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3 New Speakers Join the HackSummit Lineup These 3 latest additions all share a vision for the commercialization and scale up of FOAK technologies. Now they’re primed to join us on stage to go deeper into their journey so far and what’s in store for 2025 and beyond. 💵 Clay Dumas, General Partner, Lowercarbon Capital Clay is the team’s most active investor, identifying companies that undo global warming while making real money in the process. 🚢 Alisha Fredriksson, Co-Founder and CEO, Seabound Alisha and Roujia are on a mission to decarbonize shipping with ocean-ready carbon capture 🌬️ Staff Sheehan, Co-Founder and CTO, AIR COMPANY Staff has developed commercial technologies based on his applied research in chemistry, physics and computer science, and has built collaborations with world-renowned universities and institutions through his research. Check out the full speaker line up and join us in NYC this December: https://lnkd.in/eGPkkwPA

This week in ClimateTech AI-Metal Discovery. Fossil Free Aerial Forestry. CCU for building materials ⛽️ Exclusive: Meet 90+ eFuel Companies. 🚜 xFarm Technologies raised €36 million, in a Series C funding round 🥓 LA VIE™ secured €25 million taking its total funding to date to €50 million, and announced the launch of its vegan meatballs. 🌾 The UK’s Pulse Crop Genetic Improvement Network received £3 million from the government to develop climate resilient legumes. 🏭 planetary secured a CHF 3 million investment from Royal Cosun 🍫 California Cultured Inc. secured “significant investment” from Sparkalis to help transform cocoa production 🌳 AirForestry raised €10.3 million seed funding to advance its fully electric solution that minimises terrain disruption and promotes healthier forests through targeted thinning. 🔎 forward earth raised €4.5 million seed funding to scale its AI-powered environmental management software 🏡 GROPYUS raised €100 million to use robots to rebuild homes faster and more sustainably in Ukraine. 🧱 Paebbl raised €22.8 million Series A funding to convert captured CO2 into carbon-storing building materials. 🤝 Carbon Re is joining forces with ABB to help cement producers cut their emissions, lower costs and boost productivity with its SaaS solutions. ⚡️ Voltfang raised €8 million in Series A funding and €800,000 in grants to expand its product offerings and enhance its green energy storage technology for commercial, industrial, and grid-scale applications. 🌡 Synergi raised €2 million seed funding to support its energy efficiency platform ☁️ QUIXOTIC secured €1.3 million seed funding for its cloud-based energy management platform 👋 3 New Speakers Join The HackSummit Line-up: Clay Dumas, General Partner, Lowercarbon Capital  Alisha Fredriksson, Co-Founder and CEO, Seabound  Staff Sheehan, Co-Founder and CTO, Air Company 🇦🇺 Virescent Ventures secured $100 million at the first close of its second climate tech fund. 🇨🇦 Diagram Ventures launched its Diagram Climate Tech Fund, raising $80 million CAD 🇩🇰 PSV announced the first close of DKK 385 million (≈ €48M) with backing from the EIFO and EIF. ⛏ KoBold Metals secured $491 million to help find critical minerals for the energy transition. 🌊 Lithios raised $10 million seed funding and $2 million in venture debt. 🦠 baCta secured €3.3 million to use engineered bacteria to produce natural rubber. 🚐 Grounded secured 3.5 million for its custom-designed modular electric vans for services like mobile medicine, pet grooming, food transport 🧪 Researchers at Oxford Brookes University have developed a hydrodynamic reactorthat uses cavitation to eliminate toxic "forever chemicals" from water supplies by forming and collapsing bubbles through pressure fluctuations. https://lnkd.in/e6JEqg_h

18 startups in 7 countries 🌱 🧫 🧀 🥔 Molecular farming unlocks the potential for affordable, animal-free proteins by using plants as natural bioreactors. Can this innovative technology scale up to revolutionise protein production as we know it? These startups think so: Alpine Bio (makers of Nobell Foods), Aspyre Foods, Asterix Foods, BioBetter™, Bright Biotech, Elo Life Systems, Finally Foods, Forte Protein Inc., IngredientWerks, Kyomei, Miruku, Moolec Science, Mozza Foods, NewMoo, ORF Genetics, PoLoPo, Seedling Biosystems, VELOZBIO This week we dive into the evolution of molecular farming. From when the pharmaceutical industry first started using it in the 1980s on tobacco plants producing proteins, enzymes, and metabolites. To it's first breaking onto the scene and gaining investment attention in FoodTech a few years back. To the startups fundraising and scaling today. Using it to produce cheese-making enzymes, animal proteins, growth factors for cell-based meat, pigments, and more. Thank you to Ido Eliashar, Maya Sapir-Mir and Dafna Gabbay for sharing their expertise. And to Meg Kendall for the great write up. For the full recap head to: https://lnkd.in/er4n9Nq8

Demand for Sustainable Fuels is Taking Off ⛽️ 🛫 The transportation sector alone accounts for nearly a quarter of global CO2 emissions. And the race to decarbonize how we get around is picking up pace. Yet as the world moves toward a more electrified future, it still heavily depends on fossil fuels to get goods, people, and power where it needs to go. While electric solutions make headlines, sustainable fuels – from biofuels to eFuels – hold tremendous potential to decarbonize some of the hardest-to-abate sectors like aviation, shipping, and heavy industry. Check out the list of 90 names from around the world, on a shared mission to decarbonize fuel: https://lnkd.in/e8R8jnwu Including: Expander Energy Inc. Topsoe Lhyfe Spark e-Fuels HIF Global Nacero Inc. refuel.green consulting & technologies GmbH Lydian Metafuels LanzaJet Brineworks Arcadia eFuels INERATEC Nordic Biofuel AB Liquid Wind Infinium Sunfire Norsk e-Fuel SkyNRG Twelve Cemvita Inc. OXCCU TECH LTD CAPHENIA AIR COMPANY Prometheus Zero® Dimensional Energy Carbon Engineering Carboneo

18 startups growing the future of protein with molecular farming Would you eat cheese that its key protein was grown in a potato? Not a cheese alternative… but the real, genetically-identical deal. Might sound like sci-fi, but startups are making it happen. 💡What Molecular farming unlocks the potential for affordable, animal-free proteins by using plants as natural bioreactors. ❓How Plant molecular farming (PMF). It’s a form of alternative protein production that enables plants to express target molecules like animal proteins. 💊 History Molecular farming is nothing new. The pharmaceutical industry has been using it since the 1980s on tobacco plants producing proteins, enzymes, and metabolites. 🌿 Advantages "Plants are the ideal ‘bioreactors’ to produce complex proteins, avoiding the significant technical and economical challenges faced by other alternative protein technologies," tells Dafna Gabbay of Finally Foods And "while molecular farming is a fairly new sector, it’s already well advanced scientifically and commercially – mainly because molecular farming startups had the chance to learn from other established sectors and have implemented what they learned from these models," explain Ido Eliashar and Maya Sapir-Mir of PoLoPo 🔦 Who Alpine Bio (makers of Nobell Foods), Aspyre Foods, Asterix Foods, BioBetter™, Bright Biotech, Elo Life Systems, Finally Foods, Forte Protein Inc., IngredientWerks, Kyomei, Miruku, Moolec Science, Mozza Foods, NewMoo, ORF Genetics, PoLoPo, Seedling Biosystems, VELOZBIO Thank you to Ido, Maya, and Dafna for sharing their expertise. And to Meg Kendall for the great write up. Get the full recap and dive into the opportunities and challenges behind the trend here: https://lnkd.in/er4n9Nq8

🌍 Join Us for an Unforgettable Evening of Networking Conversations and Collaboration in Nairobi 🌱 Satgana, Catalyst Fund, and ClimateHack NBO warmly invite you to an exclusive After Work event on Thursday, October 17th. Whether you're a climate tech founder or an investor looking to make an impact, this is your chance to connect with Africa's leading innovators in a casual, inspiring setting. Why Attend? Meet and network with purpose-driven founders and investors Explore new partnerships and opportunities Enjoy drinks, bites, and great conversations Location: Nairobi Street Kitchen Time: 5 pm and beyond Don't miss out - RSVP today (Link in the comments) See you there 🌱 ClimateHack HackGroup

Catch up on the latest headlines in Climate 🗽 A list of 50+ New York Climate Techs. 🌳 The European Commission extended the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation by 12 months, allowing more time to meet the regulation's goal of eliminating deforestation-linked products from the EU market. 👀 A new investigation has found that UK retailers have misled consumers with their take-back schemes to recycle soft plastics, instead burning 70% of the waste. 🚚 Swedish EV software startup Einride is expecting to make redundancies in the near future, as reported by local media Breakit. 🪰 entosystem raised $58 million to boost production capacity and build a second commercial plant. 🌱 AgroSpheres closed its Series B funding round with $37 million. 🌾 Micropep Technologies secured new funding for its natural crop protection solutions based on micropeptides 🏭 Cauldron Ferm received investment to build Asia-Pacific’s largest precision fermentation contract manufacturing plant 🥩 Umami Bioworks is joining forces with KCell Biosciences and WSG to set up a production line and path to market entry in South Korea. 🧀 Those Vegan Cowboys unveiled its precision fermentation casein protein, designed for “stretchier, meltier” animal-free cheeses. 🏭 Circe raised $5 million seed funding and announced the installation of its pilot plant in Waltham, MA 💽 Submer raised $55.5 million to expand its sustainable immersion cooling technology, designed to reduce energy consumption and water usage in AI-driven data centers 💫 Acceleron Fusion, Inc., based in the US, raised $15 million to further develop its fusion technology 🏭 Paris-based NRJx, which focuses on reducing energy consumption in factories, raised €2M in funding in a round led by BpiFrance. 👋 Join us as a HackSummit NY volunteer - Applications are open 📊 Atlas Metrics secured €12.2 million Series A funding. 🔎 Briink raised €3.85 million seed funding to build the world's first AI agents designed specifically for ESG teams 🧱 Lithuanian startup Sort A Brick secured €1.15 million to scale its AI-powered LEGO brick sorting service 📦 S.Lab, based in Ukraine, received $100,000 in equity-free funding from Google to advance its hemp and mycelium-based packagin 🤝 Syklo acquired @Elastopoli, which makes patented cellulose biocomposites that can replace technical plastics and glass fiber composites 🛩 Joby Aviation secured $500 million from Toyota to further develop its electric air taxis. 🔌 Qovoltis, which develops smart electric vehicle charging stations controlled via an app, raised €45m in Series B funding 🪨 Anaphite raised £10.4 million for its innovative dry-coating process technology 🚲 Beam Global introduced the BeamBike™, a solar-powered ebike charger 💦 Pluvion GmbH secured €1 million pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of its AI-driven software solutions https://lnkd.in/ebTpkuyP

Zenon et ClimateHack Paris : Politiques publiques et transition énergétique 🌱 📅 Jeudi 10 octobre 2024 📍 11 rue Notre Dame des Victoires, Paris Ne manquez pas l'événement organisé par ClimateHack Paris et Zenon, qui permettra d'explorer l’impact des #politiques #publiques sur la #Transition énergétique. 💡 Speakers : Célia Agostini, Directrice de Cleantech for France Romain Serres, CEO de Tilt Energy Marc Germanangue, CEO de Zenon Research Que vous soyez entrepreneur, investisseur, décideur politique, ou simplement passionné par les questions énergétiques, cet événement gratuit est fait pour vous ! Le + de l'événement : networking, café et croissants sont au programme ! 🥐 Prenez votre place ici : https://lu.ma/ck7li61x

This week in ClimateTech... 📈 What’s up? Norrsken released its Impact/100 list. And the The Earthshot Prize unveiled its 2024 finalists. 📉 What’s down? Northvolt has halted its factory expansion and laid off 1,600 workers. 🏭 ÄIO raised €6.1 million to build a demo plant where it will produce eco-friendly oils and fats from wood and agricultural residues. 🌱 Qarbotech raised $1.5 million in a seed extension round for its photosynthesis enhancement technology. 🍓 Plenty® opened the ‘world’s first’ vertical berry farm in Richmond, Virginia. 👀 41 organisations receiving the first $10 million worth of grants from the Rivian Foundation, incl ORCA - Ocean Resilience & Climate Alliance and The Nature Conservancy. 🪨 Eion raised a $3 million series A extension and signed a contract with Microsoft to deliver 8,000 tons of permanent CO2 removal 🤝 BluSky Carbon secured a $105 million biochar sales agreement, starting with 22,200 tonnes in the first year of a ten-year term 🔎 Nature Focus is set to deploy HYPHEN GLOBAL AG’s real-time greenhouse gas monitoring solution across one million acres. 🧵Exclusive: We caught up with Dennis Nobelius to hear how Syre are dewasting the industry through textile-to-textile recycling. At hyperscale. ⚡️ Zap Energy raised $130 million for its “lightning in a bottle” approach to fusion energy. 🔋 Forge Battery has been selected for up to $100 million in non-dilutive funding to expand its lithium-ion battery gigafactory production 💫Marvel Fusion secured €62.8 million Series B funding to improve its lasers’ power and efficiency 🔌 NYC-based David Energy raised $23 million to support its goal of getting the energy grid to run entirely on clean energy in the next 10 years. 💰 Two Point O Capital raised $6.3 million led by Omnivore 👷♂️ La Solive raised €4 million in a Series A funding round led by Partech. 🏢 Ei Solutions AS secured €1.2 million to help commercial real estate owners maximise their properties’ green potential 🏗 Stegra raised €100 million in grant funding from the Swedish Energy Agency 🌿 Notpla secured £20 million Series A funding to scale manufacturing of its seaweed-based sustainable packaging. 👜 Pact raised €10.7 million seed funding to scale production of its groundbreaking collagen-based biomaterial 📦 BIOVOX GmbH closed €2.2 million to advance development of sustainable medical-grade bioplastics for devices and packaging. 💡 10 pitfalls and possibilities to scaling new materials according to 10 industry experts (incl Kubik, Inc., MycoFutures, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) and more) 🛩 Pyka raised $40 million for its electric self-flying cargo planes. 🔌 Cariqa closed its pre-seed funding round with €1 million to develop the first consumer-facing EV charging marketplace ⛴ Amogy announced the successful maiden voyage of the world's first carbon-free, ammonia-powered maritime vessel. https://lnkd.in/edDFjJx6

What’s holding us back from scaling high-performing, sustainable new materials? We spoke to 10 industry insiders to hear where the bottlenecks are for new material breakthroughs and the impact potential these technologies can have when widely adopted: Dennis Nobelius of Syre Kidus Asfaw of Kubik, Inc. Alexandra French at Xampla Sean Sukonnik at Thunder.vc Stephanie Lipp at MycoFutures Sam Rosmarin of African Bamboo Shannon Parker of True Materialist Will Proud, Sustainability Consultant Sonalie Figueiras of Green Queen Media and Source Green  Mridul Pareek of European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) Hear what they have to say in the race to scale new materials: https://lnkd.in/eVdWw8SE