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After three years of efforts, World Fund has finally closed a €300 million first fund, €50 million short of its target in 2021, but still a considerable number given a…

World Fund closes first €300M climate tech fund, seeking to follow on and back hardware

Planet A Foods uses fermentation technology to turn all-natural, locally-sourced ingredients, for example, oats and sunflower seeds, into its cocoa-free chocolate brand, ChoViva.

Planet A Foods whips up more capital to take its cocoa-free chocolate global

The new capital will go toward building a pilot brewery in Amsterdam so that Farmless can develop its first products to replace meat, dairy and eggs.

New capital infusion puts Farmless on path to first alternative protein products

Now with the Netherlands factory online, Enough is ramping up to produce over a tonne of Abunda every hour and around 10,000 metric tonnes per year. 

Mycoprotein producer Enough raises €40M toward doubling its production capacity

In 2024, a number of new EU regulations are expected to come into force, which will tighten the obligation of electric vehicle manufacturers and resellers to recycle batteries at the…

Battery recycling startup Cylib recharges its coffers to go faster

To help electric planes take off, German battery company Customcells says it landed about $63 million (€60 million) in Series A funding from Porsche and several climate-tech investors. World Fund,…

Porsche, World Fund join $63M bet on batteries for electric planes

According to BCG global assets under management are around $100 trillion, but only $715 billion, or less than 1%, goes on what you might term “impact” companies or projects to…

Klarna founder to launch new ‘Nobel Prize for Impact’

World Fund, a newcomer in climate-VC land, is taking the lead in a $128 million round for IQM, with hopes the Finnish quantum computing company will one day deliver carbon…

World Fund joins $128M bet that quantum can deliver climate breakthroughs

Given the dire predictions about the impending (and basically already here) climate crisis, the world can’t get enough climate tech funds right to power new innovation that can address the…

Kiko Ventures joins the climate tech investment stampede with a $450m Evergreen fund

For years grocery retailers have been using data driven forecasting to help them predict demand to figure out which products to reorder to keep shelves stocked. That’s nothing new. But…

Freshflow is helping grocery retailers fight food waste

Convincing meat eaters to adopt a climate-friendly diet might get a little easier thanks to Slovenian startup Juicy Marbles, which has come up with a way to create plant-based whole…

Juicy Marbles gets $4.5M to sizzle up plant-based steaks

You might have previously thought that Ecosia was a nice-to-have search engine that planted trees when you punched-in a search term. Lovely. How nice. But no. Ecosia’s founders and the…

World Fund is a new €350M climate VC fund incubated by green search engine Ecosia