Orbia today announced that through its corporate venture capital fund Orbia Ventures, it joined a $3.5m investment round in Chloris Geospatial. The round also includes AXA IM Alts, At One Ventures, and Counteract. Chloris is a leading technology company that blends cutting-edge remote-sensing, machine-learning and ecological science to measure natural capital from space.

Deepomatic has closed a $10.3 million Series B financing round, supported in part by Orbia via its corporate venture capital fund Orbia Ventures. This round of funding will propel the company's expansion in Europe, North America and Latin America and enable Deepomatic’s new customer acquisition in the energy and mobility sectors. Orbia is joined by the corporate investment fund of the German utility company EnBW New Ventures and existing investors Alven, Hi Inov-Dentressangle and Swisscom Ventures.

Joint venture will create the largest polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) capacity for battery materials in the region. The total investment is estimated at around 850 million USD, partially funded by a grant to Solvay from the U.S. Department of Energy, for a total of 178 million USD.

Westborough, Massachusetts - February 15, 2022 Ascend Elements, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company and Koura, an Orbia business and one of the world’s largest producers of fluoroproducts and technologies, today announced the launch of a proprietary process technology yielding battery-grade graphite material from spent lithium-ion batteries.

Ludwigshafen, Germany, Ness Ziona, Israel, and Boston, Massachusetts, USA, February 10, 2022 – BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC) and Orbia Ventures today announce their Series-B investment in the Israeli biotech startup FortePhest.

Boston, Massachusetts, February 9, 2022 – Orbia Ventures, the venture capital arm of multinational Orbia, announces today its participation in an investor syndicate backing Verdagy, a green hydrogen developer with new electrolyzer technology to decarbonize industrial processing at scale.

Orbia leads again with an additional $70 million in funding to support Battery Resourcers in expanding its global operations in commercial lithium-ion battery recycling.

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