Today, we’re getting SMART on cities and CDR. Quick, keep reading before the laughter bug (carbon) captures you…
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Smart Cities
👉 Crowdscan | Last Raise Early 2023, €0.8M | [Belgium]
Give city governments insights on crowd-gestion, allowing them to make informed decisions on city planning and transit. Helpful for managing limited budgets more effectively.
👉 MyHEAT | Last Raise March 2022, $1.65M | [Canada]
They fly a drone over a city, collect heat loss data. Then help the utilities get energy users to cut back through home improvement programs.
Oh, they’ve also been on the pod 🎙️
👉 Intents Mobi | Last Raise Jun 2022, $1.8M | [India]
They collect all sorts of data related to traffic, mobility, and road conditions and allow anyone to pull from the API — instead of letting the government hog it all. In other words, a data layer that helps unlock the understanding of problems so other entrepreneurs can build solutions (yep - it’s sick).
👉 Numina | Last Raise Feb 2022, N/A (Seed+) | [USA]
Without intruding on your privacy, they help figure out what’s going on at the curb level (I think that’s a fancy way to say the sidewalk). NGL, this is really cool, too.
👉 Haas Alert | Last Raise Jan 2024, N/A (Seed+) | [USA]
Instead of putting a dude in a yellow vest with a sign telling you to slow down, they do it in a way that makes way more sense… yep, in-car alert. It's kind of crazy that it took us till 2024 to do this.
CDR
👉 Crew Carbon | Last Raise May 2024, N/A | [USA]
Capturing carbon from the stinkiest places on earth… wastewater treatment facilities. (Does it clean the smell too?)
👉 Seabound | Last Raise May 2022, $4.4M | [USA]
Carbon capture stacks for ships — the kind that take all our goods overseas — yeah like the one that got stuck in the Suez Canal (here is where you recall your favorite meme from that moment).
👉 Maya Climate | Last Raise Jan 2023, €1.2m | [Germany]
Helping you screen potential nature-based solutions sights Lickety-split.
👉 Sustaera | Last Raise Dec 2021, $10m | [USA]
Carbon capture unit that works at scale AND can be powered by renewables — oh, and BTW, Bill Gates thinks they’re great.
👉 44.01| Last Raise Dec 2022, $12M | [UK]
Mineralizing carbon in a way that nature does (peridotite mineralization) but a helluva lot faster (<12 months). (Bonus points if you already knew what that meant).
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