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📣 It was a pleasure to talk with VCwire.tech about Kiko Ventures and the opportunity in cleantech generally.    🚀 From how I started in sustainability, to some of the awesome portfolio companies that Kiko Ventures is privileged to back - including Bramble Energy Limited; Oxa and Vytal | The reuse system - we covered a lot of ground!    Read the full article here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dMKkT_7N

💚 GOOD GREEN NEWS pt.2 - INVESTMENT 💰 - It doesn't get much better for us then ending the week with a double whammy of positive news about the climate industry (see our previous post for pt.1 of our news roundup). Investment is flowing and we can't wait to see what these awesome companies achieve. 💪 🌸 Unibloom have secured £650K pre-seed investment - congrats to Anna Sandgren and team. 🇪🇺 Zero Carbon Capital have closed their $20million fund to support pre-seed and seed climate tech companies across Europe. 💳 ekko, led by Oli Cook and Simon Toller, a climate-focused fintech startup, has raised $2.5 million in funding. 🚜 PeakBridge, an agri-food tech investment firm led by Erich Sieber, raised $187 million for its second growth fund. 💨 Caeli Wind GmbH, led by Heiko Alexander Bartels, a platform for analysing and marketing wind energy locations, has secured €11 million in growth capital. 👗 Giant Ventures is backing Syre to decarbonise the textile industry with a $100M round. 🔌 German climate technology startup Cloover raised $114 million in debt and equity during a seed funding round led by Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital. 💵 Clean Energy Ventures raised $305 million for its second fund, surpassing its $200 million target due to high demand. 🌱 Zero Carbon Capital, a London-based VC firm, has raised £20M to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage European companies focusing on scientific solutions for deep decarbonisation. 🚛 Green Angel Ventures has invested in Hubl Logistics Ltd, a leader in zero-emission temperature-controlled food distribution. #ClimateTech #ClimateChange #WorkonClimate #ClimateNews #Investment

Seaya Andromeda raises €300 million for Southern Europe's first article 9 Climate-Tech Fund Seaya, a Madrid-based investment firm, has successfully closed #Seaya Andromeda, the first Article 9 climate-tech fund in Southern Europe, at an impressive €300 million. This milestone marks a significant step in supporting impact-driven growth companies focused on energy transition, decarbonisation, sustainable food value chain, and circular economy. The fund has secured €300 million from prominent LPs, including Iberdrola, Nortia, Santander, BNP Paribas Group, Next Tech Fund, and Bpifrance. This addition brings Seaya’s total assets under management (AUM) to over €650 million, solidifying its position as the largest VC investor in Spain. Seaya was founded in 2013 by Beatriz Gonzalez, one of the few female founders of venture capital firms in Europe. With a strong background in private equity, Beatriz has been at the forefront of impact and climate-focused investments. Seaya’s new fund, Andromeda, is led by Investment Partners Pablo Pedrejonón and Carlos Fisch, who bring extensive experience in deep-tech climate ventures. Seaya Andromeda adheres to the stringent sustainability requirements of SFDR’s Article 9, ensuring that all investments have a positive impact on society or the environment. The fund focuses on four key verticals are energy transition, decarbonisation, sustainable food value chain and circular economy. With a commitment to investing between €7 to 40 million per company, Seaya Andromeda plans to make 25 investments by the end of 2027, including around five more deals this year. The fund has already made its first five investments, supporting innovative companies like Recycleye, an AI-driven robot for sorting recyclable waste, and 011h, a construction firm reducing CO2 emissions by 75%. The article on Tech.eu in the first comment. Want to stay up to date with the market? Here my newsletter: - Linkedin: https://lnkd.in/d4h8zqKA  - Substack: https://lnkd.in/dzfGJzmW

"There are so many components to a successful fundraising campaign and each one takes you away from actually building the business. Valuation defense is a big one and one that has a lasting impact on your business from initial funding through exit. So it’s not something to take lightly but many entrepreneurs tend to gloss over this and go into negotiations with a position based on feeling or where they want to end up rather than a realistic, data-driven number." We spoke to Benjamin Worley, CEO of Spiro Carbon Group, about his experience with fundraising for an innovative climate tech startup, and their mission to enable sustainable development across the agricultural supply chain. 🌱 Read more, in our latest customer case study: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/esTxep2B #Startups #Fundraising #ClimateTech

✳️🚨 Your top 5 pieces of green technology news this week + investment news ⬇️ 1️⃣ 📣 Swiss voters have backed a new law to promote renewable energy output in a referendum held on Sunday. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eyxGJhHY 2️⃣☀️ Groundbreaking research from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) shows that floating solar panels could meet the total electricity demands of some countries. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ecrg55pQ 3️⃣🐝 Pollination launched a $150 million venture fund aimed at supporting early-stage climate and nature solutions companies. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eAKPNX-K 4️⃣🚌 An independent ‘Council for Net Zero Transport’ has been set up to support the next UK Government in accelerating the decarbonisation of the transport sector.    🔗 https://lnkd.in/efhqPikX 5️⃣🗳️ Reducing support for green parties in the European elections has raised fears that the EU may end up weakening its climate ambitions. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/evGv5A3h - - - - - - ⏬ Companies announcing investment this week include ⏬ - - - - - - 💰 Sustainable aroma solutions company EvodiaBio secured €7 million from a syndicate of investors, including The March Group, Nordic Foodtech VC, PINC and Ananke. 💰 Aeropowder raised £150,000 from the British Design Fund for its feather-based circular alternative to plastic thermal packaging. 💰 Solar energy startup Samara raised €9 million from Green Generation Fund, Move Energy , Ring Capital and Athletico Ventures to support households in their energy transition. 💰 Nova Carbon landed €1.4 million for its technology that enables the recycling of carbon fibre. - - - - - - - - - ✳️ Follow me on LinkedIn for weekly #GreenTechNews and investment updates. Adopter (✅ B Corp) #GreenTech #CleanTech #ClimateTech Steve Thackeray 

Virescent Ventures, Australia’s leading climate tech venture capital firm established by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), boasts a specialist portfolio exceeding $260 million. The current portfolio reflects investments in diverse sectors, including clean energy, food and agriculture, circular economy, and mobility. #climatetech #climatetechaustralia #climateaction #climatechange #climateresilience #climateinnovation #climatesolutions #climatetechinvestment #climatetechinvesting #climatetechfunding

Why did Pensioenfonds ABP set up a venture capital structure to directly invest into start-ups and scale-ups in the energy transition, circularity, and biodiversity? Read all about it in the Net Zero Investor article by Thomas Helm. APG Asset Management #energytransition #venturecapital #startups #scaleups #circularity #biodiversity 🌍 ☀ 🌲 ♻ https://lnkd.in/ehYQ-pav

📰 Interesting read on why venture capitalists are increasingly investing in cutting-edge water technologies to address global water scarcity and drive industry change.

🌍✨ Exciting News in the World of Sustainable Investment! 🌱🚀 I am thrilled to share that SC Net Zero Ventures (SCZV), a venture capital fund managed by Suma Capital in strategic alliance with Repsol has successfully raised €125 million in its first investment closing. This remarkable achievement brings us closer to our target of €150 million, underscoring the immense confidence and support our investors have in our mission to accelerate the #energytransition. SCZV aims to channel this capital into the #ClimateTech sector, focusing on technologies that drive decarbonization and generate attractive financial returns. As Natalia Ruiz Saez, Managing Partner of SCZV, aptly stated, "The engagement of our investors not only strengthens the significant momentum we are experiencing in #innovation but also highlights the importance of sustainable initiatives to achieve climate neutrality by 2050." 💚🌍 Gema García González, Director of Repsol Corporate Venturing, highlighted the importance of quickly identifying and scaling these technologies. García also noted that Repsol's commitment to SCZV, along with their work through Repsol Deep Tech, significantly supports the entrepreneurial ecosystem, aiding the acceleration of decarbonization in #industry and #mobility. Repsol, the anchor investor, has contributed €50 million to the fund. This collaboration began in 2022 with the shared goal of fostering technologies that advance the industry's transformation and support the energy transition. Repsol's Corporate Venturing fund, Repsol Deep Tech, works alongside us to bolster the entrepreneurial ecosystem, accelerating #decarbonization in industry and mobility. 🌟🔋 SCZV is classified under Article 9 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, reflecting its commitment to sustainable investment objectives and environmental goals. We are poised to invest in growth-stage disruptive technologies across Europe and North America, targeting key challenges such as CO2 emissions reduction and waste revaluation. Our focus areas include low-carbon mobility, industrial decarbonization, and renewable energy sources. 🌞♻️🚗 To achieve these ambitious goals, Suma Capital has assembled a multidisciplinary team with extensive experience in venture capital, environmental impact investments, and technology development for the energy transition. Our approach is further strengthened by the support of an impact committee and a technology committee, comprising independent experts and scientists from the #RepsolTechLab. 🧑🔬🔬 Enrique Tombas, Chairman of Suma Capital, highlighted, "With this fund, which marks Suma Capital’s third investment approach alongside Growth Capital and Sustainable Infra, we seek to help companies advancing technologies for the green transition and circular economy. Our goal is to foster their growth and facilitate international expansion during the scale-up phase." 🌍💡🌿

...for stakeholders interested in supporting startups, “Help the very early startups take some risks and accept that the metrics for evaluation will be different.” This is among the numerous nuggets of entrepreneurial wisdom in this article which captures a great conversation with founders of climate start-ups.  Khalid Duri, Sebastian Nielsen,Juan Pfeiffer it was an honor talking with you.