New ways to invest in climate - Sept 2023
+ 4 amazing CIC events over the next 2 weeks!
🎉 welcome - 500+ Climate Investing Community members!
📖 read time - 3 min
Welcome to Intention’s monthly roundup of new ways to invest in climate. We know that it’s difficult to find climate-specific investments so we’re doing the legwork for you.
PS - We'd love for you to share this newsletter so that everyone can benefit from these new ways to invest in climate 😊
🛜 Climate Investing Community events
The CIC has many more amazing events coming up!
Sept 29 (930am PST): AMA w/ Grid United’s Michael Skelly
Oct 5 (9am PST): AMA w/ Steward's Dan Miller
Oct 12 (2pm PST): Climate-Friendly Financials AMA w/ GreenPortfolio
Oct 17 (9am PST): Sustainable Finance Group Discussion
📈 New ways to invest in climate
Newly announced investing opportunities this month. Selection based on company description but impact not assessed. Not investing advice.
*asterisk denotes new since our last newsletter
🔥 epic personal finance resources 🔥
*CIC’s Climate & Money Resource List: Our amazing cut-the-crap list of personal climate finance options covers saving, investing, spending, giving
*Check out Ming Zhao’s How to Read a Term Sheet
🌲 Bonds & debt notes 🌲
*Geogreens (11% interest, 3yrs): Geogreens is an MBE owned indoor, vertical-hydroponic farm, offering produce that is locally grown, pesticide-free, etc
Orange Bike Brewing Company (1.6x multiple, revenue sharing note): Making world-class beer with a focus on the triple bottom line
🌲 Start-up investing 🌲
*Advancing Eco Agriculture ($33.7M pre-money, priced round): Empowering farmers through scalable regenerative agriculture solutions
EWM ($12M valuation, common stock): Driving affordable water creation using sustainable desalination that recovers water & minerals for beneficial use
Libi Materials ($20M post-money, SAFE): Increasing the energy density of lithium-ion batteries 35-40% to extend the range of EVs
*Olympian Motors ($28M valuation cap, SAFE): Experience-first electric vehicles. An emerging competitor to Tesla, Rivian & Lucid
*ZeroLabs ($100M pre-money, class B common stock): The world’s first platform for the scalable electrification of existing vehicles
🌲 Accredited only or high minimum 🌲
*A few startup opportunities have recently been shared in our CIC Slack 😊
🌲 Equities (stocks/ETFs/etc) 🌲
*KraneShares Rockefeller Ocean Engagement ETF (KSEA)
*Matthews Emerging Markets Sustainable Future Active ETF (EMSF)
*Turbo Energy (TURB): Designs, develops, and distributes equipment for the generation, management, and storage of photovoltaic energy
New climate investing/finance podcasts
Financial Climate: Christopher Lowell of InnSure
👇 see you in the comments section 👇
What’re you investing in this week? Let the community know!