APRIL 3, 2024

BurnBot raised $20 million for technology and services to prevent wildfires.

MARCH 6, 2024

This week, Amazon is announcing an investment through its Climate Pledge Fund and plans to implement the Bay Area recycling robotics startup’s technology to find out what happens to its packaging once it leaves consumers’ hands.

APRIL 3, 2024

BurnBot's technology enables 10X more acres to be treated, regardless of weather

MARCH 6, 2024

Glacier designed an entirely new robot for recycling facilities that can pick 45 items a minute.

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Batteries that store heat can replace fossil fuels for steelmaking and other industrial processes.

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the crowded climate tech investing space, it helps to be a specialist.

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Overture Climate VC, an early-stage firm founded by three former White House officials has raised $60 million for its debut fund.

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Overture VC has raised its debut $60 million fund to focus on climate tech, Fortune has exclusively learned.

JANUARY 30, 2024

Crux Climate closed an $18 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its marketplace for buying and selling clean energy tax credits.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today, Floodbase and Capella are announcing a strategic partnership to bring additional high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data to Floodbase’s end-to-end solution for parametric flood insurance.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Government program will funnel tens of billions of dollars to renewable-energy companies. Crux is building an online marketplace that connects tax-credit buyers and sellers.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Retailers and other industries will be able to use the Direct-Use Product Emissions Database (DPED) to enable consistent and comparable scope 3 analyses.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Shomik Dutta, founder and managing partner at Overture, a venture capital firm focused on climate tech and sustainability startups. He is also co-founder and general partner of Higher Ground Labs.

JANUARY 16, 2024

Energy Impact podcast host Ryan Duncan interviews Brandon Hurlbut, the co-founder of Boundary Stone Partners and Overture VC.

JANUARY 11, 2023

Cleantech Group shares a list of innovators with the technologies and determination to take us from commitments to actions in the sprint to net-zero including Moment Energy, Forum Mobility, and Harbinger.

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Forum Mobility, a leading freight electrification provider, announced a new heavy-duty truck charging depot in the Port of Long Beach.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

After less than a year of commercial use, Eion says it has removed approximately 50 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere using what’s known as enhanced rock weathering.

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Xage Security, a startup providing software to thwart network intrusions, today announced that it raised $20 million in a B2 funding round that brings the company’s total raised to $80 million.

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Floodbase has announced a partnership with African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd.) to develop, distribute, and scale parametric flood insurance solutions across Africa.

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Antora Energy, a Bill Gates-backed startup with a bold pitch to use blocks of solid graphite to make heat-storing batteries, announced today that it will be opening its first factory in San Jose, Calif.

OCTOBER 24, 2023

TIME announced 200 innovations changing how we live including Antora Energy’s thermal battery.

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Geothermal heating and cooling startup Bedrock Energy closed an $8.5 million seed round for its focus on big apartment and commercial buildings.

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cleantech Group has just released the Cleantech 50 to Watch, an annual list of top global early-stage private companies showcased for their excellence in sustainable innovation including Bedrock Energy.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The startup based in Garden Grove, California, has designed and is building stripped-down but electrified chassis that forms a backbone for a coming generation of Class 4 to Class 6 medium-duty vehicles that fill many niches in the economy and the American lifestyle.

SEPTMER 27, 2023

Mesh-based Zero Trust solution to secure distributed cyber physical environments from ground to space.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Commitments from THOR Industries, Ridgeline, Greycroft and Tiger Global among other new and continuing investors underscore demand for innovative electrified mobility solutions.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Giant factories that produce textiles, food, chemicals and cement require massive amounts of energy. Antora is one of several companies developing batteries that can store wind and solar energy.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

ESG and carbon management leader accelerates growth with Series A fundraise led by Next Frontier Capital.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a public report outlining the procedures and outcomes of the first cohort of the NREL-led Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator (CECA) program. Xage Security was one of three cybersecurity solution providers to participate in the first CECA cohort.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Massachusetts-based Lydian is the latest startup to raise funds to produce power-to-liquids fuels, which could emit less CO2 overall than fossil jet fuel.

AUGUST 18, 2023

Eion announced the release of a peer-reviewed publication on enhanced rock weathering (ERW) in the journal Global Change Biology, confirming the latest in scientific progress from Eion’s verification method for quantifying CDR (carbon dioxide removal).

AUGUST 16, 2023

The CLIMB by VSC co-hosts Jay Kapoor and Vijay Chatta interviewed Overture co-founder and Managing Partner, Shomik Dutta.

AUGUST 15, 2023

Canary Media asked seven insiders who worked on the historic climate law to share their reflections on what the process was like and the work that remains including Mike Carr, Partner at Boundary Stone Partners.

JULY 5, 2023

America has some of the best solar and wind energy in the world — and this company thinks they’ve found a cheap, reliable way to store it. Antora's solution is a solid carbon battery capable of storing large amounts of energy when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, enabling an abundant, reliable energy supply.

JUNE 23, 2023

As decentralised power grows, the industry’s exposure to cyberattacks grows too. Andrew Tunniclffe speaks with Xage Security’s Duncan Greatwood on how the growing use of remote, autonomous and decentralised facilities heralds a new era of cyber risk.

JUNE 21, 2023
rux, a new startup aiming to remove friction from the use of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of climate law tax incentives, just landed another $4.25 million in seed financing.

JUNE 13, 2023

Forum Mobility is building a 96-truck charging depot in Northern California — a significant step toward the state’s goal of decarbonizing trucking by 2035.

MAY 29, 2023

An aggressive emissions-slashing mandate means thousands of charging sites are needed in the coming years. Matt LeDucq, CEO of Forum Mobility, said his company wants to add sites capable of storing more than 100 electric trucks close to ports at Oakland, Los Angeles and Long Beach.

MAY 11, 2023

Rigorous Measurement will Enable Enhanced Rock Weathering to Scale as a Reliable Carbon Removal Solution.

MAY 2, 2023

See the full list of honorees of Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards in the Energy and Sustainability category including Antora Energy.

MAY 2, 2023

World Economic Forum feature with Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Antora Energy.

APRIL 13, 2023

Crux climate to provide a marketplace for IRA tax credits.

MARCH 29, 2023

Carbon nanotube startup DexMat, born at Rice University, has materials scientists abuzz.

MARCH 16, 2023

In the depths of the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, Shomik Dutta convened a Saturday night call with close to 100 climate tech investors for emergency guidance from former Obama officials.

MARCH 13, 2023

In the thick of the SVB crisis this weekend, close to 100 climate-focused venture executives joined a call with former White House officials Saturday night to talk messaging.

MARCH 8, 2023

DexMat raised a $3 million seed round led by Shell Ventures to convert methane into high-performance materials.

MARCH 7, 2023

Floodbase’s flood intelligence technology will help FEMA estimate the impacts of flood events more accurately to inform its actions in support of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders.

APRIL 18, 2023

On this week’s episode, Jim sits down with Shomik Dutta, former member of the Obama White House and managing partner of Overture VC, a firm focused on sustainable energy and climate tech.

JANUARY 26, 2023

Floodbase says it will offer near-real-time information on flooding to insurers and other clients by the start of next hurricane season.

JANUARY 26, 2023

Floodbase raised a $12 million Series A round for its flood monitoring service that brings together both satellite and ground-sensor data.

JANUARY 17, 2023

Forum Mobility and CBRE Investment Management Announce $400 Million Joint Venture and $15 Million Series A Targeting Equitable Electrification of Heavy-Duty Port Transit

JANUARY 17, 2023

Amazon, CBRE back electric truck charger Forum Mobility

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Moment Energy, cofounded in 2020 by Edward Chiang, Gabriel Soares, Sumreen Rattan and Gurmesh Sidhu, recycles electric vehicle batteries when the cars stop being used and repurposes them for off-grid energy generation projects.

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At VERGE 22, Bedrock CEO Joselyn Lai and Boundary Stoner Partners government affairs firm team members discussed how to take advantage of the biggest climate bill in American history.

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Dr. Moriba Jah, was awarded the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" for his work developing tools that pinpoint inactive satellites and other space debris.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Harbinger was perhaps the most exciting automaker startup at the North American International Auto Show. This week, the company emerged from stealth, aiming to bring a medium-duty EV platform to market

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A new Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup founded by veterans of Canoo and QuantumScape said Wednesday it’s preparing to shake up the medium-duty truck market with a ready-to-build electric truck platform coming next year.

JULY 7, 2022

Overture Co-founder and Managing Partner Shomik Dutta joined Minnie Ingersoll on the LA Venture podcast to share more about the founding story of Overture VC and the importance of investing in climate tech.

MAY 12, 2022

Palo Alto, Calif-based firm Xage has raised a $6 million top-up to the $30 million Series B funding it secured in January 2022. The new financing comes from SCF Partners, an investor in energy and critical infrastructure services, and Overture, which specializes in startups in government, energy and climate.

APRIL 13, 2022

Antora Energy has raised millions for its super-heated graphite blocks that can deliver grid power, industrial heat or both.

MARCH 2, 2022

Privateer's mission is to develop better tracking of objects in space, and to use this data to help avert disastrous collisions.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Lowercarbon Capital co-led a $50 million financing round in Antora Energy, a start-up looking to decarbonize industrial processes. The thermal battery would store heat from solar and wind farms and provide an alternative to the natural gas boilers that are used by heavy industrial processing companies.

JANUARY 17, 2022

Emma McDonagh is now a senior associate at Overture, a venture fund “at the intersection of climate and government.” McDonagh joins Overture from Powerhouse, a clean energy and mobility venture fund.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Xage (pronounced Zage) is a startup working to keep critical infrastructure like oil and gas pipelines, water supplies and electrical grids up and running securely. Today, the company announced a $30 million Series B.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Xage, which today announced a $30 million series B funding round, said that its platform for enabling zero trust identity security in “real world” operational infrastructure saw a 5x increase in new customer deployments in 2021. With the latest funding in hand, Xage plans to scale up the use of its platform both within existing customers and with additional new customers in 2022, CEO Duncan Greatwood told VentureBeat.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Xage, a company that aims to secure operational components of the electrical grid, announced Wednesday it has raised $30 million in a Series B round of financing.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Forum Mobility, a zero-emission fleet and infrastructure provider, announced today it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding to build its operations, broaden its team, and further product development. The round was co-led by Obvious Ventures and Homecoming Capital, with additional funding provided by Edison International (NYSE: EIX) and Overture VC.

APRIL 3, 2024

BurnBot raised $20 million for technology and services to prevent wildfires.