Beyond the Chain

While European cleantech funding dropped 24% in 2024, a select group of energy startups raised massive rounds. The VC landscape is shifting—from spray-and-pray to surgical precision. Here's who's winning.

We champion battery recycling as the sustainable solution. But behind the green promise lies a darker reality: informal recycling operations poisoning communities, exposing workers to neurotoxins, and transferring environmental harm from one vulnerable population to another.

Nuclear fusion has long been the ultimate energy goal — a clean, virtually limitless power source. But while the promise is extraordinary, so are the challenges. Is this the breakthrough that will redefine our energy future?

The narrative goes: batteries enable renewable energy storage and can be recycled. But if you dig deeper, the picture is more complicated. Are we truly closing the loop, or just creating new dependencies?

For decades, stability was the holy grail of supply chain management. Today, "stable" is just another word for vulnerable. The future belongs to companies that embrace agility, resilience, and adaptation.

Innovation in space is happening at an unprecedented pace, but with no clear rules or limits, we're dumping debris into orbit. Are we repeating the same mistake we made on Earth?