Issue #47: Regenerative Ag / Ocean Free Aquaculture / Multifamily Green Buildings / Climate Friendly After Life Solutions
🌱 🏘️ 🌊 🥀 Featuring Carbon Yield, Cadence OneFive, Aquanzo, Life After Life
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Tau Carbon: Woodbased CO2 sequestration
IncentiFind: Green building incentives platform
Legends Solar: Solar investing platform
Aquaai: Unmanned underwater data collection and analytics
Metafold 3D: 3D printing SaaS
OpenHydro: Hydropower installations emission mitigation platform
TO THE MARKET: Supply chain decarbonization platform for the fashion industry
Semiautomatic Semiotics: Immersive retail experiences
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Featured companies
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Carbon Yield
#️⃣Climate Risk, Agriculture & Land Use
Since the beginning of agriculture, approximately 133 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon have been lost from soils globally, the equivalent of 480 GtCO2 emissions. Agricultural lands have the capacity to reverse these emissions and return carbon to healthy agricultural lands. Carbon Yield helps growers navigate emerging greenhouse gas programs, securing premium pricing for carbon offsets and ecosystem services to help them secure regenerative inputs, implement best practices, and market the goods produced on their farms. They aim to net farmers $50/acre in new value per year.
Carbon Yield serves farmers representing more than 100,000 acres of croplands, and has cultivated corporate decarbonization partnerships generating more than $17k in MRR. The company is recipient of $5 million USDA Climate Smart Commodities grant, was selected for the inaugural gener8tor Climate Tech Accelerator. Sam, Carbon Yield’s CEO, has previously successfully exited a climate tech startup. The founding team has 15+ years in carbon markets, and consulted with top agribusiness/food institutions including Starbucks, Nestle, Barry Callebaut, and Corteva.
Co-Founder & CEO: Sam Schiller
Co-Founder & COO: Claire Pluard
HQ: Chicago, IL
Current funding stage: Pre-Seed
Company Asks: Carbon Yield is looking to connect with brands interested in exploring transitioning their supply chain to regenerative agriculture. They are also looking for software development firms with experience in climate or agriculture that come highly recommended, preferably women or/and BIPOC led.
Cadence OneFive
#️⃣ Buildings
Cadence OneFive is a PBC with the dual mission of speeding decarbonization and climate justice. The company is building a SaaS platform digitizing the slow, manual, and complicated process of planning and executing climate-responsive construction projects in multifamily housing.
There are unprecedented tailwinds for transforming multifamily buildings: Regulations limiting and pricing carbon emissions from buildings are rolling out across the country, and there is more money to fund climate-responsive construction than ever before. Simply put, the process of initiating and managing construction is THE key barrier keeping us from moving fast.
In their first year, they provided the NYC electric utility's multifamily energy efficiency program with their newly launched software. They are part of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's IMPEL program and the MassChallenge Decarbonization Accelerator.
Co-Founder & CEO: Bomee Jung
Co-Founder & CTO: Marc Zuluaga
HQ: New-York
Current funding stage: Pre-Seed
Crunchbase link
Company Asks: They are embracing autonomy-centered, non-traditional management and would love to connect with folks pursuing or experienced in horizontal management / self-managing teams. They are not growing our team yet, but would love to get to know folks who are values aligned and excited about decarbonizing multifamily buildings!
Aquanzo
#️⃣Food & Ag, Aquaculture
Aquanzo produces one of the best proteins available in the ocean on land without wasting finite resources.
Oceans can’t supply more marine ingredients to support the aquaculture growth: Aquanzo is developing technologies to farm marine zooplankton products 100% ocean free, using agriculture byproducts. They are developing technologies and IP around the system engineering, the end product’s nutritional composition and the genetic strain selection to produce better marine proteins. They up-cycle low value agricultural co-products to high quality animal feed, with the potential to improve the growth in fish by up to 45%, enabling a revenue increase by 3 - 7M for different farm operations, while changing the rules on environmental impact.
In less than a year, the team built a lab and produced an Artemeal prototype with lipid and amino acid product profiles equivalent to high-quality marine ingredients on the market. They established a TRL4 lab with 25x increase in production and produced their first 4 kilograms of product grown on agricultural by-products last quarter. They also entered the by-product evaluation phase with global agriculture waste producers for feedstock.
Co-Founder & CEO: Remi Gratacap
Co-Founder & CSO: Stefanie Lobnig
HQ: Edinburgh, UK
Current funding stage: Pre-Seed
Life After Life
#️⃣ Biodiversity, Urban Tech, Land Use
Life After Life turns industrial brownfields and urban sites into cemeteries serving local communities with new parks. Life After Life solves the problem of unaffordable and unsustainable funeral practices in America through conservation cemetery parks, experience enhancing technology, and regenerative community development.
They address the municipal need for remediating underutilized lands and developing green space, while offering consumer’s demands for green, more affordable, trustworthy, and life celebrating funeral options. Their solution economically addresses the environmental demands for sustainable cemetery practices, carbon reduction, habitat rehabilitation and ecosystem preservation, often in high demand in urban areas. They were recently featured in the Washington Post Climate Coach column.
Co-Founder & CEO: Jacob Tannenbaum
Co-Founder & COO: Rachel Sklar
HQ: Brooklyn
Current funding stage: Non Profit
Company Asks: They would love to network with fellow founders and investors, especially with Hipsanic/Latino folks.
Resources for founders
Venture For ClimateTech is now recruiting for Cohort 3
Venture For Climatetech is now recruiting for its next cohort of climate innovators! Get up to $100K in non-dilutive funds & hands-on support to get your solution to market. Plus a new $10K Fellowship for Black & Latina/o founders! Learn more & apply here.
CalSEED funding opportunity for clean energy initiatives that advances energy equity
CalSEED is an opportunity for non-profits, individuals, and companies to get funding and professional development support to advance an early stage clean energy technology that advances energy equity. We especially encourage groups that are underrepresented in the energy industry including women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and veterans to apply.
The application window is Feb 17-March 5, and there is an upcoming information session on February 15 as well as a recorded information session available on the website.
ClimateFounder: a resource for founders
ClimateFounder is a resource for founders to navigate the complex early stage startups ecosystem. Meet them during MCJ’s Idea Jams, an event for founders working on an idea or early-stage startup in climate that you would like to get MCJ community feedback on.
Resource for parents & kids 🧒
Who are the Energy Superheroes fighting to change how we power our planet? You can meet 34 of them, real-life women who are leading the energy transition to fight climate change and change how we power our world, in this new children's book, Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy Careers.
These Superheroes install solar panels, dig wells miles into the ground, connect zigzagging power lines, and drive us into the future with battery-powered cars. Learn more at www.stemsuperheroes.com
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