The Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate Innovation commits $30M to fund big bet projects that accelerate technological advances in climate information and action. Selected organizations may receive up to $5M in funding, along with access to Google’s technical expertise and products, to accelerate progress toward a more sustainable and resilient future.

Open to startups in central and eastern Europe (CEE) this €25 million fund offers up to €250k to early-stage startups. More than 30 startups will be supported annually through the AIP Seed 2.0 early-stage investment fund, which is targeting the most promising young companies from the CEE. Through its unique model the fund will evaluate and respond to startups within a week.

An initiative of the Dubai Future Foundation, the latest grand prize focus is on: Extreme Weather-Proof Batteries. It ‘aims at incentivising global scientific communities to accelerate the research on building better batteries that can withstand extreme weather conditions. The winner, who will receive $1 million. will be the ‘team that can design and test a battery that endures extreme weather for a specified duration’.

‘This four-year global competition invites innovators and teams from anywhere on the planet to create and demonstrate solutions that can pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans, and sequester it durably and sustainably. Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, this $100M competition is the largest incentive prize in history.‎’

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has launched the EIC Scale-Up 100 call ‘to identify, promote, and support the growth of 100 promising deep tech companies that show the potential to become ‘unicorns’. Those selected will receive European Commission funding to help them ‘develop their corporate and leadership strategies, reach strategic investors and partners, expand internationally and obtain access to other scale-up support programmes’. 

‘Have an innovation ready to supercharge?’ is the big question Regeneration.VC is asking innovators worldwide. And if your company is pioneering circular solutions that can tackle the climate emergency then you should seriously think about giving Leonardo Di Caprio, a strategic advisor to the fund, and the team at Regeneration.VC a call. The fund, which recently brought down the gavel on its first $45 million pot, aims to harness the epoch-making changes that can be triggered by people power to inspire a paradigm shift in the consumer industries, so its future is one defined by ‘circular and regenerative principles’.