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Tough CAPITALFor Entrepreneurs, Capital Providers, and Corporates Accelerating the Energy & Sustainability Transition
VC funding raised by sustainabitlity-focuused compaines From seed throuth stages
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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over
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Different Assets Different Technologies
An article came out in the WSJ today around China's hacking of OT
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💥 💪 Introducing Energize Endurance – and building out our team! âš¡âš¡
Energize Capital is a firm aligned to growth of the climate markets. For us, the climate narrative has always encompassed a broad suite of traditionally analog industries that are rapidly digitizing: energy, industrial technologies, agriculture, critical infrastructure, mobility, and the built environment. At Energize, we focus on capital-light climate solutions that address these evolving and instrumental industries.Â
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HQ Expansion
In 2020 the entire Energize team fit comfortably in a (maybe) 2,000 square foot space on the 11th floor of One South Wacker Drive. At Energize we have a phrase "we choose to grow, together" and this represents our desire to growth with the climate market opportunity. Alongside this phrase you will usually hear me say "why not us?"
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Team first
In September Energize held our 2-day marathon of events: the Energize NEXT Climate Software conference, and our Annual General Meeting. Before the day started at our conference we were able to sneak away for a quick team photo. That photo of the current team is below – and we have another 3 starting before year-end.
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Europe scales up – Energize leads $13M investment into Elum
One of the first investments Energize made as a firm was in a European leader, Nozomi Networks. Since then we
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Energize NEXT 2024
On September 18th Energize is hosting our second annual climate software conference, Energize NEXT. The panelists/ fireside chat speakers as
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Energize leads $8M investment into GridStatus (…2 years in the works)
I've gained a lot of value from posting to this blog over the years. But the story below probably is my favorite example of creativity, content, and the long-term relationship mindset we have at our firm.
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Climate Solutions: The Meteoric Rise of Solar Power
Last week The Economist published an article titled "The Exponential Growth of Solar Power Will Change the World," emphasizing a well-known trend at Energize: energy technologies such as solar and batteries are rapidly expanding.
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Energize Capital
Energize Capital raises $300 million growth equity platform as market for climate software matures to new level of scale
Firm surpasses $1.2 billion in assets under management; changes name to Energize Capital to reflect go- forward investment strategy
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Energize invests in $100M PVcase Growth Round
At Energize we have been tracking the solar software market for years. For years we have known and spoken with the utility scale leader in this software market, PVcase, and today we are excited to announce
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First Half Results for the Climate Market
Two of the top media / research firm in the climate space are Canary Media and CleanTech VC. They collaborate to publish market and fundraising statistics on a semi-annual basis. Today they released their 1H 2023 results, and the figures are below.
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