Material Science funds

Building in material science? Start with the funds with deep expertise and interest in the space. Start here.
Building in material science? Start with the funds with deep expertise and interest in the space. Start here.
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Invests in the brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life. Founded in 2005, True Ventures has already invested $3.8B across 350+ teams.

True Ventures will only enter on the initial round of capital but will have reserves and continue to follow on in their existing portfolio. They target 20% + ownership on the initial investment.
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Obsessively pursuing the near frontier, where software, hardware, & wetware intersect.
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Julian Capital is a seed-stage fund that writes $500K checks and makes decisions quickly. They believe they're among the best growth and design experts. When they invest, they help overhaul your customer acquisition and brand.
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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.
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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.
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Helps founders and their companies re-architect the world at a molecular level.
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Led by accomplished investor Chris Sacca, Lowercarbon Capital funds research and invests in technologies that reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere.
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VC fund partnering with entrepreneurs since 2013 to address climate change.
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Interested in companies addressing labor shortages in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and food production; controlling spiraling healthcare costs stemming from aging and chronic disease; and feeding the world sustainably with continued population and standard of living growth.
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SOSV's Indie Bio is the world's first biotech accelerator.
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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
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Engages founders working on the frontiers of science and technology with the potential to solve some of the most pressing challenges we face in the world today.
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$150M technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California making investments in early-stage startups across software, life science, and deep tech.
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Invests in sustainable consumer goods, advanced recycling technologies and the development of the circular economy.
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Invests $500K checks in deep tech companies, and companies applying known technical solutions (SaaS platforms, marketplaces, mobile apps etc) to laggard markets.
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Plug N Play Ventures is an early-stage investment firm.Plug and Play is the largest open innovation platform that brings together the best startups, the world’s largest corporations and seasoned investors.

Plug and Play is one of the most dynamic VCs worldwide investing in over 250 startups per year. It runs multiple industry specific accelerator programs in over 50 locations across the globe, and supercharges the innovation of over 550 industry leading corporations.

Their due diligence usually takes a month.
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Thesis-driven earliest-stage venture capital firm built by founders, experienced operators, nerds, and dreamers obsessed with the future. Their core thesis is that platform companies will deliver outsized, venture-scale returns. Currently investing out of their $67M Fund II.
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A venture fund building deep tech companies powered by material science innovations
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Early-stage fund investing in the Future of Commerce
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Investing in Disruptive Food & Agriculture
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Big Idea Ventures is solving the World's Biggest Challenges by supporting the World's Best Entrepreneurs, Scientists and Engineers
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Invests in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers, and everything in between.
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Max and Nellie Levchin’s venture fund that partners with exceptional founders solving hard problems that require intense curiosity, intellectual depth, and often, science.
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The GPs started companies themselves to develop new technologies, and they want to help more technical founders do the same. That's why they invest in the early stage, giving their voting rights back to the founding teams. They also run the SciFounder Fellowship, a mentorship program for idea-stage founders with a $400,000 investment.
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Composed of experienced ex-Fortune-500 Operators focusing on early-stage companies working on emergent tech. They work with their portfolio like they are their co-founder and not just their bank.
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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
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Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
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Investing in defensible businesses at the early stage.
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FootPrint Coalition is a media and investment group using robotics and nanotechnology to clean up the planet.
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Invests in breakthrough scientific startups.
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Founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Invests in mission-driven founders, transformational technologies, and emergent ecosystems. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, leading-edge computation, and advanced engineering to transform various industries including the life sciences, agriculture, supply chain, and more.
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MMV is a multi-stage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health. They raised $100m for a new fund backing early and growth-stage companies in the financial technology, cybersecurity, enterprise SaaS, and digital health sectors. 
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