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Mitigating the effects of climate change and pollution is a global problem, but it’s one that requires local solutions. While that seems like common sense, most communities around the world…

Investors including Microsoft’s climate fund back hyperlocal environmental monitoring tech developer Aclima

Aclima, a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow…

Aclima sucks in $24M to scale its air quality mapping platform

Oakland-based venture capital firm Better Ventures recently closed its second fund at $21 million according to cofounder and managing director Wes Selke. The firm was originally founded as an accelerator called…

Better Ventures closes $21 million fund to back the next Tesla or Patagonia