Cambium partners with local arborists and municipalities to take fallen trees, which would typically meet an environmentally unfriendly end (dumped in landfills or burned), and upcycle them into carbon-negative construction materials.

The technology is designed by a company called Rain in coordination with Sikorsky, the helicopter manufacturer. The goal is to find new ways to more quickly respond to fires.

It’s no secret that home electrification technologies are beating out fossil-fuel based systems on both cost and performance in many areas of the world. To help understand how residential electrification may play out over the next decade, we will draw lessons from residential solar’s growth, then dive into VoLo Earth Fund I portfolio company Zero Homes.

As 2024 comes to a close, VoLo Earth reflects on a year of meaningful progress across our portfolio, team growth, and a year in which the energy transition moved towards the center stage of global discourse.

Enverus, the most trusted energy-dedicated SaaS company announced today that it has acquired Pearl Street Technologies, a leading provider of automation solutions that streamline interconnection studies for transmission providers, utilities and energy developers.

Developing diversified, regional battery supply chains is crucial to ensure national security and foster economic growth.

Sylvatex (SVX), a Bay Area-based battery manufacturing technology company producing lower cost and lower carbon cathode active materials (CAM) for EV and ESS batteries, today announced CEO Virginia Klausmeier as the first recipient of the Fastmarkets Voltas Industry Woman of the Year Award

Zero Homes aims to make electrification easier and cheaper by quoting projects — to install heat pumps, EV chargers, and more — without setting foot in your house.

This financing will support XGS’ first commercial-scale project in California later this year and accelerate deployment of its proprietary water-independent geothermal technology across its global project pipeline

Heimdal recognized in the climate category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas awards

Megan O'Connor, CEO and co-founder of Nth Cycle – a sustainable metal refining company – joins Salgocar in making the call to action.

Blue Frontier raised $16.9M from a large strategic corporation to top off the $20M Series A led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Solid-state technology has long been prized as the Holy Grail of batteries. More and more, though, the solid-state vision looks less like a blurry mystical relic and more like a concrete point visible on the horizon, even if it remains a few years away.

Loamist was selected into Breakthrough Energy Fellow’s fourth cohort. As BEV puts it, “Our latest Cohort brings together 25 extraordinary innovators from four countries, who are leading 14 groundbreaking projects aimed at tackling the world’s most pressing climate challenges.”

Skyven and Western New York Energy (WNYE) announced a partnership to deploy the United States’ first-ever industrial steam generating heat pump.

Sepion, a “leader in battery materials innovation” received a $17.5M grant from CALSTART and the California Energy Commission to build a cutting-edge lithium-ion battery separator manufacturing facility.

Senior Tech and Sepion Technologies will jointly develop and sell lithium-ion battery diaphragm products in China and the United States from 2026 to 2028

Denver-based Heimdal plans to extract at least 5,000 metric tons of CO2 out of the sky each year with its new Bantam project, which is named after a small but hardy chicken.

Waffle House approached Georgia Power about the possibility of incorporating a groundbreaking new technology into their Waffle House of the Future Macon demonstration.

On Sept. 9, Massachusetts-based Nth Cycle held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its 21,000-square-foot refining facility

The DOD formed a $28 million public-private partnership with Magrathea, a company developing innovative technology for the production of carbon neutral light metal from seawater and brine.

Sikorsky and Rain integrated their autonomous flight and wildfire detection technologies into a Black Hawk helicopter.

Ion Storage Systems reveals progress on its battery design, but mass production is still one of the main hurdles in this race.

Skyven Technologies has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) to receive $145M investment to accelerate industrial decarbonization and advance our mission of decarbonizing industrial process heat.

Rain, a startup building aerial fire-fighting tech, has closed a seed-round of 9.7 million led by DBL partners.

Magrathea, a start-up company located in Oakland, CA, completed its seed round, raising $10 million to make magnesium metal from seawater and brine using an innovative new technology.

Boston-based metals refining company Nth Cycle has closed $44 million in new funding that was supported by several investors, including the Caterpillar Ventures subsidiary of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc.

Skyven will use this round of funding to grow its EaaS offering–investing in sales, marketing, project execution, and software development teams to scale industrial emissions reductions.

Daanaa Resolution, Inc. just announced a Series A investment of USD 7M led by VoLo Earth Ventures.

Banyan, an investment facilitator for sustainable infrastructure, has confirmed a USD $8.2m Series A round led by VoLo Earth Ventures with several notable venture capital firms joining the round.

Grid-enhancing technologies include high-tech software that can uncover more interconnection options for new wind and solar power projects.

Blue Frontier’s ultra efficient AC system to decarbonize cooling by addressing every major issue associated with conventional air conditioning.

The investment will enable VECKTA to expand its marketplace platform and grow its pipeline across the food and beverage, manufacturing, and mining industries.

VoLo Earth, Frankstahl, Mercuria, and Clean Energy Ventures headline investment in a company disrupting the electric vehicle and critical mineral supply chain.

BattGenie landed a $1.5 million seed round from Powerhouse Ventures and VoLo Earth Ventures, plus a $300,000 grant from Washington state.

Toyota Ventures, Tenaska, and Bangchak Corporation Join Oversubscribed Round Led by Clear Creek Investments, VoLo Earth Ventures, and Alsop Louie Partners