The Ministry of External Affairs marked Swachh Bharat Diwas on 2 October by honouring its SafaiMitras, as this year's national cleanliness campaign puts source segregation and waste-to-wealth at the centre of India's sanitation agenda.
Norges Bank Investment Management has committed €1.2 billion to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' sixth flagship fund, CI VI, building on a €900 million commitment in 2024. The deal capped a busy week of renewable energy transactions worldwide.
Berlin startup Amara has closed a €3.7 million pre-seed round from ECONA, Caesar Ventures and IBB Ventures to build a voice-based service that lets older people hear, answer and join their families' digital conversations without using an app.
Blue Health Intelligence has raised €3.4 million led by Knop Investments to expand its preventive health assessment clinics across Europe. More than 2,000 people have booked its €299 one-hour check, and its Amsterdam clinic is fully booked through November.
Amazon has agreed a power purchase agreement with Statkraft for 36 MW from the planned Mossy Hill onshore wind farm near Lerwick in Shetland. The deal gives the developer an anchor customer and lifts Amazon's UK carbon-free energy portfolio to more than 50 projects and over 1 GW.
Stockholm-based AnaCardio has raised a €62.5 million Series B co-led by Novo Holdings and the Ljungström family office to fund a 400-patient Phase 2b trial of AC01, an oral ghrelin receptor agonist designed to strengthen heart contractions in advanced heart failure.
Aptadir Therapeutics has raised a €40 million ($45 million) seed round led by 4BIO Capital to develop DNMT-interacting RNAs, a new class of medicines designed to reverse abnormal DNA methylation, starting with Fragile X syndrome.
Munich-area climate-tech company Reverion has raised $175 million in a Series B led by Kembara to build a new factory and increase production of its reversible fuel-cell power plants roughly tenfold, creating about 800 jobs.
Indian medical-imaging AI company DeepTek, working with Unitaid and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, has cut the price of its WHO-recommended chest X-ray AI to about one-third, allowing health systems in 138 countries to screen up to three times more people for TB.
Startups backed by agrifood venture capital firm Omnivore have reached 20.81 million smallholder farmers and 61,711 rural MSMEs, generating $5.64 billion in economic value and bringing 11.55 million hectares under sustainable agriculture, according to its 2026 impact reports.