A Paris-founded reactor company just rang the bell in New York — and more than a billion dollars moved across energy, water and agriculture in five days.

newcleo closed its business combination with NewHold Investment Corp III, raising $247 million in gross proceeds and listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as "NWCL". The lead-cooled fast-reactor and recycled-fuel developer is now valued at roughly $2.4 billion and has passed $1 billion in total funding, earmarked for its Italian demonstrator and a reactor rollout across the U.S. and Europe.

Also this week: Vanguard Renewables agreed to buy Generate Upcycle's five North American sites from Generate Capital, creating a 19-site, continent-leading food-waste-to-RNG platform closing October 1; H2O America cleared regulators to acquire the Cibolo Valley wastewater system near Canyon Lake, Texas, more than doubling its wastewater connections to serve about 90,000 people; Titan International agreed to sell its ITM undercarriage business to Italy's USCO S.p.A. for roughly $285 million; Standlee and Anderson Hay combined as Standlee-Anderson; Form Energy closed a $270 million Barclays-led credit facility expandable to $1 billion; Anyang Indorama Gases signed a ~$358 million (RMB 2.4 billion) loan led by OCBC Bank; Rainmaker raised a $100 million Series B for cloud seeding; SMT Energy secured up to $268 million from Climate Adaptive Infrastructure; and ADM said it will bring more than 800,000 tons a year of engineered CO2 removal to the voluntary carbon market with partner Tallgrass.

This week's premium edition, Under Glass, takes the greenhouse sector apart by the numbers: $249.7 million across 12 deals year-to-date, ownership changes doubled to ten, partnerships past forty, and activity spread from 16 countries to 23.

In this episode:
(00:00) Cold Open
(00:28) The Impact Scorecard
(01:32) Corporate and Financial Shifts
(06:05) Innovation and Public Strategy
(09:53) Market Signals and Operations
(11:02) Close

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