Climate-tech companies raised $51 billion in venture capital and private equity funding across more than a thousand deals tracked by BloombergNEF last year. Though this was 12% lower than 2022, the slide was a fraction of the 35% reported for all startups by Pitchbook. Most of the funding...
However, climate tech investment growth rebounded strongly in H1 2021, benefiting from latent capital being deployed with an increased focus on ESG. PwC identified over 6,000 unique investors from venture capitalists, private equity, corporate VCs, angel investors, philanthropists and government funds...
The termclimate techis purposely broad to reflect the wide range of technologies and innovations being used to address GHG emissions and the array of industries in which they’re being applied. The data underpinning the analysis set out in this report includes venture capital and private equity in...
Climate-tech startups raised $53.7 billion from venture capital and private equity (VC/PE) in 2021, according to our latest Investment Radar. Almost $22 billion of the total went to the transport sector, in technologies ranging from lithium-ion batteries to electric aviation. BNEF defines ‘...
13 Earlier-stage climate technologies require significantly more capital than venture capital firms tend to provide in other tech sectors (such as software) but have significantly higher risk profiles than private equity and infrastructure funds are willing to underwrite. To achieve de...
“Over the past 18 months, the Emerson team has accelerated our portfolio transformation, divesting non-core businesses including InSinkErator and Therm-O-Disc, while investing in organic growth opportunities and important transactions including AspenTech. Our jo...
Along with those trends, in addition to an influx of venture and private equity investors, we are also seeing sources of non-dilutive capital such as accelerators, and grants from the governmental, philanthropic, and business communities, all of which create a more robust climate tech ecosystem ...
Emerson is selling a majority stake in its Climate Technologies business to the private equity firm Blackstone in a transaction that values the business at $14bn. Emerson plans to become a “pure play” global automation company serving a variety of mark
The activity in climate tech has been breathtaking over the past 12 months. If 2020 was a breakthrough year for climate tech, then 2021 was breakthrough 2.0. As PwC notes in its year-end report on the state of climate tech, startups focused on this category accounted for 14 cents of...
The Climate Tech Investing Forum (CTI), is a very unique event. It brings together the most pro-active and ambitious investors, alongside our Campden Club members with the most cutting-edge...