Burnt Island Ventures 🔥🏝️💧
@BurntIslandVC
Funding the best water entrepreneurs in the world. $30M Fund I. Founded by @InveryneFarmer. 🔥🏝️💧
Fund 1: Done. ✅ $30M in the bank to back the world's greatest water startups. Huge thanks to @rebecca_szkutak for her diligent reporting and coverage of our story. 🙏
Despite the size of the market and its deep connections to climate change, water has been slow to innovate. Startups looking to tackle the industry's problem are starting to gain momentum and @BurntIslandVC just raised $30 million to back them 💧💰 forbes.com/sites/rebeccas…
"Solve a real problem. The operative word is real. Be honest about it." Tune into The Fundamental Molecule episode featuring @O_2the_L, CEO of @AquiSenseTech. Episode link here: burntislandventures.com/the-fundamenta…
A very happy July to you from all of us at BIV. Please find the Monthly Update LVII below. Another boring month. Huge thanks to the whole team for a mammoth effort during the summer sprint. Thanks as ever for reading. Here if we can help. Our Monthly Update:…
1/ 🚰 HUGE NEWS at @hopehydration We just raised a $20 million Series A to bring free water access to more cities, more events, and more people. 🧵 forbes.com/sites/alexyork…
There is so much that is dumb in water, but easily one of the dumbest is that in the US - let alone the rest of the world - 60 percent of meters are offline and need to be read by hand in 2025. It is an insane state of affairs, and we have had our eyes out for teams to solve it…
Our Founder Forum was our most electric yet. It is so fun to see the original Islanders move through the gears, and then add all these new extraordinary founders to the mix. Please find the Monthly Update LV below. Later than some, but it has been quite the few weeks, as you will…
One of the reasons why working in water is fun is the people who work in it - dedicated, driven, modest, self-effacing, hard-working, but with a lightness that comes from doing something that really matters. Craig Beckman personifies these qualities and then some, and he also…
"Water is key to cooling strategies in data centers. It reduces energy use and meets sustainability goals." Tune into Episode 35 of The Fundamental Molecule featuring @WillHewes, Water Sustainability Lead at @Amazon. Episode link here: lnkd.in/e-4mTkMs
It's no secret that the so-called "hyperscalers"—@Amazon, @Microsoft, @Google, @Meta, and others—are doing their hyperscaling in the context of the AI revolution. The pace of digital infrastructure buildout is mind-boggling—about $450 billion in 2024 and with no sign of slowing.…
When you hear a canary singing in the coal mine, you should stop and listen. Without torturing the metaphor too far, this is how I felt when I started working with Megan Casey Glover at @120_Water in 2017 as she started to build her business. The success of a business is…
AGM complete (it was much fun, thanks to all the team for making it seamless), LP pipeline building, Islander number 9 into Fund II, tons of ground covered, great progress across the Island. Huge kudos to @Xylem Innovation Labs for their Symposium this week. Top notch. 🔥 Here's…
Sometimes things just strike you as dumb and then one day you understand why. The current model of desalination is a great example. It's something that everyone thinks that we at BIV should be invested in up to the eyeballs, and, of course, we support technologies that are…
