GS Futures

GS Futures is excited to announce Shop Circle's successful $60M Series B Raise! Congratulations to Luca Cartechini and Gian Maria Gramondi and the whole team at Shop Circle! We are beyond excited to be a part of this journey and to support Shop Circle shaping the future of retail ?? ??? Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/ehrU6tFm #ShopCircle #GSFutures

The most active Corporations and CVCs. ?? We analyzed over 850+ deals to see what organizations invested the most heavily into Climate Tech in 2024. Our findings reveal six major players driving a significant share of investments. 1. Toyota Ventures invested in Joby Aviation, Starfish Space, e-Zinc, and more. 2. Siemens invested in Statera Energy, Zenobē, and Stegra amongst others. 3. Aramco Ventures invested in Xpansiv, Seeq Corporation, CarbonCapture Inc., and others. 4. Shell invested in Li Industries, Strohm, Zap Energy, and more. 5. GS Futures invested in Antora Energy, Mitra Chem, ZymoChem amongst others 6. KDDI Corporation invested in Clean Energy Connect, ASUENE Inc., Chemix, Inc., and more Uncover the complete list of frontrunners and delve deeper into the data in our latest State of Climate Tech report: https://lnkd.in/eRFjQtPj #SOCT2024 #stateofclimatetech #netzeroinsights #climatetech #climateinnovation #corprations #vc

Congrats to the team at Clearstory.build. We are thrilled to participate in this Series B and look forward to partnering with Prudence and Industry Ventures.

We want to thank all our investors! Our Series A funding round was led by Faction VC with participation from Protocol Labs, Borderless Capital, Arca , Alumni Ventures, Placeholder, Red Beard Ventures , Metaplanet, GS Futures, Consensys Mesh, Westerly Ventures, dlab, Eleftherios Diakomichalis, Juan Benet. Thank you! https://lnkd.in/dwBMC86R

GS Futures is excited to announce our support for WeatherXM and their innovative solution for building a more accurate weather network. By leveraging crypto incentives, WeatherXM's decentralized approach is a game-changer in the industry. We're proud to back this innovative team! Check out their progress at https://lnkd.in/gs3ivhX2. #WeatherXM #DePin #Climate #GSFutures

We are thrilled to partner with SmartPM Technologies, Inc. for its Series A financing along side our friends at Building Ventures and Nemetschek Group. Congrats to Michael Pink, Rohit Sinha, and the entire team of SmartPM. Please read more about SmartPM and why we invested on our Medium page: https://lnkd.in/gi2sessD

?? SFCW 2024: We are incredibly grateful to everyone who attended Climate Tech in the Built Environment event co-hosted with Prologis Ventures and Lowercarbon Capital. A special thanks to our insightful panelists: Atul Khanzode | CTO DPR Construction William O'Donnell | Managing Director of Prologis Ventures Taehong Huh | Managing Director of GS Futures And our exceptional moderator, Dr. Brendan Hermalyn of Thalo Labs, for leading such an engaging discussion. Your participation and insights are invaluable as we navigate the challenges and opportunities in our journey towards a more sustainable future. Let’s continue to collaborate and innovate! #GrowwithuS

I'm excited to announce a climate tech hardware happy hour that I've been co-organizing with Clean Energy Ventures, GS Futures, and At One Ventures! Come kick off SF Climate Week with a fabulous mix of investors and innovators... 260+ RSVPs and counting! More details here: Dream team: Juan Estalella Girón Amy Zhao Ana Yoerg Mook Kim Will Chung

To mark Earth ?? Day next week, join SOSV (April 25, 10:00 a.m. PT - Virtual | Live | Free) for "Corporate Venture: Doubling down on Climate?" with Microsoft's Brandon Middaugh, GS Futures Taehong Huh, Honda Innovations' @Adity Sharma, and moderated by SOSV's Pae Wu. The number of corporate VCs focusing on climate tech is surging, and their missions vary from shoring up the corporation's value chain with new technologies to meeting public ESG goals. Microsoft for example has committed $1 billion to a fund that will help the tech giant be carbon negative by 2030. Firms in Asia, notably GS Futures (GS Group) and Honda Innovation are also active in the hunt for climate investments. What are CVCs looking for?in the climate ecosystems, and what return do they expect? https://lnkd.in/gfs3PKnv

SF Climate Week 2024: Come join us and our friends Prologis Ventures and Lowercarbon Capital for Climate Tech in the Built Environment Happy Hour on Wednesday the 24th! Link: https://lu.ma/bd6wi2yk cc: Thank you Shuo Yang Rajeev Oak Rae Oakley!