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🌎 Exciting News for Climate Entrepreneurs! 🌱 The Biden-Harris Administration just unveiled the Climate Capital Guidebook, a new resource to help start-ups and small businesses access funding for climate initiatives. 🌿 This guidebook maps out federal capital programs available to support your innovative ideas. Check out the announcement and learn how to expand your access to climate capital. 1️⃣Read the guidebook: https://lnkd.in/gtkDHmwE 2️⃣View the announcement: https://lnkd.in/g9Fwm64u #ClimateInvestment #ClimateEntrepreneurs #BidenHarris #SustainableFuture #ClimateAction #SmallBusiness #SustainableBusiness #WhiteHouse #Climate

Wondering what goes into all of the DOE's climate tech investments? We spoke with folks at different offices inside the agencies for our latest newsletter, "The Investor's Guide to the DOE," out now: https://lnkd.in/gT8a56cK We dive into the DOE's strategic funding decisions and due diligence processes behind them for commercial-scale projects, private investors can navigate this key piece in the climate capital stack. From investment theses to check sizes, from risk analyses to returns, this guide can help investors understand what different awards and loans mean, and help founders know what to put into their applications. A massive thank you to Katheryn Scott, Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes, Rachel Gould, Richard Matsui, and more for speaking to us for this piece. #ClimateTech #CleanEnergy #DOE #Investment #Innovation #Sustainability #ClimateAction #PublicPrivatePartnerships #FOAK #GreenTech

Did you know? The current Presidential Administration rolled out a Climate Capital Guidebook. Think of it as your treasure map to uncovering a wealth of capital programs spread across the federal government. It especially caters to the clean energy revolution, hoping to push forward our innovative entrepreneurs. Take a peek and see how these resources can power up your business here: https://lnkd.in/g9Fwm64u #smallbusinessadvice #smallbusinessfunding #funding

With the passage of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has become one of the largest climate tech investors in the world. I joined the Department to help deploy that money into the battery supply chain in a way that results in profitable, defensible, long-term operations and a robust supply chain. Check out this article to understand what diligence processes are like across the Department, including at DOE Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains Office (MESC). #government #funding #grants #diligence #batteries #supplychain

As votes come in on this historic Election Day, Fast Company’s Adele Peters shares what she’s hearing from founders and investors looking toward the future of the climate tech industry, including our friends from Clean Energy Ventures and SparkMeter. SparkMeter CEO Daniel Schnitzer anticipates a “wait-and-see period” that could affect utilities’, developers’ and startups’ appetite to take new risks, while CEV Managing Partner David Miller sees venture capital remaining “bullish on investing in climate tech companies regardless of who is in the White House, given the importance of climate tech to the global economy.” More on how climate tech leaders are bracing for what’s to come: https://lnkd.in/etEvCRWV 

As the new administration prepares to take office, Bloomberg’s Michelle Ma and Coco Liu share how investors in climate tech and infrastructure are ready to dust off their playbooks and roll up their sleeves to fill the void in the absence of federal support. Despite the policy shifts ahead of us, Clean Energy Ventures Managing Partner David Miller still sees opportunity in the industry, noting that VCs inherently have a stronger resiliency to uncertainty. On the infrastructure side, Greenbacker Development Opportunities Fund Managing Director Benjamin Baker believes the biggest challenge is the amount of red tape involved in deploying sustainable infrastructure projects, pointing to the need for widespread permitting reform. Hear how industry leaders are gearing up to buoy the climate tech sector here: https://lnkd.in/gAZw2a2A

Interesting piece on climate tech under the forthcoming new administration in the U.S: "The prospect of less federal support for new climate technologies is already motivating some investors to step in to fill the void.... "...Many of today’s most active climate tech funds and startups launched after Trump first came to power, before the rise of the IRA and the broad expansion of the LPO. While the Biden-era tax credits that helped some of the companies may go away or become harder to get, many investors also point to potential benefits of a Republican administration, including quicker approvals for new projects." Link to full piece: https://lnkd.in/epqJrUnV #sustainablefinance #climatetech

We will be pitching at Undaunted's Better Futures Retrofit Accelerator Startup Spotlight on 1st October. 📣 If you are an investor or built environment stakeholder who is interested in adopting and supporting climate innovation in retrofit, come and join us! 💚 #CleanTech #ESG #BetterFutures #PropTech

Are you an investor, developer, local authority, designer, policymaker, energy consultant or other built environment stakeholder who's interested in climate innovation for #retrofit and the built environment? Join Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation for our Startup Spotlight on 1 October. 🏗 Built environment stakeholders – Hear from 24 founders about their technical innovations and how they can support your retrofit and carbon reduction goals. Post event networking will give you the space to connect with them and explore potential advisory, co-development and testing / piloting opportunities. 💷 Investors – An opportunity to connect with 24 climate tech SMEs, many of whom are currently looking to raise funding Register now ➡ https://lnkd.in/eUDCmAzE The Better Futures Retrofit Accelerator is supported by the Greater London Authority’s Better Futures programme, co-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment The Royal Institution #UKSPF

VEIR is proud to be one of the 81 institutions urging the Massachusetts Legislature to include $1 billion in #ClimateTech funding in the 2024 Economic Development Package. By including crucial climate tech funding in this legislation, we can expedite MA’s #NetZero transition and create a global model for an inclusive and profitable #GreenEconomy. Read the letter below to learn more.  https://bit.ly/4dl81tk