Much of the VC industry is in retreat this year, but early-stage climate tech investors are charging ahead. In fact, seed deals in climate tech doubled year over year in the first half of 2022.
NotCo CEO Matías Muchnik joins the SOSV Climate Tech Summit to discuss how his company’s plant-based dairy and meat might outcompete livestock. A food tech unicorn based in the US and Chile, NotCo and its proprietary AI, named Giuseppe, have engineered a plant-based milk claimed to taste, cook, and blend just like cow’s milk. And it’s on grocery shelves today.
Dandelion CEO Kathy Hannun and Quaise CEO Carlos Araque join the SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct. 25-26 / free & virtual / register now) for a panel on rethinking and scaling geothermal. Born at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Dandelion brings geothermal heating and cooling to residential homes. Dandelion’s proprietary drills make a hole that is only a few inches wide, minimizing the cost for consumers and the impact on their property. Investors in Dandelion’s $30 million Series B included Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, GV, and NEA.
f you could direct $40 billion towards the world’s most critical climate technologies, which would you choose? For Jigar Shah, Director of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), that’s no hypothetical.
According to investor Chris Sacca, “The climate is f’d.” The billionaire founder of Lowercase Capital is known for his investments in Uber, Twitter, Instagram, Stripe, and other famed unicorns. He came out of retirement in 2021 to “unf**k the planet” with Lowercarbon Capital, his new venture firm. Armed with $1.15 billion in capital across two
In 2021, US venture capital firms invested a record $56 billion in climate tech startups, according to SVB, up from $14 billion in 2017. That growth was especially pronounced in early stages. The value of Series A investments in climate tech grew 76% to $5.3 billion between 2020 and 2021, while Series B investments doubled
There is no laboratory for our climate future quite like Singapore, where startup innovation is central to the country’s climate strategy. That’s why we invited Grace Fu, Singapore’s Minister of Sustainability and the Environment, to speak at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct. 25-26). In the video below, you can hear her take on how
With global CO2 emissions at an alarming 50 gigatons annually, the IPCC now believes that averting a climate catastrophe will be impossible unless we act to remove carbon directly from the atmosphere. Direct air capture (DAC) has emerged as a promising but controversial solution. DAC systems suck in air like a vacuum cleaner and filter
At the SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct. 25-26 / free & virtual / register now) Dr. David Kirtley, founder and CEO of Helion Energy, will tackle that question and many more in a fireside chat. One of three fusion unicorns, Helion has secured $500 million in funding and is currently building Polaris, which Kirtley believes will be the first ever fusion reactor to generate more electricity than it consumes, which is the idea, of course.
The world of industrial materials needs to be reinvented in ways that eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Batteries, cement, steel, ammonia and plastics – you name it – must get on a sustainable path. No one has done more to bring science and commerce together to address that challenge than Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang
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