At the same time, faster drilling means lower capex. Drilling costs, like rig time and labor, rise depending on how long it ...

From “FOAK fatigue” to funding flux, climate tech investors are navigating a trickier, more tactical market in 2025. A few months ago, we fielded an investor market sentiment survey, in partnership ...

We sat down with two of climate tech’s most recent fundraising standouts — Sophie Purdom of Planeteer and John Tough of Energize Capital — to find out what it really takes to raise a fund today, where ...

It’s no secret that there’s a new normal in climate tech, where investment numbers, round sizes, and valuations are all down. In today’s environment, VC investors are becoming increasingly skeptical ...

The market slowdown has officially hit climate land. 2022 funding was down 3% from the prior year as investors poured $40B+ into climate companies. But even a global slowdown isn’t slowing the rate of ...

If you’re bullish on the energy transition, you’re bullish on mining. With every new battery pack and wind plant, it’s becoming more apparent that the energy transition is a metals transition. Over a ...

Venture capital investment in climate tech may have dropped ~40% in the first half of this year amid the broader market slackening, but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the ...

Building climate tech projects is tough. Building a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) climate tech project is much tougher. From securing financing to forging a partnership with a developer, the inherent ...

In this second feature in our First-of-a-kind (FOAK) series we’ve gone completely and unabashedly full framework to bring some structure to this adventure wonderland of finicky first projects. Porters ...

We usually celebrate other companies’ fundraises, but today, we’re celebrating our own! We’ve raised a $5.5m Seed round, co-led by The Westly Group and Molten Ventures, to scale Sightline — our market ...

What goes down must come back up? After the slowdown in climate tech investment for most of 2023, new data points to a potential proximate rev up: We’ve now seen a spike in climate-focused fund ...

Thought we were done with this FOAK series? NOAK! Think again. Before we set you off on your merry deployment way, we’ve got one more project scaling step left from Pilot to FOAK, now to NOAK and ...