CDR rockstars Charm Industrial team up with the U.S. Forest Service to remove carbon and mitigate fire risk. Converting potential wildfire fuel into bio-oil that permanently locks away carbon? Major climate win-win. https://lnkd.in/eH8pWUrN
Lowercarbon Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
We back kickass companies that make real money while unf**cking the planet.
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Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies that make real money slashing CO₂ emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet. Bless the activists, but we see a different path towards a brighter (and cooler) future. Shame and guilt won’t get us there, markets will. To be clear, this isn’t charity. Fixing the planet is just good business. We’ll write your first check and are set up to keep investing deep into the alphabet as your company grows. So if you’re building a startup to rein in global warming while making cold, hard cash, drop us a line.
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Proud to see our technology being deployed at scale to support Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s wildfire prevention efforts. Over 10,000 units already on the California grid, actively working to protect our local communities from disasters before they strike!
Grateful that we were able to deploy 10,000 of these before we got into the worst months of the 2024 wildfire season https://lnkd.in/gWGi-w8r
East Bay tech startup uses AI to keep tabs on the grid to prevent wildfires
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BIG NEWS! Pachama is partnering with Patria Investments to launch a Fund that will invest in high-quality reforestation projects in Brazil and Latin America. In a moment where so many are backing out or paralyzed, it’s inspiring to see LatAm’s biggest investment firm decidedly lean in to invest in the new economy of nature restoration for carbon sequestration and beyond. They saw that in the long term this is a gigantic opportunity for value creation in addition to the great impact that it can have on climate, biodiversity and local development in LatAm, a region so large in natural capital critical for the global Net Zero transition. By combining Patria’s expertise in capital allocation, responsible investment and rigorous operational management with Pachama's proprietary technology and deep understanding of nature-based carbon markets, this long-term partnership will accelerate the creation of next-generation high-quality reforestation projects at a crucial transition point for the market and the planet. This is the result of a year long partnership development and I'm so grateful to the teams that made this happen. Our intention has always been to increase the flow of capital to nature restoration and this is an important step forward. We can’t wait to get started partnering with amazing projects and corporations looking for generational impact. Let’s go! Read more on this Bloomberg article:
Alternative-Investment Firm Launches Brazil Reforestation Fund
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Curl up with a good fusion podcast this weekend. Commonwealth Fusion Systems co-founder and CEO Bob Mumgaard on where the company — and the industry — is going. https://lnkd.in/gbJ6bM9n
Nuclear Fusion Is Unlimited Clean Power. So When Can We Have It?
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Kudos to UNDO for their new Microsoft deal. This quote from Microsoft says it all: "We are excited to support UNDO's enhanced rock weathering carbon removal projects with co-benefits for soils, farmers and rural communities.” https://lnkd.in/gWnZ4WMt
UNDO and Microsoft to remove 15,000 tonnes of CO2 using enhanced rock weathering
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We recently led a $9.5M seed round in Zeno, our very first energy transition company in Africa. Michael Spencer and the team are now officially out of stealth sprinting towards their first products - a swappable battery compatible with an electric motorbike of their own design. Their opening market is Kenya, where 3M+ boda boda taxi drivers are eager to find ways to shave costs down. With Zeno's battery subscription model, they'll make 50% in savings compared to owning a petrol counterpart! Going electric will soon become the obvious choice. Kenya is just the start. Over the next quarter century, Africa will be home to the largest share of young people in the world, and is set to double its population to 2.5 billion. Talk about a growth market. Zeno has a particularly special place in our hearts because Harsh Dubey, who hustled his way into Lowercarbon Capital right out of college and became an institution around here, built up so much conviction in this company that he's moved abroad to work on this rocketship full-time. That should tell you something. Congrats again to the team, read more here for the deep dive. #tech #climatetech #energy #mobility #battery #electric #africa #emergingmarkets
Exclusive: Zeno emerges from stealth to crib Tesla’s master plan for Africa and beyond | TechCrunch
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For a taste of what we're up to, check out this NYSE Ones to Watch. It's got all the hits, from fusion to cloud seeding to plants that mine metals, and more. #ClimateWeek #ClimateWeekNYC
This is Ones to Watch for Climate Week in NYC 🌱 We asked Lowercarbon Capital to highlight startups that they believe are building great businesses that are good for the planet. 🌎 Featuring: Arbor, Avalanche Energy, Carbon Crusher, Dioxycle, Genomines, Kula Bio, Molten Industries, Panthalassa, Rainmaker Technology Corporation, Seabound
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Cement is going clean – this is a big signal that the industry is relying on Sublime Systems to get there.
We are proud to announce a partnership with global building solutions provider Holcim that strengthens our mission of swift and massive impact on global CO2 emissions by decarbonizing cement. This collaboration includes an equity investment, a binding reservation from Holcim of the Sublime Cement™ produced out of our first commercial facility in Holyoke, MA, and commitments to co-develop future full-scale Sublime plants together once the Holyoke factory is complete. Scale is everything when it comes to success in cement, the key ingredient in the most consumed human-made material on Earth, concrete. It requires a broad logistics and distribution footprint that companies like Holcim have already built and excel at. We are impressed by Holcim’s decisive commitments to the construction industry’s decarbonization, and we are eager to plug our breakthrough cement production process into their global infrastructure, to scale our cement as a tool for fighting climate change among a rapidly closing window of opportunity. Read more about the collaboration here: https://lnkd.in/eXuJNP2A #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #cement #climatesolution #climatcechange #climatetech #sustainablebuilding #investment #collaboration
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Read up on how Isometric is building real trust in carbon markets with science and some serious rigor
Isometric was in Heatmap News last week, featured for creating "a rigorous, scientifically-driven standard for carbon removal credits, with the intention of becoming the benchmark that buyers, sellers, and other stakeholders can coalesce around." Read more about how Isometric's scientific rigor and incentive aligned business model—where buyers pay for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV)—set the Registry apart. https://lnkd.in/ewt5QAbu
The Climate Tech Startup Betting Against Greenwashing
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We have a winner! Actually, nine winners. Congrats to Antora Energy, Arbor, Avalanche Energy, Charm Industrial, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Electra, Living Carbon, Nitricity, and Solugen for making SVB's and Congruent Venture's 50 by 2050 Pioneers in Carbon Reduction list. https://lnkd.in/ejvDezRm
50 by 2050 | Silicon Valley Bank and Congruent Ventures
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