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The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman’s sustainability bond, pay for success
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Farmers harvest ‘soil carbon’ to meet rising corporate demand for emission offsets. Candidates in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Iowa were asked in a televised debate to cite the clearing price for bushels of corn and soybeans (Sen.
Joni Ernstmuffed her answer). In the next election, they may well be asked the going price for a ton of carbon. Farmers in Iowa are getting up to $20 a ton for carbon they sequester in their soil with cover crops, no-till and other sustainable-agriculture techniques, and can fetch additional payments for water-quality credits. That can mean payments to farmers of up to $50 an acre. More than 1,
Goldman Sachs and Sesame Workshop pour money into this edtech firm’s newest fund
Reach Capital III is a $165 million investment vehicle
Shauntel Garvey and Jennifer Carolan liked edtech before the sector was cool, so the duo co-founded Reach Capital in 2015 with a $53 million debut fund. The San Francisco-based venture firm has since put checks into education startups including Newsela, Sketchy, ClassDojo and Outschool, landing six exits so far.
Now, after seeing its portfolio accelerate in the wake of the coronavirus, Reach is announcing its third fund aimed at backing edtech startups. Reach Capital III is a $165 million fund, the firm’s biggest to date. Reach’s team, which also includes Chian Gong, Wayee Chu and Esteban Sosnik, started raising the investment vehicle over the summer. New LPs in the fund include Sesame Workshop, National Geographic, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Goldman Sachs.
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