Transition

💚 Thrilled to have brought the London tech and climate ecosystems closer together last week, hosting an evening with the amazing Operators & Friends at 5 Carnaby St 🏠 💥 Huge thank you to everyone who joined and especially our founders who openly shared what it’s really like to start an iconic climate tech company

📩 March at Transition 📩 🌎 David and Mona hosted a lunch in SF for CSOs in the ecosystem, thank you to everyone who came and we hope to host more events like this in the future, so if you’re a CSO or work in sustainability please get in touch! 🎤 Clara joined a panel at The Economist Energy Transition Summit in London as well as moderated a session at Hello Tomorrow in Paris 💚 An exciting month for Upway who were included in TIME's World’s Top GreenTech Companies for 2025! See the full list here: https://lnkd.in/gTQrm6jr They have also just opened a new UpCenter in LA which took only 30 days to set up! Read how they were able to complete this exciting project in their blog post: https://lnkd.in/due6-qQn 🤝 Reel have signed a new PPA opportunity at Ulkær Mose wind turbine park in Denmark. https://lnkd.in/ekTSbPZp 🔋 UNIGRID Battery headed to Orlando for their first trade show at the International Battery Seminar https://lnkd.in/eNGc9UXk 🤝 Waterplan announced a new partnership with an Argentinian brewery Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes https://lnkd.in/eqrbz_YV 📮 Watershed is now working with Royal Mail to help decarbonize their supply chain and help them to reach their goal of net zero by 2040! https://lnkd.in/eiBfWV7E They have also been listed in Forbes' top 100 startup employers for 2025 which is great to see. https://lnkd.in/eU9RfERG Head to our Jobs page to see what opportunities are currently available with the company https://lnkd.in/ddtJcxyn 📜 Electricity Maps founder Olivier published an article in Nature Magazine on mapping global electricity emissions in real time using their platform. If you have a subscription you can read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/eD8RSwe2

We are gathering friends, founders and operators on April 2nd for an evening to explore how climate and tech intersect. Thrilled to be hosting with Operators & Friends! We have a couple of spots left, apply in the comments 🌱

👋 Come say hi and hear Clara speak at the following events: 🇬🇧 The Economist Energy Transition Summit on March 10th 🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow on March 14th

📩 January at Transition 📩 🚀 We started the year announcing our latest partnership with Hybird Energy. The news generated a lot of inbound for us so we are super excited to see what the team gets up to in the coming months! Read more on the announcement and what’s next for Hybird here: https://lnkd.in/dV-FvH6Q 👏 Our Venture Partner Gaurab has been appointed to a three-year term on the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Read more on the Solugen website here: https://lnkd.in/ghaqqiyi 💥 UNIGRID Battery announced their collaboration with Singapore’s Sodion Energy. PR Newswire article here: https://lnkd.in/gD5Q9QRG  Mona, Bruis and Darren co-authored a blog post to discuss why UNIGRID Battery’s sodium-ion batteries are gaining a strong reputation for being the safest on the market. Read here: https://lnkd.in/eue7BENE 🤝 Upway is partnering with Project 529, the world’s largest bike registry and recovery platform. Read more on the partnership here: https://lnkd.in/e8ZedbHm 🎙️ Safi founder Rishi featured on Theia Ventures inaugural podcast series on Climate Tech founders and it is well worth a listen! Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eRpnethR Safi has also officially achieved EU REACH compliance, read more on their post here: https://lnkd.in/e_Wq4X4A 🆕 Electricity Maps released an exciting update to their platform and are now providing 72-hour grid forecasts. Keen to find out how your business can benefit from this update? They explain on their website here: https://lnkd.in/dYqBNGPS If you would be interested in partnering with the mission at Electricity Maps then they are currently hiring for a Head of Growth https://lnkd.in/eSfGWf83 and hiring their first US role for an Advocacy Lead, read more and how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/eMK3Dmdw

👏 Congratulations to our Venture Partner Gaurab on the below appointment 👏

🙌 We’re thrilled to announce that we are co-leading Hybird Energy’s €2.4m round with BackingMinds (Jasenko). 💚 Hybird Energy is transforming the energy landscape with first-of-its kind modern and smart electric panels. 👏 Their game-changing tech is turning electricity consumption from a 'black box' into actionable insights—cutting costs and emissions one building at a time. 🤝 We are excited to be partnering with the amazing team Søren, Thomas, Morten and Johannes - thank you for the opportunity to be a part of the journey!   Read more about Hybird Energy and the round here: Tech Funding News https://lnkd.in/drcJABeZ

👏 An amazing year for Upway 👏

Electricity Maps is hiring! As an early member of their GTM team, this is a super exciting time for the right person to join and take a lead on all things growth and marketing 🚀 see below on how to apply 🚀

“A new emerging technology, Sodium-ion, is being coined a ‘truly safe alternative - poised to make battery fires a thing of the past. To validate if all Sodium-ion is truly safe, we dug into actual testing data.” Read our new blog post “Unpacking battery safety: Sodium is safer than Lithium, but beware not all Sodium is fire-safe” by Bruis, Mona and Darren H. S. which discusses the topic of battery safety, as well as how UNIGRID Battery is gaining a reputation as the safest producer of Sodium-ion batteries. Get in touch with us or UNIGRID Battery founders Darren H. S. and Erik if this is an area of interest to you, we would love to chat! Read here: https://lnkd.in/eue7BENE