French startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions will focus on one vertical. That’s why the company has decided to provide a carbon management and reporting tool for the fashion industry exclusively. Carbonfact recently raised a $ 15 million funding round led by Alven, a French VC firm that also led the startup’s […]
Bringing down skyscrapers’ sky-high carbon footprint with Joselyn Lai from Bedrock
Keeping homes and offices at just the right temperature requires a lot of energy. Buildings generate about a third of the carbon pollution in the U.S., most of which comes from heating and cooling. Bedrock Energy, co-founded by Jocelyn Lai, thinks it has found at least a partial solution. The startup seeks to decarbonize climate […]
Building owners are often in the dark about their carbon pollution. A new algorithm could shed light on it
Starting this year, thousands of buildings in New York City will have to start reducing their carbon emissions. But before that happens, owners need to understand how much pollution they are generating. Electricity alone makes up 60% of the total energy use in commercial buildings, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. There are plenty […]
Deal Dive: Not all climate startups are focused on carbon
When Josh Silverman started shopping around the idea for his methane-eating microbe startup, Windfall Bio, eight years ago, the market just wasn’t ready. Nobody cared about methane, he said. Companies were instead focused on lowering their carbon emissions. But a few years later, the market is starting to come around. Menlo Park–based Windfall Bio raised […]
AirMyne taps geothermal energy to scale direct air carbon capture
Sometimes insurance isn’t just money. Sometimes it’s equipment. That’s one way to think about direct air capture, a technology which uses machines to pull carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere. The idea has been floating around for years, but it received a surge of interest in the wake of a 2022 report by the UN […]