Today, we’re proud to unveil Sightline Climate, our new market intelligence platform for the new climate economy. Built on the foundation of the CTVC newsletter, Sightline Climate’s subscription intelligence product goes beyond the inbox with data, tools, and frameworks to bring clarity to industry professionals navigating climate transition decisions. More than 20 leading investors, corporates, and governments already use the platform including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), BHP, and Galvanize Climate Solutions. 👉 Explore Sightline Climate here: https://lnkd.in/eppSXmJY The highlights: 🚀 Launching the Sightline Climate platform. We’ve launched a new market intelligence product for investors, corporates, and governments building and financing the new climate economy. Use Sightline Climate to chart your path across the evolving climate landscape and spot when inflection points happen in climate sectors and technologies. 👋 Introducing “CTVC, by Sightline Climate”. We’ve rebranded our [parent] company name to Sightline Climate. After all, the new climate economy has grown beyond VC. But that’s all just an FYI, the name of this CTVC Newsletter won’t change. 🏁 The platform is live! The Sightline platform is already up and running, used daily by 20+ clients, from energy and industrial corporates, climate investors, major financial institutions, and governments, including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), BHP, Galvanize Climate Solutions, B Capital , Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), and Acario Tokyo Gas. P.S. We're hiring! https://lnkd.in/eu4rCxnG (And don’t worry—the free CTVC newsletter isn’t going anywhere…well, except to get better and better 😉). As seen in the CTVC newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eZzSCHp8 Press release: https://lnkd.in/eWgzQjxt https://lnkd.in/eppSXmJY
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It’s almost that most magical time of the year: New York Climate Week! Navigating it can be overwhelming, so we're building a public events tracker to help. Send any NYCW activities and events relevant to the climate tech community to us at the link below. And keep your eyes peeled later this week for the big schedule reveal! 👀 #NewYorkClimateWeek #NYCW #ClimateTech #events Submit here: https://lnkd.in/gXDwH2rG
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Happy Tuesday, and Olympics opening week! Our eyes are on another race — the sprint to scale Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs), which has had a bumpy start after a recent spate of project cancellations. Plus, in deals: 🧪$183m for plastics recycling 🌾 $133m for electric autonomous tractors ✈️ $73m for electric propulsion systems for aviation. And in other news: ⚖️ a proposed US energy permitting reform bill 💸 the EPA’s $4.3bn in grants for emissions-reducing projects 📉 and a decline in value in voluntary carbon markets. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ggext4Fy
🌎 Turbulence in the SAFs market #207
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ICYMI: We published a detailed breakdown of DOE’s offices, their investment theses, funding mechanisms, and diligence processes. From the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) to the Grid Deployment Office (GDO), and the Loan Programs Office (LPO) to the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), we've got you covered on how the DOE thinks about commercial project-focused investment. Thanks again to Vanessa Z Chan, Jigar Shah, Katheryn Scott, and many others at the DOE for their guidance. Read what they have to say here ⤵️
🌏 The Investors’ Guide to the DOE
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In this week's edition, we talked to Brian Janous, former head of Microsoft's global energy strategy, who recently turned over a new leaf and founded Cloverleaf Infrastructure. We chatted about how AI is changing the energy grid, how utilities can respond, and Cloverleaf's $300m raise. Plus, what leadership shakeups in the EU and US mean for climate tech, and of course, new deals. Read about it here: https://lnkd.in/gbMbJS3n #ClimateTech #ClimateTechInvestment #AI #Energy #Infrastructure #Utilities #Cloverleaf #DataCenters #CTVC
🌎 Inside Cloverleaf Infrastructure’s power play #206
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Wondering what goes into all of the DOE's climate tech investments? We spoke with folks at different offices inside the agencies for our latest newsletter, "The Investor's Guide to the DOE," out now: https://lnkd.in/gT8a56cK We dive into the DOE's strategic funding decisions and due diligence processes behind them for commercial-scale projects, private investors can navigate this key piece in the climate capital stack. From investment theses to check sizes, from risk analyses to returns, this guide can help investors understand what different awards and loans mean, and help founders know what to put into their applications. A massive thank you to Katheryn Scott, Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes, Rachel Gould, Richard Matsui, and more for speaking to us for this piece. #ClimateTech #CleanEnergy #DOE #Investment #Innovation #Sustainability #ClimateAction #PublicPrivatePartnerships #FOAK #GreenTech
🌏 The Investors’ Guide to the DOE
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🌍 Our newsletter #205 is out now — diving into how the UK's Labour Party's ambitious climate agenda could serve as a test for deploying climate tech at a speed and scale never before seen. In other news: ✈️ Roadblocks in Sweden for sustainable aviation fuel. 💧 $58M deal for wastewater treatment. ♻️ $16M investment in next-gen recycling. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gZABY_Y5 Stay in the loop for the latest climate tech developments and funding news. Not a subscriber yet? Subscribe now: https://lnkd.in/eyzuHhZW #ClimateTech #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #UKPolitics #InvestmentNews
🌎 Labouring for a greener UK grid #205
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Our new report on H1 2024 investment trends is featured in Axios — showing that investor appetite for early-stage and growth rounds has continued to wane through the first half of the year. But it's not all doom and gloom. Earlier stage round sizes were healthier, as well, indicating investors are going with a flight to quality. Explore the data and charts behind these trends in our full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/gne3Wx_6
The venture chill is hitting early-stage climate investment
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Hope you got to enjoy some fireworks and barbecues over this Fourth of July weekend. At CTVC, we were cooking up our report on H1’24 climate tech funding, and we’ve got some takeaways for you. In other news: -New AI use leads to surge in Google’s emissions -Leading nonprofit Science Based Targets initiative CEO resigns -Shell pauses construction on one of its biggest planned biofuels projects In deals: -$541m in four newly announced funds, from Seaya, The Westly Group, Carbon Equity, and FreeFlow Ventures. -$183m aquisition of 3D metal printer Desktop Metal -$149m for electric aircraft across two deals with Eve Air Mobility and Archer. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g77xuAbw
🌏 State of climate tech in H1 2024 #204
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The first half of 2024 saw a weak $11.3bn start, with investment finally returning to 2020 levels pre-climate tech hype. Over the past six months, the climate tech market has continued to constrict, with a noticeable downtick in deal count and funding in H1’24, affecting even early-stage investments like Seed and Series A. But it's not just climate tech, the broader venture market is in a slump from sticky inflation, high interest rates, and geopolitical turmoil. But it's not all doom and gloom. We’re also seeing signs that many companies and projects aren’t solely relying on VC funding anymore, as they’re starting to graduate from equity to project finance and debt in the race to deploy, deploy, deploy. Some new and interesting highlights here: 💰 H1’24 $11.3bn funding: Funding in the first six months of 2024 totaled $11.3bn, down 20% from H1’23 and down 41% from H2’23. 📈 Early-stage takes a hit: Seed funding declined 12% in H1’24 vs. H1’23, and Seed deal count decreased 30% for the same period for the first time. 💸 Round size: Average deal size for Seed, Series A, and Series B increased by 19%, signaling a flight to quality for performing companies making it past Series A. 📅 Time between rounds: The average time it takes a company to raise a Series B in 2024 is more than double the time it took three years ago, jumping from 11 months to 26 months between rounds ⛰ Series B Valley of Death: And the Valley of Death between Series A and Series B has become more precarious, as a large cohort of climate tech companies approach the milestone. 💥 Notable deals: The companies that were able to get funding this half-year represented many of this year’s emerging trends in climate tech: hype-y AI and the clean firm power it requires, high-flying Sustainable Aviation Fuels, and batteries leading the charge. Advanced geo developer Fervo Energy, thermal energy storage (TES) provider Antora Energy, and textile-to-textile recycler Syre raised massive rounds for hardware buildouts. Plus, steelmaker H2 Green Steel, lithium extractor Lilac Solutions, and Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) developer Highview Power all raised “FOAK” rounds to support commercial-scale project development. 👉 Check out the full Sightline Climate (CTVC) H1'2024 investment post with charts and analysis tracking investment, deal activity, FOAK deals, bankruptcies, time between rounds, and investor activity: https://lnkd.in/evG9_-_Y 👉 And read the key takes from Michelle Ma at Bloomberg Green: https://lnkd.in/er8pjdcd #climatetechvc #climatetech #funding
🌎 A weak $11.3bn start to 2024
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