Your Weekly Climate Rundown

G’day 👋

Welcome to the The Raaise Rundown—your weekly climate funding fix—designed to digest in less than a minute.

Let’s dive in to the 3 climate startups, 2 climate investors and 1 essential insight, for this week.

‘3 CLIMATE STARTUPS‘

• SquareBySquare: Led by Henk, SquareBySquare are empowering anyone to buy—and sell—microparcels of conservation land. By making conservation land more affordable, accessible, and tradable, they’re making nature protection profitable. [Seed] 🇦🇺

• Rightcharge: Charlie is developing technology to simplify EV charging management for fleets. Rightcharge’s solution offers a single card for all public charging and tracks home charging costs for easy reimbursement on drivers' home energy bills. [Seed] 🇬🇧

• Blue Carbon: Eva and Ana have developed the oPod™, a patent-pending, renewable-powered aquabot that tackles multiple challenges: capturing carbon, protecting coral reefs, and enabling more sustainable aquaculture. Additionally, the oPod™ monitors and restores ocean health, creating a safety net for humanity. [Seed] 🇦🇺

_{For details on these (and more) climate startups 👇.}

‘2 CLIMATE INVESTORS‘

• Purpose Ventures 🇦🇺: Purpose Ventures invest in founders pursuing their life's cause. They're industry-agnostic, backing purpose-driven entrepreneurs with global ambitions, from pre-seed to Series B.

  _{Geo Focus: Australia (with a focus on WA)}

  _{Backed: GeneS, IDEA, PlanCare, Paperly and more.}

• One Planet Capital 🇬🇧: One Planet Capital invest in startups that reduce carbon, combat climate change and facilitate the economies transition to net zero. They focus on post-revenue, product in market, Seed to Series A opportunities, with investments between £500k and £1M.

  _{Geo Focus: UK}

  _{Backed: Verv, Granyt, , ESG360, Terrafend and more.}

_{To connect and put your startup in front of these (and other) climate investors 👇.}

‘1 ESSENTIAL INSIGHT‘

The Top 3 Tactics when Raising Capital.

Climate tech has topped the charts in Australia for the last 3 quarters on deal count, but raising capital rn still isn’t easy.

Here are the top 3 tactics from a proven playbook to help stack the odds in your favour;

1. Add More Customers, Not More Product. Whatever you can do to test customer demand first, you should be doing. Don’t live by the mantra “if you build it, they will come.”

2. Make Revenue a Priority. Start selling and generating revenue as early as possible. Even a little bit of revenue can buy you the time you need to make critical decisions later.

3. Raise on Metrics, Not Story. Your “why” is important, but metrics matter when raising capital. Don’t hit the investor trail with nothing but an idea and expect things to go well.

As a founder, the most valuable resource you have is your time (and how you use it), so spend it wisely. Raaise streamlines the capital raising process, giving you more time to focus on these top 3 tactics.

‘RAISING CAPITAL?‘

We’ve got you.
The tools you need to take control—open a round, match and connect with investors, generate key legals, negotiate terms and close the deal—in one place.

Until next week,

Cheers,

Team Raaise

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