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Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund is an investment vehicle designed to accelerate the tech giant’s trajectory to reach its announced climate goals, including reaching Net-Zero by 2040. The startup investments Amazon announced Wednesday are in e-waste, carbon storage, and carbon storage, and carbon storage, and low-carbon structures.
Closed Loop Partners Ventures Group funds Molg, a startup that uses advanced robotics microfactories to autonomously disassemble components that can be reused, remanufactured, or recycled. Leading procurement rounds.
Morgue CEO Rob Lawson-Shanks said in a release that the company’s experience in the consumer electronics sector and its “current design, production and collection processes, or lack thereof, The idea was born from looking at how Japan contributes to the large-scale problem of
“Achieving true circularity requires fundamental changes in the underlying systems that support manufacturing. It starts with better design and is enabled through dynamic automation. We can accelerate work at both ends of life and engineer circulation from the beginning. Recover valuable devices, components, and materials through automated disassembly.”
Sam LaPierre, an investor in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, said in a release that the investment in Morgue is part of Amazon’s efforts to “improve the circularity of its supply chain.” Morgue said it would use the funding to expand production capacity, and ABB Robotics & Automation Ventures, Overture, Elemental Impact and Techstars also participated in the funding round.
“Efforts to improve hardware manufacturing disassembly and material recovery, such as those developed by Morgues, are promising technologies that can help advance the recycling and material recovery industry at scale,” LaPierre said.
Holcim and Amazon’s investment in Africa-based 14Tree will allow the startup to expand its 3D printing structural process globally. To date, the company has delivered the first 3D-printed house in Africa, the world’s first 3D-printed schools and “one of the largest 3D-printed neighborhoods on the planet, according to 14Trees.
“This marks an important milestone, the conviction of the 14 Trees concept to deliver 3D printed homes, schools and commercial real estate,” said Fancoise Perrot, Managing Director of 14Trees. , the company said in a release. “We aim to collaborate with leaders in innovation, technology and sustainability. We use 3D printing technology to deliver low-carbon and high-performance buildings.”
Phoebe Wang, an investment partner in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, said the company is looking to help scale the company and will work with 14Tree on efforts to expand sustainable materials and low-carbon construction methods.
Paebbl’s technology “has the potential to transform the built environment into a permanent carbon sink,” Amazon said. Amazon Web Services announced this week that it will trial the startup’s cement-like low-carbon materials at one of the tech giant’s European data centers to provide data on the materials.
Additionally, Amazon announced this week that it has incorporated technology from previous CPF investments into its process. These include robust electric truck charging infrastructure from Forum Mobility; Recycle sorting technology from artificial intelligence and robotics company Glacier. More than 15,000 Rivian electric vehicles as part of the delivery fleet.
