Tim De Chant

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What’s getting funded in climate tech: Managing ESG data, supplying fusion startups and removing carbon

Despite hints of a slowdown, investors still appear to be enamored with the climate tech world. Just ask those of us who...
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Collaborative Fund and the Wyss Institute partner to bridge the climate tech ‘valley of death’

For pretty much every startup, there’s a perilous period that occurs after things are up and running but the money isn’t...
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Executives say they’re committed to ESG, but data shows otherwise

Over the past several years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives took the business world by storm. Th...
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From seed to Series A in 7 months: Why and how Odyssey Energy Solutions moved quickly

Want a sneak peek at the electrical grid of the future? Don’t look to the U.S., Europe or China. Instead, head to Nigeri...
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Quilt raises $9M seed round to become the Nest of heat pumps

Last year, Americans bought more heat pumps than gas furnaces, a striking split that’s likely to widen in the coming yea...
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Despite a rocky start, climate tech is in a good position to tackle the rest of 2023

Last year, climate tech seemed to be invincible while the venture capital and startup worlds were fretting about a downt...
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Bend is taking on Brex and Ramp with a green twist and a $2.5M seed round

When the SEC announced that it planned to require companies under its purview to disclose their climate-related risks an...
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Former NBA star Rick Fox’s startup gets $10M pre-seed for concrete that removes CO2

No doubt that Rick Fox has had plenty of emotional moments in his life. There was the birth of his children, of course, ...
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Without a single euro changing hands, Irish nonprofit is helping to reinvent the grid

Every day, strong gusts off the North Atlantic buffet hundreds of wind farms in Ireland, generating so much energy that ...
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How much does your company pollute? CarbonChain gets $10M Series A to help answer that.

Everything you buy and every service you pay for pollutes. In the case of a coffee, it might be a little. In the case of...
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Why a fast-growing climate tech startup raised its second Series B in 13 months

Picture this: Fast-growing startup raises a high eight-figure round. Then, a year later, it decides to raise another. In...
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Climate tech VC firm closes $300M fund after LPs push for broader investment opportunities

Climate tech may have started the year with a down quarter, but don’t count it out just yet. Amid a backdrop of depressi...
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Noya pivots to embrace modular direct air capture, lands $11M Series A

Noya’s pitch a few years ago was pretty straightforward: lower the cost of capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ...
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What the new EPA tailpipe regulations mean for investors

If there was any question as to whether the Biden administration is serious about the electrification of the U.S. econom...
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NovoNutrients wants to turn CO2 into protein

We’ve spent the last century and a half pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and it’s clear that we’ll have to sp...
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Casper co-founders want to sell you another box. This time, it’s a battery.

A few years ago, mattress company Casper’s co-founders Philip Krim and Jeff Chapin were banging their heads agains...
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Climate tech tapped the brakes in Q1. Will the slowdown continue?

For the last two years, climate tech was on a tear. To be fair, so were a lot of other sectors. But when a slowdown hit ...
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Magnets and water net Magnotherm $6.9M seed round to kill hazardous refrigerants

A warming world is going to need a lot of cold drinks. Problem is, today’s refrigeration tech is anything but climate fr...
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Why startups should care about geopolitical repercussions of US climate law

Pity Donald Trump. He spent four years in office tearing up trade agreements and ranting about rewriting old ones, all t...
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Fusion startup Type One Energy gets $29M seed round to fast-track its reactor designs

One fusion startup is betting that a 70-year-old idea can help it leapfrog the competition, so much so that it’s plannin...
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Forget banks: Investors should be worrying about the climate

The reports issued by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are usually grim affairs. But even by that st...
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Unearthly Materials claimed to have big-name investors, but they weren’t all on board

Ever since they were discovered over 100 years ago, superconductors have seemed a bit magical. You might have seen one o...
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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

Climate change is a problem important and pressing enough that investors have begun to grasp the opportunities that aris...
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Divert bags $100M growth equity, $1B financing to tackle grocery store food waste

Every year, about 35% of the food supply in the U.S. is wasted. About half of that’s because of picky eaters or outsize ...
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Why so many gigafactories? It’s not just EVs driving demand

The current battery boom might feel familiar to those who lived through the clean tech bubble that burst a decade ago, w...
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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors ...
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Tesla opening its Superchargers to all EVs might be a masterstroke — or a terrible mistake

After a decade of keeping its North American charging network closed to outsiders, Tesla appears poised to allow other e...
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Want to buy an EV or heat pump? New coin will help you defray the costs

Buy an electric car. Invest in a heat pump. Install an induction stove. They’re all measures that people can take to red...
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Battery darling Our Next Energy lands massive $300M Series B to build gigafactory

Battery startup Our Next Energy announced this morning that it closed a massive $300 million Series B in an effort to ge...
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Toyota’s surprise executive shakeup may disappoint investors

Toyota’s president, Akio Toyoda, surprised the automotive world this week by announcing he would resign his position and...
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