Cleantech funds

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns

$2B+ fund made up of members of the Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Coalition, guided by scientific and technological expertise and committed to investing patiently in developing new ways to live, eat, travel, and build

Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk

Focuses on supporting and investing in the shared future. Their funds center around two macro themes: the growth of the creative class, and the concept of the collaborative economy.

Climate Capital is an early-stage climate tech VC with over 250+ portfolios across various sectors working on decarbonizing the global economy.

Their due diligence process starts with a few calls with the team, then a review of the deck and data room. It takes 2-4 weeks from first call to sign and wire.
They do not engage until after the lead is in place.

Climate Capital has a slack community of with our 250+ founders to share knowledge and resource. They also have a bunch of discounts through builtfirst and other vendors on software tools. They have a blog series to help promote our companies

An investment firm focused on companies optimizing energy consumption and improving sustainable energy generation. Adds value by bringing the best companies, buying power, and vision in the industry to bear on the emerging energy landscape. Energy Impact Partners has a collaborative strategic investment approach, which the team pioneered very successfully at GE.   

Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.

Invests in founding teams building innovative software to rapidly decarbonize the world's global energy and mobility systems. Their LPs represent some of the world's largest corporations in energy, utilities, mobility, financial services, and tech

The Stout Street team is a passionate group of startup founders. They have built and scaled several startups and invested in over 65 companies and evaluated over 10,000 startups since starting Stout Street. They are creators of the UNMET conferences that help founders raise venture capital anywhere.

Stout Street’s Value Fund-II is currently focused on post-revenue, seed-to-series-A investments in companies valued at less than $10 million. Stout Street’s Value Fund-I has invested in 36 companies by the end of 2018 and Stout Street Value Fund-II is projected to invest in 50 companies with an average initial investment of 100k by 2020. They usually reserve 500k-$1M in follow on investment for our portfolio companies.

They do not invest in companies incorporated/based in SF, NY, and Boston.

Blackhorn Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies using breakthroughs in engineering and science, coupled with the infrastructure of the Information Revolution, to redefine resource productivity.

Billions of people are moving toward a higher standard of living, and global consumption is rapidly depleting Earth’s resource capacity. We are in a unique period of history that will be defined by investment in resource-efficient technologies. This is what we do.

Invests in early-stage ag-tech and food tech companies.

Backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost

BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.

Focuses on investing in disruptive and technology-focused start-ups. Founded in 1999.

VC fund led by notable investors including Howard Morgan backing global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.

Partners with visionary entrepreneurs and invests in built-environment companies that focus on design, building, operation and experience Committed to innovation in the built world

Invests in entrepreneurs who build the world’s most innovative technology companies.

Launch NY is a U.S. Treasury-designated Community Financial Institution (CDFI) and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit venture development organization, providing pro bono mentoring and capital access to high-growth potential startups across Upstate NY. The mission is to identify, support and invest in high-growth, high-impact companies, and catalyze theentrepreneurial culture in the 27 counties comprising the western half of Upstate New York.

Alumni Ventures Group provides diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that offers multi-stage investment, starting with pre-seed startup development programs designed for founders with breakthrough technologies.

Global VC firm focusing on inception and early-stage investing in tech.

Partners with visionary founders to help them build extraordinary companies. They currently have 15 unicorn investments.

Led by 4 technical GPs who met in engineering at UPenn, Eniac is armed with over 80 years of combined experience building their own companies, and are your active partners and roll up their sleeves to work for you. Their companies enjoy support in biz dev, fundraising, networking, ops, PR, and recruitment.

Food for Thought Worldwide (FTW) Ventures, founded by Brian Frank, is an early-stage venture fund investing in breakthrough hardware, software and biotech solutions for the massive, worldwide Food System.

K9 Ventures believe that extraordinary things are possible when great teams come together around technology. They prefer to be the first institutional / professional capital for the companies they invest in. They also prefer to lead investment rounds and take board seats. To provide sufficient attention to each portfolio company, K9 only invests in 4-6 companies per year.

$50M Fund investing in seed-stage companies that deploy technology to enhance planetary and human health by radically upending traditionally regulated industries.

Boost VC is an early-stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM in San Mateo, CA founded by Adam Draper & Brayton Williams. They invest in startups accelerating the Sci-Fi Future and are typically raising $2M or less.

We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.

Early-stage fund for founders, by founders. They have backed over 300 teams since 2011. They mainly invest in the US but also invest globally, 37% of investments have been outside the US.

Early-stage investment platform founded by e-sport pioneers to fund promising gaming, esports, and interactive media enterprises.

New fund with a goal to help humanity become a net positive to nature by backing early-stage companies that are using disruptive deep tech to upend the unit economics of established industries

Specializes in helping extraordinary seed-stage founders on a mission to improve the health of people and planet.

Early-stage venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications.

Voyager Capital is a venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connection to build successful tech companies.

Backs early stage companies with technological and data advantages in industrial, enterprise, and healthcare applications