The Week in Low Carbon Commerce

April 29, 2024

Author

Keith Anderson
April 29, 2024

This week’s edition features great new jobs on both sides of the pond at brands like Sephora and Haleon, new funding and accelerator opportunities for startups from Mondelez and Better Bite, and fresh deal activity including an exit for Bluebird Climate.

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-Keith

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Events and opportunities

Mondelez's Snack Futures Ventures has opened applications for its CoLab 2024 program, seeking early-stage companies focused on packaging, ingredients, and sustainability.

First Bite, a program from Betterbite.vc for idea- or early-stage start-ups based in the Asia Pacific region working on climate friendly solutions for rice production, palm oil, cocoa/coffee, fertilizer, or food waste, is accepting applications through April 30.

From the podcast — new episodes Thursday mornings

Ep. 25: Future-Ready Fibers with Tessa Callaghan of Keel Labs

This episode features Tessa Callaghan, co-founder and CEO of Keel Labs, which produces a fiber from seaweed material being used in the fashion and other industries.In addition to sharing her and her co-founder's journey to starting Keel Labs, Tessa covers what they experienced firsthand as designers in the fashion industry, some of the ways that the material they're producing compares and contrasts both to conventional synthetics and natural fibers, and where she sees the industry headed.

decarbonize.co/podcast/ep-25-future-ready-fibers-with-tessa-callaghan-of-keel-labs

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Deals and funding

RePurpose Global, a “plastic action platform,” acquired Bluebird Climate, a sustainability software company that helps consumer brands assess, improve, and communicate the environmental performance of their products, ingredients, and packaging.

Rodinia Generation, based in Copenhagen, raised €3M for its on-demand microfactories aimed at reducing textile overproduction.

Cultimate Foods, based in Berlin, raised €2.3M for its cell-cultivated fat ingredient for plant-based meat products.

Sorted, based in the London, raised €1.9M for its AI-powered waste sorting technology.

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