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Swedish climate fintech startup Doconomy raises $36.9M in Series B funding co-led by UBS and CommerzVentures
Nickie Louise Posted On May 31, 2024


Doconomy, a Swedish climate-focused fintech startup, has raised €34 million ($36.9 million) in funding from leading European banks, including UBS and CommerzVentures, the venture arm of Commerzbank. The Series B financing round was co-led by UBS Next and CommerzVentures, with […]


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Technology in our lives: How Smartphones enhance the access to entertainment
Daniel Levi Posted On May 7, 2024


Cast your mind back to the 1960s and imagine a time when we didn’t carry around these amazing devices in our pockets. It would’ve been hard to imagine back then that we’d have access to virtually all the games imaginable, […]


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Novo Nordisk parent to invest $200 million in quantum computing startups
Nickie Louise Posted On May 1, 2024


In a move signaling a significant leap for life sciences, Novo Holdings, the parent company of Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, has announced a multi-million investment in quantum computing. Novo Holdings announced on Wednesday it planned to invest around $200 […]


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Robot delivery startup Starship Technologies raises $90 million to deliver groceries to your doorstep
Nickie Louise Posted On February 7, 2024


Estonian robot delivery startup Starship Technologies has successfully secured $90 million in funding, marking a significant achievement after the company surpassed 11 million miles and completed over six million autonomous deliveries worldwide. The investment round was co-led by existing backers […]


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Former Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer launches Gigascale Capital, a VC firm that invests in climate-focused startups
Nickie Louise Posted On May 2, 2023


Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time. From drought and extreme weather events to rising sea levels that heighten the possibility of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and cannot […]


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Self-driving tech startup Venti raises $28.8 million in funding to accelerate growth
Nickie Louise Posted On March 28, 2023


While all eyes are on artificial intelligence, self-driving tech startups are quietly making moves and the space is booming as investors pour billions of dollars into autonomous startups. The latest is self-driving startup Venti Technologies which recently raised millions to […]


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Swedish sustainable battery startup Northvolt in talks to raise over $5 billion in funding
Nickie Louise Posted On March 27, 2023


In late 2019, we wrote Northvolt after the maker of electric vehicle batteries received a €5.8 million investment from EIT InnoEnergy to support its goal of using 50% recycled materials in all its new battery cells by 2030. Fast forward […]


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Neutral Foods gets $12M from Bill Gates, Cuban, and LeBron James to produce milk that fights climate change
Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2022


As the battle against climate change rages on, people are now turning to alternative foods to save the planet. According to a recent study conducted by Ipsos Retail Performance, there has been a 300% increase in veganism in the United States alone. […]


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E-scooter use surges in Europe as a growing number of new riders ditch cars for e-bikes and scooters
Daniel Levi Posted On July 14, 2022


Transportation emits more carbon pollution than any other sector of the U.S. economy, making up about 29% of emissions, according to the US Department of Energy. But the US is not alone. Europe is also experiencing carbon emissions from millions […]


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Longtime Tesla autopilot and AI leader Andrej Karpathy resigns from the company
Nickie Louise Posted On July 14, 2022


It’s not been a good week for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. His week started out with a lawsuit from Twitter asking the billionaire to consummate the $44 billion merger agreement. Then yesterday, longtime Tesla Autopilot Executive Andrej Karpathy announced on […]


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Coal is back from the dead as Europe’s coal import in first half rose by 35% from year earlier
Daniel Levi Posted On July 5, 2022


For many years, the European Union (EU) has been calling on other nations to reduce their carbon emissions. Now, the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has exposed EU energy vulnerability and its reliance on Russian energy as Moscow tightens the […]


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London’s green tech startup Circulor raises $25M to tackle corporate greenwashing and provide sustainable supply chain traceability using blockchain and AI
Nickie Louise Posted On June 28, 2022


Last month, we wrote a piece about corporate greenwashing and how net-zero is next-level greenwashing without supply chain emissions. For many years, governments and organizations around the world promised to do their fair share to reduce Co2 emissions destroying our planet. […]


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Foundation for Climate Restoration launches solution series to explore carbon dioxide removal methods for restoration of climate
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2022


The impacts of climate change are global in scope, unprecedented in scale, and can no longer be denied. We can see the impacts of climate change all around us. Some of the major impacts include increased heat, drought, insect outbreaks, […]


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President Biden finally acknowledges Tesla as the “nation’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer”
Nickie Louise Posted On February 8, 2022


Last week, we wrote about Tesla after Elon Musk’s tweet went viral in Times Square. The ad was paid for by some of Musk’s fans. It all started in May 2021 when President Joe Biden visited the Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan plant to […]


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Chinese electric vehicles lose a third of their value after their first year, new survey shows
Daniel Levi Posted On January 31, 2022


China is the largest EV market in the world, accounting for 57% of the global market as of April 2020 and 12 percent of all new electric vehicle sales in 2021. In addition to Tesla, China’s local electric car market is […]


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California’s $100 Billion High-Speed Rail Boondoggle Project: How California’s High-Speed Rail Went From a $33 Billion Project to Become the Single Largest Public Infrastructure Disaster in U.S. History
Daniel Levi Posted On January 21, 2022


With all the talk about using electric cars to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, one mode of transportation that has received less coverage is high-speed rail. Many transportation experts agree that high-speed rail is a better environmental alternative than automobile or even air […]


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Lordstown Motors, an EV startup under SEC investigation for an alleged 100,000 in fake preorders, reportedly sold its Ohio plant to Taiwan-based Foxconn
Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021


Foxconn Technology Group (Foxconn), a Taiwan-based company and the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is nearing a deal to buy the electric truck startup Lordstown Motors’ Ohio plant, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The […]


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AI navigation tech startup Phiar lands ex-Google executive as CEO; raises $12 million in new funding
Daniel Levi Posted On September 27, 2021


Phiar (pronounced “fire”), an AI navigation startup that is on a mission to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, announced today that Google’s head of Android automotive platforms Gene Karshenboym has joined the company as the new CEO. Phiar’s co-founder and […]


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California-based energy tech startup EnerVenue raises $100M Series A to bring metal-hydrogen batteries to the clean energy revolution
Nickie Louise Posted On September 15, 2021


Renewable energy generation is expected to account for more than half the world’s power supply by 2035, rising to 75% by the middle of the century. Over the years, the cost of lithium-ion batteries has decreased quickly and markedly, enabling […]


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Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital raises $800 million to lower the carbon footprint and fight climate change
Nickie Louise Posted On August 13, 2021


The impacts of climate change are global in scope, unprecedented in scale, and can no longer be denied. We can see the impacts of climate change all around. Some of the major impacts include increased heat, drought, insect outbreaks, increased […]


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