Environmental Startups in Focus: Energy Leads, Ag Punches Above Its Weight

Energy draws $31M across 70 deals, while Ag startups raise higher averages with fewer rounds.

September 15, 2025

Investment Crowdfunding Week is Sept 29–Oct 2—live pitches, platform leaders, and real playbooks. RSVP free.

CHART OF THE WEEK 📈

By Sam Fiske | Read

Chart of the Week: Looking at Environmental Startups 2023-2025

Energy remains the capital hub for green startups—70 deals raised $31.0M at a $442K average—while Farming & Agriculture quietly over-indexes with higher check sizes on fewer campaigns. Green finance vehicles are popular but with smaller average raises, and mobility/consumer climate plays punch below their deal share. See which environmental sectors are drawing the biggest bubbles—and why.

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KINGSCROWD PODCAST

By Sam Fiske / Watch | Apple | Spotify

Are private markets going mainstream?

This week, Brian & Scott cover tokenization (SpaceX “Mirror” token), Nasdaq’s move toward trading tokenized securities, Reg A “Semi-IPOs,” and why these rails matter for retail investors. Plus, a preview of investment crowdfunding week (Sept 29–Oct 2).

REGISTER FOR ICW25

Registration is officially open for Kingscrowd’s Investment Crowdfunding Week, happening September 29 – October 2. This four-day virtual event brings together founders, investors, and platforms for the most comprehensive look at the private markets today. With 40+ startups pitching live, fireside chats with industry leaders, and exclusive knowledge sessions, you’ll get insider access to both sides of the crowdfunding equation—how founders raise and how investors evaluate.

Built around the theme “The Full Spectrum,” Investment Crowdfunding Week delivers everything from deal flow intelligence and platform differentiation to founder strategies and market trends. Whether you’re investing, fundraising, or simply exploring the future of alternative assets, this is your chance to connect with the full ecosystem. Reserve your spot today and join us for the premier virtual event in investment crowdfunding.

PITCH REVIEW 💸

By Teddy Lyons \ Deal Report

Brief: SohoMD delivers personalized, comprehensive care plans and has served over 70,000 patients across 19 states, generating $115 million in lifetime revenue.

Teddy’s Take: Accessing mental health care in the U.S. is a frustrating process. Patients often wait weeks just to see a psychiatrist. Once they finally get in, something as simple as a prescription refill can be stalled for days by insurance approvals, leaving people caught between their doctor’s office, pharmacy, and insurer. Therapy is usually siloed from medication management, and many practices don’t take insurance at all, forcing patients to pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket.

SohoMD is designed to remove those bottlenecks. The company delivers integrated psychiatry and therapy, combining medication management, counseling, labs, and lifestyle care under one coordinated platform. They’re in-network with major insurers, making care affordable, and they’ve expanded across 19 states to meet growing demand. With streamlined scheduling and decision-support tools, SohoMD helps patients get seen faster and ensures follow-up care like refills and labs happen inside the same system instead of being left to the patient to chase down.

That model has already scaled to over 70,000 patients served and $115 million in lifetime revenue. In 2024 alone, SohoMD brought in over $20 million dollars, narrowing losses to just over -$400k compared to more than $3 million the year before (the company is now profitable). SohoMD is solving the access problem at scale—making care faster, more affordable, and better coordinated. With insurance coverage, streamlined operations, and a growing footprint, this is a platform that could become a major force in how psychiatric care is delivered in the U.S.

STAFF PICKS 🌶️

By Teddy Lyons

With 13 cafés and $8.3M in 2024 revenue, Cartel has become one of the fastest-growing specialty coffee brands in the Southwest. The company is now raising at a $35M valuation to expand wholesale distribution—will growth keep pace with expectations?

By Teddy Lyons

A creator-led, fan-focused platform co-founded by Ron Perlman, offering 100% of net profits from the inaugural slate of projects and 5% of platform profits in perpetuity. If fans truly greenlight what gets made, is this the moment Hollywood finance gets rewritten?

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