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| 12.06.2026 | The SpaceX IPO just created one of the biggest wealth events in Silicon Valley history. Here are the winners. | Elon Musk, now the world's first trillionaire, is famous for demanding absolute loyalty. SpaceX's market debut proves that he also pays it back in dividends, minting a new class of billionaires out of the allies who have stood by him for de... |
| 14.02.2025 | Cleantech Funding Off To A Slow Start In 2025 | 0 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
If urgency were the driving motivation of venture funding, you’d expect cleantech would be cleaning up.
However, that’s not happening. In the wake of a record year for global surface temperatures tha... |
| 09.05.2024 | Exclusive: DOE unveils FESI foundation's board members | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Department of Energy has selected 13 board members from across the investment community and industry for its newly formed foundation.
Why it matters: The DOE's foundation could help provide altern... |
| 17.05.2021 | I Can’t Overstate the Value of a Good Board | In the 12-months, we have stood up a company, hired a world-class team, released an industry-leading piece of hardware, and signed a term sheet to fully fund our business plan. That’s the result of many factors, including extraor... |
| 11.03.2021 | Regenerative agriculture is the next great ally in fight against climate change | Nancy Pfund Contributor
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Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners, a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, environmental and economic returns in t... |
| 14.09.2020 | New State And City-Led Measures Are Promoting Building Electrification | Zero-emissions commercial coffee roasterBellwether Coffee |
| 13.07.2020 | Data Science: The Key Tool Cities Need To Reduce Carbon Emissions | A cyclist passes electric automobiles charging at Ubeeqo SAS electric vehicle charge stations in ... [+] Paris, France, on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. President Emmanuel Macron’s plan includes incentives for the purchase of electric cars, cash... |
| 12.09.2019 | Bellwether Coffee checks sustainability, fair wage boxes for impact fund DBL | “Bellwether Coffee has a dream team of sustainability and coffee experts and is addressing a large market ripe for improvement. It fits squarely into DBL’s investment themes regarding greener ag, better economics to farmers, and the electri... |
| 06.03.2018 | How DBL Partners’ Ira Ehrenpreis looks for both community and financial returns | Venture capitalist Ira Ehrenpreis was an early entrant in the cleantech space, an early investor and board member at Tesla, and is now an early investor in mission-driven heartland tech companies via his firm DBL Partners (Double Bottom Lin... |
| 06.03.2018 | How DBL Partners’ Ira Ehrenpreis looks for both community and financial returns | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capitalist Ira Ehrenpreis was an early en... |
| 21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?) | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were broken more than once during... |
| 14.11.2017 | Africa Roundup: Lori Systems wins BFX Africa, Andela raises $40M, Jumia lends to SMEs, Safaricom launches incubator | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
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| 10.10.2017 | Andela raises $40m Series C from Omobola Johnson’s TLcom and 4 other new investors | Share this article:
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| 10.10.2017 | Spark Capital Joins $40M Series C for Andela | Andela, the company that builds high-performing engineering teams with Africa's most talented software developers, today announced that the company has secured $40M in Series C funding. The investment was led by pan-African venture firm CRE... |
| 10.10.2017 | BREAKING: Andela raises $40m from CRE VC, DBL, Salesforce, TLcom, others in Series C round | TechCabal has been reliably informed that Andela has raised $40m from investors like CRE VC, Salesforce Ventures, DBL Partners, etc, to fund an aggressive expansion across Africa. This round brings their total amount raised to about $80m.
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| 10.10.2017 | Andela, a tech training and development outsourcer for African coders, raises $40M | Andela, a startup that trains developers in Africa and hires them out to global tech companies, has raised $40 million in Series C funding.
The financing came from CRE Venture Capital, a pan-African venture firm, with additional participati... |
| 10.10.2017 | Andela Raises $40M To Connect Africa’s Engineering Talent Globally | Share this:
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| 14.09.2017 | Farm Technology Startups Raise $1.13bn in H1-2017, a 56% YoY Increase | Farm technology startups, a subset of the broader AgriFood Tech market, raised $1.13 billion in early stage funding in the first half of 2017, representing a 56% increase year-over-year, according to the upcoming AgFunder AgriFood Tech repo... |
| 10.07.2017 | Advanced Microgrid Solutions Raises $34 Million in Series B | Advanced Microgrid Solutions announced it has raised over $34 million in a Series B funding round amid projections by utility executives that distributed energy resources (DERs) will create the biggest stress on the grid in the coming decad... |
| 10.07.2017 | GE Ventures Joins $34M Series B for Advanced Microgrid | Advanced Microgrid Solutions announced it has raised over $34 million in a Series B funding round amid projections by utility executives that distributed energy resources (DERs) will create the biggest stress on the grid in the coming decad... |
| 08.03.2017 | Farmer Business Network Raises $40m Series C to Transform the Farm Economy Through Data | Farmers Business Network (FBN), a farmer-to-farmer network offering data management and input procurement services, has raised $40 million in Series C funding co-led by Google’s venture arm GV and San Francisco-based impact investor DBL Par... |
| 07.03.2017 | Farmer’s Business Network cultivates $40 million to help farmers buy seeds at favorable prices | GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) and DBL Partners co-led a $40 million investment in Farmer’s Business Network, Inc., the company announced on Tuesday. FBN started as something of a professional network for farmers and other agronomis... |
| 14.02.2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| 21.11.2016 | Revolution Foods plans aggressive retail expansion, on track to generate $130m in revenue in 2016 | While many food start-ups gravitate towards snacks and beverages, Revolution Foods began right at the center of the plate, and was very clear about its mission from the outset, co-founder Kirsten Saenz Tobey told FoodNavigator-USA: “To tran... |
| 18.08.2016 | Ceres Q&A With Nancy Pfund: 'The progress we are making is undeniable' | Ceres is launching a new Q&A series as part of its Clean Trillion campaign aimed at elevating clean energy investments globally by an additional $1 trillion a year in order to minimize damaging climate change impacts. The series will fo... |
| 09.08.2016 | Farmers Business Network raises $20 million to help farmers avoid spending on what they don’t need | A startup called Farmers Business Network has raised $20 million in new venture funding to support the growth of its professional social network and data-sharing platform for agronomists.
FBN co-founder and Vice President of Product Charles... |
| 05.01.2016 | Will The Paris Climate Change Deal Prove To Be The Catalyst For Cleantech? | Ankit Mishra Contributor
Ankit Mishra is a business development and partnerships fellow at Tradecraft.
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Will The Paris Climate Change Deal Prove To Be The Catalyst For Cleantech?
Back in January 2014, the CBC a... |
| 23.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 23, 2015 | ColorChip raised $25M; Quizlet secured $12M; Sportpursuit received $14.4M funding
South Korean apartment cleaning service WaHome has received $1 million in a seed investment from Sparklabs Global Ventures, Mashup Angels, Fast Track Asia and... |
| 22.10.2015 | DBL Leads $25M Round in African Solar Company Off Grid Electric | - |
| 09.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 9, 2015 | Didi Kuaidi scored $1B; Chef bagged $40M; Primus Power raised $25M
The battle for supremacy among e-hailing services in China is heating up, and fast. In the same week that Uber revealed that it has raised an additional $1.2 billion to expa... |
| 24.06.2015 | DBL Partners Closes Third Impact Fund at $400M | DBL Partners has closed its third impact fund at $400m.
DBL Partners III makes investments with a “no sacrifices” approach this meaning having a positive social, environmental or regional economic impact without compromising financial retur... |
| 17.06.2015 | Mapbox Raises $52.6M Led By DFJ To Be The “Map Layer” For All Apps | With questions swirling over who may end up buying Nokia’s mapping division Here, a startup trying to disrupt it and other big boys like Google has raised some major funding. Mapbox, a developer of customizable maps used by third-party apps... |
| 17.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 17, 2015 | LeadPages secured $27M; Doctor On Demand closed $50M; Mapbox landed $52.6M
Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides video visits with board-certified physicians on a patient's smartphone closed a $50 million round of Series B fi... |
| - | Two more SolarCity board members are recusing from the Tesla merger vote, leaving only 3 members | When Tesla first announced that it submitted an acquisition offer to SolarCity‘s board of director, the company made it clear that Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias will recuse themselves from voting on the $2.8 billion merger deal since they b... |
| - | DBL Partners III closes a $400 mln | BY LUISA BELTRAN
DBL Partners said Tuesday it closed its most recent fund at $400 million. DBL Partners III will invest in sustainable energy, products and services, digital media and imaging, health care, and IT. San Francis... |
| - | DBL Partners, Investor in Tesla and Solar City, Closes 3rd Fund at $400 Million | BY DENNIS PRICE
Want to spot the next Tesla? Watch DBL Partners.
The “double bottom line” venture capital firm has closedDBL Partners III, its third fund, with $400 million in capital. The portfolios of DBL’s previous funds ... |
| - | DBL Leads $25M Round in African Solar Company Off Grid Electric | - |