The Inflation Reduction Act has revolutionized how the energy transition is being financed. The IRA is chock full of tax credits and other incentives designed to spur investment in renewables and one key aspect of the IRA pertains to the transferability of those tax credits. Alfred Johnson, the co-founder and CEO of Crux, joins the show to discuss how the market for transferable tax credits is taking shape.

Vermeulen served as advisor to PilotDesk for the past several months as it raised a $3 million seed funding round, and he joined the team full time this month.

Vermeulen was an advisor to SpringServe before it was acquired by Magnite in 2021, as well as advising Beachfront, Beemray, Tru Optik and OpenSlate prior to their respective acquisitions. He was also an SVP at FreeWheel when it was bought by Comcast in 2014.

Givebutter, the all-in-one nonprofit fundraising and CRM platform, today announced that it has closed a $50 million strategic growth investment led by BVP Forge, Bessemer Venture Partners' dedicated investment fund for self-sustaining, growing companies, with participation from existing investor Ardent Venture Partners.

Partnership between the Governing Body and #1 online pickleball platform ensures players have access to the most comprehensive database of courts nationwide

Verituity, a leading provider of intelligent, verified payout solutions, today announced the integration of Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s portfolio of domestic and international money transfer solutions, into its payments platform, enabling near real-time payouts for commercial banks and payers.

Collective has debuted an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered accounting platform designed for one-person operations.

Few companies on this highly accomplished list embodied as many hallmarks of dynamic, must-watch startups as Crux.

Crux Climate closed an $18 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its marketplace for buying and selling clean energy tax credits.

Rainforest raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round led by Accel.

The Crux platform will make it easier to discover the price of tax credits, which tend to trade at a some varying discount to their full value. Sellers can list their tax credits on option, get bids on those credits, and compare offers. The software will employ risk management tools and processes to increase trust, ensure regulatory compliance and report on the status of the project.

In October 2022, Atlanta-based Overline and Washington D.C.-based Ardent Venture Partners joined Durant and Kleiman's Boardroom Pickleball entity for a $750,000 seed round into the company. Those funds will be used by the company for engineering, marketing and design.

Pickleheads claims to be the first venture-backed technology startup to enter the pickleball space. Atlanta Inno has not been able to independently verify this.

That investment happened the same month Durant and Kleiman purchased a Major League Pickleball team of their own, with the intent of helping grow the league. The Brooklyn Nets player is one of several athletic celebrities, such as Lebron James and Tom Brady, to become an owner of a MLP team.

Method, a startup that aims to make it easier for fintech developers to embed repayment, balance transfers and bill pay automation into their apps, today announced that it closed a $16 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Truist Ventures, Y Combinator (Method’s a Y Combinator graduate), Abstract Ventures, SV Angel and others. Co-founder Mit Shah says that the new cash will be put toward product development and growing the company’s headcount from eight people to 28 by the end of the year.

Method, an Austin-based embedded debt repayment startup, has raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, Ryan writes.

Why it matters: Embedded finance APIs are becoming more sophisticated and enabling fintech developers to offer new applications to end users.