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The Latest Climate Tech Deals and Funds #26

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 170+ funding rounds and the launch of 8 new climate-focused investment funds.

 

New Climate Tech Investment Funds

These new funds are powering energy, agritech, robotics and more.

 

  • 🌍 Paris-based Slate Venture Capital secured a €132M first close for its inaugural growth fund, to invest in European B2B companies across energy transition, low-carbon industrial processes, and circularity.
  • 💡Kembara Growth Fund I reached a €750M first close toward its €1B target, to invest in European deep tech across AI, robotics, clean energy, advanced materials, space, and dual-use technologies at Series B and C.
  • 🌱Verdelis Fund completed its first year of operations with a focused portfolio of early-stage investments in ag-tech, targeting solutions that address productivity, sustainability, and efficiency across agriculture and related infrastructure
  • 🔬 IIT Madras Research Park and Unicorn India Ventures launched a ₹600 crore deep tech fund (with a ₹400 crore greenshoe option), to invest in over 25 IP-led startups across robotics, spacetech, defencetech, semiconductors, and medtech.
  • ♻️ The Bezos Earth Fund launched a new financing initiative to distribute $4.8M over three years to 48 early-stage carbon removal and CCUS ventures selected from The Earthshot Prize nomination pool, supporting breakthrough technologies in CO₂ removal and utilization.
  • 🚀 Africa-focused venture builder Delta40 closed a $20M fund to invest in and co-found early-stage startups across energy and mobility, agriculture and food systems, and fintech, combining seed capital with hands-on venture studio support.
  • 💰 AgVentures Climate Investment Fund III reached a $50M second close toward its $100M target, to invest in technologies strengthening climate resilience, food security, and rural livelihoods across agriculture.
  • 🏗️ Colorado-based Vision Ridge raised $2.4B at the final close of its Sustainable Asset Fund, to invest in climate-focused real assets across energy, transportation, and agriculture.

 

Top Climate Tech Funding Rounds

The past two weeks saw major funding flow into fusion power, energy optimization, grids, infrastructure, and more.

 

  • ⚛️California-based Inertia Enterprises raised $450M in a Series A round to advance commercialization of its grid-scale fusion power plants.
  • 🚀Washington-based Stoke Space Technologies added $350M to its Series D round, bringing the total round to $860M, to complete activation of its Florida launch complex and expand production of its fully reusable Nova launch vehicle.
  • 🤖London-based tem raised $75M in an oversubscribed Series B round to support the international expansion of its AI-powered energy transaction engine.
  • 🏢Berlin-based metiundo GmbH raised $47M in funding to support software development, expand its installation and software teams, and deploy integrated smart networks for data-driven energy optimization.
  • 📦Pittsburgh-based Gather AI raised $40M in Series B funding to expand operations and advance development of its AI-powered physical intelligence platform for warehouses and industrial facilities.
  • ⚡US, Sunnyvale-based Cerebras Systems raised $1B in a Series H round to scale its Wafer Scale Engine–based AI infrastructure for faster and more energy-efficient training and inference.
  • 🔋US, Mountain View–based Lunar Energy raised $232M across a $130M Series C to scale its home battery deployments in the US and expand its AI-driven Gridshare software for managing distributed energy resources.
  • 🤖US, Reno-based Positron AI raised $230M in a Series B round to expand operations and advance its energy-efficient AI inference hardware and software.
  • 🛰️US, Boston-based Tomorrow.io raised $175M in equity financing to accelerate the deployment of DeepSky, its AI-native weather satellite constellation, and expand its space infrastructure and intelligence platform.
  • ☢️Italian-based newcleo raised $89M in an early VC round backed by Danieli and Cementir Holding to strengthen its research and development infrastructure in Europe and accelerate its expansion in the United States for advanced modular reactors powered by reprocessed nuclear waste.

 

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We tracked 130+ Climate Tech funding rounds and 11 new funds, with capital flowing into energy storage, renewables, infrastructure, and decarbonization solutions globally.
We tracked 250+ Climate Tech funding rounds and 6 new funds, with capital flowing into AI, infrastructure, energy, and decarbonization solutions across global markets.

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