LACI Supports Climate Tech Startups in NYC through Pilots at BAT

Europe is home to twice as many climate tech startups as the US. Yet it invested almost three times less in the sector in 2025. Why is the Valley of Death especially deep for Europe's climate tech startups? 🌍📊 Featuring insights from Andrew Gray, General Partner at Tilia Impact Ventures, we explore why Europe's climate tech funding gap persists, what it means for founders and investors, and why solving the missing middle could determine the continent's clean-tech future. ⚡Read the full analysis: https://lnkd.in/dvbY4xV3

The semiconductor industry has always been a team sport. 🤝 For startups, technical innovation is only part of the challenge. Access to expertise, partnerships and the right support network can be just as important when moving from concept to commercial product. It was great to welcome Silicon Catalyst.UK and the wider UK startup community to Arm Cambridge to discuss the role ecosystem collaboration plays in helping innovators bring new technologies to market. Find out more about Arm's support for startups via Arm Flexible Access here: https://okt.to/Qf72PA

Something I’ve watched happen up close: In 2021, a battery startup with promising lab results and a good story could raise a Series A in weeks. By 2025, that same startup, even with more data and a clearer path to market, was getting investor meetings cancelled. That’s not a technology problem. That’s what happens when capital chases the wrong signals long enough to get burned, and then overcorrects in ways that hurt exactly the companies it should have been backing. Part 2 of The Wrong Problem is about what the 2019-2023 funding cycle actually did to the North American battery industry. From the hype to the policy distortion to the structural damage that’s still playing out. See the link in the comments 🔗

📍 Munich | 28–29 October 2026 The Business Booster by InnoEnergy brings together startups, industry leaders, investors and policymakers working to scale clean industrial innovation across Europe and beyond. This year's focus: From Transition to Competitive Advantage: Europe's New Industrial Era Two days to connect around the partnerships, investment and technologies needed to turn clean innovation into industrial impact. Event details: https://lnkd.in/dhvd69Wg #TBB2026

We are incredibly proud of our CEO, Albert Mansour, and our entire team for being recognized as a winner at CONNECT by Publicize PR. For the engineering firms and asset owners who trust us with their infrastructure data, this win is a testament to the value we are building for you. Our platform is designed by engineers, for engineers, to make structural defect detection faster, more accurate, and entirely collaborative. Read Albert’s thoughts below on the future of AI in infrastructure and where ConeLabs is heading. #ConeLabs #Engineering #AssetManagement #InfrastructureHealth #TechInnovation #StructuralEngineering

If you want to understand what we are building at Koddex , this is the 3 minutes that matter. Stephane Dicostanzo's pitch is now available. The short version: hardware teams building next-generation products in regulated industries are running billion-euro programs on spreadsheets, emails and disconnected tools. At some point, spreadsheets can no longer hold the truth. That is why we built an Engineering Operating System. One system of record from requirements to design control, built on three principles we will never compromise on: - Absolute trust by design. When you look at data in Koddex, you know it is the truth. Structurally guaranteed, verifiable, explainable to any auditor or regulator. - Opinionated, yet malleable. We give you the primitives. You model your reality. - Execution as a craft. We remove the administrative noise so teams can focus entirely on the mission. We build the system, so you can build the future. If you are a systems engineer, hardware architect or quality lead in robotics, medtech, aerospace or energy, I would genuinely like your take on it. #Koddex #EngineeringOS #HardwareEngineering #PLM #SystemsEngineering

Today, two members of Clean, ERLEtek and GLYON, are taking the stage at the VITO4STARTERS pitching competition at Love Tomorrow summit in Belgium. 🎤🎪 Selected as two of just ten finalists from across Europe, they will present their solutions alongside some of the continent's most promising deeptech startups. The winning startup will be fast-tracked into an accelerator program, and receive tickets to the world-renowned Tomorrowland festival, a perfect place to celebrate. Their participation also highlights the value of collaboration across networks. This opportunity reached Danish innovators through the International Cleantech Network (ICN), following a tip from fellow ICN member Flux50 in Belgium. It's a great example of how international cluster collaboration helps connect companies with new opportunities beyond national borders. We wish ERLETek and Glyon the best of luck in today's competition and look forward to following their pitches. 🍀

What role do innovation ecosystems play in helping startups grow, scale, and create impact? On 16 September 2026, founders, investors, policymakers, and innovation leaders will gather at Vilnius Tech Park for "Behind Every Start-up Success Story – How Ecosystems Shape Growth, Scale and Impact", an official side event of Start-up Fair 2026. 🚀 On behalf of INNOVATE-EU, WE-RISE, and EPIC-X, this event will explore the key factors that enable startups success across Europe, from access to funding and networks to effective support systems and collaboration. 👉 Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/d4kMgDFs

🦄 Are unicorns a myth or is the next generation of European scale-ups already here? At the **Future 500 Forum** in Bled this August, we'll be exploring exactly this question with Bjorn Tremmerie, Head of Technology Investments at the European Investment Fund (EIF). Since joining EIF in 2002, Bjorn has overseen a portfolio of 250+ European VC funds - giving him a front-row seat to how capital actually flows to Europe's highest-potential companies. At the Forum, he'll share what the data really tells us about unicorn creation in Europe, and what it will take to close the region's scale-up gap. This is exactly the question #Future500 was built to answer: not with anecdotes, but with data infrastructure that tracks how European companies actually scale. 📍 Bled, 31 August 2026 More speaker announcements coming soon. #Future500 #EIF #ScaleUp #VentureCapital #Bled #humanology

🦄 Unicorns: mythical creatures, or next-gen tech champions? 📽️ Watch to learn why these startups valued at more than $1 billion matter for Europe and its growth. Our European Tech Champions supports European scale-ups, helping ensure unicorns become a common sight in Europe. Learn more: go.eib.org/Unicorns_EIB