At Net Zero Insights, we track real-time Climate Tech funding and investment trends, helping you stay ahead of market movements. Over the past two weeks, we’ve recorded 180+ funding rounds and the launch of 3 new climate-focused investment funds.
New Climate Tech Investment Funds
Here’s a look at new funds driving progress across water, energy, and climate-resilient solutions.
- US-based Breakwall Capital closed the first round of its Breakwall Energy Credit Partners Fund at $125M to provide senior secured direct lending across energy infrastructure, infrastructure services, and energy transition sectors.
- Switzerland-based Emerald closed the €60M first round of its Global Water Fund II to back technologies enhancing water resilience and addressing critical global water challenges.
- Brussels-based Endgame Capital closed an €8M first round of its Fund I to back near-market climate technologies that deliver cost-competitive, fast-to-deploy solutions with multi-megaton CO₂e reduction potential.
- Netherlands-based Rubio Impact Ventures secured over €70M in pledges for its third fund to invest in impact-driven companies tackling climate change and social inequality across sectors like energy, nutrition, education, and mental health.
- Netherlands-based Forbion closed its Forbion BioEconomy Fund I at an oversubscribed €200M hard cap to back biotech-driven innovations across food, agriculture, materials, and environmental technologies that deliver scalable, cost-competitive, and high-impact sustainability solutions.
- Africa-focused Novastar Ventures secured a $40M anchor commitment from the Green Climate Fund for its $200M Africa People & Planet Fund III to invest in climate-resilience, clean tech, and natural-resource solutions across Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Egypt.
Top Climate Tech Funding Rounds
The past two weeks saw major funding flow into robotics, aquaculture, alternative proteins, and many more.
- 🛩️Austin, TX-based Infravision closed a $91M Series B round from GIC, Activate Capital, Hitachi Ventures, and others to accelerate the global deployment of its aerial robotics system for faster, safer, and more cost-effective power infrastructure.
- 🚴Paris, France-based Upway closed a $60M Series C round from A.P. Moller Holding, Galvanize, Ora Global, and others to scale its platform for professionally refurbished e-bikes by expanding its industrial and digital capabilities and rolling out new services
- 🧬San Francisco, CA-based The EVERY Company closed a $55M Series D round from McWin Capital Partners (through the McWin Food Tech Fund), Main Sequence, Bloom8, and others to expand manufacturing capacity and scale its precision-fermentation platform for producing highly functional egg proteins for the $270B egg market.
- ⚛️Sweden, Stockholm-based Blykalla closed a $38M round from Oklo and others to fuel its mini-reactor ambitions and advance its small nuclear reactor technology.
- 🐟Iceland, Kópavogur-based First Water closed a $27M round from three Icelandic pension funds and other new and existing shareholders to advance its sustainable land-based salmon farming operations.
- 🏢Koeln-based empact GmbH raised $116M in a Series A round from Sustainable Development Capital, LLP (SDCL) LLP, the Strüngmann family office, Dietmar Hopp’s family office, and others to scale its green energy concepts for buildings and districts.
- 🚤California-based Saildrone raised $50M from Lockheed Martin in a strategic investment to integrate lethal defense systems onto its unmanned surface vessels.
- 🌤️Israel-based Stardust Solutions raised $60M in an early VC round from Lowercarbon Capital and a coalition of investors to advance research and testing of its sun-reflecting atmospheric technology aimed at mitigating global temperature rise.
- 🛵São Paulo–based Vammo closed a $45M in a Series B round from Ecosystem Integrity Fund, 2150, Qualcomm Ventures, and others to scale its electric motorcycles and expand its battery-swapping infrastructure.
- ✈️Hampshire-based i6 Group raised $20M in a Series B round from Yttrium, World Kinect, Shell Ventures, and others to scale its cloud-based digital fuel management platform for airports and airlines.
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