Virtual Event: Learn about an exciting opportunity for pre-seed and seed phase startups! About the CoMotion Labs Climate Tech Incubator CoMotion Labs, part of CoMotion, serves as a multi-industry incubator… Read More
OCOchem, a startup turning captured carbon dioxide into a valuable industrial chemical, is completing construction of its pilot plant in Eastern Washington. Once the 40,000-square-foot facility is commissioned in the… Read More
President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order puzzles David Funk. The order targets clean energy efforts, pausing the distribution of already promised funds associated with the Inflation Reduction Act and… Read More
Spokane, Wash.-based startup CarbonQuest announced a partnership with Iceland-based Carbfix, a global leader in carbon storage, to team up in deploying technologies that address climate change. CarbonQuest sells devices that… Read More
President-elect Donald Trump is proposing fossil fuel champions for U.S. leadership roles. New research shows the world is off the mark for hitting carbon emissions targets. These headlines could make… Read More
President-elect Donald Trump is a champion of fossil fuels and calls President Biden’s New-Deal style programs for battling climate change the “greatest scam in history.” So what does a climate-focused… Read More
Over the past five years, growth in climate tech has been so prolific that it has drawn comparisons to the Cambrian explosion — an era some 530 million years ago… Read More
Silicon Valley is recognized globally as *the* tech hub and is so iconic that the region itself essentially co-starred in an eponymously named, self-mocking comedy. Now a venture capitalist wants… Read More
APiJET, a Seattle-based aviation data analytics company, has landed a $4.5 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. The startup has developed a tool called Digital Winglets that helps passenger… Read More
Svante, a carbon capture and removal company based in British Columbia, is receiving up to $100 million to speed the deployment of its climate technology. The cash comes from Canada… Read More
Spokane, Wash.-based startup CarbonQuest raised new capital to expand the reach of its carbon capturing devices. The cash is coming from Riverbend Energy Group, a Houston investment firm. The companies… Read More
Seattle-based LevelTen Energy, a startup facilitating the deployment of clean energy projects, raised a $65 million Series D round from tech giants Microsoft and Google, among other high profile backers.… Read More
More than 4,500 climate tech investors, government officials, tech leaders, activists, artists and researchers from around the world are gathering in Seattle this week for the inaugural Bloomberg Green Festival.… Read More
Jim Coulter, founding partner, executive chair and director for the investment firm TPG, thinks a little more optimism is warranted in the climate tech sphere. Speaking at the Bloomberg Green… Read More
Aina Abiodun is ready for the climate tech sector to recognize that communities everywhere are already experiencing the challenging impacts of a warmer world — and they need help surviving… Read More
The GeekWire team is excited to introduce Gillian Dohrn, our first Etzioni Intern in Climate Tech Journalism. Readers may have already noticed her byline on a story about the widespread… Read More
Government grants and publicly funded projects have been a boon to climate tech and clean energy businesses. But while companies are landing these funds, the payments often trickle in slowly… Read More
In a webinar Tuesday on the future of climate tech, Alan Neuhauser of Axios kicked off the questions by asking what it means to succeed in a burgeoning market where… Read More
CarbonQuest wants to take a bite out of carbon emissions at its source — before the greenhouse gases escape into the environment and heat up an ever-warming planet. The Spokane,… Read More
SNØCAP, a new climate-focused venture capital fund, is launching with $5 million to invest in startups. The team has a somewhat unusual target for its investments, aiming for startups making… Read More
Clean aviation company ZeroAvia this week celebrated a new 136,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Everett, Wash., and announced it will be selling components of its hydrogen-electric airplane engines to other commercial… Read More
Washington is leaning into the fight against climate change. Seattle-area tech giants Microsoft and Amazon have set ambitious carbon reduction targets and invested millions to meet those goals. The state… Read More
Increasing numbers of Pacific Northwest entrepreneurs are turning their significant talents to addressing serious environmental and climate problems impacting planet Earth. The 2024 finalists for Sustainable Innovation of the Year… Read More
As Amazon founder Jeff Bezos funnels $60 million into support for alternative meats, Rebellyous Foods founder Christie Lagally has some suggestions, one entrepreneur to another. “We have the recipes for… Read More
A decade ago, University of Washington oceanographers Julian Sachs and Alex Gagnon were working in a tropical paradise, studying the impacts of climate change on coral reefs surrounding remote islands… Read More
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee traveled to Eastern Washington Thursday to visit companies leading the state’s rapidly expanding battery hub. Their… Read More
Planette, a climate tech startup that just graduated from Techstars Seattle’s latest accelerator, has raised $2.4 million. Planette’s AI-boosted technology is designed to help businesses plan for weather and climate… Read More
The climate clock is ticking for Ben Eidelson. The Seattle tech vet who sold startups to Google and Stripe is behind a new climate venture capital fund focused on software-driven… Read More
New journalists with a passion for covering climate technology are encouraged to apply for GeekWire’s new summer 2024 climate tech internship, the Etzioni Internship in Climate Tech Journalism. GeekWire is… Read More
Oscilla Power, a startup developing devices that capture wave energy to produce electricity, has ocean-sized ambitions. The Seattle-based business envisions deploying thousands of devices along the U. S. West Coast… Read More
