🤖 Elon is closing in on $6 billion in funding for his AI startup.
🛜 The FCC has officially voted to restore net neutrality.
🦺 Sam Altman and other AI leaders will serve on a government AI safety board.
⛔ The US Senate has passed a bill that could ban TikTok.
👓 Meta has started licensing the Quest OS to other companies starting with Lenovo.
🤖 Microsoft has launched a mini AI model that can run on smartphones.
🖼️ Adobe launched a new image-generating model that is its biggest yet.
That’s how I would sum up Climatize, a new platform that’s like Republic or Wefunder but for solar projects. In other words, you can scroll the SEC-registered platform for solar projects that you want to invest in.
Climatize came about when co-founder Will Wiseman, who was working to develop solar panels, noticed that small to medium-sized solar projects struggled to raise funding, even though they qualified for grants. Now Climatize lets anyone with a US bank account scroll such projects and invest in them with as little as $10.
Examples on Climatize’s site include anything from a family-owned farm in South Carolina to a second-hand car dealership that wants to go solar and has already received part of what it needs in the form of a grant from the USDA.
The makers, who were recognized in Forbes 30 under 30, say that investors can gain up to a 10% return on their investment. And I love that — not because I’m a green money monster but because, as the makers also note, traditional activism has lacked tangible change over the last decade plus. Many of us who care about climate change watch our food consumption, shop sustainably, etc., and yet still Earth Days come and go and we feel limited by our impact.
Climatize takes advantage of the momentum that’s already growing in renewable energy (1 trillion dollars is projected to be spent on solar energy adoption) and aims to catalyze it. So, if you’d like to help more people go solar, check it out.
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Last week, Stripe made a ton of announcements, from enabling crypto payments again to allowing customers to use its financial stack without its payments product. We’ll watch their shoutouts, but expect their spot on the charts to look something like this 📈 with these updates.