The largest this week:
🇫🇷 Vestiaire Collective raised another $210M at a $1.7B valuation, with participation by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Generation Investment Management. Existing investors including Bpifrance, Condé Nast, and funds controlled by Fidelity International also took part.
🇺🇸 Liliac Solutions - a material sourcing company for lithium ion batteries - raised $150M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
🇺🇸 EnerVenue - a nickel-hydrogen battery producer - raised a $100M Series A round from Schlumberger, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures and Stanford University. This is the 9th impact investment from the corporate venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco.
Other promising impact deals:
🇺🇸 Intenseye - an AI company working on preventing workplace accidents - raised $25M in Series A funding from Insight Partners as well as two European VCs: Point Nine Capital and Air Street Capital. Overall, European investors have contributed 8% to 10% of VC funding raised by US-based impact startups but in 2021 YTD it’s doubled to 16%.
🇮🇹 Treedom - a tree planting startup - raised a €10M funding round from the Italian national football team captain Giorgio Chiellini and former F1 world champion Nico Rosberg among others. It is Italy’s 3rd most funded impact startup.
🇺🇸 Blackbird.AI - a SaaS company working on fighting disinformation - raised $10M Series A. Together with the Alfred Landecker Foundation, we mapped over 90 startups working on tackling disinformation.
🇳🇬 Releaf - a Y Combinator-backed startup working on reducing post-harvest loss in sustainable palm oil - raised $2.7M in seed funding. African startups working toward zero hunger have raised a tiny fraction of the total VC investment in the space.
🇳🇱 Mosa Meat - a lab-grown meat startup - raised an undisclosed funding round from Leonardo DiCaprio.
Read up on all the latest impact deals in Dealroom.co
