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Climate & Energy

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Invests in Savor — Butter Made Directly from Carbon

Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Invests $40 Million in Deep Sky Carbon Removal

Harvard permanently terminates Gates-funded SCoPEx geoengineering experiment under public pressure

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Leads Series A for Graphyte Biomass Carbon Storage Removing CO₂ Permanently

Backed Breakthrough Energy startup using liquid tin to store solar and wind energy as industrial heat

Signs COP28 nuclear energy declaration alongside 20 nations

Broke ground on the Natrium nuclear reactor in Wyoming

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Leads $80 Million Round for Verdox Electrochemical Carbon Capture Technology

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Co-Leads $50 Million Series A for Antora Energy Thermophotovoltaic Thermal Storage

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Co-Leads $22 Million Series A for Rondo Energy Industrial Heat Battery

Backed Antora Energy — carbon thermal blocks heated by renewable electricity for industrial heat

Backed Rondo Energy — industrial heat battery storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat

Backed marine cloud brightening research as a regionally targeted geoengineering approach

Closes Breakthrough Energy Ventures Fund II at $2 billion — largest climate tech VC fund in history

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Leads $53 Million Series B for Iron Ox AI-Driven Indoor Farming

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Closes $2 Billion Second Fund

SCoPEx Swedish Balloon Test Cancelled After Indigenous Sami Opposition

Publicly defended geoengineering research as a necessary insurance policy against climate failure

Co-signs COP26 Mission Innovation commitment to double clean energy R&D

Launches Breakthrough Energy Catalyst with $1.5 billion to commercialize four key climate technologies

Funds Quaise Energy to drill ultra-deep geothermal wells with millimeter-wave beams

Backs Boston Metal to decarbonize steel using molten oxide electrolysis

Backs Commonwealth Fusion Systems with $1.8 billion for compact fusion reactor

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Backs Pachama Forest Carbon Monitoring Platform with $5 Million Seed

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Backs C16 Biosciences to Replace Deforestation-Linked Palm Oil

TerraPower Selected for DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program

Backs Pivot Bio's nitrogen-fixing microbes as a climate-friendly alternative to synthetic fertilizer

Invests in Form Energy's iron-air battery for 100-hour grid storage

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Co-Leads $30 Million Series C for ESS Inc. Iron Flow Battery for Long-Duration Grid Storage

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Invests in Pivot Bio — Nitrogen-Fixing Microbial Coating to Replace Synthetic Fertiliser

Funds SCoPEx Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Balloon Experiment

Backed Apeel Sciences — plant-derived coating extending fresh produce shelf life by up to 3x

Argued for redirecting solar and wind subsidies toward energy storage and hard-to-abate sectors

TerraPower-China nuclear deal collapses under U.S. export restrictions

Participated in WEF climate sessions calling for dramatically increased clean energy investment

Backs Carbon Engineering; technology later acquired by Occidental for $1.1 billion

Funds SCoPEx stratospheric aerosol research at Harvard to study solar geoengineering

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Leads $26 Million Series A for Malta Inc. Molten-Salt Thermal Energy Storage

Backed Malta Inc — molten-salt thermal storage to capture excess solar and wind electricity

Funds Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program

TerraPower signed agreement with China National Nuclear Corporation to develop Traveling Wave Reactor

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Backs Apeel Sciences — Plant-Based Seed-Coat Technology That Extends Produce Shelf Life

Launches Breakthrough Energy Ventures with $1 Billion in Committed Capital

Backed Indigo Agriculture — soil microbiome platform reducing need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides

Co-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures — a $1 billion climate tech fund

Launches Breakthrough Energy Coalition with 27 Investors at COP21

Co-launched Mission Innovation — doubling global public clean energy R&D investment at COP21

Gates and Obama met on sidelines of COP21 Paris climate conference

Invested in lab-grown meat and plant-based proteins as a climate solution

Delivered 'Innovating to Zero' TED Talk on Energy and Climate

Invests in Carbon Engineering Direct Air Capture Startup

Co-founds TerraPower to Develop Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors

Co-founded TerraPower — a next-generation nuclear energy company

Gates Funds Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Through FICER

Establishes Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER)

Co-founded the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research — first dedicated geoengineering fund