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This week: Rural Virginia pivots from coal to green jobs, Ocean Cleanup removed 100,000 kg of plastic from Garbage Patch, and more.

| View in browser September 23, 2022 In impact news: 🐳 The Ocean Cleanup removed 100,000 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The nonprofit organization used AI-based computer models that were able to predict plastic hotspots to deploy its latest 002 cleaning system. - LinkedIn   👩🏽‍🌾 Rural Virginia pivots from coal to green jobs. The state’s long awaited energy and economic transition will be substantially boosted by US’s first climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. - The Guardian   💸 How Web3 could help tackle climate change using regenerative finance - or 'ReFi.' Decentralized Web3 tech could improve coordination around tackling climate change because they use local knowledge and actors to guide policies and put funding where it's needed. - World Economic Forum   Latest impact deals: The largest this week:   🇫🇷 InnovaFeed, a vertical insect farm operator that’s rearing insects for animal and plant nutrition, has raised $250M in a series D round of funding led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.   🇺🇸 Kate Farms, the market leader in bringing plant-based nutrition into healthcare, finished a $75M Series C round of funding, led by Novo Holdings.   🇩🇪 Quantron, a system provider of clean battery and hydrogen-powered e-mobility for commercial vehicles, raised a total of $56M in total equity funding, backed by Ballard Power Systems and Neuman & Esser.   🇺🇸 ZwitterCo, a Boston, MA-based advanced membrane technology company, raised $33M in Series A funding.   Other promising impact deals:   🇺🇸 InnerPlant, which has developed tech that allows plants to signal farmers optically about their condition, has raised a $16M funding round.   🇫🇷 French startup Standing Ovation has raised $12M in a series A funding round to develop an animal-free casein for use in cheese. 🇸🇮 Slovenia-based pest insect monitoring and forecasting platform Trapview raised €10M in a Series B funding to accelerate the commercialization of its digital insect monitoring and forecasting solutions.   Read up on all the latest impact deals in Dealroom.co     Tip of the week   🏆 Dealroom Signal Top 100   We’ve ranked the top 100 startups for 6 different industries to watch based on Dealroom Signal: a powerful algorithm helping VCs, Corporates and Governments find the most promising up and coming startups.   Explore the top 100 startups of 6 verticals built by our data-driven algorithm. 👈     Job opportunities   🇳🇱 At Dealroom.co, we are hiring 7 roles, including a Data Quality Reviewer and Graphic Design Intern.   Discover 12,600+ job openings at impact startups (login for full results).     Dive in   📈 9,000+ impact startups and 13,300+ funding rounds on https://impact.dealroom.co   ♻️ Sort by the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals: https://impact.dealroom.co/curated/taxonomy/sdgs     Knowledge partners Not a subscriber yet? Subscribe here This is Dealroom's weekly impact newsletter.  Get more industry-specific intelligence on the evolving world of impact, expert insights on purpose-driven startups, responsible tech, ethical investment, and more.  Delivered on Tuesdays. Dealroom.co, Cornelis Dirkszstraat 27-2, 1056 TP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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