Building climate tech projects is tough. Building a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) climate tech project is much tougher. From securing financing to forging a partnership with a developer, the inherent ...

Climate tech has undergone a visible evolution over the past few years, transitioning from a phase of abundant funding for innovation to capital more focused on large-scale deployments that approach ...

From “FOAK fatigue” to funding flux, climate tech investors are navigating a trickier, more tactical market in 2025. A few months ago, we fielded an investor market sentiment survey, in partnership ...

Climate tech venture capital exists to foster climate innovation; innovation requires an ecosystem, and few institutions shape the ecosystem more than the Department of Energy. As the Inflation ...

Hope you got to enjoy some fireworks and barbecues over this Fourth of July weekend. At CTVC, we were cooking up our report on H1’24 climate tech funding, and we’ve got some takeaways for you below.

Venture capital investment in climate tech may have dropped ~40% in the first half of this year amid the broader market slackening, but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the ...

Ultimately, less than 10% of cleantech companies founded after 2007 generated returns to cover even the initial capital. While some investors tried to squint at Tesla's long-term stock performance ...

The market slowdown has officially hit climate land. 2022 funding was down 3% from the prior year as investors poured $40B+ into climate companies. But even a global slowdown isn’t slowing the rate of ...

🎉💸 TL;DR - After much encouragement from all of you, we’re expanding the newsletter into a market intelligence platform for the new climate economy! We’re excited to share that we raised $1.75M in ...

Taxes may make your eyes glaze over, but the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) promise of a whole pot of gold at the end of the green rainbow is reason enough not to sleep on tax credits. Of the much ...

Amidst the crypto crash and backdrop of the market downturn, venture capital funds broke a record - for the largest amount of capital raised ($151b) in any prior full-year, and the year’s not done yet ...

Thought we were done with this FOAK series? NOAK! Think again. Before we set you off on your merry deployment way, we’ve got one more project scaling step left from Pilot to FOAK, now to NOAK and ...