Earlier this year the World Economic Forum launched a challenge to identify investment funds seeking to impact at least one the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Blue Frontier raises a $20 million round to address our global cooling problem that is only heating up. By: Christian Hernandez, Alexandra Perez, Margarita Skarkou We sit here writing this coming off of the hottest day on record in the United Kingdom where temperatures hit 40.3C (nearly 105F), wildfires raged…

2150 leads $48M funding round for Nabr in a bid to bring sustainable and affordable home ownership to urban communities at scale. By Jacob Bro and Nicole LeBlanc The golden age of prefabricated construction is already in the past. For all the recent buzz about tech startups finally bringing construction…

By Peter Hirsch, Head of Sustainability The average person on earth lives in a city. Currently 4.2 billion people live in urban areas, representing roughly 55 per cent of the global population. By 2050, this number will increase by almost 2.5 billion people and represent 68 per cent of the…

Sharing our insights into the biggest sustainability challenges facing our built environment. Our previous issues of the UNSUSTAINABLE series have focused on the often overlooked, but massive issues within cooling and windows. With today’s post, we explore the very foundations of the built environment: concrete and cement. The Problem After…

2150 hosts its annual investor meeting bringing together our ecosystem of mission-aligned investors, founders and thought leaders, all seeking to tackle sustainability challenges of the built world. Copenhagen, Denmark June 1st, 2022 Today, dozens of folks took a boat in the Copenhagen harbour headed towards a 300 year old fort…

2150 leads NatureMetrics $15m Series A to accelerate growth of DNA-based biodiversity mapping to advance our global mapping and action By: Margarita Skarkou and Christian Jølck At 2150, we believe that understanding how humans are affecting nature is a key driver to solving the climate crisis. Our planet has experienced…

By Rahul Parekh Cities cover roughly 1% of the earth’s landmass but are home to over 50% of the world’s population and are responsible for 70% of global emissions. As a result, cities are acutely exposed to the impacts and risks of climate change from increasing mean temperatures, to changes…

Announcing new team members across research, operations and investment and our first Venture Partner. Over the past months the 2150 team has continued to grow and we wanted to pause and celebrate the addition of some brilliant mission-aligned minds to the team. …