Tag: Active
Active Impact launches $120-million third cleantech fund, Feds release Fall Economic Statement
Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features, and editorials published on BetaKit. If…
Active Impact Investments launches third climate tech seed fund with $70 million in initial commitments
LPs include Northleaf, Fondaction, Co-operators, Deloitte Ventures, University of Victoria. Vancouver-based Active Impact Investments has secured over $70 million CAD in initial commitments for…
Backed by Active Impact and Breakthrough, Othersphere secures $3 million to strategically locate climate tech projects
Victoria-based startup aims to drive industrial decarbonization with data analysis. Othersphere has closed over $3 million CAD in seed financing to develop its location…
Mozilla acquires Canadian-founded startups Pulse, Active Replica to fuel metaverse strategy
The company behind web browser Firefox wants to deliver its own metaverse. Mozilla Organization, the company that created the web browser Firefox, has completed…
Metafold 3D secures $500,000 from Active Impact Investments to build 3D printing’s “missing piece”
Idea behind Metafold was spun out of co-founders’ consulting work with a major sportswear manufacturer. Born out of a geometry-focused consulting agency that has…
With only four deals closed, Q2 2022 was Waterloo Region’s least active funding quarter in three years
Only another Faire megadeal rescued Waterloo Region from its lowest investment quarter in a year. Another Faire megadeal may have beefed up the Waterloo…
Terramera, Ekona Power, and Active Impact Investments winners at 2022 BC CleanTech Awards
Other winners include a partner at Pangaea Ventures; Jonathan Wilkinson, federal minister of natural resources. Terramera, Ekona Power, and Active Impact Investments were some…