Markets already understand that it’s too damn expensive to keep powering our economy by digging up and burning old dinosaur bones. In most places today, solar and wind are cheaper and scale faster. What you might not know yet is that technologies that grow chemicals in bioreactors or boost crop yields are already outperforming 100-year-old industrial processes that are dirty and dangerous. We see this happening in protein, transportation, chemicals, building materials, and even mining too. This radical shift isn’t just because of some warm and fuzzies. These are real businesses, with insane growth, and some posting nine-figure revenue run rates. In simple terms, cutting gigatons of CO2, mass market adoption, and generating piles of money will go hand-in-hand.
READ MOREFixing an industry broken by climate change. As convective storms, wildfires, and floods get more frequent, more intense, and more common in areas that were previously in the “No worries, guys, we’re fine” zone, property owners are becoming more dependent on insurance. But just when they’re needed most, insurance companies have been leaving owners high
READ MORELessons from Pitch Deck Mountain. There’s plenty of chatter these days about the dreaded “growth-stage gap” in climate tech and hardtech — the Bermuda Triangle where many promising startups vanish before they can raise that coveted Series B. As you can imagine, with over 120 portfolio companies, and a couple billion dollars under management for
READ MORECrazy is just another word for massive untapped potential. Most ideas that change the world sound pretty bonkers at first. Phytomining, for example — using plants to “farm” metals — was once a pipe dream. Certain scientists have pursued it for decades, but it was mostly written off as too inefficient and expensive to be
READ MOREWe owe a lot to cement. Buildings, bridges, a dangerously warming planet. No building material on Earth emits more CO2 than cement. And no building material is more ubiquitous. See where I’m going with this? For those keeping score at home, cement production makes up a full 8% of all global CO2 emissions. In no
READ MOREIt’s a new day for carbon markets. Carbon removal is on a roll, with total carbon sales in the last year alone jumping a staggering 600%. But to scale the industry from billions of dollars a year to tens of billions and beyond, someone has to rebuild trust in carbon markets, fixing the reputational damage
READ MOREBuilding climate tech isn’t like building software. Not even close. You can’t troubleshoot a first-of-its-kind carbon capture device by A/B testing from a comfy office or by sending out user surveys. Of course, you can model a lot of carbon capture on a computer, or even do a whole Ph.D. on it. (I actually did.)
READ MOREOne of the big things holding us back from building a lithium industry in our own backyard has been that it would, you know, wreck the backyard. That left us at the mercy of market swings and not-always-friendly foreign supply chains for the most critical ingredient to defossilize our economy. Then, Lilac showed up. Their
READ MOREClimate tax credits are just getting started. In 2022, the market for transferable climate tax credits didn’t exist. Now, just over a year later, $8 billion of these credits have traded hands. Look into the eye of that 10-figure storm and you’ll find Crux, our one-stop-shop for clean energy financing. These tax credits? They are,
READ MOREC’mon in, the water’s (much too) warm. As a person with eyes, ears and a phone in their pocket, you know that the planet is literally on fire. I’m willing to bet you’re here at our doorstep because you’ve started feeling like perhaps someone should do something about it. Welp, you’d be right. And if
READ MORE[NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION. COUNSEL REVIEW PENDING] [EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:50AM EST MONDAY 9/18] [For discussion purposes only. Please keep confidential.] —————– Friends of Lowercarbon, Blah blah opening stuff. Anyone notice how hot it’s been? Storms, floods, drought. It’s all a mess. [<– All right, we don’t need to say more here. It’s been on the front
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