This week in NatureTech #40

🔮 Accelerating NatureTech

We made a database of 300+ ClimateTech accelerators also backing NatureTech companies💰

We grouped into three categories:

🐾 1. Generalists
↳ Broader tech focus but have climate/nature investments a bit like...
↳The Puma. Widespread (particularly in the US!) and feed on many different food types

🦁 2. Climate-focussed
↳ Climate tech focus but have nature investments a bit like...
↳ The Lion. Less common (<40,000 individuals), found in fewer habitats and slightly more selective with what they eat

🐆 3. Nature-focussed
↳ Nature tech focus a bit like...
↳ The Amur leopard. Elusive and with <30 individuals in the wild, but making a comeback!

💬 Snippets for your lift conversations

💼 Big business:

• The Finance for Biodiversity Pledge now counts 200 signatories, representing €23 trillion in assets under management from 28 countries (Read more)

• Microsoft has inked its first US timberland deal by investing in forest management firm EFM's latest fund, with a large-scale carbon removal deal inked alongside. (Read more)

• How three consumer companies are making progress on Nature (Read more)

🏦 Finance:

• Impact investment firm EcoEnterprises Fund has launched its fourth fund, EcoEnterprises Partners IV, LP, with an initial $50m raised and a target close of $150m, aimed at financing nature-based solutions in Latin America (Read more)

• Panelists at a Bangkok event warned biodiversity goals are at risk without scaled-up blended finance, as discussed by ADB and WWF. (Read more)

💻️ Tech:

• Search engine Ecosia will no longer pledge to plant one tree for each individual search, instead investing in a broader array of environmental solutions including solar power. (Read more)

• Google made an AI model to talk to dolphins (Read more)

📖 Research:

• Kyrgyzstan has established a new ecological corridor spanning 800,000 hectares, aimed at helping snow leopards adapt to climate change. (Read more)

• The European Union's agriculture sector loses an average of 28.3 billion euros ($31.9 billion) each year from extreme weather made worse by climate change, EU-backed analysis published on Tuesday showed. (Read more)

• 31 million tons of toxic seaweed is creeping toward beaches in Florida and around the Caribbean (Read more)

📝 Policy:

• The government of Misiones, Argentina, has introduced a jaguar protection insurance policy, a world-first initiative. (Read more)

• Plastic pollution along Australia’s metropolitan coastlines has dropped by more than a third over the last decade, according to new research by the country’s national science agency (Read more)

• Commodities from just four countries will face the strictest checks under the European Union's anti-deforestation law, with major forest nations including Brazil and Indonesia spared the toughest rules (Read more)

🎣 Deals

🇩🇪 Ororatech raised $13.5M (Series B) for their satellite-based thermal intelligence and wildfire solutions Source

🇨🇦 Veritree raised $6.5M (Series A) for their platform for tracking and verifying nature-based restoration projects Source

🇺🇸 Verdi raised $4.7M (Seed) for their scalable smart system to address agriculture challenges Source

🇸🇪 Lignin Industries raised $4.4M (Series A) for their greentech solutions transforming lignin waste into valuable products Source

🇦🇺 Bovotica raised $3.4M (Seed) for their sustainability solutions harnessing the bovine microbiome Source

🇩🇪 Senseup Biotechnology raised $2.7M (Seed) for their effective, selective, eco-friendly pesticides Source

🇺🇸 Atacama Biomaterials raised $2.5M (Seed) for their AI foundation model enabling composite materials design Source

🇬🇧 PES Technologies raised $1.7M (Series A) for their handheld soil health measurement tool Source

🇩🇪 Skyseed raised $1.1M (Seed) for their forest restoration using drones and precision seeding Source

🇪🇸 BIOM Bioinspired Materials raised $844K (Early VC) for their wastewater valorization and production of high-value biological products Source

🇫🇷 Kumulus Water raised (Seed) for their atmospheric water generators producing drinking water using solar powerSource

🇸🇦 Green Desert Tech raised (Seed) for their agriculture solutions in water-stressed regions Source

🇹🇭 Muu raised (Early VC) for their animal-free dairy products through precision fermentation Source

🇨🇦 Freshr Technologies raised (Seed) for their sustainable active packaging solutions to extend shelf life Source

50+ Startups are raising >$100mn in our network this year - get in touch to hear more

💭 Little Bytes

📊Read: High-throughput DNA barcoding revealed 2,829 genetically defined species in Antarctic soils (Read more)

🎞️  Watch: How a group in Ecuador is using AI to save hummingbirds (Video here)

💬 Research: Artificial intelligence can accelerate species discovery, improve ecosystem tracking, and aid in meeting global conservation goals (Read more)

📆 Events

🇨🇭 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025, 2nd June (Attend)

🇩🇪 ECOSUMMIT, 3rd June (Attend)

🇺🇸 WHC Conservation Conference, 4th June (Attend)

🇩🇪 Climate Transformation Summit, 4th June (Attend)

🇨🇭 Climeworks Direct Air Capture Summit, 4th June (Attend)

🇫🇮 Arctic15 Startup Conference, 4th June (Attend)

💼Jobs

Start-up or Funds:

• General Opportunities, Ulysses, San Francisco (Apply)

• Director of Nature Based Solutions, Sylvera, UK (Apply)

• The Great Bubble Barrier (Multiple Roles)

• Director of Ecology, Verna (Apply)

Corporate:

• Executive Director - Climate, Nature & Social Transition Risk Lead, JPMorganChase, NY (Apply)

• Product Manager - Nature, Bloomberg, London (Apply)

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

• Senior Manager, Environment - Nature, Lloyds, London (Apply)