| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.08.2026 | Quaise Energy Raises $180 Million Series B To Build First Superhot Geothermal Plant | Quaise Energy has closed a $180 million Series B financing round, including a $35 million strategic investment from Nabors Industries, bringing the geothermal technology company’s total funding to $280 million. The financing will support Pr... |
| 27.08.2026 | Quaise Energy Raises $180M in Series B Funding | Quaise Energy, a Houston, TX-based developer of utility-scale superhot geothermal energy, raised $180M in Series B funding.
Backers included Nabors Industries, Prelude Ventures, JERA Co., Inc., and Idemitsu Kosan.
The raise brought the tota... |
| 18.08.2026 | Tech giant Apple opens Advanced Manufacturing Center at massive Houston facility | Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. unveiled its Advanced Manufacturing Center in the Houston area last week, marking the completion of the second of three facilities the tech giant plans to launch in the city by the end of this year.
Th... |
| 16.08.2026 | Venture Capital Shifts to Hard Tech, Deep Impact | Venture capital shifts focus. Hard tech and vertical AI dominate recent funding. Form Energy leads with $750M for iron-air grid batteries, addressing critical energy infrastructure needs. Lovable secures $400M for AI coding, showcasing dema... |
| 12.08.2026 | Form Energy Raises $750M in Series G Funding | Form Energy, Inc., a Weirton, WV-based provider of multi-day energy storage systems, raised $750M in Series G financing.
The round was led by T. Rowe Price with participation from Sequoia Capital, Janus Henderson, Franklin Templeton, PEAK6 ... |
| 12.08.2026 | 6 exciting Houston startup raises to know from July 2026 | Houston startups carried the fundraising momentum of Q1 and Q2 into July with several significant seed funding, Series A and Series B rounds.
From geothermal leaders to medtech innovators, these six Houston companies raised more than a quar... |
| 10.07.2026 | Quaise Energy Secures $134M, Fuels Deep Geothermal Revolution | Quaise Energy achieved a significant $134 million Series B initial close. This pushes total funding to $230 million. The Houston firm pioneers utility-scale superhot geothermal energy. Its core innovation: millimeter wave drilling technolog... |
| 08.07.2026 | Quaise Energy Raises $134 Million Series B Initial Close To Build Superhot Geothermal Power Plant | Quaise Energy announced the initial close of its Series B financing, raising $134 million. The round was led by Prelude Ventures, with strategic investments from JERA and Idemitsu, two of Japan’s largest energy companies. Nearly all existin... |
| 07.07.2026 | Quaise Energy Raises $134M Series B to Advance Superhot Geothermal Power | Quaise Energy Raises $134 Million to Expand Superhot Geothermal Technology
Quaise Energy raised $134 million to hasten the commercial development of its geothermal energy. Prelude Ventures led the funding round, with strategic investments f... |
| 07.07.2026 | Quaise Energy Raises $134 Million in Initial Close of Series B to Build World’s First Superhot Geothermal Power Plant | Quaise Energy, a leading developer of utility-scale superhot geothermal energy, today announced the first close of its Series B financing, raising $134 million with additional equity and debt capital expected to close imminently. The round ... |
| 07.07.2026 | Quaise Energy Raises $134M in Initial Close of Series B Funding | Quaise Energy, a Houston, TX-based developer of utility-scale superhot geothermal energy, raised $134M in initial close of its Series B funding.
Additional components of the capital program, including project-level equity and debt financing... |
| 07.07.2026 | Quaise Nabs $134M Series B Financing |
HOUSTON, TX, Quaise Energy, a leading developer of utility-scale superhot geothermal energy, today announced the first close of its Series B financing.
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| 01.06.2026 | Thea Energy Secures $100M for Commercial Fusion Power | Thea Energy secured $100 million in Series B funding. This investment propels their advanced stellarator fusion technology. The company aims to build scalable, commercial fusion power plants. Funds expand magnet manufacturing and accelerate... |
| 28.05.2026 | Thea Energy: $100 Million Series B Raised To Build Scalable Fusion Power Plants | Thea Energy, a fusion energy company advancing stellarator technology for commercial power generation, announced it has raised $100 million in Series B funding. The oversubscribed round was led by US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT) with p... |
| 27.05.2026 | Thea Energy Raises $100M in Series B Funding | Thea Energy team
Thea Energy, Inc., a Kearny, New Jersey-based developer of stellarator fusion energy technology and scalable power plants, raised $100m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund (... |
| 26.05.2026 | Exclusive: Waste methane to fertilizer startup Windfall Bio auctions off assets | California-based Windfall Bio—a startup with tech to convert waste methane from farms and landfill sites into organic fertilizer—is auctioning off substantial lab and bioreactor assets at its San Mateo headquarters and Texas demo-plant.
Sil... |
| 20.04.2026 | Energy Grid Startup Gets $26 Million Fundraise
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| 31.03.2026 | Thermochemical Energy Storage Leader Redoxblox Rebrands as Tempo | Redoxblox, a leader in thermochemical energy storage (TCES) on a mission to electrify the world with technology that shifts the power dynamic, today announced its rebrand to Tempo. The new identity marks the company’s transition from techno... |
| 19.03.2026 | Rhoda AI Secures $450M to Redefine Industrial Robotics | Rhoda AI secured $450M Series A funding. This robotics pioneer fuels research and team growth. Its "FutureVision" platform, leveraging video-predictive AI, propels intelligent robots beyond labs. They adapt to real-world variabili... |
| 16.03.2026 | Temasek-backed Rhoda AI secures $450 M Series A funding to accelerate robotics development | Rhoda AI, a robotics company supported by Temasek, has raised $450 million in Series A funding to expedite robotics development and industrial deployment.
According to a statement released by the company on Tuesday, the Series A will fund t... |
| 11.03.2026 | Rhoda AI: $450 Million Series A Raised To Deploy Video-Predictive Robots In Real-World Environments | Rhoda AI has emerged from stealth with $450 million in Series A funding and a new robotics intelligence system designed to move autonomous machines beyond controlled laboratory demonstrations and into real-world industrial environments.
The... |
| 11.03.2026 | Rhoda AI Raises $450M in Series A Funding | Rhoda AI, a Palo Alto, CA-based robotics and artificial intelligence company, raised $450M in Series A funding.
Backers included Capricorn Investment Group, Khosla Ventures, Leitmotif, Matter Venture Partners, Mayfield, Premji Invest, Prelu... |
| 26.02.2026 | Zero Homes Secures $16.8 Million for Smart Home Upgrade Platform | Zero Homes, a Denver-based technology innovator, successfully secured $16.8 million in Series A funding. Prelude Ventures spearheaded the investment round. This significant capital infusion will drive the rapid expansion of Zero Homes' pion... |
| 24.02.2026 | Zero Homes: $16.8 Million Raised For Home Upgrade Technology Platform | Zero Homes has raised $16.8 million in a Series A round to expand its digital platform that streamlines home upgrades for homeowners and contractors. The funding was led by Prelude Ventures, with participation from SJF Ventures, Watsco Vent... |
| 18.02.2026 | Zero Homes Raises $16.8M in Series A Funding | Zero Homes, a Denver, CO-based technology company that develops an end-to-end digital platform supporting homeowners and contractors, raised $16.8M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Prelude Ventures with participation from SJF Ventu... |
| 08.02.2026 | Lunar Energy: $232 Million Raised Across Series C And D For Home Battery And Virtual Power Plant Platform | Lunar Energy, a provider of integrated home battery systems and virtual power plant software, said it has raised $232 million in financing across a previously unannounced $130 million Series C and an oversubscribed $102 million Series D. Th... |
| 04.02.2026 | Lunar Energy Raised $232M In Series C Series D Rounds | Lunar Energy, a Mountain View, California-based developer of integrated home battery systems and AI-powered Virtual Power Plant (VPP) software, raised $232m through a $130m Series C and a $102m Series D funding.
The Series D was led by B Ca... |
| 04.09.2025 | Copper: $28 Million Funding Raised For Scaling Battery-Equipped Induction Range | Copper is a company that launched its award-winning induction range last fall, which marked the beginning of a new category of home appliances equipped with internal batteries. These batteries not only provide impressive performance enhance... |
| 29.08.2025 | Copper Raises $28M in Funding | Copper, a Berkeley, CA-based appliances company, raised $28M in funding.
The round was led by Prelude Ventures, with participation from Building Ventures, as well as existing investors Voyager, Collaborative Fund, Climactic, Designer Fund, ... |
| 02.04.2025 | Persefoni: $23 Million (Series C Extension) Raised For Sustainability Management Platform | Persefoni AI – a leading Sustainability Management SaaS and AI platform for companies and financial institutions – announced $23 million in Series C extension funding. This latest funding round saw participation by both new and existing inv... |
| 01.04.2025 | Persefoni AI Raises $23M in Series C Extension Funding | Persefoni AI, a Tempe, AZ-based provider of a sustainability management SaaS and AI platform for companies and financial institutions, raised $23M in Series C funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $179M, saw participation by... |
| 13.03.2025 | Augmenta's $10 Million Seed Funding: A Leap Towards AI-Driven Construction | In a world where buildings rise like giants, Augmenta is carving a new path. The Toronto-based company has secured $10 million in seed funding, a financial boost that promises to reshape the construction landscape. Led by Prelude Ventures a... |
| 13.03.2025 | Terabase Raises $130M in Series C Funding | Terabase, a Berkeley, CA-based provider of digital and automation solutions for utility-scale solar power, raised $130M in Series C funding.
The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from both existing and new strategi... |
| 12.03.2025 | Augmenta Secures $10 Million USD in Funding to Pioneer AI-Driven Building Design | The financing will be used to advance Augmenta’s AI-powered building design agents and tackle the construction industry’s productivity and sustainability challenges
Augmenta, the leading autonomous design platform for the built environment,... |
| 12.03.2025 | Augmenta Raises $10M in Seed Funding | Augmenta, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of a design platform for the built environment, raised $10M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Prelude Ventures, with participation from Montage Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to... |
| 14.10.2024 | Form Energy Secures $405 Million to Revolutionize Energy Storage | In a world increasingly reliant on renewable energy, the need for effective storage solutions has never been more pressing. Form Energy, a Massachusetts-based company, has emerged as a key player in this arena. Recently, it secured a stagge... |
| 14.10.2024 | Form Energy привлекла $405 млн для своих многодневных железо-воздушных батарей | Компания Form Energy, занимающаяся производством и технологиями хранения энергии, которая разрабатывает аккумулятор, способный хранить электроэнергию в течение 100 часов, объявила о привлечении $405 млн в рамках раунда финансирования серии ... |
| 11.10.2024 | Form Energy Raises $405M in Series F Financing | From Energy, Weirton, WV-based technology company developing and commercializing a new class of multi-day energy storage systems, raised $405M in Series F funding.
The round was led by T. Rowe Price with participation from GE Vernova, along... |
| 26.09.2024 | Pyka: Electric Aviation Company Raises $40 Million (Series B) | Pyka, an electric aviation technology leader that designs and manufactures large-scale autonomous electric aircraft, announced a $40 million Series B funding round. Obvious Ventures led the round, which included new and existing investors, ... |
| 23.09.2024 | Pyka Raises $40M in Series B Funding | Pyka Pelican Spray in flight over a crop in the United States.
Pyka, an Alameda, CA-based electric aviation technology leader that designs and manufactures large-scale autonomous electric aircraft, raised $40M in Series B funding.
The round... |
| 15.06.2024 | Understory: Insurance Platform Protecting Climate-Vulnerable Industries Raises $15 Million | Understory, an insurance platform protecting climate-vulnerable industries from severe weather risks, announced the closing of a significantly oversubscribed Series A funding round at $15 million to drive its expansion into the renewable en... |
| 06.06.2024 | Understory: Weathering the Storm in Renewable Energy Insurance | Understory, a pioneering weather data and insurance provider, has recently secured a significant milestone in its journey by raising $15 million in Series A funding. This financial boost marks a pivotal moment for the company as it embarks ... |
| 05.06.2024 | Insurance Solutions Firm Understory Secures $15M Series A, Expands into Renewable Energy Sector | By John Lopez
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Understory, a leading weather data and insurance provider, has successfully raised $15 mi... |
| 05.06.2024 | Understory raises $15 million | Understory, a provider of insurance solutions built for the era of climate change, announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round co-led by True Ventures and Prelude Ventures.
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| 11.05.2024 | Meati Foods: A Fungi-Fueled Success Story | Meati Foods, a Colorado-based food tech startup, has recently secured a whopping $100 million in funding, marking the largest investment in an alternative protein company since 2022. This significant boost in funding comes as the company ex... |
| 08.05.2024 | Brief: Meati Foods raises $100m, rolls out at Kroger nationwide | Fungi-fueled startup Meati Foods has raised more than $100 million in a C-1 round led by Grosvenor Food & AgTech, and has also rolled out its mycelium-based steaks and cutlets into 2,000 Kroger outlets across the US, taking its store co... |
| 13.03.2024 | Quaise Energy Secures $21 Million to Revolutionize Geothermal Energy | Quaise Energy, a game-changer in the geothermal energy sector, has raised $21 million in Series A1 funding to accelerate its terawatt-scale deep geothermal technology. This funding will fuel field operations expansion and supply chain enhan... |
| 12.03.2024 | Quaise Energy Raises $21 Million to Accelerate Terawatt-Scale Deep Geothermal Energy | New funding will expand field operations and secure supply chain toward clean energy abundance
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 12, 2024–
Quaise Energy, the company unlocking terawatt-scale geothermal, announced today the closing of a... |
| 01.06.2023 | 🎥SCiFi Foods on cultivated meat unit economics: ‘We can make a blended product commercially viable without needing crazy-scale bioreactors’ | Some commentators argue that cultivated meat faces intractable challenges at food scale, and that growing meat in bioreactors at scale is a food tech fantasy. So are they right? It all depends on your approach, says Joshua March, cofounder ... |
| 17.05.2022 | Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 | TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q... |
| 26.04.2022 | Pyka Closes $37M in Series A Funding to Accelerate Aircraft Deliveries and R&D | “We are extremely pleased with this successful raise and the opportunities it affords Pyka to rapidly boost our manufacturing and begin executing on our more than $320 million in MOUs and commercial agreements from customers,” says Pyka CEO... |
| 17.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m | Licious, an India e-commerce marketplace for meat, scored $150 million in Series F-plus investment this week, while California’s Bear Robotics bagged $81 million for its robot restaurant servers. Over in agtech, Local Bounti snapped up a ri... |
| 29.07.2021 | Meati must meet manufacturing & scale challenges head on after its $50m Series B coup | The alt-protein segment is bursting with startups hoping to capture growing consumer and investor interest in the space. There’s an ever-growing number of meatless options at the supermarket and on restaurant menus. For Boulder, Colorado-ba... |
| 19.07.2021 | BREAKING: Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today.
The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
| 19.07.2021 | Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today.
The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
| 17.12.2020 | Energy storage investments 2020: VC and equity firms put more than $500 million in these 25 battery startups | With U.S. energy storage growing a lot this year, and poised to accelerate next, conditions are fertile for VC investors to look for startup innovation.Source: Wood Mackenzie
Here’s a long and incomplete list of where venture firms are putt... |
| 29.10.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Colorado’s Meati secures $28m for whole-cut alternative meats | Alt-protein is easily the hottest food trend in the world right now, at least as far as venture capital is concerned. A Coloradan startup has just entered the fray with new products and $28 million in Series A funding.
Meati’s funding round... |
| 29.10.2020 | Arable raises $20m Series B funding for global expansion, starting with Brazil | San Francisco-based crop management platform Arable has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by local VC firm Prelude Ventures.
The round also included participation from new investors such as M20 and Nassau Street Ventures, as well a... |
| 25.09.2020 | Morning Brief: California modernizes its distributed energy interconnection rules, Pine Gate launches wave of Michigan solar | California adopts first interconnection rules to utilize hosting capacity results: The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued sweeping changes to Rule 21, the rules under which distributed energy resources, like solar power an... |
| 22.09.2020 | Cleantech investing: Carbon tracking and sequestration startup wave, SPACs for late-stage energy transition capital | Renewable Properties, a developer and investor in small-scale utility and community solar energy projects in the U.S., raised $30 million from funds managed by CarVal Investors, an alternative investment fund manager. Aaron Halimi, founder ... |
| 17.09.2020 | Morning Brief: Duke Energy reaches deal with Sunrun, Vote Solar to modernize rooftop PV in South Carolina | Duke Energy reached a deal with Vote Solar, Sunrun, and renewable energy advocates to modernize rooftop solar in South Carolina: Duke’s agreement with solar installers, environmental groups and renewable energy advocates, if approved by reg... |
| 16.07.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Sericulture startup Mori raises $12m Series A to preserve food with silk | So, common sense was wrong. It turns out you can eat silk! But before you drag out that Kimono of yours and swiftly devour it in celebration, hold on a second — you need a crucial bit of cutting-edge protein extraction technology first.
Ent... |
| 14.07.2020 | Update on Natron Energy, sodium-ion battery builder with $35M from ABB, Khosla, Chevron | We reported on battery builder Natron’s $35 million investment round last week — but wanted to provide an update on the company’s markets and technology from people familiar with the firm.
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Natron Energy, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based star... |
| 08.07.2020 | Natron Energy, developer of sodium-ion batteries, raises $35M as investment in storage surges | Natron Energy, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup developing a battery using Prussian blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, raised $35 million in series D funding led by ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital and V... |
| 03.06.2019 | LevelTen Energy raises $20.5 million for its renewable energy marketplace | LevelTen Energy, a marketplace that consolidates renewable energy projects and potential buyers to lower prices for aggregated buyers and expand the market for sellers, has raised $20.5 million in a new round of funding.
Investors in the ro... |
| 02.04.2018 | What is the Prototypical Agtech Exit? | The headline-making agtech exits of 2017 generated cautious optimism among investors and stakeholders, but as industry thinking moves along, a new conversation is emerging around what the acquisitions of Blue River Technology by John Deere,... |
| 02.11.2017 | Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? | St. Louis has worked hard to be a magnet for Fortune 500 companies. Nine members of this elite class call the city home, not the least of which is multinational agricultural giant Monsanto.
Walmart has more than 20,000 employees in St. Loui... |
| 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... |
| 14.07.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Ripple Foods Raises $30m from Google, Khosla, S2G, Tao, Soil Disease Testing Kit Raises $4m, more | Ripple Foods Raises $30m from Google Ventures, Khosla, S2G, Tao Capital
Ripple Foods, which makes non-dairy milk products with eight times the protein as almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk, has closed a $30 million Series B round ... |
| 26.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 26, 2015 | Fanatics secured $300M; Spoonflower announced $25M; Velostrata raised $14M
Velostrata provides on-demand hybrid cloud software that decouples compute from storage. What that does is enable enterprises to stream production workloads to and f... |
| 02.05.2014 | EnergySavvy Raises $7M | EnergySavvy, a Seattle, WA- and Cambridge, MA-based provider of energy efficiency cloud software to utilities and state programs, raised $7m in funding.
The round was led by Prelude Ventures, with participation from existing investor Pivota... |
| - | Former Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer launches climate investment firm: ‘We need business’ to solve climate change | Former Facebook chief technical officer Mike Schroepfer is launching a climate venture capital investment firm, Gigascale Capital, along with climate investors Victoria Beasley and Evaline Tsai.
Schroepfer has been funding scientific resear... |
