At the same time, faster drilling means lower capex. Drilling costs, like rig time and labor, rise depending on how long it ...

From “FOAK fatigue” to funding flux, climate tech investors are navigating a trickier, more tactical market in 2025. A few months ago, we fielded an investor market sentiment survey, in partnership ...

It’s no secret that there’s a new normal in climate tech, where investment numbers, round sizes, and valuations are all down. In today’s environment, VC investors are becoming increasingly skeptical ...

We sat down with two of climate tech’s most recent fundraising standouts — Sophie Purdom of Planeteer and John Tough of Energize Capital — to find out what it really takes to raise a fund today, where ...

If you’re bullish on the energy transition, you’re bullish on mining. With every new battery pack and wind plant, it’s becoming more apparent that the energy transition is a metals transition. Over a ...

Climate tech has undergone a visible evolution over the past few years, transitioning from a phase of abundant funding for innovation to capital more focused on large-scale deployments that approach ...

Building climate tech projects is tough. Building a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) climate tech project is much tougher. From securing financing to forging a partnership with a developer, the inherent ...

We usually celebrate other companies’ fundraises, but today, we’re celebrating our own! We’ve raised a $5.5m Seed round, co-led by The Westly Group and Molten Ventures, to scale Sightline — our market ...

Ultimately, less than 10% of cleantech companies founded after 2007 generated returns to cover even the initial capital. While some investors tried to squint at Tesla's long-term stock performance ...

Thought we were done with this FOAK series? NOAK! Think again. Before we set you off on your merry deployment way, we’ve got one more project scaling step left from Pilot to FOAK, now to NOAK and ...

In this second feature in our First-of-a-kind (FOAK) series we’ve gone completely and unabashedly full framework to bring some structure to this adventure wonderland of finicky first projects. Porters ...