DTCF | DeepTech & Climate Fonds’ Post

🌟✨ Thrilled to announce that Lignopure has secured a whopping €2.4 million to fuel our sustainable innovations in the industries of cosmetics, food, and textiles! 🌿🌍  🌿 Lignopure, the innovative Hamburg-based startup founded in 2019 by Daniela Arango Ospina, Joana Gil Chavez, and Wienke Reynolds, has raised €2.4 million in a new financing round led by NBank Capital Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH. This significant investment will propel their mission to introduce sustainable lignin-based solutions to various industries, positively impacting the environment and human health. Key Highlights: ♻️ Upcycling lignin, a natural by-product from wood, grasses, and cereals, to create innovative materials for diverse industries. 🌱 Expanding the LignoBase product line, launched in 2023, which is already revolutionizing the cosmetics industry with its multifunctional, biobased ingredients. ⭐ Bringing sustainable lignin solutions to the food, textile, and other biobased materials industries, ensuring greener alternatives across multiple sectors. A huge shoutout to the incredible Lignopure team for their dedication and hard work! 🏆 ☘ Stay tuned for more updates as Lignopure continues to lead the way in sustainable innovation! 🍀 #Lignopure #SustainableInnovation #GreenTech #Lignin #BiobasedSolutions #CosmeticsIndustry #FoodIndustry #TextileIndustry #StartupSuccess #InvestmentNews

Cylib, our favorite German battery recycling startup, just bagged €55M in Series A funding! Impact/100 alumni cylib's mission is crucial as Europe faces a tidal wave of 2,100 kilotonnes of end-of-life batteries by 2040. Their approach? Be water, my friend. Cylib’s water-based process recovers every component in lithium-ion batteries—like lithium, cobalt, and graphite. It’s an eco-friendly, cost-effective game-changer that lets European manufacturers source these metals locally. Now, they’re gearing up to build their first large-scale facility and ramp up recycling capacity. Congrats cylib and team! 🌍🔋 Leading the round are World Fund and Porsche Ventures, with Bosch Ventures, DTCF | DeepTech & Climate Fonds, NRW.Ventures, and existing supporters Vsquared Ventures, Speedinvest, and 10x Founders joining in.

Last month, ÄIO officially launched operations at their newly established Pilot Plant. 🚀 This Pilot Plant is equipped with state-of-the-art technology, their facility boasts a 350L bioreactor dedicated to food-grade production. This advancement holds immense potential to revolutionize the realms of food, cosmetics, and chemicals. Jana, Indrek & Aneth from team Beamline visited ÄIO's office & lab! 🧪 Thanks for the invitation ÄIO people! We're always excited to see the newest features of our startups with our own eyes! 👀 ÄIO has been in Beamline's portfolio since 2022 when the startup was founded. ÄIO is producing future-shaping fats and oils from by-products (such as forestry residues and food industry side streams) to replace palm oil, coconut oil and animal fats with sustainable and healthier alternatives. ÄIO - keep rocking, 'cause the #future is yours! 🤩 #startupsuccess #labtechnology #cleantechstartup #investments #BeamlineAccelerator #greentech #foodtech #pilotplant

🌍🚀 We are thrilled to announce that ecoLocked has successfully closed a new funding round of €4M, led by Matterwave Ventures and Climentum Capital. 🎉 We are incredibly grateful for the continued trust and support from our existing investors Counteract, Startup Family Office, Sabancı Building Solutions, and VOYAGERS.io. Your unwavering belief in our mission drives us forward every day. 🙏 💚 This funding will accelerate our efforts to turn buildings into carbon sinks, scaling our innovative biochar-based solutions and enabling 1Gt carbon removal by 2040. Together, we are making strides towards a net-zero future - one concrete structure at a time! Please check our website to explore and order our first product 𝐞𝐋𝐌 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨, explore our 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, and learn more about 𝐮𝐩𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬. Thank you to our investors, advisors, partners, and the entire ecoLocked team for your dedication and hard work. Onwards and upwards! 🌱🏢💪 1.5° Ventures, Alliance for Low-Carbon Cement & Concrete, better ventures, Bundesverband der Deutschen Transportbetonindustrie e. V. (BTB), Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE), DGNB German Sustainable Building Council, European Biochar Industry Consortium (EBI), German Biochar e.V. (Fachverband Pflanzenkohle e.V.), RESPOND, remove, solid UNIT e.V., Startup Basecamp, Tech for Net Zero Andy Bonsall, Christian Olshausen, David Rowan, Doerte Hirschberg, Hamdi Hafizoglu, Ines Kolmsee, Jeff Katz, Dr. Julian Weisbrod, Lorenzo De Angeli, Martin Mittermeier, Martin Unger, Tobias Lechtenfeld, and many more. ➡️ Link to Press Release in the comments! #FundingAnnouncement #Sustainability #ClimateTech #ConstructionInnovation #CarbonRemoval #ecoLocked

We are thrilled to announce that we have received the STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play Global Innovation Award 2024 for our cooperation with cylib! 🎉 Our collaboration aims to establish a true circular economy by rethinking #battery design, production and #recycling from the ground up. Together, we are challenging the status quo and developing batteries that are sustainable from cradle to cradle. 🌍🔋 Key highlights of our partnership: • Holistic Processes: Designing manufacturing and recycling processes that prioritize sustainability. • Easy-to-Recycle: Integrating recyclable techniques and materials right from the development phase. • Sustainable Practices: Employing cylib’s water-based Lithium and Graphite recovery to significantly reduce environmental impact. • True Circular Economy: Ensuring recycled materials can be reused in the same applications, maintaining their value through their 1st and 2nd lifetimes. Our joint efforts prove that with innovation and collaboration, we can create a more sustainable future. 🚀🔋

Thrilled to Announce baCta’s €3.3M Pre-Seed Funding! 🧬 🚀 Today marks a massive step forward for baCta and our mission: decarbonize raw materials production to create sustainable abundance. We’ve secured €3.3 million in pre-seed funding, led by the amazing team at OVNI Capital, with participation from Kima Ventures, SHARPSTONE Capital, another.vc and esteemed business angels like Thibaud Elziere, members of the Hexa team, and Nicolas Morin-Forest, co-founder of Gourmey. 💰 🌳 Natural rubber is a critical raw material, found in countless products we use daily. It represents a $40 billion market and yet, half of the world’s supply relies on petrochemicals, and the other half depends on Hevea rubber trees, responsible for massive deforestation. The need for a sustainable, resilient alternative has never been more urgent. 🦠At baCta, we produce carbon-negative natural rubber using engineered micro-organisms and renewable feedstocks. We leverage a powerful synthetic organelles technology developed at INSERM, combined with mixotrophy and the latests advances in AI and lab automation to lift scientific barriers and unlock bioproduction potential 🧫 A heartfelt thank you to all the people that allowed us to reach that stage, investors, advisors and early believers: Ariel Lindner, Augustin Sayer, Thomas Renaudin, Pablo Ivan Nikel, Steffen Lindner, Dan Widmaier, Quentin Nickmans, Pierre-Yves van Haute, Amaury Sepulchre, Elyar ABIAR, Marion Carra, Eric Burdier, Mathieu Viallard, Nicolas Steegmann, Olivier Vaury, Joseph-Marie Valleix, Lucas Gaillard, Falk Haurenherm, Alexandre Govin, Matthieu Vaxelaire, Vincent Libis With this funding, we’re expanding our team of top-tier scientists (Marie Rouquette, PhD Selcuk Aslan Melchior du Lac Maximus May Tatyana Saleski Florian Covi Adam Westbrook) and scaling up our production capabilities. Our next milestone is to engineer a microbial strain capable of producing high-quality natural rubber at a pilot scale, paving the way for a pre-industrial demonstrator 🏭 Our ambitions won't stop at rubber: this is a first step in building a full platform, using microbes as programmable molecular factories to synthesise carbon-negative isoprenoids and providing inputs to industry worldwide 🌍 https://lnkd.in/eiU6fiSp

Today on #Polyestertime ( https://lnkd.in/dR45UwMB  ) you can read:   -#PET-Prices - #Trinseo has recently launched a #chemical-recycling demonstration plant in Rho, just outside Milan Italy  -Supply Disruption Drives US #PET-Resin-Prices High in June 2024 Amid High Demand -#Aimplas studies the quality of #recycled-plastics from #automotive-waste -#Samsara-Eco, an Australia environmental tech startup, has secured a substantial $65 million in funding to advance its #sustainable-polymer-resin solutions -Mixed Global Trends in #Paraxylene-Prices Amid Upward Pressure from Upstream Market -#CARBIOS and #Zhink-Group enter official discussions for long-term partnership to build #PET #biorecycling industrial capacities in China -#APK successfully scales #Newcycling® for #post-consumer-waste

🚀 Meet Odette Suitor, the driving force behind Grain Storage, a startup reshaping the landscape of grain storage solutions.  A sixth generation farmer and agri-business consultant, Odette has developed an on-farm grain storage solution that addresses the pressing needs of modern grain producers. Her solution, born out of a profound understanding of customer pain points, offers scalability, increased efficiency, and protection from pests and disease. "The longer the grain stays in the paddock, it loses quality, so we want it up as fast as we can," she explains. It's taken years to tirelessly refined the concept, crafting three prototypes to perfection. The grain storage system is capable of holding 500 tonnes. The most valuable feature is that it allows all the grain from the chaser bin to go directly into the storage, eliminating the need for trucks and increasing the harvest pace. Odette was part of a Pre Accelerator sprint and said of the program: "F2F programs provide a vital role for the ag industry and startups. I was supported to refine processes such as go-to-market strategy and pitch preparation, plus facilitated access to industry professionals, and useful resources for innovative technologies." We're on the hunt for startups 👀 with technology applications for the Grains Industry, so if that's you, book a call here: https://lnkd.in/dR-3FfHc or if you know someone, please tag them below! 📅 Applications close 28th April. This program is proudly supported by Grains Research and Development Corporation. #womeninag #ozag #australianag #aginnovation #ausag #agchatoz #agtechstartup 

The Clean Growth Fund Leeds Roadshow is less than 3 weeks away! We're looking forward to meeting innovative #climatetech startups across #leeds #yorkshire and #northengland. Some of those attending include: ⚗ Auxetec Limited a Deeptech #Advancedmaterials business commercialising 'auxetic' polymer technology ❇ BindEthics Ltd. producing Ecohesive, a non toxic, biodegradable glue alternative 💢 Eutechtics Decarbonising the #chemicalindustry through innovative #ecochemistry We have a few pitching spots left ▶ Apply at https://lnkd.in/e7kwdkrw The wider climate tech community can get their free 5-7pm networking drinks ticket here ▶ https://lnkd.in/e7kwdkrw Join us in driving investment, partnerships and collaboration in the region. Meet innovators, investors, local government, local industry, future partners and future customers. #netzero #greeneconomy #sustainability #decarbonisation #impactinvesting #climateinvesting

We are thrilled to announce the close of our $3M Seed raise led by ReGen Ventures with participation from Engine Ventures, Susquehanna Sustainable Investments, Understorey, Superorganism, and other incredible partners. Plants play a crucial role in our day-to-day lives, but today nearly 40% of assessed plant species are under threat of extinction. This reality strains our ecosystems, impacts climate stability, and threatens the availability of plant-based goods. New technologies are needed to ensure the survival of these natural resources and the access to plant products we depend upon. Discover more about our vision and the impact of this funding in this exclusive by Rebecca Szkutak for TechCrunch: https://lnkd.in/gBvQp7Gt #Biomanufacturing #PlantCellCulture #Sustainability #ClimateTech #Innovation #SeedFunding #EcosystemRestoration #PlantConservation #Entrepreneurship