The largest this week:
🇺🇸 Cityblock Health - a community-based virtual health care provider raised $400M in a round led by Softbank. It is currently the most valuable startup tackling SDG 10: Reducing inequalities, with a $5.7B valuation.
🇺🇸 Solugen - a company that aims to turn sugar enzymes instead of petroleum into chemicals, with zero air or wastewater emissions, has raised $357M at a $1.8B valuation. It is the #136th impact unicorn.
🇯🇵 Spiber - a Japanese firm that creates “Brewed Protein” materials - synthetic spider silk - for use in clothing and other products has raised JPY24.4B in a round led by Carlyle Japan, it’s the first-ever non-buyout growth investment.
Other promising impact deals from around the globe:
🇬🇧 OLIO raised $43M in a round led by Swedish investor VNV Global, among others, along with repeat backer Accel. It ranks as the #4 most valued startup in the Reuse: distribute soon-to-expire food category.
🇺🇸 Plantible Foods - a B2B food technology company - raised $21.5M. It is one of 90+ enablers of alternative protein companies.
🇸🇪 Stockeld - a plant-based cheese company raised a €16.5M Series A from Northzone, Norrsken VC and other investors.
🇬🇧 Nova innovation - a tidal energy company - raised £6.4M from the Scottish National investment bank.
🇮🇱 ECOncrete - a sustainable cement startup - raised $5M Series A from Barclays.
🇨🇦 Audette - a B2B platform for energy retrofits of commercial property - raised $5M Series A from Powerhouse Ventures and other investors.
🇫🇷 Greenly - a carbon accounting platform for SMEs - raised €2.5M. We mapped out 200 other recent finance for good startups here.
🇬🇧 Keeping with our wind energy theme this week, Perceptual Robotics, a turbine inspection startup spinout from the University of Bristol, raised £1.6M.
Read up on all the latest impact deals in Dealroom.co