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Unwritten, a London-based climate tech startup, secured $3.5 million in funding, led by Connect Ventures, with support from Planet A Ventures and other investors from academia and industry. 💡 Key Highlights: 🌱 Co-founded by Dr. Phillip Marks, Ph.D. and Amos Wittenberg, Unwritten leverages big data to provide actionable financial insights by modeling the complex dynamics of climate change into firm-level financial data. 🌱 This funding will fuel their mission to bridge financial markets and climate awareness. 🌱 Their platform aims to help investors and companies recognize and act on the financial implications of the climate transition. 🌱 Notable endorsements from academics and industry experts, including Professor Cameron Hepburn of the University of Oxford, highlight Unwritten's significance in integrating climate economics into financial decision-making. #ClimateTech #FundingRound #ClimateAwareness #BigData #FinancialInsights #ClimateTransition #Investment #ClimateRisk #Sustainability #EnvironmentalFinance

Sustainability is not a single problem and hence it doesn't have a single solution. One of the purpose for participating in this global hackathon along with Ikechukwu Okoli ("We Succeed Together") was to ideate and contribute innovative solutions that can be brought to life in making our world more sustainable. Greenwashing is one of the pressing issues in financial services and we came together to propose a framework and illustrative use case that addresses this issue for Impact-linked Financial Instruments. Everybody is a winner in this hackathon, but its wonderful to also get awarded as the top idea in "Emerging Category" 💡 🎉 . Thanks to Richard Peers NayaOne David Gristwood Finextra ResponsibleRisk Ltd and all judges for supporting our solution. #greenwashing #sustainabilitlinkedloans #sustainabilitylinkedbonds #hackathon #sustainablefinance

Thanks Crain's New York Business and Caroline Spivack for the feature! CEO Bonnie Gurry and COO Elizabeth Landau talk about GreenPortfolio's beta product that helps investors align their portfolios with climate impact. Plus, they share news about the company's mission and plans for 2024...check out the article below! #betalaunch #personalfinance #climateactionnow #impactinvesting

"It's going to make it more difficult for these climate tech companies to raise capital even... than it's already been." - PitchBook, Yahoo Finance, AOL The collapse of SVB last year certainly threw a wrench in the gears (and finances) of many climate tech companies. One of the results being even greater due diligence requirements from VC's. "How will your technology reduce emissions compared to the status quo?" "How does your product impact customer Net-Zero goals?" Rho Impact's impact forecasting service provides third-party verification on your potential future impacts on the planet, your stakeholders, and society at-large. From Eclipse to Autodesk Foundation to Prime Coalition's global investor network, impact forecasting has become 'table-stakes' for securing capital and commitments from the world's most forward-thinking organizations. If you WANT to raise more capital, win more customers, and penetrate more market share, you NEED impact forecasting and verification. Rho Impact. You bring your WHY. We'll bring everything else (including the support you need to accelerate your funding and future impact on the world). https://lnkd.in/esTaTMRD #impactmeasurement #climatetech #duediligence #forecasting #impactforecasting #impacteconomy #esgreporting #esginvesting #impactinvestment #decarbonization #netzero #justtransition

The 23rd edition of the Alt Goes Mainstream by The AGM Collective is out! Live from London, we take the pulse of the European market after a week of conversations with GPs and LPs at the Mountside Ventures event and co-hosting dinners with Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and Mouro Capital. Investing has the power to change the world. Private markets offer the opportunity for investors — both individuals and institutions — to direct capital into initiatives that can make a difference. As investors and capital allocators, we do have the ability to effect change. What I heard at meetings and conferences in Europe this week reinforced the notion that capital can change an ecosystem. European tech is on the rise. Sure, the region may experience some turbulence as tech valuations continue to correct. LPs and GPs are looking for ways to create liquidity in the current environment as they grapple with a new normal. That was a recurring theme. But the long-term development of Europe’s tech scene looks promising. Read on to hear more about Europe's promising future ahead in tech. This AGM Alts Weekly covers: 🗂️ AGM Index, an index that tracks the leading publicly traded alternative asset managers. 🗞️ AGM News of the Week, this week covering:  📌 PitchBook's Jessica Hamlin dives into why public pensions may be harboring valuation risk due to valuation practices from GPs in private markets and, in the 2/20 commentary, 73 Strings CEO Yann Magnan shares his views on why the combination of technology innovation and 3rd party opinions is so critical to moving the space forward. 📌 Financial Times' Sarah Murray covers the nuanced topic of private equity balancing both investment returns and being a sustainability leader. 📌 Citywire's Selin Bucak highlights the trend of traditional asset managers getting into the game of creating their own private markets funds to serve the HNW channel, as the race to work with wealthy investors is well-underway. 📌 PitchBook's Marie Kemplay discusses her main takeaways from the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) Summit earlier this week, which include liquidity being top of mind for both GPs and LPs, a focus on sustainability and ESG, and unlocking access to private markets for the wealth channel. 📌 Citywire's Ian Wenik covers Merchant's $400-500M capital raise as the trend of buying ownership stakes in RIAs continues to march onward. 💻 Who is hiring: Senior-level positions from companies like iCapital, bunch, Republic, Isomer Capital. Subscribe 👇 to see what's going on in alts so you and your firm can stay up to date on the latest trends and navigate this rapidly changing landscape as alts go mainstream. https://lnkd.in/esrGuMjp

73 Strings' CEO Yann Magnan interviewed by Michael Sidgmore from Alt Goes Mainstream by The AGM Collective on how #ValuationTech combined with expertise from #ValuationOpinionProviders can help change how LPs look into allocation of capital to Private Markets. Read here 👇

In the past few years, I’ve been inspired by people across the financial ecosystem who are building creative tools to finance and scale ClimateTech and ensure humanity confronts its most challenging problem. I’ve learned about lots of solutions, but many important questions remain: - How can we finance higher-risk emerging technologies?  - How can we help the middle-stage companies who often get overlooked? - How can we mainstream climate financing? As I explore these questions, I'm excited to announce the launch of my Climate Capital Stack newsletter! My goal is to foster conversations and share up-to-date information that reflects the dynamism of this sector.

The first time David Carlin and I spoke about the use of #AI and other technologies in scaling #sustainablefinance was in summer of 2022 at a conference, and the conversation hasn’t really ended since. David is undoubtedly one of the key voices (even LinkedIn says so!) in green and climate finance. He is not only an exceptional communicator of ideas in this space, but also a true expert in both the development and implementation of climate disclosures (#TCFD anyone?), scenario planning, governance, and - to bring all of this together - #transitionplans. Through his engagement with 100 global FIs he is intimately familiar with the real world challenges in allocating capital to the #climatetransition, and has lots of insight into how to make the associated processes, research and analysis go faster. That’s why I’m so thrilled to have David join our Advisory Board. A warm welcome, we can’t wait to (continue to) roll up our sleeves and get to work! Thank you for the vote of confidence in Aleksi, myself and the rest of the ClimateAligned team 🌍 Read the full announcement on our freshly revamped website: https://lnkd.in/g5DDj-cB #fintech #AI #LLM #climatefinance #greenfinance #transitionfinance #greenbonds #sustainablebonds #transition #netzero #climatealigned

Good morning! Today it’s about finance for #climateinnovation. The post below 👇 is pretty good at rounding up the big names in #Venture #Capital, but what all these funds have in common? They invest in businesses that are profitable. And expect a return. Are all the solutions we need profitable? Obviously not. Are even all businesses compatible with venture capital? Neither. #Grants are an option, but there is not nearly enough capital injected here, and as we know (see my post from last Friday) they are not exactly reliable. #Procurement? Only for tried and tested solutions. #CSR? Don’t get me started. #Crowdfunding? Yes, but not enough and can a project scale? 🤔 do we need funding innovation? 🤔