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As we close the chapter on 2024, we’re reflecting on an incredible year of progress, collaboration, and impact across Innosphere Ventures and the CO-WY Climate Engine: 🚀 Empowering startups through Innosphere’s 26+ years of innovation leadership, advancing cleantech, life sciences, and technology ventures. 🌍 Tackling climate challenges with $3M invested in cutting-edge Use-Inspired and Translation Projects, driving solutions for wildfire risk, soil carbon capture, and methane emissions. 👩🔬 Advancing workforce development and pioneering initiatives like the Digital Twins Deployment Accelerator, shaping the future of climate technology. None of this would be possible without the extraordinary community of entrepreneurs, researchers, corporate partners, and regional leaders who share our vision for a sustainable and prosperous future. Here’s to a 2025 filled with even more resilience, innovation, and opportunity. Together, we’re creating a lasting impact. 🎉 Happy New Year from all of us at Innosphere and the CO-WY Climate Resilience Engine!

“You can't give what you don't have — so fill your cup before you can pour it" At Catalyst Fund, we believe the founders tackling climate change—the most pressing challenge of our time—deserve two things: 🚀 Relentless support to scale their solutions 😴 Time to rest, recharge, and come back stronger. Yesterday, we wrapped up our last Portfolio Gathering of 2024 with our 22 incredible companies building solutions that matter: from carbon capture to regenerative agriculture and cooling innovation, by way of tech-enabled mass transit. These founders are transforming resilience into opportunity across Africa and beyond. What we covered: 📉 A year of growth and wins 🌍 A look ahead to 2025, including our Founders & Funders Retreat in February 🥳 Highs, lows, and everything in between (all relevant lessons) To our (and all) founders: take time to rest. You're building solutions for tomorrow.. but you can't give what you don't have. Here's to another year of leading from the frontlines of climate innovation. 🚀 Maelis Carraro, Maxime Bayen, Rasima Swarup, Sydney Thiam, Javier Linares, Ngetha Mwangi, Valiullah Hashmi, Maureen K., Charles I. Nweke #ClimateInnovation #ClimateResilience

SF Climate Week is finally here, and the Reciprocal agenda is busy! Let me know if you're around and want to geek out on anything climate & Latam with me, Gabriela Carrasco, Waldo Soto Bruna or Benjamin Zehr. Here are some events we'll be attending or participating at: Tuesday: Building and Financing Climate Innovation Ecosystems, by Good Machine Living Carbon Open (Green)House, by Living Carbon and MCJ Collective Decarbonization Solutions & Carbon Markets in Latin America (#LatamTrack), co-hosted by us with LEAF and Carbon Business Council Ocean Climate Solutions Happy Hour w/ 12 Tides and Nekton Labs Sway Labwarming 🎉 Wednesday: Get to know the Climate Deep Tech Entrepreneur Support Ecosystem, by IndieBio, LabStart, Activate, Trellis Climate & DCVC (taking a lot of notes on this one to see what we can learn and adapt for Latam!) Empowering ClimateTech Innovation in Latin America (#LatamTrack), co-hosted by us and Copec WIND Ventures Thursday: Unleashing early-stage startup potential with corporate venture capital, Activate and Anglo American Funding Climate Innovation in LatAm (#LatamTrack) Friday: Regenerative Economics Panel + Playshop Emerging Managers in Climate Closing w/ Latam x Climate x BioTech Meet-up, co-hosted by us with Minus: A Compound Foods Company and Deep Science Ventures

Today marks one year booze free, maybe we should all get off gas 😉 My motto of “unleashing extraordinary” in others and systems isn’t easier, it’s just that I have more energy to tackle big problems like climate change, inequalities and broken systems. A few, became a lot, of us are tackling Australia’s 25th in innovation problem by building a national innovation institute, and our quest is bold for Australia to achieve a podium finish! Our problems to solve will be 5+ years into futures challenges and industry agnostic, who wants to be our PoC customers to test MVP?

🌟 Reflecting on another incredible panel at our Growth Retreat last Monday 📈 We were so lucky to have 5 fascinating panellists discussing the notion of a 'sophisticated climate capital stack', a modern multi-layered financing structure offering an evolution from the typical early-stage investing dominant not so long ago. Typically the climate tech investment space just 5 years ago was dominated by early-stage funding, but this is now 'sophisticating'. Climate Capital stacks have now evolved into a multitude of different funding layers, ranging from government spending, catalytic capital, banks, project finance and later-stage investing. To explore this evolution, we were lucky to have a panel comprised of Irene Gálvez, Head of Cleantech Growth Capital at the European Investment Bank (EIB), Kelly Wanser, Executive Director at SilverLining, Simon Phelan, Founder at Hometree , Andreea Constantinescu, Partner at Liminal Capital and our moderator, Kim Zou, CEO and Co-founder at Sightline Climate (CTVC). Join us at our Climate Clubhouse in Davos on January 22nd to listen to the experts and ideas shaping the future of climate technology.

We are very excited to have Freya Burton speaking at ClimateImpact Summit next week. Her session focuses on one of our favorite topics: navigating through the "Valley of Death" that startups face on the road to commercialization. #CCU #carbonrecycling #energytransition #commercialization #valleyofdeath

We're running a great session next week on Building Inclusive Teams in the CleanTech space! When? Wednesday 27th November | 14:00 - 17:00 Where? Scale Space, 58 Wood Lane, London W12 7RZ If you're a London-based climate tech startup with a solution to make our buildings better then you can register here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eDnQQ9t6 #BetterFuturesRetrofitAccelerator #UKSPF #retrofit #cleantech Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation

As we wrap up our inaugural Climate Angels cohort, we’re filled with gratitude for the vibrant community that came together to forge a path in climate tech investing. A huge thank you to each participant, instructor, speaker, mentor, and partner who contributed their time, knowledge, and passion to make this program a success. Special shoutouts to our incredible instructors, speakers and mentors from Lowercarbon Capital, MCJ Collective, Planeteer Capital & Sightline Climate (CTVC), Earthshot Ventures, Climate Capital, Climactic, Voyager Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Gaingels, Elemental Excelerator, and many others who enriched our journey with their insights. Your contributions have been invaluable in empowering our participants to drive impactful investments in the fight against climate change. To our amazing participants, your enthusiasm and commitment to making a difference have truly inspired us. We’re excited to see how you’ll apply the knowledge and connections gained here to foster a sustainable future. Our next cohort of Climate Angels is in partnership with Terra.do, kicking off on April 18th! If you’re passionate about climate tech and eager to join a community of like-minded investors, we invite you to express your interest. Drop your info at https://climateangels.vc to apply to our upcoming cohort and continue this journey with us. Together, let’s keep pushing the boundaries of climate tech investing and create a lasting impact on our planet. #ClimateAngels #ClimateTech #AngelInvesting #SustainableFuture #ClimateAction Jennifer Turliuk, Vijay R., Nishant Mani, Sundeep A., Michael Luciani, Sophie Purdom, Leonardo Banchik, Cody Simms, Shawn Xu, Mitch Rubin, Max Frenkel, Kirsti Chou, Matt Logan, Peter Sun, Camilla Rizzi, David Lacklen, Agneta Rosenberg, Anthony Pancotti, Craig Vigor, dheeraj sanka, Gaby Peña Fraga, Jake Wombwell-Povey, Nikhil Neelakantan, Rob Joy, Stephanie Simon, Surbi Luhadia

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