Breakthrough Energy Ventures

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AI & Tech

Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Backs 21 Startups Shaping the Future

Breakthrough Energy Ventures selected 21 startups for its latest cohort, shifting focus toward the massive infrastructure challenges of global electrification…

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AI & Tech

Form Energy secures $750M to expand 100-hour grid batteries

Form Energy raised $750 million to scale up its West Virginia manufacturing, driven by surging energy storage demand from AI…

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AI & Tech

Cowboy Space raises $275M to build rockets for space data centers

Space data center ventures face a critical bottleneck due to insufficient and prohibitively expensive rockets, with SpaceX's Starship and Blue…

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AI & Tech

Fervo Energy’s $1.33B IPO is largest climate-tech listing of 2026

Fervo Energy launched its IPO on Monday, offering 55.5 million shares at $21-$24 each, aiming to raise up to $1.33…

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AI & Tech

Quantum Computing Founder Chad Rigetti Returns

Sygaldry Technologies, founded by quantum computing veteran Chad Rigetti, has raised $139 million, including a $105 million Series A round…

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Newswire

Mantle8 Wins €2.06M EU Grant to Scale Natural Hydrogen

Mantle8, a Grenoble-based startup, has secured a €2.06 million EU grant to industrialize its proprietary technology platform for locating and…

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Business

Heron Power Secures $140M to Scale Grid-Transforming Technology

Heron Power, led by a former Tesla executive, secured $140 million to scale manufacturing of its advanced solid-state transformers, driven…

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Business

Fourth Power’s Thermal Batteries Could Undercut Natural Gas Plants

Fourth Power is developing a thermal battery using superheated liquid tin and argon to store and release energy efficiently, aiming…

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Business

TED Leader’s $300M Fund to Bridge Climate Tech’s ‘Valley of Death’

The "valley of death" is a major funding challenge for climate tech startups, especially hardware-focused ones requiring large capital for…

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Newswire

Nvidia, Google, Bill Gates Back $863M Fusion Energy Funding

Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $863 million from investors including Nvidia and Google, bringing its total funding to nearly $3 billion…

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Business

Terra CO2 Raises $124M to Cut Concrete’s Carbon Emissions

Terra CO2 secured $124.5 million in Series B funding to scale its low-emission supplementary cementitious material (SCM), which reduces concrete's…

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Business

Robinhood Founder’s Bold Plan to Revolutionize Energy

Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood, is leading Aetherflux, a space venture focused on space-based solar power using advanced laser technology…

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Business

Tesla Alum’s Heron Power Raises $38M to Revolutionize Grid Tech

Heron Power secures $38 million in funding to advance its solid-state transformer technology, aimed at modernizing aging electrical grids with…

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