| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.03.2025 | Investment Climate Podcast: Ali Wing of Oobli, How to Get Funded in 2025 | In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs.
Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strate... |
| 18.11.2024 | Duckweed Protein Developer Plantible Raises $30M to Scale Operations Amid ‘Insatiable’ Demand for Functional Ingredients | San Diego-based Plantible Foods, a vertically integrated startup extracting the protein RuBisCo from the leafy green aquatic plant called lemna (duckweed), has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Piva Capital and Siddhi... |
| 16.11.2024 | Plantible Foods: A Green Revolution in Protein Production | In the heart of San Diego, a quiet revolution is brewing. Plantible Foods, a startup founded in 2018, is transforming the landscape of protein production. With a recent $30 million Series B funding round, the company is poised to scale its ... |
| 15.11.2024 | Plantible Foods raises $30m Series B to scale duckweed protein, deliver on ‘multi-million dollar offtake agreements’ | Plantible—a startup extracting RuBisCO (‘Rubi protein’), a highly-functional protein from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna (duckweed)—has closed a $30 million Series B round co-led by Piva Capital and Siddhi Capital.
The round, which was al... |
| 29.09.2023 | How to pitch me: 7 investors discuss what they’re looking for in September 2023 | Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt (recaps coming soon), I spent less time than usual in the green room where staff and speakers work behind the scenes and walked around Moscone Center.
More than 10,000 people passed through the conference hal... |
| 01.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Neat Burger raises $18m, Debut bags $34m to expand cell-free biomanufacturing platform | This week, Neat Burger raised $18m to take its plant-based restaurant chain into new markets, synthetic biology startup Debut raised $34 million to expand its cell-free biomanufacturing platform, and biofertilizer startup Anuvia Plant Nutri... |
| 16.08.2022 | Piva Capital Adds Daniel Ketyer To Investment Team | Piva Capital’s newest investor, Daniel Ketyer
Piva Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm on a mission to back visionary founders and emerging technology companies disrupting the future of industry, added Daniel Ketyer as a... |
| 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... |
| 27.05.2022 | Joywell Foods Readies for Commercialization with $25 Million in Funding Led by Piva Capital | - |
| 11.05.2022 | How Anuvia aims to spend $66m advancing biofertilizer for large-scale agriculture | US biofertilizer company Anuvia Plant Nutrients has packed a lot of milestones into a short period of time, its latest being a $65.5 million Series D fundraise co-led by Riverstone Holdings and Piva Capital.
Morgan Stanley Investment Manage... |
| 03.05.2022 | This private equity firm is sharing returns with portfolio company employees | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
When a record number of people are quitting their jobs, it may help to give employees a stake in ... |
| 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... |
| 12.04.2022 | Hydrogen fuel cells are finally attracting VC interest | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Two months ago, history was made in the shape of a 70-foot, 75-passenger ferry boat.
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| 06.01.2022 | Momenta Invests in Xage | Momenta expands investment in Xage, Zero Trust security for critical infrastructure |
| 02.09.2021 | San Diego’s Plantible Secures $21.5M For Alt Meat & Dairy Created From One of World’s Most Sustainable Plant Proteins | Plantible Foods announces it has closed a $21.5 million Series A funding round led by Astanor Ventures, making a total raise of $27 million to date. The startup’s proprietary plant protein Rubi Protein™ harnesses lemna, an aquatic plant com... |
| 04.05.2021 | How Tech Helps Farmers To Profit While Going Green | 12 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Julia Reichelstein
2020 will go down as the “Year of Net Zero.” Corporate commitments to deliver net-zero emissions by 2050 doubled, and all eyes are on our biggest green-house gas emitters—namel... |
| 04.05.2021 | How Tech Helps Farmers To Profit While Going Green | 43 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Julia Reichelstein
2020 will go down as the “Year of Net Zero.” Corporate commitments to deliver net-zero emissions by 2050 doubled, and all eyes are on our biggest green-house gas emitters—namel... |
| 23.02.2021 | Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia raises $103m Series C to expand its GHG-reducing crop input | Fertilizer is one of the most commonly used crop inputs around the world, but it comes with a heavy price tag in the form of environmental harm and detriments to soil health. Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia is hoping to address this issue by ... |
| 23.02.2021 | Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia raises $103m Series C funding | Fertilizer is one of the most commonly used crop inputs around the world, but it comes with a heavy price tag in the form of environmental harm and detriments to soil health. Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia is hoping to address this issue by ... |
| 21.12.2020 | Tech.co’s Predictions for the Future of Tech in 2021 | Science fiction novels and films have long predicted 2021 – some, better than others. We have to admit that Alfonso Cuarón's 2006 adaptation of P.D. James' novel Children of Men got a lot more right than the one other masterpiece set in 202... |
| 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... |
| 13.12.2019 | Fledgling VC Piva closes $250m debut fund with Petronas backing | Newly launched venture firm Piva has closed its $250m inaugural fund, as it looks to back early to growth-stage energy a |
| 12.12.2019 | Piva Raises $250 Million To Invest In Energy And Materials Companies | Piva announced it has raised $250 million for its first fund to invest in next-generation energy, industry, and materials companies
San Francisco-based venture capital firm Piva announced recently that it raised $250 million for its first f... |
| 11.12.2019 | New VC Firm Piva Closes $250M Fund Focused On Energy Industry | - |
| 11.12.2019 | New VC Firm Piva Closes $250M Fund Focused On Energy Industry | 23 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
The energy industry is similar to other traditional sectors (think construction, for example) that have been slow to adopt new technology, yet are ripe with inefficiencies.
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| 11.12.2019 | Piva Launches $250M Industry and Energy Fund | Piva, a San Francisco, CA-based newly formed venture capital firm, has launched its inaugural $250m fund to invest in a new era of industry and energy technologies.
Piva counts one of the world’s largest energy companies, Malaysia-based Pet... |
| 11.12.2019 | Piva launches $250 mln fund to back energy deals | - |
| 11.12.2019 | Slack’s share price and the future of direct listings | Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the grey space in between. Today we’re starting off with a venture capital Q&A, a quick look at Slack’s share price stability and some thoughts ... |
| 04.10.2019 | Malaysian Petronas sets up new USD 350 million corporate venture capital fund | Malaysia’s state oil and gas enterprise Petronas allocated USD 350 million to its newly-launched venture capital arm, Petronas Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) as reported by the New Straits Times.
Petronas invested USD 350 million in the CV... |
| - | Anuvia Raises $103M Series C to Expand its GHG-Reducing Crop Input | Fertilizer is one of the most commonly used crop inputs around the world, but it comes with a heavy price tag in the form of environmental harm and detriments to soil health. Bio-fertilizer startup Anuvia is hoping to address this issue by ... |
