Elon Musk's backing draws venture capital to climate tech startups

While SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is often lauded for turning technology like reusable rockets and American-made electric vehicles into thriving businesses in a way long thought impossible, or at least improbable, he has also more quietly done something about as unlikely: get investors…

First covered Jun 11, 2026 · 5:09 AM PT · 1 article · no longer in the live window

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Bluesky: @kbrigham.bsky.social Katie Brigham · 15d ago · 2 ♥ enriched uranium, recycled uranium, power electronics, fusion power, electric boats. the founders and executives working on this stuff all worked at tesla and...spacex (?). we talked to a dozen of them about what they learned in the elonverse heatmap.news/climate-tech...

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