Tim De Chant

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SiTration uses silicon wafers to reclaim critical minerals from mining waste

The startup is hoping its durable filters can make metals refining and battery recycling more efficient, too. © 2024 Tec...
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‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen

The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserv...
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Mill’s redesigned food waste bin really is faster and quieter than before

The design brief was simple: each grind and dry cycle had to be completed before breakfast. Here's how Mill made it happ...
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How Clean Energy Ventures avoided the pandemic bubble and raised a $305M fund

When other firms were investing and raising eye-popping sums, Clean Energy Ventures took a different approach. It appear...
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Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales

Small operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change. © 202...
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Ore Energy emerges from stealth to build utility-scale batteries that last days, not hours

Where Aytac Yilmaz lives in the Netherlands, the sun might not appear for days on end, which can really crimp the output...
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Bill Gates-backed wind startup AirLoom is raising $12M, filings reveal

The company is hoping to produce electricity at $13 per megawatt hour, which would be more than 50% cheaper than traditi...
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Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells

Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But l...
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Porsche invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performance

All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batte...
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ETF Partners raises €284M for climate startups that will be effective quickly—not 20 years down the road

The European venture capital firm raised its fourth fund as fund as climate tech "comes of age." © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...
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Forget EVs: Why Bedrock Materials is targeting gas-powered cars for its first sodium-ion batteries

Bedrock Materials is developing a new type of sodium-ion battery, which promises to be dramatically cheaper than lithium...
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Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers

Charging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwe...
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Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team

Here's what one insider said happened in the days leading up to the layoffs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
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Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste

The startup's fungi use their mycelium to consume oil-based rubbers and plastics, creating new bio-based materials in th...
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How to choose a deep tech startup program

Deep tech founders often had to go it alone. But today, there are a wealth of options from incubators to accelerators. H...
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Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s Builders Vision puts S2G on a path to independence

The Walmart heir, worth $28 billion, is bringing on new limited partners to expand S2G's investment reach. © 2024 TechCr...
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The ‘valley of death’ for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up

It's easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It's much harder once they need money to scale. ...
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Texture makes a bid to become the world’s go-to platform of the energy transition

The startup, founded by an Arcadia alumnus, seeks to become a common data collection and sharing platform for renewable ...
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General Galactic emerges from stealth to make methane from carbon dioxide

The stealthy new startup hopes a fully integrated approach, from direct air capture to electrolysis and methane generati...
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Building owners are often in the dark about their carbon pollution. A new algorithm could shed light on it

Nzero developed a new algorithm that helps building owners estimate their carbon pollution down to the hour. © 2024 Tech...
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Magnus Metal wants to revamp the 4,000-year-old way metal parts are made

The startup is developing a technology it claims is as fast and energy efficient as 3D printing at a cost that can compe...
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Trellis Climate aims to bridge the ‘commercial valley of death’ for climate tech

Climate nonprofit Prime Coalition is hoping to bridge the valley with a new program, Trellis Climate. © 2024 TechCrunch....
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How Found Energy went from ‘self-cannibalizing robots’ to cleaning up heavy industry

The startup is decarbonizing heavy industry using aluminum as a fuel, an approach inspired by a future mission to Europa...
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Bay Bridge Ventures is raising $200M for a new climate fund, filings show

Bay Bridge Ventures' fundraising efforts come at a time when venture investors appear to be increasingly bullish on clim...
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SOSV founder says climate investing is a ‘war effort’ as firm closes $306M fund

SOSV’s new fund makes it one of the largest pools of deep tech venture capital to be raised in recent years. © 2024 Tech...
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Quilt rides heat pump heat wave with hefty $33M Series A

Quilt promises its heat pump will be a sleeker design that can be installed in more places around a room than competitor...
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Kode Labs makes a bid to become the Salesforce of commercial building automation

Kode's platform allows customers to do everything from control HVAC and lighting, monitor energy use, track carbon emiss...
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CleanFiber wants to turn millions of tons of cardboard boxes into insulation

The startup has raised $28 million to help fund a nationwide expansion of its cardboard-based cellulose building insulat...
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Voltpost wants to bring curbside charging to a lamppost near you

The New York City-based startup has been working on a product that retrofits existing street lampposts to enable EV char...
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Tesla risks losing its lead without an inexpensive EV

Given flagging sales of the company’s existing product line, a mass-market electric vehicle would be a welcome shot in t...
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