This week in NatureTech #28

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💬 Snippets for your lift conversations

💼 Big business:

• IUCN and Cement maker, Holcim, release report on Catalysing Biodiversity on Buildings (Read more)

• International bank Standard Chartered announced it has joined #BackBlue, an “Ocean Finance Commitment” which aims to ensure a regenerating and sustainable ocean has a seat at the table in finance and insurance decisions. (Read more)

• £400m for innovative water schemes to tackle pollution, leaks and climate change - Regulator Ofwat announced the doubling of funding for its Innovation Fund which has already funded concrete printing, pipebots and nature schemes (Read more)

🏦 Finance:

• A carbon markets investor backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria said on Wednesday it had joined with two non-profits to raise an initial $1.5 billion to help protect the Amazon, by working with Brazilian states, farmers and local communities. (Read more)

• BNP Paribas closes ecological fund at €172m (Read more)

• Foresight Group, a leading investor in global infrastructure, natural capital and growing UK companies, raises a further £27m of fresh equity capital (Read more)

• Manulife Investment Management, the leading timberland investment manager in the world, with more than five million acres under management, today announced an additional $480.1 million fund (Read more)

📖 Research:

• Can communities living side by side with wildlife beat Africa’s national parks at conservation? (Read more)

📝 Policy:

• UK’s Crown Estate introduces new measures to ensure biodiversity protection, in line with the '30 by 30' pledge. (Read more)

🎣 Deals

🇺🇸 Recycle Track Systems raised $40M (Late VC) for their AI-driven sustainable waste solutions Source

🇺🇸 Tive raised $40M (Series C) for their end-to-end supply chain visibility solutions Source

🇺🇸 Meteomatics raised $22M (Series C) for their accurate and intelligent weather information Source

🇬🇧 StormHarvester raised $10.4M (Series A) for their AI-based wastewater utilities software Source

🇩🇪 Ocell raised $10.3M (Series A) for their aerial imaging and farm mapping services Source

🇩🇪Nala raised $4 (Seed) for their nature Intelligence solution, which reliably analyzes natural risks such as water stress and ecosystem changes and translates them into business benefits Source

🇨🇭 Voltiris raised $5.3M (Seed) for their solar panel solutions for agricultural greenhouses Source

🇳🇴 Avisomo raised $3.5M (Series A) for their automated vertical farming system Source

🇺🇸 Maalexi raised $3M (Debt) for their agri-business cross-border trade risk management platform Source

🇺🇸 Ginkgo Bioworks raised $2.4M (Grant) for their synthetic biology platform Source

🇳🇱 Agurotech raised $2.3M (Series B) for their soil sensing and irrigation optimization solutions Source

🇳🇴 Avisomo raised $1.7M (Grant) for their vertical farming automation system Source

🇮🇩 Banyu raised $1.3M (Seed) for their sustainable seaweed aquaculture production Source

🇺🇸 Worm Power raised $900K (Grant) for their earthworm-based organic fertilizer production Source

🇦🇺 Climasens raised $200K (Award/Prize) for their urban heat adaptation decision support tools Source

🇩🇪 Feld.Energy raised (Pre-Seed) for their agri-PV solutions Source

🇪🇸 Nax raised (Acquisition) for their precision agriculture solutions Source

🇮🇳 General Aeronautics raised (Series A) for their drone-based precision farming solutions Source

Currently fundraising:

• Rhizocore is raising a £5m Seed round. Rhizocore collects, selects and delivers elite strains of local ectomycorrhizal fungi to tree planting operations to increase tree growth rates, tree survival and newly planted forests' resilience to drought and disease. [email protected]

• Elyse at Tenax ai is raising pre-Seed funding; their software protects residential property and its insurability from extreme weather events, beginning with wildfire. Tenax ai is a B2B2C SaaS venture at the intersection of Insurtech x ClimateTech x Proptech, with pilots in California. [email protected]

• Bob at Mirico is raising growth funding for their methane detection service, which uncovers leaks of this climate-damaging gas from energy and agricultural facilities. They are raising $500k to build on $2m from new and existing investors in 2024. [email protected]

• Darina at Agrivero is raising €1.3m to close a €2.5m seed round by mid-February 2025, backed by an already secured non-dilutive €1.2m funding from the IBB (Development Bank of Berlin). Agrivero builds an ultimate AI-driven OS for the green coffee trade  [email protected]

💭 Little Bytes

📊Read:  Researchers study genetic diversity decline in Amazon Basin, focusing on Brazil Nut trees, (Read more)

🎞️  Watch: How carbon finance is seeding new hope for northern forests (Read more)

💬 Research: A window into the future of Amazonia (Read more)

📆 Events

🇰🇪 African Climate Summit, 1st February 2025 (Attend)

🇨🇭 World Biodiversity Forum, 3rd February 2025 (Attend)

🇺🇸 Environmental Data Science Summit 2025, 4th February (Attend)

 🇺🇸GreenBiz, 10th February (Attend)

💼 Jobs

Start-up:

• Multiple roles, Planet A Foods, Germany (Apply)

• Multiple Roles, Ulysses, USA (Apply)

• Software Engineer, Cecil, Australia (Apply)

• Backend Engineer, Landbanking Group, Germany (Apply)

• Sales Development Representative, Arbonics, Remote (Apply)

• Multiple roles, Space Intelligence, Edinburgh (Apply)

• Commercial Director, Space for Good (Apply)

• Back End Engineer, Credit Nature (Apply)

• Director of Nature Based Solutions, Sylvera (Apply)

Corporate:

• Climate, Nature and Social Risk Modelling Vice President, JP Morgan, London (Apply)

• Nature-Based Solutions, Subject Matter Expert, Ramboll, USA, (Apply)

• Asset Manager - Nature Based Carbon Strategy (Apply)