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 231 funding rounds and the launch of 10 new climate-focused investment funds.
New Climate Tech Investment Funds
These new funds are powering energy assets, EVs, land restoration, grid utilization, and more.
- Brazil-based BTG Pactual raised a $1.24B reforestation fund to restore 660,000 acres across Latin America through a model combining commercial forestry, land restoration, and carbon credit generation.
- US-based Bezos Earth Fund committed $34M in grants to support research into sustainable, bio-based textile fibres, backing institutions including Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Clemson University, and Cotton Foundation to develop low-impact alternatives to conventional fabrics.
- Germany-based Earlybird Venture Capital raised a €360M Fund VIII to invest in early-stage startups across AI applications, software infrastructure, and deeptech, while introducing a perpetual ownership model to keep the firm fully partner-owned and independent.
- India-based Neo Alternative Asset Managers launched a ₹5,000 crore (~$600M) infrastructure income fund to invest in operational, revenue-generating assets across roads and renewable energy, targeting stable, long-term cash flows backed by government-linked contracts.
- Germany-based BMW i Ventures raised a $300M fund to invest in AI startups focused on the automotive sector, targeting technologies across autonomous driving, manufacturing, and next-generation mobility systems.
- Germany-based Aream Group launched the Clean Energy Future Fund II targeting €400M to invest in renewable energy, battery storage, and electricity marketing across Europe, focusing on hybridising and upgrading existing solar and wind assets to improve grid utilisation and capture value from market volatility.
- Denmark-based Kompas VC raised a €160M Fund II to invest in early-stage industrial tech startups, focusing on AI, robotics, and software solutions that drive productivity, resilience, and decarbonisation across sectors including manufacturing, energy, and the built environment.
- Brazil-based BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group raised a $1.24B reforestation fund to invest in large-scale restoration and sustainable forestry across Latin America, targeting ~660,000 acres through a model combining conservation, commercial timber, and carbon credit generation.
- Netherlands-based Waterland Private Equity raised €4.6B across two funds – €4B for its flagship Fund X and €600M for a partnership fund—to invest in European companies in fragmented, high-growth markets, backing buy-and-build strategies to drive organic and acquisitive expansion.
- UK-based British International Investment launched a £1.1B (~$1.5B) British Climate Partners initiative to invest in clean energy transition projects across India and Southeast Asia, using blended finance to de-risk investments and mobilize private capital in coal-reliant markets.
Top Climate Tech Funding Rounds
The past two weeks saw major funding flow into LDES, AI infrastructure, aquaculture, decarbonized fuel systems and more.
- 🔋 Germany-based CMBlu Energy closed a $58.5M Series C round from Samsung Ventures, STRABAG SE, and others to scale its non-lithium Solid Flow long-duration energy storage for data centers and grid applications.
- 💡 USA, Santa Barbara-based OpenLight closed a $50M Series A-1 round from Matter Venture Partners, Acclimate Ventures, Catapult Ventures, Xora Innovation, Capricorn Investment Group, Mayfield, and New Legacy to scale its silicon photonics chips for AI infrastructure and high-speed data connectivity.
- 🐟 Iceland-based First Water secured $88M in financing, including a $47M convertible bond and $41M in debt, to complete its land-based salmon farming facility and scale production capacity to 10,000 tonnes annually.
- 🔆 Kenya-based CrossBoundary Energy secured a $40M investment from Inspired Evolution to expand distributed solar, battery storage, and hybrid energy solutions for commercial and industrial clients across Africa.
- 🚲 UK, London-based Forest closed a $35M Series B round ($22.2M equity + $12.8M asset-backed debt) from OKAI, B8 Ventures GP I Limited, Fen Ventures, güil Mobility Ventures, and Fintex Capital to expand its shared e-bike operations and urban mobility infrastructure.
- 🛢️ UK-based Rivan Industries closed a $34M funding round, led by IQ Capital with participation from Plural and others, to scale synthetic fuel production using direct air capture, hydrogen, and power-to-fuel systems for industrial decarbonization.
- ⚛️ UK-based First Light Fusion secured a $33.5M funding led by East X Ventures with participation from UK Atomic Energy Authority and IP Group to advance inertial fusion technology and accelerate commercialization of scalable fusion energy systems.
- ⛏️ USA, Casper-based DISA Technologies, Inc. closed a $33M early VC round from Galvanize, BHP, Evok Innovations, Halliburton Labs, Valor Equity Partners, and others to scale its high-pressure slurry ablation technology for critical mineral processing and uranium remediation.
- 🍄 Switzerland-based planetary secured $27.5M total funding, including a $20M Series A and $7.5M in credit, led by Radikal Capital and Oetker Ventures, with participation from arc investors, Astanor, and others to scale fermentation infrastructure and its BioBlocks platform for mycoprotein production and circular food systems.
- ♻️ France-based ROSI closed a $23M Series B round from InnoEnergy, CMA CGM, the European Innovation Council, G3T, Finadvice AG, and others to scale its high-value solar panel recycling capacity across Europe.
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