No matter where you live, you are paying attention to our changing climate. Stronger storms, more frequent heat waves, cold snaps, and ever-more extreme wet-and-dry cycles paint the news with the image of a wounded planet in flux. That’s the bad news. The good news is that a mountain of venture capital, and a wave of startups, are piling into the climate tech space all hoping to make a difference — and a dollar.
But don’t take our word for it. Investors are starting to realize that the climate is changing so quickly that companies founded to work on the problem-space will become mature in time for a standard venture fund lifecycle. That is both encouraging, and not, but remains a fact regardless.
Keeping our chins up, where can we find work afoot that could truly help our global home? In a great host of places, thanks to TechCrunch+ keeping its ears open and its pens sharp. Here’s what we’ve focused on recently:
More climate tech venture capital is coming
TechCrunch broke the news that Congruent Ventures was raising a new fund. It turned out that that fund could have been much bigger. That’s great news for climate-focused investors who are looking to raise more capital.
The money flowing into battery tech
With companies like Inlyte Energy and Byterat raising money to improve how we store and release energy, there’s reason to hope for a more efficient future.
Why saving the trees is big business
Investors think that startups tackling deforestation are onto something, which could mean that those companies have found a way to prevent tree loss while also building a big business.
How the EV market may be helped by some surprising businesses
Where you refuel your car is not much of an issue if it uses a liquid fuel. But the infrastructure for charging EVs is still getting built. There’s good news coming from an unexpected source.
And if all that was not enough, we have a rundown of climate tech’s biggest hits and misses from all of 2023.
TechCrunch+ cares about what is next. And what could be more next than our collective future? We live aboard a single spaceship, flying through nothing while rotating around a massive explosion that lights our skies. We’d best take care of what we’ve got, because it’s not too likely that space travel is going to save us from ourselves. Not this time, at least.
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