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VoLo Earth’s mission is to drive carbon impact through superior investment performance. Our profits-first approach to climate investing leverages our rigorous technical diligence, extensive deal sourcing, industry expertise, and networks. We aim to serve as a beacon for the broader investment universe and show that early stage climate investing can be a source of superior, risk-adjusted returns.

Meta and XGS announce plans for geothermal plant in New Mexico

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.

Rethinking Take-Make-Dispose: Prescribing a cure for waste in health systems

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.

VoLo Earth makes "ImpactAssets 50" list in 2025

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.

Reimagining the Global Metal Supply

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.

VoLo Earth featured in GFANZ Case Studies on Transition Finance and Decarbonization Contribution Methodologies

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.

Why Pearl Street's Story Matters

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 will explore the problem Pearl Street is solving, its unique approach, our history with the Company and what’s next.

Time Best Inventions of 2024: Cambium Carbon Smart Wood

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.

Autonomous firefighting helicopter may be solution for higher efficiency, safety in battling fires

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.

Frontiers of Residential Electrification

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.

VoLo Earth's 2024 Currents of Change

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 acquires Pearl Street Technologies

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.

How we can future-proof the energy industry through sustainable regional battery production

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

Sylvatex CEO Virginia Klausmeier named Voltas Industry Woman of the Year

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

Need help electrifying your home? This startup has an app for that

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.

Geothermal Innovator XGS Energy Completes Oversubscribed $20M Capital Raise

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

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

How can innovation make mining more sustainable?

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

With a fresh $16.9M injection of capital, Blue Frontier is leading the eco air revolution – from Boca Raton to the world

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 Battery Specialist Sees Commercial Reality Ahead

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 selected into Breakthrough Energy Fellow’s fourth cohort

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 Technologies, Western New York Energy Partner on Decarbonization Project

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

Sepion Technologies Secures $17.5 Million to Build Advanced Battery Separator Manufacturing Facility

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.

China’s Senior Tech Jumps After Linking Arms With US Firm on Battery Separators

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

Largest US direct air capture plant opens in Oklahoma

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.

Georgia Power assists Waffle House in implementing energy efficient Blue Frontier technology

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

Fairfield facility makes US history with $22M project

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

U.S. Department of Defense Forms $28M Partnership with Magrathea for Primary Magnesium Production

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, Rain demo autonomous firefighting helicopter

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

Will This Anodeless Solid-State Design Be the One?

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

DOE Announces $145 Million for Skyven Technologies to Decarbonize Industrial Steam

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.

Wildfire startup Rain raises $9.7M led by DBL

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

Magrathea Raises $10M For New Generation Electrolytic Technology to Make Magnesium Metal

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.

Nth Cycle receives funding boost

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 Technologies Raises $4M to Reduce Industrial Carbon Emissions in Oversubscribed Round Led by VoLo Earth Ventures

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 – A Power Transaction Technology – Closes $7M in Series A Funding Led by VoLo Earth Ventures

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

Banyan Secures $8.2M Series A to Drive Investment Into Sustainable Infrastructure

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.

New software can find more room for clean energy on transmission grids

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

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Leads $20M Series A for Blue Frontier's Game-Changing Sustainable, Energy-Storing Air Conditioning

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

VECKTA Corporation Closes $3.3M SEED Round

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

Nth Cycle Secures $12.5 Million in Series A Financing to Scale Clean Critical Mineral Recycling & Mining Technology

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

Climate tech startup funding: UW-spinoff BattGenie, Microsoft vet, and weeding robot raise fresh cash

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

Ion Storage Systems Closes $30 Million Series A Funding Round

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