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Thanks for the interview Connie Loizos. More to come about investments yet to be announced and the founders who are working every day to build in these spaces. Excited to have shared the gamut across where we invest from Earth to TimberEye to Monaire. We're investing out of $440m under management across 3 funds and are thankful every day that we started this focused fund to partner with entrepreneurs who are ready to turn the last bastion of old world industries into tech sectors. The physical world is driven by huge industries that need to change...and not simply by completing work incrementally better or by fitting into existing buying cycles and budgets. Many of our companies are totally reinventing how products are made or services are delivered and their customers win. We want to see more of this in every sector including industrial, transportation, energy, defense, space, manufacturing to name a few. https://lnkd.in/e-TqpvFh

💸 Rainmatter: Where Vision Meets Impact ☔ When patient capital aligns with bold ideas, innovation thrives. Rainmatter Ventures, backed by Zerodha, is fueling change across fintech, health, climate action, and storytelling. With ₹1000 Cr invested in 111 startups, Rainmatter focuses on meaningful impact over trends. Whether it’s democratizing finance or advancing sustainability, this report highlights how Rainmatter fosters innovation while creating real-world solutions. 👉🏼 Dive into the full report for deeper insights - https://lnkd.in/gmhNiGUC #Rainmatter #StartupFunding #ImpactInvesting #Sustainability #PrivateMarkets #Zerodha Rainmatter by Zerodha Zerodha Data Credits: Ganesh Lokesh, Krishna Bhattad, Sakshi Joshi D, Nandini Gangadhar

If you’re a seed-stage company, your next funding round is far from guaranteed. Same for series A to B, B to C, etc… It only gets harder. Savvy founders are always roadmapping their next round, asking themselves “What will it take to get there?”, and finding creative solutions. Of course, there are times when it seems like the answer to that is something akin to the “growth at all costs” mantra of 2020/2021. But I think if you peel back the layers enough, you’ll find the companies with the healthiest long-term growth are almost always the ones who optimized for long term sustainability and efficiency… even when the market wasn’t demanding it. For Excedr, the idea of extending your cash runway has always been our primary value proposition. We’ve done well over the years, because no matter what the market mandates (e.g. growth at all costs or w/e it may be), it’s a concept that always fits. But it hits differently when the market is demanding more conservative cash management as the default. 2024 could be the year when disciplined capital allocation and equipment leasing go mainstream. ;) #biotechnology #lifesciences #startups

📅 When are the best months to attract startup investments? After digging through Pitchbook, Crunchbase, Axios, and EY data—and throwing in 15 years of venture experience—here's the scoop: Investors are people too. They take breaks in summer and around the holidays. So, avoid pitching your funding rounds during these times! 🤷♂️💡 #StartupLife #InvestmentTips #TimingIsEverything

#News | Scaler, a real estate decarbonization platform, raised $10M in Series A funding from Plural and Base10. The investment will fuel advancements in sustainable building technologies, workforce expansion, and geographical market expansion. Scaler specializes in integrating eco-friendly solutions into real estate projects, aiming to revolutionize the industry's environmental impact. #RealtyNXT #RealEstateDecarbonization #SustainableBuilding #SeriesAFunding #GreenTechnology #ClimateAction #InnovationInRealEstate #EnvironmentalImpact #TechStartups Anshuman Singh Abhimanyu Saxena

Was it greed or blissful ignorance that led the venture capitalists to major failures in logistics and supply chain tech? With the biggest plays such as project44 and Flexport worth 1/5th of their all time high valuations, the question has to be asked - what went wrong? The whole Convoy Inc debacle, along with what happened at Slync.io, are just two of the many extreme examples of what can go wrong when you treat investment like gambling and building a business as a way to glam-up your lifestyle. Today, there are great companies out there (I mention a couple in the newsletter), paying the price for others' mistakes. And yet, AI seems to have singled-handedly saved the largest players out there - providing them with an excuse to raise "megafunds" to be burnt by charismatic characters who are willing to build a lucrative business disguised as a non-profit, trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes. There are winners. There are (big) losers. And there is way too much AI. Welcome to another edition of Wiser Logtech. If you like it drop a like on this post. If you love it leave a comment. And please share if its worthy. See you in a couple of weeks for the next one - I'm off to find an interesting topic to deep dive! https://lnkd.in/eV9dTNhy [Announcement] We've given the Wiser Logtech website a facelift, and will continue making some tweaks and changes over the coming weeks. I'm still working on the frequency - either fortnightly or monthly, as these pieces take a while to put together. Don't forget to sign-up for the Wiser Logtech Recap edition on LinkedIn 🤗 Now to figure out if I should start doing some video content or not... 😥 🙃 #logistics #supplychain #freight #forwarding #tech #shipping #data

As we approach our Venture East conference in Boston, we wanted to draw attention back to our recently released Venture Investors 50 list, which spotlights the buildings and infrastructure industries leading investors. The growth of this list in both numbers and diversity speaks volumes to the maturation of venture capital in the built ecosystem. In this list, not only do we provide details on the VCs themselves, we also share their respective largest deal (TTM)—which provides further insight into the level of activity currently happening in the areas in we cover. On the low end, we've seen deals below $5 million—like Leonard's (VINCI) $400,000 pre-seed deal with Bosso and Great Wave Ventures $3.25 million seed-round deal Allium Engineering—to $100 million-plus—like like Hitachi Ventures' $460 million Series D-round deal with Ascend Elements and National Grid Partners $105 million Series A-round deal with Exodigo. Check out all the details of our Venture Investor 50 list: https://lnkd.in/gXuUzamm Check out 2023's top investors, as well: https://lnkd.in/dKZY3kQC Also, a big shout out to our Venture East sponsors—Suffolk Technologies, Quickbase, Lattice.Site, Leaf Automation, BoxLock, Zepth, GreenVibe Technologies LTD, Enlaye, ConstructivIQ, 24 Hour Inspections, and On3—whose generosity and support allows us to continue growing and improving our programming for you, our members and attendees. Thank you! Register for Venture East: https://lnkd.in/e7uxP55E Please follow us for updates on Top Lists, upcoming events and meetups, and more!

This week in proptech, $103 million was invested across 9 companies at a median funding amount of $8.7 million. This week’s funding rounds reveal continued momentum in smart home technology, fintech, and clean energy infrastructure. As venture capital continues to flow into proptech, a wide range of startups in smart home technology, fintech, and clean energy infrastructure secured significant funding this week. From Pluq’s $55.8 million debt financing round to Mysa’s $11 million Series B, these companies are leveraging technology to tackle key challenges in sustainability and financial services. In this issue, we explore: · The role of venture funding in driving growth across proptech, fintech, and clean energy sectors. · How startups can responsibly scale in a fast-paced funding landscape. · Key insights into balancing innovation with financial discipline to ensure sustainability in high-growth markets. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gPeChgx7 #proptech #fintech #constructiontech #contech #insurtech #realestatetech #fintech #climatetech #venturecapital

Lucky to be living the American dream: you connect with like-minded people who have an intense, clear vision of how an industry will be transformed. You all know you can make it happen. Visionary VCs (Ridge Ventures, Engineering Capital, Industry Ventures) give you the fuel you need, and you're off to the races. I can't predict what the next 4 years will look like politically, but I can tell you what dinosaurs will look like. "The yoozh" of relying on data-teams to use APIs to get your data from online apps you use, ETL it for you and give you dashboards they think you need...which compels you to go rogue, create Excel extracts you can manipulate, slap some BI visualization tool on top of to create charts, take a screenshot, drop into a PowerPoint that you can present in a company meeting... Yeah, that's going to change--radically. I've been subterranean past couple of years, building product and not really being social on LinkedIn, but if you're curious on any of the above, please do get in touch!

Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group is thrilled to announce our investment in Neutreeno, a deep tech startup spinning out of the University of Cambridge. Neutreeno's platform is transforming scope 3 emissions measurement, delivering best-in-class carbon insights and visualizations to drive efficiency and seamlessly integrate circularity and decarbonization in supply chains––while requiring minimal data points from suppliers. The $5M #seed financing is led by Regeneration.VC, with a strong syndicate of strategic mission-aligned investors including Closed Loop Partners, Remarkable Ventures, Scania Group, Beacon Venture Capital and Prequel Ventures. With this funding, Neutreeno will continue to accelerate its commercial growth, moving the needle on carbon emissions measurement and further advancing circularity and decarbonization. Spencer Brennan Jonathan Cullen Jobey Meacham Read more: https://hubs.la/Q02RRh9_0 #circulareconomy #supplychain #decarbonization #innovation #venturecapital #carbon #UniversityofCambridge