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🌱 Seed Round Announcement from florrent! 🔊 We are very excited to share that florrent has secured $3.6M in Seed funding, led by MassVentures, in addition to over $650K in recent grant awards, to advance our mission of revolutionizing supercapacitor technology while building an economically sustainable business that innovates for the well-being of people and the planet. 🌎 Our success is fueled by the support of an incredible group of Seed investors, including Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, MassMutual Catalyst Fund, Boston Impact Initiative, Maroon Venture Partners Fund, Collaborative Fund, Elbezius, and The Sky Foundation. We’re also thankful to have non-dilutive grant funding from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Activate, and others to be announced. This funding will help us scale our activated carbon production facilities in Western Massachusetts, expand our team, and invest in essential capital expenditures. Over the next 24 months, we plan to complete customer proof-of-concept testing with our cylindrical cell and module products and further validate our innovation’s techno-economics with customers ready for commercial offtake in high-volume markets. We’re excited about the journey ahead and grateful to our ecosystem of investors, advisors, and partners for making it possible. To read the full press release, follow the link below: https://lnkd.in/etcFqyW5 #SeedFunding #Innovation #Sustainability #Deeptech #florrent #CleanEnergy #EnergyJustice #ThroughPowerWeEmpower

Furbnow is an end-to-end home energy efficiency platform – helping every home get to net zero, without the hassle. The climate-tech company is backed by SFC Capital , Norrseken Accelerator (https://lnkd.in/eMV7Dpb2) and CTO of Quadrature, Daniel Luhde-Thompson. They are joining existing investors, @Nesta and Founders Factory Factory. A UK climate-tech start-up, Furbnow is on a mission to tackle home decarbonisation at scale. On 11 Jan 2024 they announced a £950k pre-seed investment to bring to market its revolutionary end-to-end home decarbonisation platform to get more homes to Net Zero, without the hassle. The investment comes as Furbnow plans a trial with Birmingham City Council’s Route to Net Zero team in early 2024 to improve the energy efficiency of those households ineligible for grant funding. Furbnow plans to decarbonise one million homes by 2030! #proptech #proptechnews #proptechstartup

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🚀 We’re thrilled to have Shawn Garvey, a serial entrepreneur and environmental activist, moderating our webinar, "Securing Capital and Advanced Financial Management." 🗓 July 25, 11am-12pm PT 🔗 Register: bit.ly/ConNEXWorkshop Shawn is the founder of Momentum (BuildMomentum.io), FuSE, and Momentum X Ventures, driving clean energy innovation. His career includes founding The Sierra Fund, successful legislation for Sierra Nevada, and more. Don't miss his insights on capital and financial management in the clean energy sector. #ConNEX #FinancialManagement #StartupGrowth #CleanEnergy

🌍 We at Monta have gotten an 80M EUR #SeriesB funding round! 🚀 A massive thank you to Energize Capital, GreenPoint Partners, Eifo, Quantum Light, Creandum, byFounders, AENU, and Headline. Our formula for success? Expanding across new markets (with 2 new offices opened in Barcelona & Paris), earning #ISO27001 and B-Corp certifications, and of course, our award-winning proactive technology designed to create a seamless charging experience for everyone. 🤯 📈 The proof is in the numbers: a 6X surge in growth, almost 1 million monthly charging sessions, and 1,000 #EV drivers joining daily. Our strategy last year centered around #CPOs, #OEMs, fleets, and utilities, with strong ties to leaders like Norlys, #Siemens, Uno-X, EGG, Rolec and more. Strap in, it’s going to be another great year! 🚀 #MontaSeriesB Check out our Bloomberg feature: https://lnkd.in/d4_59Ux5

#FundingWithYS💰 💼 Company: AltMobility 💰 Funding: $6 million 👥 Investors: Shell Ventures, Eurazeo, Ev2 Ventures, Twynam Key Highlights - 💰 #ALTMobility plans to utilize the capital to hire an engineering team for its electric vehicle (EV) asset management platform, #FleetOS. 💰 Additionally, the #funds will be used to launch new #fleet verticals, including drive-to-own, parametric insurance, fleet depots, and a recycling unit. Founded in 2021, Alt Mobility is a full-stack electric fleet leasing platform that enables rapid #EV fleet adoption through asset management. The platform strives to offer a hassle-free experience, low total cost of ownership, and maximum fleet uptime, resulting in business certainty and predictability. #funding | Anuj Gupta Dev Arora Harsh Dev Goyal Manas Arora 🔗 Read more on the link in our comments section 👇

There's a lot that's happened this week so here's a round up of tech, fintech and energy stories to read this weekend. Stories will be linked in the comments below. Here's some blurbs for ya: 1. Got to sit down and talk with Shep Ogden, one of the founders of Interlock Studios and creators of Offbeat Media Group. Ogden explained the ideas behind Interlock and how he and Bailey Grady learned from their experience with Offbeat to form this latest business venture. Interlock is backed by both Mark Cuban and Atlanta Ventures. 2. Atlanta-based Fintech company Relay Payments just released a new product for the trucking industry. Spencer Barkoff and I got to talk about the company's plans for growth and how the company is modernizing payments for this critical industry. 3. Sunmax Tech, a solar components manufacturer that supplies Tesla and Hanwha, the parent company of QCells, which has plants in North Georgia is opening a manufacturing base in Adairsville, Georgia. 4. Belgium chemical company Syensqo broke ground on a battery component manufacturing plant in Augusta, Georgia, bringing another part of the EV supply chain to the state. 5. Southern Company is partnering with San Francisco software provider WeaveGrid to simplify electric vehicle home charging through programs with Alabama Power Company and Georgia Power Company. The goal of the program is to provide participants access to incentives but also help reduce stress on the electric grid during peak demand times while charing EVs at home.

This week's weekly roundup highlights investments surpassing $175 million, involving notable firms such as Soly, Tandem PV, Taylor, Eatron Technologies, and INERATEC . Investors include: ArcTern Ventures, Fifth Wall, Shell Ventures, Pension fund ABP, Planetary Technologies, Uncorrelated Ventures, Tom Werner, Rubio Impact Ventures, Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), LG Technology Ventures, MMC Ventures, 100th Year Venture Capital, Türkiye Development Fund (TDF), Piva Capital, HG Ventures, TDK Ventures, Copec WIND Ventures, RockCreek, Emerald, Samsung Ventures, ENGIE New Ventures, SAFRAN CORPORATE VENTURES, Honda, Planet A Ventures, MPC, HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds and FO Holding. Find out more about these and future sustainable investments by subscribing. https://bit.ly/4938eyg #sustainableinvestment #EndowCapital #solarenergy #renewableenergy #investmentnews  #greenenergy

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