It’s no secret that there’s a new normal in climate tech, where investment numbers, round sizes, and valuations are all down. In today’s environment, VC investors are becoming increasingly skeptical ...

We sat down with two of climate tech’s most recent fundraising standouts — Sophie Purdom of Planeteer and John Tough of Energize Capital — to find out what it really takes to raise a fund today, where ...

The DOE just pulled $3.7bn from 24 major clean energy projects — a reversal that threatens the US' industrial decarbonization. Here’s what got cut, and why it matters. In other news, Sophie’s newly ...

Climate tech has undergone a visible evolution over the past few years, transitioning from a phase of abundant funding for innovation to capital more focused on large-scale deployments that approach ...

Amidst the crypto crash and backdrop of the market downturn, venture capital funds broke a record - for the largest amount of capital raised ($151b) in any prior full-year, and the year’s not done yet ...

The market slowdown has officially hit climate land. 2022 funding was down 3% from the prior year as investors poured $40B+ into climate companies. But even a global slowdown isn’t slowing the rate of ...

What goes down must come back up? After the slowdown in climate tech investment for most of 2023, new data points to a potential proximate rev up: We’ve now seen a spike in climate-focused fund ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — the holiday season is here, and so is Sightline Climate’s new report, the 2024 Climate Capital Stack and Funds. This past year, the climate tech sector has ...

Pilot, check. Project team, check. You’ve been diligently making your way down the FOAK checklist. You’re ready to build. Up next: raising the eight to nine figures, yikes! FOAK finance is finicky, to ...

Happy birthday to the now two-year-old Inflation Reduction Act! Let’s hope it’s not totally terrible twos. Last week, two major hydrogen projects announced cancellations — indicating that the ...

🎉💸 TL;DR - After much encouragement from all of you, we’re expanding the newsletter into a market intelligence platform for the new climate economy! We’re excited to share that we raised $1.75M in ...

Hope you got to enjoy some fireworks and barbecues over this Fourth of July weekend. At CTVC, we were cooking up our report on H1’24 climate tech funding, and we’ve got some takeaways for you below.