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The Oslo-based company builds subsea water desalination plants powered by natural ocean pressure. The company says it can yield fresh water with half the energy required for conventional desalination.

ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Affordable housing. American South Capital Partners raised $60 million for affordable housing in the southern US. Blue economy. Katapult Ocean, Alwyn ...

The Indian startup offers a marketplace and credit options for farmers in India to acquire new or used tractors, harvesters and other farm machinery. It raised $22.6 million in Series A financing, led ...

Surging electricity demand is exposing the limits of outdated grid infrastructure. Backlogs for legacy equipment such as power transformers are opening the door for next-generation grid technologies ...

India-based climatetech startup Varaha launched in 2022 to train smallholder farmers in sustainable agroforestry, biochar production, water management and regenerative agriculture practices like drip ...

Between promising pilots and profitable scale lies a chasm that continues to swallow even the most innovative climate hardware startups. Investors call it the “Valley of Death”—the stage after seed ...

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I arrived in Chicago last month on the same day federal agents from ICE and the Border Patrol appeared on the city’s downtown streets. The National Guard weren’t far behind. President Trump, in his ...

ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Agrifood investing. Climax Foods, a Berkeley, Calif, maker of non-dairy cheese, raised $6.5 million in Series A equity from S2G Ventures and rebranded to ...

It’s reset time for climate action. Climate Week NYC is a kind of pep rally for climate and impact investors who are back in the fray after pulling back to assess the extent of the policy damage of ...

As long as the term has existed, “gender-lens investing” has been defined by the numbers: how much capital is flowing, how many women hold leadership roles, how many funds meet certain criteria. That ...