# Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in United States in June 2026

## Breakthrough Energy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 47
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 45
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 39
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## Third Sphere
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Transportation

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

## Clean Energy Venture Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

CEVG is an angel investor collective that invest in and mentors early-stage cleantech and climatetech startups across North America.

## Congruent Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Energy, Robotics

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.

## Collaborative Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Collaborative Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

## Clean Energy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy

Clean Energy Ventures invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing global climate change.

## Lowercarbon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Biotechnology

Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet.

## MCJ
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Software

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

## DCVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

We are deep tech venture capital.

## Climate Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

Diversified investments in the most promising early stage climate startups backed by top tier VCs.

## Energy Impact Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy

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.

## Grantham Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Biotechnology, Environmental Consulting

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.

## Powerhouse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Energy, Solar

Powerhouse Ventures
backs entrepreneurs building the digital infrastructure for rapid decarbonization.

## Shell Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software

Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.

## Prelude Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy

Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. For us, climate is everything.

## The Engine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing

A home for Tough Tech founders.

## Evergreen Climate Innovations
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Convertible Note, Seed, Grant
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Software

Evergreen Climate Innovations supports entrepreneurs and startups that are bringing impactful climate technologies to market.

## Chevron Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Software, Manufacturing

Chevron Technology Ventures champions innovation, commercialization and integration of emerging technologies within Chevron.

## Good Growth Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

Good Growth Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm known for its expertise in finding, assessing and cultivating complex science and technology.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

## Ecosystem Integrity Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software

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.

## New York Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

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.

## Climate Pledge Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, CleanTech, Renewable Energy

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.

## Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

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.

## Connecticut Innovations
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

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.

## Blue Bear Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Explore AI solutions for energy challenges. Invest in a sustainable future with Blue Bear Capital. Learn more today!

## BoxGroup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

## Liquid 2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

## WindSail Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Software, Manufacturing

Growth Capital for the Clean Economy

## City Light Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness

City Light is a venture capital firm that invest in impactful companies in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.

## Overture Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Renewable Energy

Overture is an early stage climate tech fund at the intersection of government.

## At One Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture

At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.

## ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Health Care, Software

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.

## Foothill Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology

Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed-to-A-round startups in the United States. It is a successor fund to the TEEC Angel Fund.

Foothill Ventures was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Evok Innovations
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Chemical, Oil and Gas

Founded in 2016, Evok Innovations is a fund that focuses on early-stage companies in the areas of Clean Energy, CleanTech, ClimateTech and CarbonTech.

## Soma Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Welcome to Soma Capital

## RockPort Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Software

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.

## Threshold
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

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.

## Starlight Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care

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.

## Halogen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

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.

## Wireframe Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mill Valley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Energy

Seed venture capital for technology founders driven by a mission to build a healthier and more sustainable future.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on earlycomputer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

## Capricorn Investment Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Software

Capricorn provides investment solutions and OCIO services aimed to solve environmental and social issues while building sustainable wealth for clients.

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