Good investment: The ambitious fund that shows how social impact can pay dividends
Joining Amplify Capital was a life-changing decision for me, and I'm often asked why I made the move. The answer is simple: purpose and passion.
Amplify's mission to make a positive impact on climate, education, and healthcare struck a deep chord within me. I believe that business can be a powerful force for good, and I am thrilled to collaborate with mission-driven founders to create meaningful change in the world.
Welcome Louis Delorme to the Amplify Capital team!
Joining Amplify Capital was a life-changing decision for me, and I'm often asked why I made the move. The answer is simple: purpose and passion.
Amplify's mission to make a positive impact on climate, education, and healthcare struck a deep chord within me. I believe that business can be a powerful force for good, and I am thrilled to collaborate with mission-driven founders to create meaningful change in the world.
Carbon Upcycling raises $26M Series A led by BDC Capital and Climate Investment
Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a leader in circular decarbonization solutions for hard-to-abate sectors, including cement, steel, and mining, has closed a US$26 million Series A funding round co-led by BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund and Climate Investment.
The syndicate includes strong participation from existing financial investors, Clean Energy Ventures, its angel investor collective CEVG, Amplify Capital, and strategic investors, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, CRH Ventures, and Cemex Ventures, which are all enhancing their financial support with commitments to strategically-relevant projects.
Ditch Labs secures $3.25 million to treat nicotine addiction with tech
Montréal-based healthtech startup Ditch Labs wants to help smokers wean themselves off nicotine with its dual hardware-software solution.
HMH Acquires Canadian EdTech Company Classcraft
PRNewswire/ -- Learning technology company HMH today announced the acquisition of Quebec-based education technology company, Classcraft.
American biotech Recursion acquires AI drug-discovery companies, Cyclica and Valence
An American biotech company is acquiring two Canadian startups in the artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery space: Cyclica and Valence Discovery.
Future Fields: Why We Invested
Future Fields optimizes the biomanufacturing process, enabling more opportunities for cost-effective alternative proteins. As a result, Future Fields will support the decarbonization industries while offering a scalable solution to meet food, pharmaceutical, and other urgent and necessary needs globally.
Unlocking a New Future with Synthetic Biology
It’s no secret that we’re in a transformative time for biotechnology and bioinnovation. Today, scientists are unlocking new solutions that are better for both human health and environmental sustainability. These solutions include meat proteins that are no longer sourced from animals, textiles and dyes created from microbes, and new sources of nutrients, such as omega-3 sourced from microalgae. All of these new products are the results of developments in synthetic biology, a rising biotechnology approach to redesign and refabricate existing biological systems already found in nature into products that are better for the environment and people.
Can Impact Funds Support the Climate Transition of Heavy Emitting Industries?
The past few years have brought our planet into a new era of accelerated changes in climate. In 2022 alone, the physical weather conditions have caused global populations to face extremely strenuous conditions such as significant heatwaves in India and the UK, floods in Western China, and wildfires scorching across Canada and the U.S. The climate conditions have reached extremes that cannot be ignored and the push towards decarbonization and climate action is no longer a question of if, rather putting forward plans to determine when.
Low-Cost and More Sustainable Battery Production for Electric Vehicles and Grid Storage Enabled by Sylvatex’s Advanced New Cathode Manufacturing Process
“Today’s method for producing cathodes is extremely costly and requires an incredible amount of resources. If we're to realize the clean energy transition, battery production must scale dramatically, and evolve into a more cost-effective and sustainable process”