The Week in Low Carbon Commerce

This week, in lieu of our typical podcast episodes, we’re turning the tables with two recent occasions where I was the guest instead of the host:

• People, Planet, & Profit: Retail’s Triple Bottom Line, with Suzy Monford

• Driving Traffic, Sales, and Unit Economics with Amazon’s Climate and Sustainability Programs (from FirstMovr’s JBPx Amazon Summit)

Thursday’s podcast episode will be back to the usual format. Want a preview of our upcoming guests and a chance to submit your questions for them? Join the Slack community.

-Keith

In this edition:

• Hot links

• Events and opportunities

• From the Decarbonize.co Slack community

• Deals and funding

• Featured jobs 

Hot links

• Climate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024

• Walmart to use AI to reduce food, apparel waste
  

• Grove Collaborative CEO talks new subscription model, winning over ‘dark green customers’
  

• Eco-friendly brands are taking over big-box garden aisles
  

• Walmart drones are hitting more areas

• Inside Allbirds’ mission to make a shoe with no carbon footprint
  

• Henkel collaborates with Kraton and Dow for consumer goods’ carbon reductions

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Events and opportunities

Kickstart Innovation, an open innovation platform based in Zurich, Switzerland, has launched the 9th iteration of its program for driving collaborative solutions and investments. The program targets six verticals, including a Food & Retail vertical. Learn more about applying here.

From the Decarbonize.co Slack Community

• Chris is looking for advice on how to credibly make sustainability claims while avoiding greenwashing

• I’m looking for input on questions to ask upcoming podcast guests

Not already part of the community? It’s free and easy to join. See you there?

Deals and funding

Pipedream, based in Austin, TX, raised a $13M seed round for its autonomous underground logistics technology.

Carbonfact, based in France, raised $15M for its carbon management software specialized for the apparel and footwear industries.

Solar Foods, based in Finland, raised $8.8M for its technology to produce protein for the food industry from “air and solar power.”

Aiperia, based in the London, raised €7.5 million for its AI-powered demand forecasting software for food retailers and manufacturers.

Featured jobs

• VP Global Sales (US)
  New York, NY, USA
  Good-Loop
  

• VP/Director of product development and commercialization
  Oakland, CA, USA
  Tezza Foods
  

• Senior Product Manager
  USA, Remote
  AMP Robotics
  

• Director of Go To Market
  København, Denmark
  Too Good to Go
  

• Marketing Manager – Communications and Events
  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, Hybrid
  Xampla

Check out all of the jobs (or post your open roles) on the Decarbonizing Commerce Career Board.