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Breakthrough Energy

Hydrogen startup spins out of Bill Gates-backed R&D effort, lands $7.8M

by Lisa Stiffler on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 at 3:49 pm

Peregrine Hydrogen, a Santa Cruz, Calif., startup developing technology for producing clean hydrogen, raised $7.8 million in seed financing. The company is aiming to manufacture climate friendly hydrogen that is… Read More

5 climate technologies you’ve probably never heard of – but could someday be on investor radars

by Lisa Stiffler on October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 at 8:45 am

The race to replace fossil fuels with clean alternatives has triggered an explosion in climate tech innovation and funding. That includes a heightened interest in fields that have plugged along… Read More

Go inside the invite-only, climate tech summit in Seattle hosted by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy

by Lisa Stiffler on October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 at 11:32 am

Inside a Seattle waterfront center cloaked in wildfire smoke, climate tech innovators and investors came together this week at the Breakthrough Energy Summit. The event was a chance to share… Read More

Bill Gates ‘amazed at how far we’ve come’ as he opens inaugural climate tech summit in Seattle

by Lisa Stiffler on October 18, 2022October 21, 2022 at 11:28 am

Breakthrough Energy, the Bill Gates-led effort to stoke innovation in climate technology, is holding its inaugural summit this week in Seattle. It kicked off its program on Tuesday with a… Read More

Inside Bill Gates’ multi-faceted org that wants to help save the world from climate destruction

by Lisa Stiffler on April 9, 2022April 9, 2022 at 8:49 am

It started with a November 2015 announcement by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates along with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and more than two dozen other tech titans and billionaires.… Read More

COP26 updates: Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy, Gates Foundation and Amazon tout climate efforts

by Lisa Stiffler on November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 at 10:54 am

Day two of the United Nations COP26 climate talks brought news of recently forged partnerships and new funding commitments from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. On Tuesday, the Microsoft… Read More

Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy pledges $276M to match UK funding for climate innovations

by Lisa Stiffler on October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 at 12:57 pm

Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Catalyst has pledged an investment of $276 million in climate innovation in the United Kingdom, matching that country’s commitment to scale up a suite of clean… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft, Breakthrough Energy share climate news as ‘Climate Week’ kicks off

by Lisa Stiffler on September 20, 2021May 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm

Climate Week is kicking off Monday in New York City and major companies including Amazon and Microsoft as well as Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy are sharing news of their efforts… Read More

Bill Gates backs Cipher, a new online climate news source produced by his Breakthrough Energy

by Lisa Stiffler on September 14, 2021September 15, 2021 at 8:53 am

Bill Gates is backing a new online climate news publication called Cipher that is slated to start publishing on Sept. 29. The Cipher news site is being led by Seattle-based… Read More

Gates offers $1.5B for carbon-cutting innovation if lawmakers enact public-private program

by Lisa Stiffler on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 at 10:23 am

Bill Gates has pledged to invest $1.5 billion on joint projects with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to remove planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere, provided that lawmakers approve a… Read More

Video

Here’s what Bill Gates is doing — and not doing — to help fight climate change

by Lisa Stiffler on February 20, 2021February 19, 2021 at 5:48 pm

Climate change is by definition a global challenge, and in his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Bill Gates describes solutions that require an all-hands response including government,… Read More

Podcast

Bill Gates on his high-risk climate investments, and spurring innovation to save the planet

by Lisa Stiffler on February 15, 2021August 30, 2021 at 10:56 am

Breakthrough Energy Ventures last month grabbed headlines with the news that the fund had raised another $1 billion to be invested in promising, scalable solutions for climate change. At the… Read More

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