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Battery recycling startup Cylib recharges its coffers to go faster

TechCrunch

“We need to create awareness with different stakeholders to ensure that battery recycling is given the attention it deserves to enable a circular economy in battery usage.” “World Fund only invests in startup technologies that can save at least 100 megatonnes of CO2e annually by 2040.

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NJEDA Establishes New Jersey Green Bank to Advance Climate Goals

American Entrepreneurship

The NJGB will make investments through debt, credit enhancements, and other financial vehicles to attract private capital to enable the state to reach its climate goals. About the NJEDA The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) serves as the State’s principal agency for driving economic growth.

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ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-powered vision for aviation nets $21.4 million from Amazon, Shell and Bill Gates-backed fund

TechCrunch

For corporate investors like Amazon that have committed to decarbonize by 2040, the innovations and industry adoption can’t happen quickly enough.

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Female-founded climate and construction tech startup backed by Mark Cuban

American Entrepreneurship

Without intervention, the United States could be on track to destroy over 50,000 miles of marine habitat by 2040 1 “The investment decision was swift and resolute,” comments Anthropocene Ventures’ Managing Partner, Matthew McGraw. The company is producing the world’s first 3D-printed Living Seawalls that serve as artificial reefs.

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

Problems & Ideas: Financing as a service for building electrification Contractor enablement Finding ways (at scale) to add trust as well as ensure accountability Improving the quote lifecycle to reduce time spent (and truck rolls), automate system design, and improve installed system performance.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

So, while personally supportive of any and all workers seeking to improve their workplace conditions, we spend our days focused on providing better software to unions enabling them to improve efficiency and accessibility of union organizing. It is a certainty that things are and will change… How fast? I don’t know.