The largest this week:
🇬🇧 Britishvolt - a battery manufacturing company - raised £1.7B to finance the construction of a battery factory. The funding is split between a £100M Grant from the UK government and £1.6B in project finance from Tritax and abrdn.
🇺🇸 Factorial Energy - a solid-state battery manufacturer - raised a $200M Series D round from Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis. Two other automotive companies Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors already invested into Factorial Energy in October 2020.
🇮🇱 Redefine meat - a 3D-printed plant-based alternative meat startup - raised a $135M financing round from Hanaco Venture Capital and Synthesis Capital. The company was fonded in 2018 and raised over $170M in venture funding.
Other notable impact deals:
🇮🇩 Efishery - an aquaculture startup - raised a $90M Series C from Tamasek, Softbank, Sequoia Capital India, Wavemarker Partners, Aqua-Spark, Northstar Group, and Go Ventures. Efishery increased doubled its headcount compared to one year ago and now has over 530 employees.
🇫🇷 Wandercraft - a startup that develops robotic wheelchairs for persons with disabilities - raised a $45M Series C round from Bpifrance, Quadrant Management and other investors. Interested in startups tackling SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities? Check out our disabilities tech landscape which covers companies working on in the Prosthetic tech, rehabilitation, hearing impairments, dyslexia and more.
🇫🇷 Le Vie - a company producing plant-based bacon - raised a €25M Series A funding from Seventure Partners, Partech, Oyster Bay Venture capital and other investors including Natalie Portman. The American actress already invested in other impact startups including: Oatly, MycoWorks, Bowery Farming.
🇨🇦 Diversio - a SaaS company that measures and tracks diversity and inclusion in organizations - raised a $6.5M Series A round from First Round Capital, Golden Venture Partners and The Chandaria family holding. Together with swiftscale we mapped in detail the startups working on diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workplace.
🇬🇧 Aklimate - a carbon accounting platform - raised a $500K Seed round from Y Combinator. We currently classified 52 other startups operating in the carbon accounting space.
🇸🇬 Komunidad - an enterprise software solution for climate risk analytics - raised a $1M Seed round from ADB Ventures and Wavemaker Partners.
Read up on all the latest impact deals in Dealroom.co
