Issue #42: Robotic farming / Forest resilience / NYC Buildings
Vibrant Planet enables resilient forests, New Money Eco supports NYC buildings owners to reduce GHG, Future Acres farms better with Carry.
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Featured Companies
New Money Eco
#️⃣Buildings, Climate Risks
New Money Eco visualizes real-time carbon for NYC building owners to comply with a new carbon reporting law and coach them to take climate action immediately. They aim to reshape real estate values based on their carbon consumption pattern and commitment to mitigate climate change with ESG values.
The company has $500K in LOI - 40 buildings by the end of 2022, 500 buildings by 2023. They graduated from Columbia IBM Accelerator, and were semi-finalist of the 2021 Columbia Venture Competition.
Co-Founder & CEO: Najin Kim
HQ: New York City
Current funding stage: Pre-Seed
Vibrant Planet PBC
#️⃣Agriculture and land use, Flooding, Climate risks, Water, Biodiversity
Vibrant Planet is a public benefit corporation on a mission to accelerate forest resilience and combat climate change with nature-based solutions. The company provides organizations, land managers, and government agencies with a comprehensive cloud-based software platform for treatment scenario planning and budget prioritization, monitoring, and reporting to dramatically reduce catastrophic wildfire impacts through adaptive community protection planning and land management planning to restore at-risk watersheds, carbon sinks, and biodiversity. Vibrant Planet’s solution cuts today’s consultant-driven processes from 2-10 years down to weeks, with improved scientific information.
Earlier this year, Vibrant Planet announced a $17M seed round from some of the most high-profile climate investors in the world, including Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Cisco, Valia Ventures, and Earthshot Ventures. In September, Vibrant Planet teamed up with Lake Tahoe's leading forest agencies and fire districts to deploy the system across 1.45 million acres in the Central Sierra.
Co-Founder & CEO: Allison Wolff
HQ: Incline Village, NV
Current funding stage: Seed
Future Acres
#️⃣Agriculture & Land use
Future Acres builds intelligent automation solutions for farms, starting with Carry, an autonomous transportation vehicle that increases production efficiency by 30-40%, improves farmworker safety and provides real-time data & analytics.
This month, Future Acres unveiled and demoed their V1.1 product, demonstrating custom hardware optimized for functionality, ruggedness and cost. The company announced the $350K investment from Elemental Excelerator as one of 17 companies selected into Elemental’s ClimateTech Program. Future Acres was one of the top 42 companies to watch in 2022 by Rabobank's Foodbytes! Program, as part of the 'New Ways of Working' cohort.
CEO: Suma Reddy
HQ: Merced, California
Current funding stage: Seed
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Events: EarthX 2023, BNEF Pioneers
EarthX’s signature sustainability-focused investment and innovation event, the 7th annual E-Capital Summit, is only six months away. If you have speaker suggestions for next year’s E-Capital Summit or one of EarthX’s other conferences, please use the following link: EarthX 2023 - Call for Proposals. The submission deadline is Friday, November 18th.
BNEF Pioneers: For more than a decade, the BNEF Pioneers program has identified game-changing technologies or innovations with the potential to accelerate global decarbonization and halt climate change. This year, we’re looking for innovations in hydrogen, metals and food production. Winners are inducted into our prestigious Pioneers alumni class, included in BNEF public research, invited to BNEF Summits and given one year access to BNEF web product. Applications open on October 11 and close on November 18.
Resources: Crowdsolve
CrowdSolve is a 'pre-incubation' platform for climate entrepreneurs. We exist to empower early-stage innovators who are solving the climate crisis by providing them with resources and next steps, guiding them through their venture development journey. The CrowdSolve Blox system helps innovators organize next steps, rewards their forward progress, and connects them to the right resources at the right time.
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