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☀️ Solar Startup GlassPoint Lands $8 Million After a Reboot

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✍️ Author: Yuliya Chernova

🔖 Topics: Funding Event

🏢 Organizations: GlassPoint, 300PPM


A solar startup that has gotten a second lease on life is back with a new strategy aimed at helping it better cope with future downturns. GlassPoint, which sells solar-generated steam for industrial uses, is one of several businesses chasing climate-tech ideas that struggled in the past, but now expect better results amid greater focus on carbon-emissions reductions.

The new version of GlassPoint has raised $8 million in a Series A round led by new investor 300PPM. Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull participated in the financing, along with Tomas Sigurdsson, former chief operating officer of Alcoa.

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