BuiltWorlds featured Partner and COO Elaine Hsieh in a construction-tech focused interview examining the evolution of climate tech investing and the business case for innovative solutions in the built environment.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner Kareem Dabbagh quoted in WSJ's Venture Capital newsletter about how climate-tech investors believe that the current jump in oil prices because of the conflict in the Middle East could help boost demand for their portfolio companies.

Every February, Axios Pro asks investors and bankers which energy or climate trend they've fallen in love with, and which they plan love to dump. Partner and COO Elaine Hsieh shares her thoughts.

Partner and COO Elaine Hsieh contributes to Edelman’s “Five Predictions from Sustainability Leaders for 2026,” offering expert insight from the front lines of climate tech investment and sustainable energy transition leadership.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner Joe Goodman highlights that, according to climate insiders, data centers and AI energy demand are not expected to significantly slow global decarbonization, framing tech growth as an opportunity alongside climate action

In this data-rich, no-nonsense keynote at Trellis Impact 25, Elaine Hsieh, Partner & COO at VoLo Earth Ventures, shows why the global energy transition is no longer hypothetical — it’s happening faster than policy can keep up.

VoLo Earth co-founders and managing partners Joe Goodman and Kareem Dabbagh joined the Entrepreneurs for Impact (Climate CEOs) Podcast to share what most VCs still miss about early-stage climate tech venture investments and why their operator-led model is already delivering real exits and repeatable returns.

Learn from two climate tech VC investors sharing startup lessons in energy, buildings, mobility, and industry.

Venture Capital Journal featured VoLo Earth's Fund II raise with a focus on our investments and financial performance for their LP/ finance audience.

Impact Alpha featured VoLo Earth's Fund II raise, digging into our operator mindset, Fund I exits, and our focus on backbone sectors.

Honored to be featured in an exclusive by The Wall Street Journal Pro Venture Capital regarding our Fund II close.

VoLo Earth was excited to co-lead the Series A investment in Reframe Systems. Check out Fast Company's exclusive about Reframe's solution.

Meta and VoLo Earth Fund II company XGS Energy announced plans on June 12, 2025 to build a 150 MW geothermal power plant in northwestern New Mexico.

As technologies and business models around circularity have matured, the payback for healthcare now expands beyond sustainability goals to include new revenue streams, reduced waste, increased operational efficiencies, and improved supply chain resilience. VoLo Earth's Co-Founder Eric Riesenberg provides insights for Catalyst/ Wellstar (VoLo Earth Fund LP) from his SXSW 2025 panel discussion.

ImpactAssets reveals IA 50 2025, the "definitive guide to Impact Investing Fund Managers" as the market proves its resilience. VoLo Earth Ventures honored to be included.

Historically, metals and mining have been inextricable; mining has been the primary method of sourcing metals for thousands of years. While mining will continue to play a central role in the global economy and the energy transition, this relationship is shifting - and, in some cases, beginning to decouple. This excerpt from our newsletter digs into the forces driving this evolution, pathways of supply innovation, implications on capital flows, and emerging solutions.

Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) featured VoLo Earth Ventures in their Sept 2024 publication of case studies on transition finance and decarbonization contribution methodologies.

In March 2025, we announced the acquisition of Pearl Street Technologies by Enverus - a transformational milestone for Pearl Street, our portfolio, and the power grid at large. In our March 31 newsletter, we explore the problem Pearl Street is solving, its unique approach, our history with the Company and what’s next.

Cambium partners with local arborists and municipalities to take fallen trees, which would typically meet an environmentally unfriendly end (dumped in landfills or burned), and upcycle them into carbon-negative construction materials.

The technology is designed by a company called Rain in coordination with Sikorsky, the helicopter manufacturer. The goal is to find new ways to more quickly respond to fires.

It’s no secret that home electrification technologies are beating out fossil-fuel based systems on both cost and performance in many areas of the world. To help understand how residential electrification may play out over the next decade, we will draw lessons from residential solar’s growth, then dive into VoLo Earth Fund I portfolio company Zero Homes.

As 2024 comes to a close, VoLo Earth reflects on a year of meaningful progress across our portfolio, team growth, and a year in which the energy transition moved towards the center stage of global discourse.

Enverus, the most trusted energy-dedicated SaaS company announced today that it has acquired Pearl Street Technologies, a leading provider of automation solutions that streamline interconnection studies for transmission providers, utilities and energy developers.

Developing diversified, regional battery supply chains is crucial to ensure national security and foster economic growth.

Sylvatex (SVX), a Bay Area-based battery manufacturing technology company producing lower cost and lower carbon cathode active materials (CAM) for EV and ESS batteries, today announced CEO Virginia Klausmeier as the first recipient of the Fastmarkets Voltas Industry Woman of the Year Award

Zero Homes aims to make electrification easier and cheaper by quoting projects — to install heat pumps, EV chargers, and more — without setting foot in your house.

This financing will support XGS’ first commercial-scale project in California later this year and accelerate deployment of its proprietary water-independent geothermal technology across its global project pipeline

Heimdal recognized in the climate category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas awards

Megan O'Connor, CEO and co-founder of Nth Cycle – a sustainable metal refining company – joins Salgocar in making the call to action.

Blue Frontier raised $16.9M from a large strategic corporation to top off the $20M Series A led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Solid-state technology has long been prized as the Holy Grail of batteries. More and more, though, the solid-state vision looks less like a blurry mystical relic and more like a concrete point visible on the horizon, even if it remains a few years away.

Loamist was selected into Breakthrough Energy Fellow’s fourth cohort. As BEV puts it, “Our latest Cohort brings together 25 extraordinary innovators from four countries, who are leading 14 groundbreaking projects aimed at tackling the world’s most pressing climate challenges.”

Skyven and Western New York Energy (WNYE) announced a partnership to deploy the United States’ first-ever industrial steam generating heat pump.

Sepion, a “leader in battery materials innovation” received a $17.5M grant from CALSTART and the California Energy Commission to build a cutting-edge lithium-ion battery separator manufacturing facility.

Senior Tech and Sepion Technologies will jointly develop and sell lithium-ion battery diaphragm products in China and the United States from 2026 to 2028

Denver-based Heimdal plans to extract at least 5,000 metric tons of CO2 out of the sky each year with its new Bantam project, which is named after a small but hardy chicken.

Waffle House approached Georgia Power about the possibility of incorporating a groundbreaking new technology into their Waffle House of the Future Macon demonstration.

On Sept. 9, Massachusetts-based Nth Cycle held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its 21,000-square-foot refining facility

The DOD formed a $28 million public-private partnership with Magrathea, a company developing innovative technology for the production of carbon neutral light metal from seawater and brine.

Sikorsky and Rain integrated their autonomous flight and wildfire detection technologies into a Black Hawk helicopter.

Ion Storage Systems reveals progress on its battery design, but mass production is still one of the main hurdles in this race.

Skyven Technologies has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) to receive $145M investment to accelerate industrial decarbonization and advance our mission of decarbonizing industrial process heat.

Rain, a startup building aerial fire-fighting tech, has closed a seed-round of 9.7 million led by DBL partners.

Magrathea, a start-up company located in Oakland, CA, completed its seed round, raising $10 million to make magnesium metal from seawater and brine using an innovative new technology.

Boston-based metals refining company Nth Cycle has closed $44 million in new funding that was supported by several investors, including the Caterpillar Ventures subsidiary of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc.

Skyven will use this round of funding to grow its EaaS offering–investing in sales, marketing, project execution, and software development teams to scale industrial emissions reductions.

Daanaa Resolution, Inc. just announced a Series A investment of USD 7M led by VoLo Earth Ventures.

Banyan, an investment facilitator for sustainable infrastructure, has confirmed a USD $8.2m Series A round led by VoLo Earth Ventures with several notable venture capital firms joining the round.

Grid-enhancing technologies include high-tech software that can uncover more interconnection options for new wind and solar power projects.

Blue Frontier’s ultra efficient AC system to decarbonize cooling by addressing every major issue associated with conventional air conditioning.

The investment will enable VECKTA to expand its marketplace platform and grow its pipeline across the food and beverage, manufacturing, and mining industries.

VoLo Earth, Frankstahl, Mercuria, and Clean Energy Ventures headline investment in a company disrupting the electric vehicle and critical mineral supply chain.

BattGenie landed a $1.5 million seed round from Powerhouse Ventures and VoLo Earth Ventures, plus a $300,000 grant from Washington state.

Toyota Ventures, Tenaska, and Bangchak Corporation Join Oversubscribed Round Led by Clear Creek Investments, VoLo Earth Ventures, and Alsop Louie Partners