We are excited to share this mini-documentary about CFS and our CEO, @JArminHoiland. The hundreds of millions of dollars of non-dilutive funding that we have helped secure for climate companies has helped accelerate their development and growth––and we need to do this at scale!
Solar energy is powering America's economy...
⚡️ 135 GW of capacity, enough to power over 23 million homes 🏠
👨🏭 255,000 jobs nationwide
💰 $33 billion of annual economic investment
#TheSolarDecade
LACI helps startups develop their technologies, secure financing, access customers & markets, test, pilot & fund their solutions & unlock their full potential. Startups go further, faster, together, with @laincubator! Apply by 1/6: https://t.co/AZswGapQRl
@d_gershenson Funding a dozen companies with founder-friendly non-dilutive capital (over 80% with underrepresented founders or diverse teams)! And we're just getting started 😎. Big announcement coming in Q1!
Did you know the earth has cooled five times in the past 4.5B years when photosynthesis evolved? Read on to learn how past ice ages can be a blueprint for cooling our planet today 👇
https://t.co/l8nu2bidyL
Well happy Saturday morning yall!
Our buddies @PitchBook put out their Q3 Clean Energy report. Key takeaways and reactions from a climatetech founder🧵:
“The Inflation Reduction Act gives significant support to clean energy production. Its effects are already being felt.”
Excited to publish @ycombinator’s Request for Startups: Climate Tech.
A lot of work went into this by @drusenko and myself, and we hope this will inspire any founders to work on what we think is an opportunity of a generation. https://t.co/iYaJcx28iq
Four charts from @VoyagerVC's letter, Electrons For Tomorrow:
1⃣ US electricity spend *alone* is almost $500B/yr
2⃣ US investor-owned utility Capex is $150B+/yr
3⃣ Return on equity heading down from all-time highs
4⃣ Emergencies/disturbances are rampant
https://t.co/35LQyV1uQu
To equitably move the needle on climate change, we must transform our systems to include a wide variety of lived experiences, supporting new leadership to further an equitable, resilient, and decarbonized future. Employers can apply here: https://t.co/Bv0cypQaKd #EDICT
Climate disclosure is necessary, but insufficient. The primary problem is that it’s still profitable NOT to act on climate, @rouselouise tells @leahstokes@DrKWilkinson & @paashamahdavi in this episode: https://t.co/oaHLyiODV8
Electric power is a century-old business that sits at the center of deep decarbonization. Power must transform, so that it can transform other sectors too. ⚡️
Our latest letter from @VoyagerVC: Electrons For Tomorrow - a massive, global opportunity.
https://t.co/OZ4oPcCJEs
The application window is now open for our 3rd cohort of @enduring_planet Scouts!
Anyone can sign up and refer us startups and SMBs working on #climate. If the startup gets funded, we share our origination fee with the Scout.
(app link at end of thread)
Probably the best answer I've ever seen to the question on climate change action "What about China?"
They're adding more clean energy capacity than these other major blocs put together
https://t.co/H7Z7XgE1sL