Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in United States in May 2026
Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in United States in May 2026
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, France
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- WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
- Fourth Power — Fourth Power makes renewable energy an on-demand energy source through utility-scale, thermal battery technology. With the ability to provide flexible-duration energy storage, we can start small and grow with the grid to save consumers money and ensure a clean energy future.
- ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- LOLIWARE — LOLIWARE is rewriting the story of destructive packaging. By harnessing the power of seaweed to replace plastic at scale, LOLIWARE is tapping into its potential to regenerate our ocean and decarbonize our planet.
- Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
- ARRIS — Using next-gen advanced manufacturing technologies, ARRIS Composites produces smarter, lighter, stronger, and more sustainable products at scale.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
CEVG is an angel investor collective that invest in and mentors early-stage cleantech and climatetech startups across North America.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- PeelON — At PeelON, we're passionate about freshness, sustainability, and innovation. Our mission is to revolutionize the packaging industry by offering biodegradable solutions that keep produce fresher for longer while minimizing environmental impact. With PeelON, you can trust that your fruits and vegetables stay crisp, delicious, and planet-friendly. Join us in our journey towards a fresher, greener future. - Biodegradable covers - food packaging - biodegradable food packing - fresh fruit covers
- Queens Carbon — Queens Carbon is working on a processing system that will dramatically cut energy use. The system minimizes calcination and material synthesis energy consumption, allowing for low-cost carbon capture and carbon-neutral cement manufacture.
- Electrified Thermal Solutions — Electrified Thermal Solutions, Inc. is developing the Joule Hive: a new energy storage technology that converts surplus zero-carbon electricity into heat.
Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.
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- Software, Real Estate, Transportation
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Israel, Germany
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- AccessGrid — AccessGrid provides APIs for managing NFC access passes on mobile devices with MIFARE DESFire compatibility. Create and manage secure digital access credentials for your organization.
- Near Space Labs — Near Space Labs delivers high-resolution, 7cm orthoimagery at scale through our proprietary, stratospheric data capture platform.
- Earth Force Technologies — Earth Force is a Vegetation Management System platform.
Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in Mobility and Urbanization, Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production & Consumption sectors. We look for technology companies that will positively impact our energy and resource consumption. If we see an opportunity to partner with a like-minded teamfocused on scale across hardware, software, or services, we’re interested.
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- Software, Energy, Robotics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Fervo Energy — Fervo Energy delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal projects.
- Avalanche Energy — Avalanche Energy operates as a fusion energy start-up.
- Parallel Systems — Parallel Systems designs an autonomous, zero-emissions freight transportation system. The company believes the future of freight transportation should be fast, inexpensive, and clean, while also reducing congestion on the highways. Parallel Systems was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Liberate Bio — Liberate Bio focuses on advancing non-viral delivery technologies for nucleic acid cargoes such as ASOs and siRNAs. The company aims to develop new vehicles to deliver oligonucleotide cargos, addressing genetic disorders. With a team of 50 employees, Liberate Bio operates within the biotechnology industry, working on innovative solutions fortargeted delivery systems.
- Li Industries — At Li Industries, we are building battery recycling technologies that enable greater automation, competitiveness, and sustainability.
- LanzaTech — LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); andreformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy.LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology.
Collaborative Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.
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- Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, South Korea
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- makr — Makr is a design app for next-generation makers: the creative entrepreneur, the DIYer, the next-level home entertainer. Headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we’re inspired every day by our local maker community. We developed Makr specifically for iPad to bring DIY to the 21st century, using digital tech to enrich the handmade movement and ourshared love of old-fashioned craft. Makr provides sophisticated design tools – exclusive to professional studio use until now – to the local maker’s workshop and DIYer’s home.
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- PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.
Clean Energy Ventures invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing global climate change.
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- Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- DG Matrix — DG Matrix innovative solutions unlock gigaton-scale emissions reductions by enabling electrification anywhere and everywhere with less material and a smaller footprint.
- Queens Carbon — Queens Carbon is working on a processing system that will dramatically cut energy use. The system minimizes calcination and material synthesis energy consumption, allowing for low-cost carbon capture and carbon-neutral cement manufacture.
- Exterra Carbon Solutions — Exterra is a company that is creating a world-class solution for long-term CO2 storage using mineral waste.
MCJ Collective reaches a broad community of people united by the common desire to step up and do something about the climate crisis.
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- Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
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- Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.
- Euclid Power — Development, diligence, execution, and asset management tools for renewables projects.
- Rodatherm Energy — A geothermal company that plumbs its boreholes with a closed loop
MCJ backs extraordinary founders driving the transition of energy and industry and tackling the inevitable impacts of climate change. We discover and invest in startups rewriting industries to be cleaner, more profitable and more resilient. We strengthen our investments through the MCJ Collective — a vetted member network that connects talentedtech and industrial leaders with our portfolio and with one another. Our media platform including the Inevitable podcast spotlights key perspectives critical to our portfolio and the transition at large, reaching tens of thousands of professionals multiple times per week. Learn more at mcj.vc
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- Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
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- Archimetis — Archimetis provides an AI-powered operational reasoning system for complex industrial facilities. The platform applies industrial AI and agent-based reasoning to help energy, chemical, pharma, and refinery operators predict failures and optimize processes in real time. Archimetis analyzes plant data from planning to execution to support faster,higher-confidence operational decisions. The system is designed for refineries and process manufacturing environments seeking to reduce downtime and improve throughput. Archimetis also offers demos and implementation support for refinery and process manufacturing teams.
- Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
- Hammerhead AI — ORCA platform boosts token output by 30% by orchestrating power, cooling, and compute systems in AI factories.
Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet.
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- Renewable Energy, Energy, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Lasso — Tender Food is a plant-based and cultured meat company in the Greater Boston Area, a hub for biotech research and innovation. It specializes in creating alternative meats with authentic textures.
- Arc Boats — Arc is electrifying the marine industry, starting with recreational boating.
- Avalanche Energy — Avalanche Energy operates as a fusion energy start-up.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
- evonetix — evonetix is a new spin-out company that is currently incubating in the centre of the world-renowned Cambridge cluster of high-tech and life science organisations. We are seeking to develop and commercialise a new approach to the synthesis of DNA to facilitate the fast-emerging and exciting field of synthetic biology. By employing novel techniqueswe are able to advance DNA synthesis to levels never before seen. Our engineering team has decades of experience developing high integrity automated systems. Our high calibre team brings together expertise from across the scientific and engineering disciplines.
- Fourth Power — Fourth Power makes renewable energy an on-demand energy source through utility-scale, thermal battery technology. With the ability to provide flexible-duration energy storage, we can start small and grow with the grid to save consumers money and ensure a clean energy future.
MCJ backs extraordinary founders driving the transition of energy and industry and tackling the inevitable impacts of climate change. We discover and invest in startups rewriting industries to be cleaner, more profitable and more resilient. We strengthen our investments through the MCJ Collective — a vetted member network that connects talentedtech and industrial leaders with our portfolio and with one another. Our media platform including the Inevitable podcast spotlights key perspectives critical to our portfolio and the transition at large, reaching tens of thousands of professionals multiple times per week. Learn more at mcj.vc
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- Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
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- LGND — LGND is a technology business that specialises in AI-powered spatial data solutions.
- Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.
- Euclid Power — Development, diligence, execution, and asset management tools for renewables projects.
Diversified investments in the most promising early stage climate startups backed by top tier VCs.
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- Manufacturing, Energy, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Magnefy — Magnefy (previously known as Infinion) is a Stanford spin-out pioneering an edge AI-powered, high-frequency magnetic sensing platform for real-time predictive maintenance of critical power assets like transformers, switchgear, and generators. Our $500 non-invasive IoT solution captures 250× more low-noise, high-frequency data—accurately detectingfailures like partial discharge and higher harmonics weeks to months in advance, at one-tenth the cost of legacy systems. We help mission-critical facilities—data centers, IPPs, utilities, and manufacturers—avoid outages, boost reliability, and maximize power efficiency.
- Copper — Thoughtfully designed, meticulously engineered, well-made home electrification products.
- ChemFinity Technologies — ChemFinity Technologies is a chemical company that offers critical metal recovery, water purification, and gas separation services.
Energy Impact Partners LP (EIP) is a global venture capital firm leading the transition to a sustainable future. EIP brings together entrepreneurs and the world's most forward-looking energy and industrial companies to advance innovation. With over $2.5 billion in assets under management, EIP invests globally across venture, growth, credit,and infrastructure.
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- Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Swimlane — Swimlane is the leader in AI-enabled security automation, unifying security operations in and beyond the SOC into a single system of record.
- Clevest Solutions — Empower your teams with Mobile Workforce Management Software Solutions. Get in touch to enhance productivity and service quality.
- Urbint — Urbint uses artificial intelligence to predict threats to workers and critical infrastructure and stop incidents before they happen.
Grantham Foundation seeks to protect and improve the health of global environmental issues and supports individuals and organizations. It also supports communication and collaboration in environmental protection, with an emphasis on climate change.The foundation focuses on communications to enable the general public to understand that climatechange represents the world’s primary environmental threat today and that mitigating and adapting to a changing climate will lead to a more sustainable and prosperous future.Grantham Foundation was founded in 1997 by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Biotechnology, Energy, Environmental Consulting
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Biocentis — We are a biotech company re-shaping the future of insect control with a unique technology platform that combines environmental sustainability and unprecedented effectiveness.As a spin-out from Imperial College London, a global leader in genetic pest control, we build upon over 20 years of research by our scientific founders, whose pioneering workin genetic control technologies has garnered global recognition.With a presence in the UK and Italy, we leverage the experience of a diverse and accomplished team from 7 countries with unparalleled experience in the scientific and technological fields and an outstanding track record in company building and management.
- InventWood — Introducing the reinvention of wood: Superwood. Stronger than steel. The soul of wood.
- Rodatherm Energy — A geothermal company that plumbs its boreholes with a closed loop
Powerhouse Ventures backs entrepreneurs building the digital infrastructure for rapid decarbonization.
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- Software, Energy, Solar
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
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- Zeti — Enabling the scale up of real world assets essential to the energy transition by connecting operators and institutional capital through simple, technology powered finance.
- CapeZero — CapeZero is a software-as-a-service company providing financial technology solutions to counterparties evaluating investment, financing, and sale options for clean energy projects. Almost every renewable energy project benefits from receiving a “structured tax credit investment” (i.e. tax equity, transferability, and direct pay). CapeZero’smodeling and deal analysis software provides developers, investors, and advisors with a platform to efficiently navigate structured tax credit investments. CapeZero enables stakeholders to make real-time, profit-optimizing decisions and build a clean energy future together.
- ThinkLabs AI — ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability.
Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. For us, climate is everything.
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- Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada
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- Rumin8 — Rumin8 - Solving livestock methane emissions
- Zero Homes — Zero Homes provides a digital platform that helps homeowners plan, design, and coordinate electrification projects for residential properties. It offers services for remotely assessing homes via a mobile app, creating tailored designs, and generating quotes for systems such as heat pumps, water heaters, induction cooktops, electrical upgrades, andEV chargers without in-home visits. The company connects these plans to installation workflows and manages project logistics, including contractor coordination and rebate guidance. Its tools aim to streamline the end-to-end process from initial assessment through installation with virtual consultations and software-driven design.
- Branch Energy — A tech-powered, green energy provider focused on helping consumers reduce their energy bills and carbon footprints
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- RISE Robotics — THE HUMAN EMPOWERING ROBOTICS COMPANYRise Robotics designs, makes and sells breakthrough mechanical products.The company was founded in 2011 to advance the robotics industry with the ultimate goal of enabling powerful wearable ExoSUITS™ for all.Our first product Bacon Robotic Air Compressor™ disrupts handheld air compressors.Theinnovation that enabled the Bacon Robotic air compressor™ is the Cyclone Linear Drive. A new mobile robotic component that can advance many applications. Cyclone drives enable piston or muscle like actuation. It was inspired by our ExoSuit™ explorations.
- Amide Technologies — Amide synthesizes peptides that are difficult to obtain through existing means, bridging the gap between traditional solid phase peptide synthesis and biological expression. By using unnatural amino acids and artificial protein backbones, our team is expanding what is biologically possible. Amide’s Automated Fast Flow Peptide Synthesizer (AFPS)leverages flow to dramatically improve solid phase peptide synthesis. Using the power of flow, we can generate highly reactive intermediates in situ, maintain excellent heat and mass transfer, and achieve much better synthetic outcomes than alternative SPPS methods. With all these advantages, AFPS allows biopharma pioneers to dramatically re-think what’s possible. Let Amide broaden your horizons with better, faster synthesis.
- Hedron — Hedron is in the business of quickly moving data from imaging satellites in space back to the ground. Analytical Space is building the in-orbit communication infrastructure that will enable real time knowledge of what is happening on the surface of our planet.
Grantham Foundation seeks to protect and improve the health of global environmental issues and supports individuals and organizations. It also supports communication and collaboration in environmental protection, with an emphasis on climate change.The foundation focuses on communications to enable the general public to understand that climatechange represents the world’s primary environmental threat today and that mitigating and adapting to a changing climate will lead to a more sustainable and prosperous future.Grantham Foundation was founded in 1997 by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Biotechnology, Environmental Consulting, Energy
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
- Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.
- Hephae Energy Technology — Enabling Next-Generation Geothermal with Ultra High Temperature Robotics to support the life cycle of the geothermal energy transition.
A home for Tough Tech founders.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- VEIR — Discover VEIR's cutting-edge technology for superconducting power lines that offer 5-10x greater transfer capacity and 90% less resistive line losses.
- Osmoses — Osmoses is a cleantech company that is transforming chemical separations. Its mission is to eliminate energy waste with efficient membrane technology, reducing production costs for customers and CO2 emissions for the environment. Hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewable natural gas are some of the in
- BlueShift — BlueShift operates as an electrochemical climate tech innovator. BlueShift unlocks underutilized resources with advanced electrochemical technology.
Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Statiq — Find electric vehicle charging station near you, book a slot, digitally pay for charging car.
- Daphne Technology — Measure and abate methane slip with Daphne Technology. Learn how we reduce emissions in gas engine exhaust. Contact us today!
- Cumulus Digital Systems — The award-winning Quality Execution System (QES) that avoids rework for all your critical work activities across industrial construction and operations.
Evergreen Climate Innovations supports entrepreneurs and startups that are bringing impactful climate technologies to market.
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- Energy, Software, Electronics
- Convertible Note, Seed, Grant
- United States
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- Grid Status — Grid Status offers an open platform for understanding what is happening on the electrical grid. Grid Status provides organized and dependable data, allowing the next generation of energy innovators to focus on developing innovative solutions rather than maintaining their own complex data pipelines.
- New Iridium — Kemvera is a sustainable chemical innovation company empowering customers to reduce carbon impact through sustainable, cost-effective, drop-in chemicals and materials with equal performance as fossil products.-
- C-Motive Technologies — C-Motive Technologies focuses on reinventing the electric motor. Its motors run on the principle of electrostatic forces, also known as "static cling," and stands to change the machines that shape and run people's lives. Founded by Dan Ludois and Justin Reed in 2012, C-Motive Technologies is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
Good Growth Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm known for its expertise in finding, assessing and cultivating complex science and technology.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, France, Israel
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- Pryon — Pryon is the leading AI-as-a-Service platform for content and knowledge management. Pryon closes knowledge gaps, improving employee productivity, and enhancing customer experiences. Companies such as Georgia Pacific use Pryon to improve health and safety outcomes, eliminate compliance incidents, improve employee onboarding, and upgrade all aspectsof customer service and support.
- Obsidio — Obsidio™ Conformable Embolic with aqueous gel technology is a 510(k) cleared device, the first of its kind to have a specific on-label indication for peripheral use in the U.S.
- Dalan Animal Health — Dalan Animal Health, Inc., a biotech company developing vaccines for new-age production animals.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is dedicated to accelerating the success of clean energy development and implementation—while creating high-quality jobs and long-term economic growth in Massachusetts. MassCEC is the first state agency in the nation dedicated solely to facilitating the development of the clean energy industry. We areled by people who bring knowledge, experience and an entrepreneurial attitude to help clean energy companies take full advantage of all the state’s unique assets, to help accelerate the development of renewable energy generation projects, and to help develop a workforce that is ready to roll up its sleeves to ensure Massachusetts’ place as a national and global clean energy hub.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
- Grant, Seed, Series A
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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- Dottir Labs — Dottir Labs is a spectroscopy sensor technology that detects nutrients, metabolic markers, and organic and non-organic waste products.
- Active Surfaces — Active Surfaces is commercializing MIT-developed ultra-thin-film solar technology.
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — WPI has a lot to offer - extraordinary students, world-renowned faculty members at the top of their fields, state-of-the-art research facilities, and a community teeming with activity. You have a lot to offer too - you're ambitious, you want to be challenged, you want to succeed, and you want to make a difference in the world. You know whereyou want to go; WPI can help you get there.
New York Ventures is dedicated to encouraging innovation and fueling economic growth in communities across the State. This venture capital investment arm of Empire State Development is one of New York State's business resources and innovation investments, including the Governor's START-UP NY program, Innovation Hot Spots, the RegionalEconomic Development Councils, the Centers of Advanced Technology and Centers of Excellence networks, and the SUNY 2020 Initiative.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Nionyx Bio — Engineering the Future of Gene Therapy
- Resource Monitor — Resource Monitor is a modern water monitoring and management system. Our smart water system helps you save water and money.
- Cayuga Biotech — Cayuga Biotech is a startup developing novel hemostatic drugs and devices to reduce uncontrollable bleeding which is a leading cause of death from traumatic injuries. The company's polyphosphate-based drug accelerates the body's own clotting process to contain clotting at the injury site and thus minimize the risk of side effects. Cayugais developing drugs for indications that treat traumatic hemorrhage as well as rare bleeding disorders.
In June 2020, Amazon announced The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of sustainable and decarbonizing technologies and services that will enable Amazon and other companies to meet the goals set by The Climate Pledge. This dedicated investment program—with an initial $2 billion in funding—will invest in visionary companies whoseproducts and solutions will facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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- Energy, CleanTech, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, India
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- 14Trees — They speak about us
- Glacier — Next-generation recycling technology
- Genecis — Genecis proprietary technology utilizes bacteria to convert food waste into PHA plastic, a biodegradable alternative to traditional plastics
The Ecosystem Integrity Fund (“EIF”) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies contributing to environmental sustainability. It seeks to demonstrate that there is no trade-off between having a positive impact and achieving outstanding financial returns. The movement toward environmental sustainability is making incrementalimprovements to the largest industries in the world. Over the next several decades, the economy will be transformed by this movement.Sustainability is fundamentally about making things better: more efficient, more functional, less toxic, less costly. This is the next phase of the Industrial Revolution.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
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- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
- ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
- Vammo — Leoparda Electric is a company that manufactures electric motorcycles.
Chevron Technology Ventures champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies within Chevron.
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- Energy, Software, Manufacturing
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- KEWAZO — The Startup KEWAZO offers LIFTBOT, a robotic material hoist which transports scaffolding parts on construction and industrial sites.
- Erg Bio — Erg Bio is a biomanufacturing company enabling affordable, local production of sustainable fuels and chemicals from non-food biomass.
- Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Explore AI solutions for energy challenges. Invest in a sustainable future with Blue Bear Capital. Learn more today!
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, The Netherlands
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- Shoreline — Supporting the wind industry optimize the design, construction, and operation of clean energy, on both sides of the shoreline
- Energy Robotics — Energy Robotics provides an end-to-end solution for autonomous robotic inspection in capital-intensive industries such as oil & gas, chemical and energy.
- ACCURE Battery Intelligence — Accure is a battery analytics company. The software and AI-driven solution assist manufacturers and operators in monitoring the overall health and safety conditions of a battery system throughout its lifecycle.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
- HelloHero — Quality pediatric therapy for children with developmental, behavioral, emotional & physical challenges. Learn more here.
- Benefitbay — Our ICHRA administration platform includes real-time plan modeling and a best-in-class premium payment solution. All backed by direct, human support.
At Connecticut Innovations, we see venture capital the way you see your business. Like no one else. We invest in innovative biotech, IT, and other industries.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Canada
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- Device42 — Device42 sets the standard as the most comprehensive, agentless discovery and dependency mapping solution, spanning from legacy mainframes to cloud containers.
- Mobile Sense — The traditional diagnostic market is being transformed by advances in high performance wearables. This seismic shift led by consumer products which are uncovering new patients who previously went undetected, but still require a detailed diagnosis. Mobile Sense™ is building foundational technology that enables this transformation throughoff-the-chest wearables for long term management of cardiac arrhythmias. Developed over 7 years with $4.2M in grant funding and $1.3M in seed funding, Mobile Sense™ has a platform for differentiated wearables. Our embedded algorithms coupled with non-adhesive, wireless & waterproof sensors provides high fidelity continuous ECG and PPG recordings. The automatic monitoring provides 24/7, 365 days/yr continuous detection and classification of dangerous heart arrhythmias.
- NovaTract Surgical — NovaTract Surgical is a development stage company, intends to develop medical devices to address the rapidly growing field of Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) and Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES). The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Guilford, Connecticut.
Growth Capital for the Clean Economy
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- Energy, Software, Manufacturing
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Go Electric — Go Electric is a green-tech early stage company, developing customer side of the meter energy solutions and services that serve facilities and utilities. Its energy products and services accelerate a renewable energy future by integrating renewable energy, advanced batteries, and generators to reduce energy costs, assure energy security, andenhance grid stability.Go Electric is based in Anderson, I.N.
- Weatherflow — Welcome to Tempest by WeatherFlow! Our mission is to help mitigate and control the cost of weather on business and daily life.
- Genera Energy — SUSTAINABLE FIBER SOLUTIONS Ag-based Fiber for Sustainable Products Genera simplifies your supply chain with domestically produced ag-based pulp and molded fiber products. Partnering with regional farmers, Genera provides a sustainable farm to finished product solution. SHOP EARTHABLE
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
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- Gauntlet — Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
- Clare — Discover the best place to buy paint. Order online and get premium, zero VOC paint, curated colors, peel & stick paint samples and painting supplies, delivered.
- Guide — Guide is the easiest way to deliver a personalized and engaging candidate experience. Win more candidates and meet your hiring goals faster.
ONE WORLD provides training & investment capital to social impact enterprises. The mission of ONE WORLD is to scale social impact and improve the lives of individuals globally. In January 2017, ONE WORLD launched its impact seed fund focused on early-stage for-profit companies that are addressing social or environmental challenges. As ofJanuary 2022, the portfolio has 25 active investments, has participated in 15 follow-on rounds of financing, and has had 2 exits.
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- Education, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- Ethic — Ethic is working towards a future where all investing is sustainable investing. We empower wealth advisors and investors to create portfolios that seek to align personal values with financial goals.
- Allswell — Allswell is a queer-founded mental health platform dedicated to making affirming, accessible care available to the LGBTQ+ community, covered by Medicaid & major insurance.
- Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.
Overture is an early stage climate tech fund at the intersection of government.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Endolith — Endolith is a biotech company transforming sustainable mining by leveraging microbes, synthetic biology, and cloud computing to extract more critical minerals like copper from low-grade ores. Working with the many of the leading mining companies, Endolith is advancing its innovative technology to commercial scale. Recognized as a finalist in theBHP Unearthed BioMetals cohort and a member of the Alaska Critical Minerals Collaborative, Endolith is driving the future of mining with sustainable, efficient, and responsible solutions for the clean energy transition.
- Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
- ChemFinity Technologies — ChemFinity Technologies is a chemical company that offers critical metal recovery, water purification, and gas separation services.
BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Canada
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- Ro — Ro is a healthcare company designed to help you meet your health goals. We connect patients with US-licensed healthcare professionals all online. Get started today.
- David Energy — David Energy is an electricity provider that designs, builds, and manages onsite energy grids. The company empowers buildings with the tools needed to maximize onsite energy and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque, commoditized industry. It provides hands-on expertise and on the ground support, all delivered through its software platform.Founded in 2017, David Energy is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
- Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.
At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
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- Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Cruz Foam — Cruz Foam offers certified compostable, protective packaging foam and other solutions. Let us help you transition to compostable foam packaging solutions, today.
- MightyFly — MightyFly is enabling worldwide access to goods with fast, on-demand delivery services for businesses and consumers. We’re putting the infrastructure in place to connect remote locations together with long range, heavy cargo aircraft. Many areas in the world today suffer from an inability to obtain critical and often urgently needed goods andsupplies at an affordable cost. Our goal at MightyFly is to solve this problem through express, customized aerial drone delivery services. MightyFly drones will transport cargo to multiple locations in a single flight across hundreds of miles of remote terrain that is difficult if not impossible to cross with trucks or other ground vehicles. We are developing vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) drones that fly more than 300 miles, and carry payloads in excess of 50 pounds at a fraction of the cost of helicopters. Featuring automated cargo loading and unloading, and requiring no launch or recovery infrastructure, MightyFly drones will accommodate ad-hoc deliveries to undeveloped sites as well as servicing locations along established routes.
- Miraterra — A New Era of Measurement: Unlocking the Secrets of Soil, Plants, and Food. Our breakthrough technology, overcoming decades of limitations, provides fast, efficient and trustworthy digital measurements when and where you need them most.
Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Canada
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- Tezi — Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball.
- Tako — Tako is a deep research platform that turns data into insightful analysis, chats and reports.
- Voya Energy — Voya Energy is an energy management company that has developed technology to transform high-energy recycled metals into a safe fuel.
RockPort Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in the areas of alternative and traditional energy, mobility, and sustainability. For more than a decade RockPort has partnered with entrepreneurs to foster growth and create value in a broad range of industrial and consumer facing companies whose technologies and products provideinnovative solutions to significant worldwide markets. RockPort has a collaborative approach to investing, deep domain expertise, and insights into all aspects of energy and cleantech. With offices in Boston and Menlo Park, RockPort is globally recognized as being among the largest and most established energy-focused venture capital firms.
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- Energy, Manufacturing, Software
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, Norway
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- Accend — Accend, Inc. develops software solutions for the oil drilling industry in the United States. The company’s software provides petroleum well data, drilling permits data, and interactive mapping and notifications. It also offers enterprise data collection and application development services. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based inAustin, Texas.
- Enlighted — Designed to give you more control over the buildings you manage, increase efficiency and make you smarter about virtually everything in your commercial spaces, Enlighted converts the abstract Internet of Things into something tangible.Enlighted’s mission is to help our customers reach long-range sustainability goals while saving money andincreasing efficiency. Using our first-in-class sensor and analytics platform, we provide smart energy solutions for commercial buildings. Our technology reduces costs and improves the comfort of workspaces and the efficiency of the people who work in them.Our solutions go beyond theory. Customers are saving millions in energy costs - up to 70% in some instances - while making smarter business decisions based on the actionable data we provide. To date, our sensors have been installed in over 70,000 square-feet and are deployed in Fortune 1000 company workplaces, like AT&T and Oracle.
- Evergreen Solar — Evergreen Solar, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets STRING RIBBONâ„¢ solar power products using its proprietary, low-cost wafer technology. The company's patented wafer manufacturing technology uses significantly less polysilicon than conventional processes. Evergreen Solar's products provide reliable and environmentally cleanelectric power for residential and commercial applications globally.
Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Canada
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- Ritten — Ritten delivers a platform that helps clinicians and administrators provide personalized, data-informed care. The company's platform offers customized workflow configurations that help to deliver complex treatment consistently and compliantly, enabling clinicians and administrators to maintain a comprehensive patient record that tracks allaspects of a patient's care, including clinical notes, medications, and treatment plans, and deliver personalized, data-informed care.
- Parspec — Empower your organization with AI-powered solutions from Parspec. Bid more jobs, increase revenue, and improve profitability in today's dynamic market.
- Attuned Intelligence — <p>Attuned Intelligence is a healthcare AI business that specialises in modernizing hospital and health system call centres.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- Revolut — Join 40+ million customers globally using Revolut to send money to 160+ countries, hold up-to 36 currencies in app, spend in 150+ currencies, and manage their money.
- Platfora — Platfora’s mission is to empower customers to transform their businesses into fact-based enterprises. Platfora's Big Data Analytics Platform masks the complexity of Hadoop, making it easy for customers to understand all the facts in their business across events, actions, behaviors and time.
- Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
Founded in 2016, Evok Innovations is a fund that focuses on early-stage companies in the areas of Clean Energy, CleanTech, ClimateTech and CarbonTech.
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- Chemical, Oil and Gas, Energy
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
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- e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
- Rodatherm Energy — A geothermal company that plumbs its boreholes with a closed loop
- Planetary — Planetary restores the chemistry of seawater so it can do what it has always done: support life and protect the planet.
PRIME Coalition is a 501(c)(3) public charity
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Seed, Grant, Series A
- United States
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- Tandem PV — Discover the future of sustainable energy with Tandem PV, a leader in perovskite solar technology and innovative solar energy solutions.
- Noon Energy — Noon Energy develops a flow battery technology that enables economical long-duration energy storage. The company's design will allow intermittent renewable electricity sources, such as solar and wind, to meet continual demand. Noon Energy was founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California.
- Sublime Systems — Sublime Systems develops technology to decarbonize cement.
Austin Ventures is a venture capital and private equity company that specializes in partnering with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build companies. It was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Japan
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- Onit — Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. The Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use the tool so the usercan create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support. Businesses have processes for everything -- whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper-intensive, and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT.
- Calxeda — Calxeda provides revolutionary efficiency to the data center. Leveraging ultra-low power technology from ARM, servers built on Calxeda’s silicon and software platform consume a fraction of the power and space of today’s best-in-class servers, enabling data centers to realize significant reduction in capital and operating expenses. The Calxedaplatform scales efficiently to thousands of server nodes, with unique network and storage acceleration, and is enhanced with management technology to deliver true “energy-proportional” computing. The result is a stunning breakthrough in performance efficiency, density, and scalability.
- Zilliant — Zilliant puts pricing at the heart of your business, transforming how you use data to price and sell. See what the industry's leading cloud-native pricing, CPQ, and revenue optimization software can do for your business.
Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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- Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, Italy
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- Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
- C-Motive Technologies — C-Motive Technologies focuses on reinventing the electric motor. Its motors run on the principle of electrostatic forces, also known as "static cling," and stands to change the machines that shape and run people's lives. Founded by Dan Ludois and Justin Reed in 2012, C-Motive Technologies is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Electrified Thermal Solutions — Electrified Thermal Solutions, Inc. is developing the Joule Hive: a new energy storage technology that converts surplus zero-carbon electricity into heat.
Seed venture capital for technology founders driven by a mission to build a healthier and more sustainable future.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Energy
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
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- C.Scale — C.Scale develops industry-leading tools and data models supporting the decarbonization of buildings and cities. Our tool empowers everyone to design low-carbon buildings. Optimize your strategies early, win more projects, and build a zero-carbon future.
- Electriphi — Electriphi is your one-stop-shop for depot-charging, designed to scale with your EV fleet. Simplify fleet electrification from transition planning to charge management.
- Cocoon — Low carbon construction materials for the builders of tomorrow.
Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles, California-based Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-stage consumer technology startups with a female on the founding team. Halogen Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A companies creating groundbreaking technologies and products in the consumer space. It is hands-on and supports foundersthrough their full lifecycle. The firm helps them build their networks, get brand exposure, hire great talent, raise follow-on rounds and find their path to acquisition or IPO.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- United States
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- Vivoo — Get personalized wellness insights with Vivoo's innovative, science-backed products. Understand your body's needs and take control of your body. Shop now!
- itselectric — Itselectric partners with city property owners to unlock access to untapped electricity supply while they earn passive income.
- Lil Luv Dog — Lil Luv Dog is a premium pet care brand.
The Yield Lab invests in AgriFood Tech companies with technologies focused on crops, animal health, digital agriculture, logistics, and food ingredients. Initial investments range from $100,000 – $1.5M.
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- Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
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- Proba — Unlock the value of your climate actions with Proba. Transform your efforts into tradable carbon certificates, connect with partners, and create new revenue streams for your business. Schedule a call now.
- Sundew — Targeting water-borne pests and diseases
- Kaffe Bueno — Kaffe Bueno upcycles coffee waste into active and functional ingredients for cosmetics, nutraceuticals and functional foods.
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