Images; Insider
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| 14.11.2022 | H/L Ventures Named to Inc.’s 2022 List of Founder-Friendly Investors | NEW YORK (PRWEB) November 14, 2022
Inc. this week announced its fourth annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, honoring the private equity and venture capital firms with the best track records of success backing entrepreneurs. Previously kn... |
| 30.08.2022 | Donnel Baird Raises Over $100 Million For BlocPower By Discovering The Right Problem To Solve | Donnel Baird created BlocPower to solve a huge problem that’s central to the global effort to address climate change. It is such a big problem that investors have poured over $100 million in debt and equity financing into the company to hel... |
| 28.04.2022 | BlocPower wants to evict fossil fuels one building at a time | BlocPower founder Donnel Baird grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1980s. The area was so poor that buildings often lacked decent heating systems. People would turn on the stove or use electric heaters to compe... |
| 13.04.2022 | Affordable Clean Energy Systems For Low-Income Families | Recently, the folks at East Bay Community Energy got to thinking about expanding its services, the better to deliver on its mission: buying clean energy and transmitting it via PG&E infrastructure to communities across the East Bay. |
| 29.03.2022 | Brooklyn SolarWorks Launches “Electrify Brooklyn” to Help NYC Homeowners Take Action to Fight Climate Change | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – MARCH 29, 2022 – Brooklyn SolarWorks, a leading residential solar system design and installation provider, today announced the launch of Electrify Brooklyn, a new education resource designed to help New York City (NYC) ... |
| 29.03.2022 | Brooklyn SolarWorks Launches “Electrify Brooklyn” to Help NYC Homeowners Take Action to Fight Climate Change | Electrify Brooklyn is a program we developed with BlocPower to help our neighbors take advantage of the clean technologies of the future.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PRWEB) March 29, 2022
Brooklyn SolarWorks, a leading residential solar system design a... |
| 15.03.2022 | Microsoft and Jeff Bezos invest in this energy tech startup that is greening American cities by retrofitting old buildings with ‘green’ energy | When Jeff Bezos stepped down as Amazon’s CEO in July 2021, he promised to spend the rest of his time on passion projects like his space company Blue Origin, philanthropic efforts, and other projects that will make the world a better place.
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| 30.11.2021 | BlocPower, Metro IAF and People’s Choice Narrow the Digital Divide with Innovative Cooperative WiFi Installation Connecting 2,500 NYCHA Residents in the Bronx | “The ongoing pandemic has deepened the digital divide and made it even clearer that access to the internet is a necessity that can no longer be a privilege afforded to a few.” said Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15).
NEW YORK (PRWEB) Nov... |
| 17.11.2021 | National Grid : Partners with Bloc Power & New York Edge to Launch Clean Energy Workforce Development Training Program | Brooklyn/Hicksville - National Grid is partnering with Bloc Power and New York Edge to launch a heat pump awareness training program for young people in New York City and on Long Island, helping bridge the opportunity gap, developing the cl... |
| 16.11.2021 | National Grid : Partners with Bloc Power & NY Edge to Launch Clean Energy Workforce Development Training Program | Brooklyn/Hicksville - National Grid is partnering with Bloc Power and New York Edge to launch a heat pump awareness training program for young people in New York City and on Long Island, helping bridge the opportunity gap, developing the cl... |
| 27.07.2021 | Salesforce com : Impact Fund Sparks Change by Leveling the Playing Field | Quick take:
Salesforce Ventures' $150 million Impact Fund has now invested in 28 companies - 60% of which have a female or underrepresented minority founder or CEO.
Guild Education, a female-founded unicorn, provides a case study for the fu... |
| 07.06.2021 | Electrifying Buildings | This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV’s Climate Fund.
Electrifying buildings will play a critical role in managing our carbon budget. Nearly 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to powering res... |
| 20.05.2021 | Goldman Sachs Announces First Round of Capital Investments and Philanthropic Grants to 1 Million Black Women | May 20, 2021 4 min read This story originally appeared on Black Enterprise
Goldman Sachs has announced the initial grants, capital investments, and philanthropic grants for its One Million Black Women Initiative.
Goldman Sachs’ initiative w... |
| 31.03.2021 | Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan | The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes), but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support... |
| 12.03.2021 | BlocPower Issues First Climate Impact Note for Retail Investors After Raising $63 Million to Green Urban Buildings | NEW YORK (PRWEB) March 12, 2021
BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening American inner cities, today announced that it has issued the first Climate Impact Note, a peer-to-peer crowdfunded debt offering. Blo... |
| 23.02.2021 | BlocPower lands $63M to make urban buildings greener | BlocPower, a climate tech startup that retrofits older urban buildings with energy efficient heating and cooling systems, has raised a $63 million Series A. The funding round, which consists of $55 million in debt and $8 million in equity, ... |
| 22.02.2021 | Exelon Portfolio Company BlocPower Raises $63 Million Series A | BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening American inner cities, today announced a $63 million Series A round ($55 million debt, $8 million equity). The round was led by American Family Insurance Institute fo... |
| 22.02.2021 | BlocPower Raises $63M in Series A Funding | BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup, raised $63m in Series A funding round.
The round, which was comprised of $55m in debt, and $8m in equity), was led by American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, Acc... |
| 22.02.2021 | Daily funding roundup - February 22th, 2021 | Creatio raised $68M; Splice landed $55M; EquityBee secured $20M; BlocPower picks up $8M
Creatio: Creatio is a Boston-based low-code platform for process management and customer relationship management. Creatio has raised $68 million from Vo... |
| 22.02.2021 | BlocPower Raises $63 Million Series A to Green Urban Buildings and Creates Innovative Financing Solution Alongside the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group | NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening American inner cities, today announced a $63 million Series A round ($55 million debt, $8 million equity). The round was led b... |
| 22.02.2021 | Bringing jobs and health benefits, BlocPower unlocks energy efficiency retrofits for low-income communities | Retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient and better at withstanding climate change-induced extreme weather is going to be a big, multibillion-dollar business. But it’s one that’s been hard for low-income communities to tap,... |
| 19.10.2020 | Salesforce Ventures Launches Second $100 Million Impact Fund | SalesforceRawpixel Ltd. |
| 28.02.2018 | How the IoT and Related Tech Are Helping to Update the Energy Sector | Energy sector improvements have the capacity to affect almost every other industry. We all recognize the importance of a reliable energy system — after all, no business runs without electricity. As DataRPM, a Progress company that uses anom... |
| 31.08.2017 | 8 Real Estate Startups Joining the MetaProp NYC Accelerator Cohort | With a reputation like “the city that never sleeps,” New York is always on the lookout for new and innovative real estate opportunities. After all, with a population of more than 8 million, finding a place to stay that is affordable and coz... |
| 29.08.2017 | Meet the eight startups joining MetaProp NYC’s real estate accelerator | For the third year, MetaProp NYC is bringing together a group of startups focused on real estate tech. This time, the companies are tackling issues like green buildings, apartment entry and parking. Most of them are based in New York, but s... |
| - | Power Moves: Why this former Nerd Street Gamers director pivoted to clean energy | Power Moves is a column where we chart the comings and goings of talent across the region. Got a new hire, gig or promotion? Email us: philly@technical.ly.After roles in edtech and esports, Christian Kunkel is pivoting to another E industry... |
| - | BlocPower Raises $8M to Empower Building Owners to Make Their Properties More Sustainable | 407SHARES
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Buildings generate 80% of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions. Improving energy efficiency isn’t only important to the environment but it also reduces costs, making housing more affordable in the long... |
| - | BlocPower | “BlocPower is your one-stop-shop for modern, all-electric heating and cooling. Secure big incentives & save up to 40% on energy bills when upgrading to a sleek, comfortable and extremely efficient heat pump system.” |
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| - | «Disruptor 50» от CNBC — самые быстроразвивающиеся компании | «Disruptor 50» от CNBC — самые быстроразвивающиеся компании
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CNBC представила свой девятый ежегодный список «2021 Disruptor 50», в котором собраны частные компании, выходящие из пандемии с быстрым темп... |
| - | Joe Biden expands his climate team with six policy experts | In December, Electrek reported that President-elect Joe Biden named the NRDC’s Gina McCarthy domestic climate czar. McCarthy and her deputy, Ali Zaidi, will coordinate action across multiple federal agencies and Congress. Here’s a brief bac... |
