- ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a Geneva, Ill.-based startup dedicated to the development of net-zero engine technology, secured $17m in Series A financing. - The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from Mercuria, John Deere and Clean Energy Ventures. - The company intends to use the funds to commercialize its engine technology for the long-haul trucking, agriculture and power generation sectors.

– Lilac Solutions announced a $150m Series B financing round led by Lowercarbon Capital and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates.
– The round was also joined by Mercuria Energy Trading and Valor Equity Partners; existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures and The Engine also participated in the round.
– Lilac has developed a new ion exchange technology to increase production of lithium from brine resources.
– Lilac will use the new funds to ramp production of the company’s unique ion exchange beads, expand its teams of engineers and field operators, and deploy the technology globally.
– Most of the world’s lithium is contained in brine resources – naturally occurring deposits of salt water. These brines are abundant, but resource developers have struggled to bring projects into production due to a lack of cost-effective technology.

– Iron Ox is a San Carlos CA-based agtech startup.
– The company raised $53M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its grocery store presence, accelerate hiring, particularly of plant scientists, engineers, greenhouse operators and roboticists, and grow its research and development programs, and its manufacturing scale across the United States.

– 44.01, a startup, raised $5m in seed funding.
– Apollo Projects, a early-stage investment fund from Max and Sam Altman, led the round and Breakthrough Energy Ventures participated.
– The startup plans to mineralize CO2 using vast deposits of precursor materials.

– Nobell Foods has secured a $75m Series B financing round.
– The round was backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
– Others joining this round include: Unovis, Germin8 Ventures, Fifty Years, AgFunder, Pear VC, GL Ventures, the venture capital arm of Hillhouse Group, and Mission Bay Capital.
– The company plans to launch its cheeses to the public by the end of next year.

– Natel Energy announced a $20m funding.
– The round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and supported by Chevron Technology Ventures.
– The company will use the funding to build momentum in the deployment of its flagship product, the Restoration Hydro Turbine (RHT), which enables cost-effective production of distributed reliable renewable energy, while supporting the health and climate resilience of watershed ecosystems.

– Pivot Bio, a Berkeley, CA-based nitrogen innovator in agriculture, closed a $430m Series D funding.
– The round was led by DCVC and Temasek with participation from Generation Investment Management, G2 Venture Partners, Rockefeller Capital Management, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Continental Grain Company, Prelude Ventures; Pavilion Capital, Bunge Ventures, Tekfen Ventures, and Roger Underwood.
– The company intends to use the funds to focus on scaling its U.S. business and expanding into key international markets.

– Electric Hydrogen from Boston develops large-scale solutions to help ease the world’s dependence on fossil fuels.
– The company raised $24m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from Prelude Ventures and Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund.
– The new investment will be used for continued product development and team and operations expansion in the Greater Boston and San Francisco Bay Areas.

– Aeroseal, LLC from Dayton develops technologies to seal ducts and walls.
– Company raised $22m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from Energy Impact Partners and Building Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to scale the company’s R&D, marketing team, and increase support of its dealer network.

– WeaveGrid, a developer of software solutions for the scalable deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) on the electric grid, announced $15M in Series A fundraising to enable its next stage of growth.
– The round was led by Coatue with participation by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and existing investors The Westly Group, Grok Ventures, and several prominent angel investors including Ramez Naam and Josh Felser.
– Automaker and government commitments are driving a radical transformation that will soon see millions of new EVs charging across the United States. Electric utilities are in a leading position to benefit from accelerating EV adoption, but face risks as EV charging puts a tremendous new load on the grid.

– Solidia Technologies has raised $50m in a series B round of funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, with participation from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Prelude Ventures, and PIVA Capital.
– The company is now valued at $1bn.
– Solidia Technologies is a leading developer of low-carbon cement and concrete technologies.
– The company has developed a new cement technology that reduces CO2 emissions in the production of cement and consumes carbon in the production of concrete.
– The new funding will support the continued development and deployment of these leading technologies to accelerate the decarbonization of critical building materials industries.

– VEIR, a company developing a new approach to using High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for electricity transmission, today announced $10 million in Series A financing and debuted a new architecture for high-voltage superconducting transmission lines to transform the grid.
– The company’s Series A investment was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), with participation from existing investor Congruent Ventures and new investor The Engine.
– The financing brings the company’s total funding to date to more than $12 million.
– With the expected growth of electric vehicles and the rest of the economy shifting to electric power from fossil fuels, we will need extremely large amounts of new renewable energy and a correlating amount of transmission.

– Veir Raises $10M in Series A Funding.
– The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), with participation from existing investor Congruent Ventures and new investor The Engine.
– The company intends to use the new capital to scale its team, hiring technical talent in the cryogenic and energy industries, as well as operational and sales staff to support commercial development, begin to develop and test the critical subsystems required to deploy its product to the transmission grid and establish a physical development site in Massachusetts.

– Silicon Valley venture Turntide Technologies, which is retooling electric motors for the 21st century, says it has completed an $80m funding round that was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the clean-tech fund created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
– Other investors include the Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, actor Robert Downey Jr.’s Footprint Coalition Ventures, Keyframe Capital, Fifth Wall and Captain Planet LP.
– The newly announced round brings Turntide’s total funding to $180m.

– Turntide raised $80m with investments from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Ventures.
– The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and includes investments from Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Ventures, the Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Keyframe Capital, Fifth Wall’s Climate Technology Fund and Captain Planet LP.
– Turntide’s Smart Motor System is designed around its revolutionary switched reluctance motor (SRM) technology.
– Turntide plans to expand development and production of its Smart Motor System to meet growing demand and extend it into new applications.
– Funding will also be used to accelerate deployment and advance development of Riptide, a cloud-based building automation software platform that Turntide recently agreed to acquire.

– Malta, a pioneer in long-duration energy storage, has raised $50M in a Series B round of funding.
– The financing was led by integrated energy group Proman with participation from new investor Dustin Moskovitz and existing investors Alfa Laval and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
– Malta is a provider of industrial-grade, grid-scale energy storage solutions.

– C-Zero is a natural gas decarbonization company based in Santa Barbara.
– The company raised $11.5m in Series A funding.
– The round was co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Eni Next, with participation from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and AP Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the first commercial-scale deployment of its drop-in decarbonization technology and hire in the Santa Barbara region.