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This week in NatureTech #40
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Good Morning! and welcome to our 72 new readers.
In today’s edition:
🔮 Accelerating NatureTech startups
💰️ $25M in new deals for Nature
💼 The latest news across Big business, Finance and Tech

🔮 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:

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