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Battery recycling startup Cylib recharges its coffers to go faster

TechCrunch

German battery recycling startup Cylib leapt at the opportunity, raising a total of €11.6 Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries “The goal of this fundraising was to accelerate the industrialization of our sustainable recycling process, which has been developed over years of research.

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NJEDA Establishes New Jersey Green Bank to Advance Climate Goals

American Entrepreneurship

April 15, 2024) – Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the New Jersey Green Bank (NJGB), which will make investments in the clean energy sector that will help advance the state’s efforts to make an equitable transition to 100 percent clean energy. TRENTON, N.J.

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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

Climate change is a problem important and pressing enough that investors have begun to grasp the opportunities that arise when trying to solve it. Now, they’ve started to cast their nets wider for other, adjacent opportunities. “There are a number of opportunities for increasing the ocean’s ability to store carbon. .”

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Nearly $4M in Grants to Support Offshore Wind Workforce Training Approved by NJEDA Board

American Entrepreneurship

June 21, 2023) – In May , the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved five grant applications totaling more than $3.7 million under the Authority’s Offshore Wind Workforce and Skills Development Grant Challenge (Grant Challenge). TRENTON, N.J. Wind energy is our future.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success. The amount of plastic pouring into our oceans is set to triple by 2040, and most un-recycled plastic in the world is generated by consumer packaged goods. The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success.

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EVs to power Kenya’s bus rapid transit system

TechCrunch

Opportunity for EV startups in Kenya. There is a possibility that locally developed electric buses will be among the first to ply the BRT as Opibus and BasiGo — two EV startups in the country — begin tests. Overall, electric mobility in Africa is growing, but at a much slower rate compared to the developed world.