| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.03.2026 | CEV Welcomes New Investor, Maya Bhat | CEV Team Update! We’re thrilled to welcome Maya Bhat, PhD as our newest Investor.
Maya brings a unique combination of deep technical expertise and commercial experience, aligned with CEV’s focus on backing high-impact, scalable innovations ... |
| 11.02.2026 | CEV Promotes Wynston Reed to Principal | Team update! Celebrating Wynston Reed’s promotion to Investment Principal.
Since joining Clean Energy Ventures as an Investor in 2023, Wynston has become a deeply trusted partner to our portfolio companies, known for his hands-on support, a... |
| 26.01.2026 | Welcoming Cooper Bates, CEV’s New Analyst | CEV Team Update! We are pleased to welcome Cooper Bates as Clean Energy Ventures’ newest Analyst, supporting investment sourcing, due diligence, and market research across the climate tech landscape. In this role, Cooper will help evaluate ... |
| 08.01.2026 | Celebrating our Fall 2025 Fellows | - |
| 06.01.2026 | Bridget Michalowski Joins Clean Energy Ventures as Investor Relations Manager | CEV Team Update! Welcoming Bridget Michalowski as our new Investor Relations (IR) Manager.
In this position, Bridget will build and deepen relationships with CEV’s Limited Partners (LPs), focusing on enhancing the experience of LPs by stren... |
| 18.12.2025 | CEV Selects Harvest by Dasseti as ESG Reporting Software Partner | Clean Energy Ventures will use Harvest to power its financial and ESG data collection, streamlining reporting, enhancing opportunities for value-added engagement, and advancing its commitment to net zero as it aims to scale disruptive techn... |
| 21.11.2025 | Europe’s first “Neo-Carrier,” NexDash, Secures €5 million to Digitalize and Electrify Ground Freight Transport through AI, Capital and Scale | Berlin, November 21, 2025 – Today NexDash, Europe’s first “Neo-Carrier,” announced it has secured €5 million in seed funding led by Extantia Capital alongside Clean Energy Ventures. Nexdash’s financing comes just three months after the comp... |
| 19.11.2025 | Cheryl Hallett Promoted to Chief Financial Officer of CEV | We’re proud to share that Cheryl Hallett has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Clean Energy Ventures.
Since joining CEV as Director of Finance in 2023, Cheryl has been instrumental in building and scaling the firm’s financial infr... |
| 02.10.2025 | Celebrating our Spring & Summer 2025 Fellows | At Clean Energy Ventures, each season brings a new cohort of fellows who infuse our work with fresh ideas, sharp analysis, and an eagerness to explore the frontiers of climate innovation. This spring and summer, our fellows have rolled up t... |
| 07.08.2025 | Clean Energy Ventures Celebrates Investment Partner Peter Sopher’s Transition to Chief Financial Officer at DG Matrix | Accomplished investor brings deep climate tech financial expertise and operational management to accelerate the company’s solid-state transformer commercialization
August 7, 2025 – Boston, MA – Clean Energy Ventures (CEV) proudly announces ... |
| 14.05.2025 | Welcoming David Meyer, CEV’s New Community Manager | Hiring news at CEV! David Meyer has joined Clean Energy Ventures as our new Community Manager.
David comes to CEV with a strong background in community building, program management, and supporting entrepreneurs. Most recently at MassChallen... |
| 06.05.2025 | Exterra Carbon Solutions Raises $20M Series A to Transform Mining Waste into Low-Carbon Critical Minerals & CO2 Sequestration | Exterra Carbon Solutions (Exterra), a Canadian cleantech innovator transforming legacy mining waste into high-value, sustainable materials, today announced the closing of a CAD $20 million Series A financing round. The round was co-led by C... |
| 30.04.2025 | Queens Carbon Secures $10M Seed Round to Propel U.S. Leadership in Low-Carbon Cement Manufacturing | Backed by Clean Energy Ventures and Buzzi Unicem USA, Queens Carbon will leverage funding to scale its energy-efficient cement production platform
Queens Carbon, a developer of next-generation cement technology, announced it has secured $10... |
| 22.04.2025 | Clean Energy Ventures Partners with Klimate to Address Operational Emissions through 2028 | Clean Energy Ventures (CEV) has recently partnered with Klimate as part of the firm’s long-term Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) commitment to advance climate solutions. The partnership includes the purchase of high-quality carbon credits to re... |
| 14.04.2025 | Why We Invested: MacroCycle | We were promised a circular future, a world where our discarded plastics and textiles would be reborn. Instead, we’re drowning in a linear tide of waste, a broken system of recycling masquerading as progress. Mechanical recycling, which rel... |
| 20.03.2025 | Why We Invested: DG Matrix | As investors, our job is to find and evaluate technology breakthroughs with the potential to seem obvious in hindsight. Solid-state transformers (SSTs) are one such innovation, and at Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), our conviction in their pot... |
| 11.03.2025 | DG Matrix Raises $20 Million to Revolutionize Global Energy Infrastructure with the World’s First Multi-Port Solid-State Transformer | Oversubscribed seed round includes participation from climatetech VCs and strategics to accelerate AI data center optimization and enhance decarbonization
March 11, 2025 – DG Matrix, the developer of the revolutionary Power Router platform,... |
| 06.02.2025 | MacroCycle Raises $6.5M to Commercialize Plastic Upcycling Technology with 80% Less Energy | Backed by U.S. and European investors, MacroCycle is enabling a circular plastics supply chain beginning with PET bottles and polyester textile waste
MacroCycle Technologies, a developer of a novel PET & polyester textile waste upcyclin... |
| 12.12.2024 | CEV Promotes Yi Jean Chow to Investment Partner and Victoria Martins to Senior Community Manager | CEV is proud to announce promotions of two outstanding team members, Yi Jean Chow and Victoria Martins, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to the firm’s mission and performance.
Yi Jean Chow has been promoted to Investment Pa... |
| 09.12.2024 | Why We Invested: Transaera | Globally, it’s getting both warmer and more humid. Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) is increasingly essential for the functioning of modern society. Human health and comfort depend on it. Unfortunately, the ... |
| 25.11.2024 | Clean Energy Ventures welcomes Dr. Charlotte Kirk |
Clean Energy Ventures (CEV) is delighted to announce the addition of Dr. Charlotte Kirk, to drive the firm’s European growth through its new office in London. Charlotte will help lead the investment strategy, technical due diligence, deal ... |
| 04.11.2024 | Transaera Secures $10.5 Million to Deliver the Most Energy-Efficient Air Conditioning Amid Intensifying Global Temperatures | With new funding from climatetech investors as well as $2.3 million in grants from the US DOE, Transaera is commercializing the next generation of AC offering 40 percent energy savings
Transaera Inc., a technology company pioneering a novel... |
| 31.10.2024 | Why We Invested: Lithios | The global transition to clean energy is accelerating, and at its core lies a surging demand for lithium—a critical component in lithium-ion batteries powering electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems. With batteries projected to ... |
| 08.10.2024 | Lithios Secures $12 Million to Expand Lithium Supply to Meet Global EV and Energy Demand | - |
| 07.10.2024 | Why We Invested: Ayrton | The hydrogen dream
Low carbon hydrogen will play a critical role in our efforts to decarbonize our economy. Industry experts may debate which sectors are most suited for hydrogen, but the breadth of applications indicate increased demand fo... |
| 24.09.2024 | Ayrton Energy Raises $6.8 Million to Enable Low-Cost Storage and Transport of Hydrogen Globally | Ayrton Energy, a developer of liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology, secured USD $6.8 million in seed financing to advance its low-cost, scalable approach to safe, efficient delivery of clean hydrogen. The oversubscribed round w... |
| 19.09.2024 | Celebrating our Spring & Summer 2024 Interns | Each semester, we’re fortunate to welcome a group of exceptionally skilled and enthusiastic interns who bring tremendous value to our team. Their contributions include deal screening and diligence support, advanced sub-sector research and r... |
| 06.09.2024 | Why We Invested: Aepnus | Onshoring of key supply chains is becoming increasingly important for the energy transition. To this end, the battery manufacturing supply chain outside of China is growing exponentially, but a major issue looms over the battery manufacturi... |
| 23.07.2024 | CEV Welcomes Saurabh Kumar as Impact Manager | Following the success of our second fund, we are continuing to grow our team globally and are excited to welcome our new Manager of Impact Measurement & Management, Saurabh Kumar, who will lead the expansion of our efforts to evaluate, ... |
| 13.06.2024 | Aepnus Technology Raises $8 Million to Electrify Chemical Manufacturing for Circular Supply Chains | Led by Clean Energy Ventures, the seed round is composed of an experienced consortium of new and returning investors across the climate tech ecosystem
Oakland, Calif., June 13, 2024 — Aepnus Technology, the developer of an electrochemical p... |
| 10.06.2024 | Following the Launch of its Second Fund, Clean Energy Ventures Welcomes Elizabeth Pacelle as New Marketing & Platform Associate | On the heels of our new $305 Fund II, CEV is continuing to expand its team and are honored to announce that Elizabeth Pacelle has joined as a Marketing & Platform Associate.
Through this role, Elizabeth will grow the firm’s global marke... |
| 29.05.2024 | Clean Energy Ventures Closes $305M Fund II Aiming to Mitigate 75 Gigatons of Emissions by 2050 | - |
| 26.03.2024 | Evari Closes $7.5M Financing to Bring Next-Generation Heat Pump Turbocompressors to the Mass Market | PETERBOROUGH, NH, March 26, 2024 – Evari, a developer of pioneering, next-generation heat pump turbocompressors, announced today a $7.5 million seed financing to commercialize a radically green design for the electrification of consumer and... |
| 19.12.2023 | Greentown Labs Partners with Clean Energy Ventures to Screen Emissions Reduction Potential for New Climatetech Members | New members applying for the climatetech incubator will be required to report on potential impact through Clean Energy Ventures’ open-access Simple Emissions Reduction Calculator (SERC) |
| 11.10.2023 | Our Statement on the Attack on Israel | We are heartbroken by the terrorist attacks on Israel and to see so many lives lost and affected. Our thoughts go out to those who are grieving in the wake of this senseless violence. These attacks follow a frightening surge in global antis... |
| 22.09.2023 | Clean Energy Ventures Welcomes New Director of Finance Cheryl Hallett | Today, we welcome our new Director of Finance, Cheryl Hallett, to the firm! A professional with decades of financial experience, Cheryl will manage CEV’s financial roadmap, overseeing the firm’s long-term financial health and sustained grow... |
| 23.08.2023 | Why We Invested: Nitrofix | Ammonia is a simple molecule – NH3, one atom of nitrogen bonded to three atoms of hydrogen – but it’s one of the world’s most important chemicals. Ammonia is the primary feedstock for fertilizers, used across chemical processes, and a precu... |
| 10.08.2023 | Clean Energy Ventures Welcomes Amy Zhao to the Investment Team | A big warm welcome to the newest addition to our team, Amy Zhao! Amy will be instrumental in supporting our growth into key energy sectors and geographies as our newest Investor. |
| 20.07.2023 | Nitrofix Raises $3.1 Million to Produce Cost-Competitive, Green Ammonia for Agriculture, Hydrogen and Maritime Fuel Markets | Petach Tikva, Israel – Nitrofix, a zero-emission ammonia producer pioneering a novel electrochemical process, today announced $3.1 million in seed financing to accelerate the production of green ammonia from just water and air for the agric... |
| 22.06.2023 | Clean Energy Ventures Welcomes Newest Team Member Ariel Hyre | Capping off a momentous first half of 2023 at Clean Energy Ventures, we are happy to officially announce another strategic hire as we continue to grow our team and portfolio of market-leading commercial teams across the globe. |
| 20.06.2023 | Why We Invested in OxCCU: The Lowest-Cost, Drop-In Solution to Decarbonize Aviation | By Peter Sopher & Maude Hoffman |
| 07.06.2023 | OXCCU Raises $22 Million to Transform Carbon Dioxide into Sustainable Aviation Fuel | LONDON, June 7, 2023 — OXCCU (pronounced Ox.C.C.U.), a leading carbon-to-value company converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products, has completed a US $22.7 million (£18 million) Series A financing to commer... |
| 10.05.2023 | Clean Energy Ventures Welcomes Matt Cohen as our newest Investment Principal | As Clean Energy Ventures continues to grow our footprint in North America and beyond, we are happy to officially announce another strategic hire to join our world-class climate tech investment team. |
| 12.04.2023 | Energy Transition Gaps Where Storage Advances Are Most Needed | Energy storage is an energy transition lynchpin encompassing countless technologies that vary on optimal context. |
| 05.04.2023 | Why We Invested: Evari | Climate Bingo Part 1 – What does refrigerating food, heating homes, cooling data centers, and electrifying vehicles all have in common? If you said compressors, consider your climate bingo achieved!
Compressors are the hidden workhorse behi... |
| 28.02.2023 | Girish Nadkarni, Former President of TotalEnergies Ventures, Joins CEV Strategic Advisory Board | BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), a leading venture capital firm funding climate tech startups to slash carbon emissions at the gigaton-scale, today announced the appointment of Girish Nadkarni to its Strateg... |
| 26.01.2023 | Celebrating Our Fall/Winter 2022 Interns | Each semester at CEV hosts graduate and undergrad interns on our team to support due diligence efforts, build sector roadmaps, and help with other special projects as true CEV team members. |
| 24.01.2023 | Why We Invested: Noon Energy—Unlocking Clean Renewables for 100% of Electricity Generation | By Ariel Hyre & Peter Sopher |
| 18.01.2023 | Noon Energy Secures $28M to Scale Novel Carbon-Oxygen Battery for Sustainable Long-Duration Energy Storage | PALO ALTO, Calif., January 18, 2022 — Noon Energy Inc. today announced $28 million in Series A financing to commercialize its ultra-low-cost, high energy density carbon-oxygen battery technology for long-duration energy storage. The round w... |
| 13.01.2023 | Clean Energy Ventures Welcomes Wynston Reed and Micha Ben-Naim to the Investment Team | To ring in the new year, Clean Energy Ventures is excited to announce two strategic hires on our investment team. Join us in welcoming investors Micha Ben-Naim and Wynston Reed, who will provide portfolio company sourcing, due diligence and... |
| 15.11.2022 | Clean Energy Ventures Promotes Ted Dillon to COO and Peter Sopher to Investment Partner | On the heels of CEV’s latest additions to our investment and operations teams, we’re happy to announce the promotions of two long-time valued team members who have both had a hand in shaping the firm’s growth strategy and pipeline of planet... |
| 10.11.2022 | Clean Energy Ventures Welcomes Victoria Martins as our new Community Manager | Join us today in welcoming Victoria Martins, our new Community Manager. Victoria joins us to provide day-to-day support to the CEV team and facilitate improved engagement and programming with our portfolio companies, our limited partners, a... |
| 08.11.2022 | Clean Energy Ventures Welcomes Yi Jean Chow as our newest Investment Principal | As the climate tech investing environment continues to see extraordinary growth alongside policy initiatives such as the US Inflation Reduction Act and the EU “Fit for 55,” Clean Energy Ventures is excited to officially announce a strategic... |
| 13.09.2022 | Praise for Our Summer 2022 MBA Interns | Each semester at CEV benefits from graduate and undergrad interns that join our team and support due diligence efforts, build sub-sector roadmaps, and help with other special projects as true CEV team members. |
| 12.08.2022 | Why CEV Invested? Electrified Thermal is the Missing Piece for Decarbonization of Industrial Heat | By Anne Liu and Peter Sopher |
| 20.07.2022 | Electrified Thermal Secures $4.5 Million to Convert Surplus Electricity into On-Demand, Zero-Carbon Heat for Cement and Chemicals Production | Medford, MA – July 20, 2022 – Electrified Thermal Solutions, a provider of on-demand renewable heat for industry to phase out fossil fuels, today announced the closing of its initial financing of $4.5 million. The round was co-led by Clean ... |
| 11.07.2022 | Capturing Opportunity – The Time for Economically Viable DAC is Now | Our global economy is facing the simultaneous need to: (1) reduce carbon emissions use across industries and (2) pull CO2 out of the atmosphere at the scale of Gigatons per year. While electrification if cost effective could meet the lion’s... |
| 16.06.2022 | Thank you to our Spring 2022 MBA Interns | Each semester at CEV benefits from MBA and undergrad interns that join our team. Our interns support due diligence efforts, build sub-sector roadmaps, and help with other special projects as true CEV team members. |
| 15.06.2022 | Travertine Launches with $3 Million to Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology to Decarbonize the Energy Transition | UC Berkeley professor commercializes proprietary technology to capture carbon dioxide and reduce the environmental impact of mining critical elements |
| 04.05.2022 | Our SERC Tool Named Honorable Mention in Climate Category of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards | From a 3D printed vaccine patch to an electric truck, a seawater-powered lamp, and countless other bold innovations, the sixth annual awards honor the products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs that are driving change, tackling is... |
| 03.05.2022 | SCMs: A path to Decarbonizing Cement
Cement: A primer
Leveraging SCMs to decarbonize cement
Strong foundation: a dynamic team building success | Look out the window. Chances are you are going to see something made using cement. Cement is a key component in concrete and is the second most consumed product globally after potable water. The industry has been widely identified as a key ... |
| 28.04.2022 | Advanced Ionics Secures $4.2 Million to Enable a New Era for Decarbonization of Industrial Hydrogen Production | Milwaukee – April 28, 2022 – Advanced Ionics, a leading provider of next-generation industrial electrolyzers that can produce hydrogen for less than $1/kg, today announced the closing of its initial financing of $4.2 million led by Clean En... |
| 21.04.2022 | Carbon Upcycling Technologies Secures $6 Million to Scale Carbon-Resilient Infrastructure | Calgary, AB – April 21, 2022 – Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a carbon utilization company that produces a CO2-embedded cement and concrete additive, today announced the closing of $6 million in financing led by Clean Energy Ventures, a ven... |
| 29.03.2022 | Transforming electric, gas and water infrastructure through data | Imagine trading stocks, but instead of following along in real-time, you make decisions based on yesterday’s share price. Or worse, informed by the prices from a month ago. In an age when data is constantly collected, we have come to expect... |
| 15.03.2022 | Clean Energy Ventures Names Nora Mead Brownell, Former FERC Commissioner, as Venture Partner | Boston, MA, March 15, 2022 – Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), a venture capital firm investing in early-stage climate tech startups, today announced the appointment of Nora Mead Brownell as Venture Partner. In this role, Ms. Brownell will suppo... |
| 15.03.2022 | Copper Labs Raises $5.5M in Series A Funding to Help Utilities Take Control of Energy Demand and Accelerate Grid Modernization | BOULDER, Colo. (March 15, 2022) – Copper Labs, a technology provider that unlocks real-time grid-edge data for gas, water and electric utilities, announced $5.5M in Series A financing led by Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), a venture capital fi... |
| 16.02.2022 | How a Minerals Shortage is Halting our Energy Transition | Clean energy technologies like wind, solar and batteries generally are accepted as lower-carbon alternatives due to their role in enabling a decarbonized economy. While these critical technologies are already paving the way for a more susta... |
| 02.02.2022 | Bodhi is the ‘Alexa’ residential solar desperately needs | Keeping the earth’s warming under control will require pervasive solar in the coming decades, not simply the growth from 3% to 12% of global electricity demand that EIA projects from 2020 through 2030. |
| 27.01.2022 | Bodhi Secures $4 Million to Enhance Customer Solar Installation and Monitoring Experience | Led by Clean Energy Ventures, the investment will enable enhanced product development and scaling to meet the demands of the high growth residential solar market |
| 25.01.2022 | Gratitude for Our Fall 2021 MBA Interns | Each semester at CEV we are joined by a collection of MBA and undergrad interns as part of our team. Our interns drive due diligence efforts with support from CEV and CEVG leadership, they work on sector roadmaps across clean energy sub-sec... |
| 28.10.2021 | Clean Energy Ventures Urges Governments to Rapidly Scale Up their Climate Ambition | Clean Energy Ventures is among a record number of signatories to a joint global investor statement calling on governments to urgently ramp up their efforts to address the climate crisis. |
| 05.10.2021 | Celebrating Our Summer 2021 MBA Internship Program | Each semester we bring on a thoughtful group of MBA and undergrad interns to provide critical services to our operations. Our interns drive due diligence efforts with support from CEV and CEVG leadership, they work on technology roadmaps th... |
| 02.09.2021 | Non-Equity Financing and Venture Debt for Climate Tech Startups | This blog post is an excerpt of a much longer portfolio support primer developed for Clean Energy Ventures as part of our internship program, and is intended only to share lessons with other founders and investors. |
| 03.08.2021 | Our 2020 Impact Report | Last year was a breakthrough year for Clean Energy Ventures and for climate tech, read all about it in our climate tech impact report. We invested in six new portfolio companies, exceeding our target, and deployed $14.5M in new investments. |
| 09.06.2021 | Recapping Our Spring 2021 VC Internship Program | The term “intern” is probably misleading. The team members who join our vc internship program are critical to our operations, providing support for due diligence, company screening, strategic roadmapping and more. This spring, like the seas... |
| 02.06.2021 | The Climate Opportunity in Industrial Automation & Energy Intelligence: Why Clean Energy Ventures Invested in ndustrial | By Peter Sopher & Daniel Goldman |
| 11.05.2021 | Clean Energy Ventures Launches Open Access Tool to Identify the Climate Technologies Worth Investor Attention | BOSTON, MA, MAY 11, 2021 – Clean Energy Ventures announced today the launch of an open-access calculator to estimate a climate tech innovation’s potential impact on climate change. The Simple Emissions Reduction Calculator (SERC), which Cle... |
| 05.05.2021 | ndustrial Raises $6 Million in Series A Funding to Accelerate Efficiency and Innovation Across Industrial Businesses | ndustrial, a provider of software and services that seamlessly optimize industrial facilities across all stages of discrete and process manufacturing supply chains, announced today the closing of a $6 million Series A funding co-led by ENGI... |
| 27.04.2021 | Why Clean Energy Ventures Invested in Volexion, Our First Battery Technology Portfolio Company | Recently we invested in battery startup Volexion. Innovations making batteries cheaper, safer, lighter, longer-lasting, and longer-living are essential for the energy transition. For a zero-carbon economy to manifest, these challenge areas ... |
| 14.04.2021 | Battery recycling innovations must advance to propel a truly clean energy transition | Solar panels and lithium-ion batteries (“LiBs”) are the pillars to the world’s transition to ‘clean’ energy because of their clear fit in a zero-carbon world. End of life, however, is an area both technologies will need to improve to become... |
| 08.04.2021 | Volexion Secures $2 Million in Seed Funding to Scale Battery Cathode Technology | The investment by Clean Energy Ventures and Energy Foundry will enable Volexion to scale its cathode technology to meet market demand for high energy density solutions. |
| 08.04.2021 | Nth Cycle Secures $3.2 Million in Seed Funding to Scale Technology for Battery Recycling, Sustainable Mining | The investment by Clean Energy Ventures will allow Nth Cycle to scale its metal processing technology, an alternative to pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy processes. |
| 23.02.2021 | Clean Energy Ventures selected to ImpactAssets’ Tenth IA 50 Impact Fund Listing | Industry’s first publicly available, searchable resource of impact investing fund managers sees record number of applicants and assets, reflecting the innovation and exponential growth that the IA 50 has helped to spotlight over the past de... |
| 17.02.2021 | Why Half-Way Is Better and Faster Than Net-Zero for Homes & Buildings | For building efficiency, “good enough” is much more effective than “perfect.” |
| 03.02.2021 | How Net-Zero is Bad for Air Quality This Decade (The Case for Nuance) | California is one of many jurisdictions that made a clear and concise political pronouncement, “no more internal combustion vehicles allowed to be sold after…about next Thursday.” The push for net-zero carbon in heavy-duty trucking feels li... |
| 01.02.2021 | How Do You Define Carbontech? The Big Climate Tech Hype for 2021 | Elon Musk recently announced he would give $100M to the team that can develop the best carbon capture technology. If 2020’s peak-hype for climate tech (beyond climate tech itself) was Green Hydrogen, 2021 is kicking off with a strong focus ... |
| 20.01.2021 | Climate tech vs. cleantech: what’s the difference? | 2021 Update: “Climate tech” as a term has certainly taken off since this article was originally written on February 19, 2020 . Throughout 2020 companies involved with technology solving climate change, investors, incubators and accelerators... |
| 12.01.2021 | Fall 2020: Our Climate Tech Interns | Smart interns are a critical part of Clean Energy Ventures and our venture capital internship program. Our intern team supports our diligence process and various venture capital investment and industry projects. We had an excellent team of ... |
| 15.12.2020 | ClearTrace Secures $4 Million Series A Financing to Scale Verified Carbon Accounting Platform | ClearTrace is Clean Energy Ventures fifth climate tech investment during the COVID-19 Pandemic. |
| 15.12.2020 | An Auditable Climate Accounting Standard Is Vital for Combating Corporate Greenwashing | This month we announced our investment in ClearTrace – a climate accounting software as a service helping Fortune 500 brands, commercial real estate providers, and competitive energy suppliers create trust, transparency and reliability arou... |
| 20.10.2020 | Why coatings for solar glass are a ‘holy grail’ for the energy transition | Solar and wind have dominated electric generating capacity additions in the U.S. in recent years as their plummeting prices have enabled their competitiveness to surge. In fact, according to the annual levelized cost of energy (“LCOE”) repo... |
| 14.10.2020 | SunDensity Secures $2.5 Million in Initial Financing for Their Smart Photonic Coating Technology | SunDensity is Clean Energy Ventures’ fourth investment since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March of 2020. We’re dedicated to continuing to make investments in promising climate tech startups and believe pushing this industry forward is cri... |
| 22.09.2020 | Aqua Membranes Secures $2.1M Financing to Bring Energy-Saving Water Filtration Technology to Market | Clean Energy Ventures and Pentair lead financing to accelerate the commercialization of Aqua Membranes’ water and cost-saving technology in the reverse osmosis market. |
| 26.08.2020 | SparkMeter Completes $12 Million Series A Financing led by Clean Energy Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Goodwell Investments | We’re grateful for the meaningful and powerful collective of co-investors we have in SparkMeter. SparkMeter is a collection of sharp, thoughtful people out to change the way emerging markets access electricity, and they’ve got the technolog... |
| 23.08.2020 | How can we drive a sustainable energy future in emerging markets? | Amidst the current attention on climate change, it’s clear that the avenue to reducing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere to a sustainable level must include a discussion on energy use in emerging markets and more d... |
| 18.08.2020 | Our Summer 2020 Climate Tech Interns | Each semester Clean Energy Ventures relies on several interns to support our diligence process and various investment and industry projects. Our recent cohort of interns for “The Summer of COVID-19” came from: the MassCEC internship program... |
| 02.06.2020 | On Racial Injustice Across America | The senseless death of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and many others, at the hands of the police have left our country shaken, angered, and in turmoil. At Clean Energy Ventures, we stand with the Black community in condemning institutional r... |
| 21.04.2020 | ClearFlame Engine Technologies Closes $3 Million Initial Financing to Commercialize Clean Combustion Engine | Clean Energy Ventures leads financing round to challenge existing diesel technology, expand partnerships and jumpstart market presence |
| 17.04.2020 | On Helping Portfolio Companies Work Through the CARES Act | On Friday, the $350 billion American relief act for small businesses opened for applications. The guidance and policies for these Federal loan programs have been quickly developed and were actively shifting as late as midnight on Friday. In... |
| 16.03.2020 | Bold Ideas Challenge with Schneider Electric for Energy Storage Startups | If the 2000s were the decade of wind and the 2010s the decade of solar, then many agree that the 2020s are the decade of energy storage. Lithium ion batteries. Geologic storage. Cement blocks, and more. There are numerous methods of energy ... |
