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US located Carbon Equity, a platform for climate venture capital and private equity fund investments, successfully secured €6 million in Series A funding. The organization plans to utilize the capital to expedite its European expansion, strengthen its distribution networks, and lay the foundation for its inaugural ELTIF fund, which will be accessible starting from €25,000. Under the guidance of CEO Jacqueline van den Ende, Carbon Equity is a European investment platform dedicated to deploying capital from individual investors on a grand scale to address pressing challenges, beginning with the issue of climate change. Through facilitating easy entry to climate venture capital and growth equity funds, investors gain the opportunity to invest in diverse portfolios of climate technology companies, ranging from large-scale battery solutions to carbon-neutral cement initiatives. To know more, click-https://lnkd.in/dtdeAjwF #ClimateTechBuzz #ClimateTech #CarbonEquity #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity #SeriesAFunding #ClimateInvestment #EuropeanExpansion #DistributionNetworks

I keep having conversations about the funding gap in the Climate space. There's a lot of reliance on strategic investors and corporate venture arms to take the risk of a $20m+ round for a high capex scale-up. There are a few growth equity players getting active in the market - BeyondNetZero and Decarb Partners come to mind - but it sounds like we need more. Or do we just need more proven climate technologies to attract them? 🐔Chicken and egg 🥚 ? #climatetech #investment #privateequity

💡❔What type of #cleantech innovations excite Clean Growth Fund? Climate Action caught up with Beverley Gower-Jones, Managing Partner at Clean Growth Fund, to discuss what type of innovations excite this impact investor. In this article, you'll get tips for approaching investors and find out about the importance of quantifying your company's environmental impact. You'll also find out about the maximum ticket size and the stage of company Clean Growth Fund invests in. #ESG #climatetech Clean Growth Fund is on Innovate UK's Investor Partnership Programme, so getting a grant towards your investment is possible. Read the article: https://ow.ly/iXkx50PY3ZV

As a founding member of the #VentureClimateAlliance, we’re committed to supporting our portfolio companies in setting and achieving #netzero goals. On #COP28 Finance Day, we’re excited to share a first draft of what we’ve been working on. Download and weigh in here:  https://lnkd.in/g6w7msRt "Announcing the Draft Net Zero Aligned Venture Methodology Guided by leading climate-focused and generalist venture firms, the VCA has developed a draft net zero aligned methodology for venture capital investors and the rapidly-scaling early companies they back. The methodology defines a set of practical maturity-based climate actions that venture investors can support their portfolio companies in achieving over time."

💡 Explore our new AENU VC Market Update, offering key insights into Europe's VC deployment and ClimateTech investments in Q2 2023! 💸 According to The The Rockefeller Foundation, a mere 16% of the global climate financing needs are currently met. This underscores the pressing need for both a systematic shift towards #ImpactCapitalism and the mobilization of additional pools of capital for #ClimateTech investment. 🌏 ⚙️ Siobhan Brewster, Ferry Heilemann, Dr. Fabian Heilemann, Elena Harumi Stark  #marketupdate #vc #climatetech

This was the key point for me in the article: "Unlocking climate tech's significant commercial potential... will require a different approach from venture, growth and private equity managers, while institutional investors will have to assess risk differently to mainstream allocation strategies." Increasingly we are seeing a need for, at least, a modified model of PE to account for higher risk, longer hold times and more flexible deployment of funds. How are you adapting? #privateequity #climatetech #venturecapital

Climate tech has been a rare bright spot in an otherwise challenging market for fundraising, but unlocking the segment’s full commercial potential will require deep pockets and a different approach to risk. Includes insights from Energy Impact Partners Climate Investment (CI) SecondMuse Capital Unigestion BlueOrchard Finance Ltd World Fund Cambridge Associates #ClimateInvesting #ClimateTech #privateequity

In conjunction with PitchBook we’ve released the Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 2023 Climatetech Year in Review report, which review key investment trends in the clean energy and climate technology industry. Click below to check it out! Highlights: ✅ Global climatetech investment exceeded $25 billion for the third year in a row in 2023. ✅ Although buyouts still represent just a handful of climatetech exits, they have doubled in number since 2021, underscoring the growing interest from nontraditional players and shifting corporate strategies. ✅ A few large IPOs signal liquidity prospects may be rosier in climatetech than in other sectors. ✅ The manufacturing vertical, which showed resiliency amid the broader market challenges in 2022, remains a strong driver of sector activity. ✅ The oil and gas vertical grew 22.7%, boosted by expanding opportunities related to renewable fuels technologies. ✅ Median VC deal values and valuations remained steady or elevated at almost every maturity level, though venture growth stage deal size did decline. #climatetech #cleanenergy #energyinvestment

What are the implications of having so much capital in Climate Tech funds? First, it's an opportunity for climate tech founders to raise in the next two years. These funds will need to deploy, but that doesn't mean to contact just anyone. For founders - review the Fund's thesis and approach (hint: Active Impact Investments is excellent at describing what they will and won't invest in). Don't waste your time, or theirs, unless you know you're a fit. Second, it's an opportunity for founders to generate progress and momentum to attract investment. Third, it's an opportunity for co-investment. There are tremendous investors and funds on this list (shout out to Vancouver based Chrysalix Venture Capital) and those who didn't get profiled (see Innovobot Resonance Ventures), and the opportunity to share pipeline, investment, and post round support of ventures can lead to tremendous outcomes for investors and the planet. It's one of the reasons why Olivia, Graham, and I are excited to work with these investors via our Spring Impact Capital Fourth, it's an reminder/wake up call for LPs and institutional investors to support smaller and first time funds and fund managers. The market will need strong early stage support to get to all that capital on the later stage end of the VC spectrum, and first time fund managers are driven to prove themselves through hustle, pipeline, and post round support. Thanks to CTVC for this insightful report. #climatetech #cleantech #alternativeenergy #decarbonization #venturecapital #impactinvesting #climatefinance

🌏 Piling on the dry powder for climate Venture capital investment in climate tech may have dropped ~40% in the first half of this year amid the broader market slackening, but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the green. Here's the TL;DR on our latest dry powder analysis: 💰 There's $121B of total private climate assets under management (AUM) across 207 new VC, Corporate VC, Growth, Infra, and Private Equity funds since Jan 2021. 💸 Following some standard deployment assumptions, we expect that $30B from these VC and Growth / PE funds has been plowed into climate companies already. After excluding Infra funds ($34B) and removing management fees ($24B), that means there’s $33B of investable dry powder ready to deploy in climate. 📉 The number of new funds is slightly lower in 2023 YTD compared to 2021, and fund sizes are marginally smaller, with announced AUM down 69% compared to 2022 and 10% compared to 2021 (though we’ve still got Q4 to go). 💪 The majority of the capital is concentrated in mega-funds ($500M+), which account for just 19% of funds in 2023 by count but make up ~70% of total AUM. Read the full report 👇 https://lnkd.in/gjiHck_b #investing #climatetech #climatefinance #vcfunding