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Greennex Voices | Frederic Clerc on Carbon-to-Value: Tech Shifts, Evolving Business Models, and Global Investment Opportunities
By Greennex Global | October 2025 Venture capital has long celebrated breakthrough climate technologies. But as decarbonization matures, the real transformation may come from turning CO₂ itself into a building block for value creation. The carbon-to-value (C2V) market — once niche and experimental — is now rapidly evolving into a serious investment class, spanning fuels, materials, and chemicals that reuse carbon instead of emitting it. Frederic Clerc speaking live at the
Oct 28
Greennex Pulse Roadshow Program | November 2025
Date: 11/25/2025 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:10 AM EST Location: Virtual Host: Greennex Global Agenda 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM Climate Venture Talk Speaker: Timothy Hoffman, Director, Columbia Technology Ventures In this month’s keynote, Timothy Hoffman shares insights from Columbia’s frontier in deep tech and climate commercialization. His talk will explore how early-stage climate ventures are scaling out of universities, how corporate and infrastructure capital is responding, and what t
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Greennex Pulse: Market & Traction November
Energy Efficiency and Next‑Generation Power ENTRA1 Energy × NuScale On October 29, 2025, ENTRA1 Energy and NuScale Power were positioned to receive up to $25 billion in investment capital under the newly signed $550 billion U.S.–Japan Framework Agreement. The bilateral framework, unveiled during a high-level summit in Tokyo, places advanced nuclear and critical infrastructure at the center of U.S.–Japan industrial cooperation. If executed at scale, the ENTRA1–NuScale deployme
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Greennex Pulse: November Deal Spotlight
November's climate tech dealflow revealed distinct investment patterns across continents, with Europe asserting dominance in agritech and industrial decarbonization, while the U.S. maintained its lead in AI-driven infrastructure and battery circularity. The funding landscape showed a clear preference for late-stage, capital-intensive climate solutions that promise near-term commercialization and grid-scale impact. Taken together, the November financings illustrate a maturing
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Greennex Pulse: November Sector Focus
The Compute-Energy Nexus: AI Infrastructure Meets Waste Energy Monetization Crusoe's $1.3B Series E isn't just the largest climate tech financing of Q4 2025—it's a structural signal that the AI revolution and energy transition are converging into a single infrastructure thesis. The deal marks a fundamental shift: stranded and waste energy assets are no longer externalities to be managed, but productive infrastructure to be monetized. As AI compute demand collides with grid co
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Greennex Pulse October Roadshow: 6 Frontier Climate Tech Startups Showcased, Backed by Breakthrough Energy, United Airlines Ventures, and Shell
By Greennex Global | October 2025 Carbon-to-Value & Frontier Energy Innovation Spotlight The October edition of the Greennex Pulse Roadshow brought together a global network of investors, corporate partners, and climate tech entrepreneurs for a high-impact session focused on carbon-to-value pathways, battery circularity, fleet electrification, and frontier energy systems. With a curated lineup of six venture-backed startups and thought-provoking insights from sector leaders,
Oct 29
Carbon to Value (C2V) Investment Insights - Interview with Frederic Clerc
Interviewer: Stella Song, Greennex Global Interviewee: Frederic Clerc, Urban Future Lab Q1: Technology Applications and Momentum Stella Song: In the carbon development space, which application areas—like fuels, chemicals, or building materials—are seeing the most momentum right now? Looking across the past five years of C2V cohorts, where have you seen the biggest shift in new technologies? Frederic Clerc: We've seen significant progress across different technology categories
Oct 24
Greennex Pulse Exclusive: October Market&Traction Report
October’s activity in U.S. clean energy underscored a decisive shift. The stories were not about pilots or seed grants, but infrastructure-scale projects, multi-decade contracts, and financial instruments worth hundreds of millions. Together, they show a market moving firmly from experimentation to infrastructure. Energy Efficiency and Next-Generation Power Government agencies and nuclear innovators pushed forward with major commitments to both upgrade legacy systems and prep
Oct 9
Greennex Pulse Exclusive: October Deal Spotlight
In September's climate tech dealflow, the U.S. market revealed a clear concentration around scalable, infrastructure-heavy plays — carbon offset platforms, EV charging hubs, geothermal baseload solutions, compact electric mobility, and carbon-negative building materials. These bets reflect where American investors are leaning: toward assets that can integrate quickly into existing supply chains and generate predictable cash flows, even under uncertain policy backdrops. By con
Oct 9
Greennex Pulse Exclusive: October Sector Focus
Sustained Investment Momentum in Carbon-to-Value September's financings weren't isolated wins — they signaled that carbon-to-value has crossed the line from experiment to investable asset class. Looking across 2025, the capital markets have begun treating carbon not as an externality to be offset, but as a feedstock and financial instrument in its own right. The deals tell a consistent story: carbon is no longer waste, it's a market. 1. Carbon Credits Go Institutional – The R
Oct 9
Yokohama×Greennex Global: 7 Frontier Climate Innovations Showcased at New York Climate Week’s U.S.–Japan Startup Pitch
As climate challenges intensify worldwide, cross-border collaboration has become one of the most powerful engines driving innovation. The Yokohama Clean Tech Gateway: U.S.–Japan Morning Pitches —co-organized by the City of Yokohama and Greennex Global—was held during New York Climate Week 2025 as part of the Smart City Collaboration Forum , spotlighting some of the most ambitious U.S. climate tech startups to an exclusive group of Japan’s leading investors and corporate stak
Oct 1
Global is the New Resilience: What Investors Want From Climate Tech Now
Global Venture Dialogue Recap – Climate Week NYC 2025
Sep 30
Greennex × Arbon: Delivering Carbon Removal at the Speed of Reality
As billions in U.S. federal funding pour into carbon removal, a divide is emerging in the DAC space: between gigaton-scale visions and...
Sep 21
Embedded Intelligence: What South Korea's Digital Energy Stack Can Teach the U.S.
Greennex Insight | August 2025 ⚠️ U.S. Blind Spot: The Grid Is Digital — But Disconnected In the U.S., grid modernization often centers...
Aug 18
Marine as the Missing Grid Layer: What Ireland's Coastal Energy System Can Teach the U.S.
Greennex Insight America's Oversight: When Ports Are Just Power Loads From California to New Jersey, U.S. ports are under pressure to decarbonize. Shore power mandates are expanding. Offshore wind is scaling. But something's missing. Despite their massive energy footprints and geographic proximity to high-demand zones, ports remain disconnected from broader grid planning. Charging infrastructure is fragmented. Maritime logistics and clean energy systems operate in silos. And
Jul 26
Beyond the Meter: What the U.K.’s Grid-Native Energy Logic Can Teach the U.S.
⚡The Coordination Crisis Behind the Smart Meter Boom Across the U.S., the electrification push is moving faster than the grid logic to support it. Millions of smart meters have been deployed. Heat pumps, rooftop solar, and EV chargers are scaling. But under the hood, coordination remains painfully limited. Behind the meter, building flexibility is rarely visible. On the grid side, utilities struggle to translate local capacity into market action. And while demand response pro
Jun 26
Power in Reserve: What Sweden’s Systemic Redundancy Can Teach the U.S.
When Redundancy Isn’t Waste — It’s Strategy Across the U.S., grid planners are under pressure: demand curves are shifting, extreme weather is surging, and decarbonization targets are closing in. Yet many utilities still treat redundancy — extra generation, dual systems, distributed fallback — as inefficient legacy. In a market obsessed with optimization, excess feels like failure. But what if redundancy is the point? In Sweden, one of Europe’s most electrified nations, resili
Jun 17
Coordinated, Not Congested: What U.S. Grids Can Learn from Belgium’s Urban Logic
⚡ The Urban Grid’s Untapped Intelligence As the U.S. pushes to decarbonize buildings and modernize city infrastructure, one hard question keeps resurfacing: how do we make urban energy systems flexible, fast, and financeable — all at once? The conversation often revolves around hardware: more solar, more batteries, more EV chargers. But Belgium offers another answer, one that starts not with new assets, but with better orchestration of what’s already built — and a deep rethi
May 26
ETPA: The Dutch Exchange Making Electricity Trading as Nimble as the Grid Demands
The U.S. power grid is getting cleaner. But it’s not getting faster. As renewables surge and electrification expands, the grid’s biggest challenge is no longer just generation — it’s timing . Energy needs to flow not just where it’s needed, but when . And right now, America’s fragmented, inflexible electricity markets are still operating on rules written for fossil-era predictability, not solar volatility or EV surges. While developers chase storage, and policymakers subsidiz
May 4
The U.S. Still Thinks in Meters — Singapore Is Already Thinking in Real-Time Circuits
In the U.S., commercial buildings are having an identity crisis. They’re responsible for nearly 40% of electricity use, yet most still operate in the dark — figuratively speaking. Energy bills show up once a month. HVAC systems run on outdated schedules. Lights blaze in empty hallways. Despite a wave of green building mandates and federal funding for energy retrofits, most buildings are missing one thing: a brain. Singapore-based Ampotech thinks it has the wiring for one. Th
Apr 20
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