climate tech
Infrastructure & Cloud
AI’s Carbon Backslide: How Hyperscaler Spending Is Reversing Green Commitments
⚡ Key Takeaways Global data center electricity consumption hit 415 TWh in 2024 and is projected to double to 945...
Startups
Global Startup VC Outlook H2 2026: Sector Rotation From AI Hype to Enterprise Verticals
⚡ Key Takeaways Q1 2026 saw nearly 40 unicorns minted and $300 billion in VC deployed — 70% of all...
Startups
Africa’s $1 Billion H1 2026 Funding Race: Climate Tech and Logistics Lead the Surge
⚡ Key Takeaways > Key Takeaway: African startups raised $887 million from January through April 2026, slightly above the $803...
Startups
Africa’s Debt Takeover: How $277M Rewrote the Funding Playbook
Debt financing surged from 24% to 57% of African startup funding in early 2026. Why the shift, which startups benefit, and what founders must change now.
Startups
Novastar’s $147M Fund: Why Japanese Corporates Are Betting Big on Africa
⚡ Key Takeaways Novastar Ventures closed its Africa People and Planet Fund III at $147 million, backed by Japanese corporates...
Startups
Climate Plus AI: The Startup Sector Attracting Both ESG and Enterprise Capital
Something unusual is happening in venture capital right now: the same startup pitch is landing with both ESG-mandated institutional funds and hard-nosed enterprise procurement teams. The sector making this possible is climate tech — and the ingredient that unlocked enterprise
AI & Automation
AI and Climate Tech: Using Machine Learning to Fight the Climate Crisis
The Planet's Most Complex Optimization Problem Climate change is, at its core, an optimization problem of staggering complexity: billions of interacting variables across atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, and human systems, operating on timescales from minutes to centuries.
