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Australian Women in Climate Tech? Count Her In.

Regardless of next year’s International Women’s Day theme, we know that this message will need to be repeated.
Industry

Investor Updates - Tips and Tricks

A few thoughts on investor updates
Events

Aussie Climate Tech in San Francisco

14 climate tech companies went to Verge in SF for a San Francisco Trade Mission alongside Climate Salad and the Queensland Government
Industry

Pitching Tomorrow’s Solutions Today: How Climate Techs Can Communicate Impact To Investors And Customers

How do climate techs communicate impact in a way that resonates in the short-term without diminishing the long-term objectives and outcomes of their product or service?
Industry

Climate and Capital: Four Considerations for Climate Tech Founders Looking to Secure Investment

With a tight funding environment and a growing number of climate techs looking for funding, founders often need to differentiate themselves and demonstrate a compelling impact and commercial proposition to secure investment. So what does it take to prepare?
Companies

Global Growth Program Cohort 1 Announced

Meet the first-ever cohort of companies we're helping to expand internationally. It's an incredible list of companies.
Industry

Understanding finance for startups with KPMG High Growth Ventures

If you don't have a finance background, it can be hard to understand what your finance function should look like as your startup grows.
Industry

R&D tax, grants and opportunities with KPMG

Government grants and tax incentives are a valuable source of non-dilutive funding for founders, particularly as capital markets have tightened.

News

Market downturn is starting to infect climate tech

Dealmaking fell three straight quarters to pandemic levels.

April 5, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
'Big oil' bankrolls more climate VC deals, a dilemma for founders

The flow of fossil fuel dollars into climate-tech VC deals jumped in recent years—but accepting checks from "big oil" isn't a straightforward proposition for some green startup founders.

April 5, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Rich Lister’s $100m investment in ‘huge commercial opportunity’

Rich Lister and philanthropist Alan Schwartz will on Wednesday commit $100 million to investments in carbon reduction initiatives, with millions more to advocate for policy and regulatory change, and insists the money is far from charity.

April 5, 2023
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Giant Leap for climate tech despite economic slowdown

Bucking economic headwinds, the climate crisis is a key driver of growth in Australian startups, a benchmark report shows.

April 5, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Hub71 and Investible’s Partnership Opens Doors for ClimateTech Startups

Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global tech ecosystem, has found a new ally to help startups gain access to capital, with its recent partnership with Investible, the Asia-Pacific based venture capital firm.

April 5, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
US regulators say SVB customers will be made whole as second bank fails

In an extraordinary action to restore confidence in America's banking system, the Biden administration on Sunday guaranteed that customers of the failed Silicon Valley Bank will have access to all their money starting Monday

April 5, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate agrifoodtech bucks global funding decline as sector brings in $29.6bn in 2022

Funding to foodtech and agtech (agrifoodtech) startups reached $29.6 billion in 2022, down 44% year-over-year (YoY), according to a new report from food, agriculture, and climate-tech venture capital firm AgFunder, in collaboration with global ecosystem partner Temasek.

March 22, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Mike Cannon-Brookes backs new battery investment fund through his family VC Grok

Atlassian cofounder and renewables advocate Mike Cannon-Brookes has backed a new fund to finance grid-scale battery projects via his family fund, Grok Ventures.

March 22, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Six Australian startups that landed $178 million this week

It’s been a spicy week for raises this week with a whopping $178 million being split across six startups, with the largest sitting at $105 million on its own.

March 22, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Climate change agtech startup Loam raises $105 million Series B

Decarbonisation startup Loam, which uses microbes to sequester carbon in farm soils, has raised $105 million in a Series B.

February 21, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Planet A Ventures comes out of the door with a €160M European, science-backed climate fund

These days climate investing is hot — if you will pardon the awful pun — but the days of just raising a fund and calling it “climate focused” are well and truly over.

February 21, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Osher Gunsberg tips cash into mushroom start-up

Mushroom protein player Fable has roped in celebrity backers in its push to dive deeper into the US, UK and Asian markets, with Australian media personality Osher Gunsberg investing in the company’s latest funding round.

February 21, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Energy Transition Investment Trends

Global investment in the low-carbon energy transition totaled $1.1 trillion in 2022 – a new record and a huge acceleration from the year before – as the energy crisis and policy action drove faster deployment of clean energy technologies.

February 21, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
“Climate Tech Is The Fastest Growing Investment Vertical” Says Crowdfunding Platform Seedrs

2022 was a significant year for clean tech investment growth on the platform with clean energy growth outperforming all other sectors with 40% more investors moving into the space in 2022 than the year before.

February 21, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Gates, Forrest back Perth’s cow methane-buster start-up

Climate change crusader and outspoken cattle industry critic Bill Gates has thrown his support behind an Australian start-up that has developed technology to slash methane emissions from beef and dairy industries.

February 21, 2023
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Olivia Utharntharm
Up founder backs climate investing app

The founders of Envato and neobank Up have backed Brisbane-based fintech Bloom Impact Investing, as the investing app surpassed $1.6 million in funds under management and 200 customers.

February 6, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
Breakthrough solar panel startup SunDrive teams up with Sydney University on $2.78 million research project

A University of Sydney Professor developing cutting edge solar technology has received $2.78 million in research funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to commercial the idea in a partnership with Sydney startup SunDrive.

February 6, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
'Ray of hope’: Climate action professionals share why 2022 was an optimistic year

As we look back at 2022, it’s not all doom and gloom when it comes to climate action. Progress has been made on a number of fronts, with the growth in renewable energy leading the charge - in the EU, solar power soared by almost 50 per cent this year.

February 6, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm
12 Predictions For Venture Capital In 2023

Some people are calling 2022 the year the party ended. Others are calling it the hangover, or even the new normal. What we can all agree on is that 2022 was a year of reckoning for the venture capital (VC) industry.

February 6, 2023
Found by:
Olivia Utharntharm