Accelr8
VC Fund
Boston, United States
Accelr8 is an impact fund that seeks to invest in companies that accelerates the reduction and sequestration of greenhouse gases.The fund partners with founders to take on the significant and unmet challenges to the climate. With its deep backgrounds in fundamental analysis, ACCELR8 seeks to understand the holistic dynamics of each ecosystem andinvest behind technologies that will create reinforcing loops toward exponential change. It attracts significant new capital to climate change investing by proving that high social impact and profits are sustainably achievable outcomes. Accelr8 reinvests its profits into social impact research, philanthropy, and advocacy for a just economic transition. It also supports the innovation and investment ecosystem.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Accelr8 invests in
Stages Accelr8 invests in
Countries Accelr8 invests in
Contacts
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Louis J. Kang
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Dwight Poler
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Justin Kern
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 4 (17%)
- Manufacturing 3 (13%)
- AgTech 2 (8%)
- Energy 2 (8%)
- Chemical 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (33%)
- Series A 8 (33%)
Country
- United States 14 (58%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Louis J. Kang
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
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Dwight Poler
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Justin Kern
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Tereform
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Tereform is a company that operates in the chemical engineering, manufacturing, and recycling industries. The company's mission is to enable textile-to-textile recycling, addressing the issue of textile waste. Tereform combines various technologies and processes to achieve this goal. The company is particularly focused on promoting circularitywithin the fashion and textile industries, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of these sectors. | $1.2M / Seed / Feb 18, 2025 | |
Sightline Climate
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Sightline Climate is a market intelligence platform that provides data-driven insights as well as tactical intelligence on climate change. | $5.5M / Seed / Jan 27, 2025 | |
Boston Materials
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Boston Materials manufactures Z-axis Carbon Fiber products that can revolutionize the $130B+ lightweight materials market and unlock significant GHG emissions reductions across industries. Boston Materials products add new conductivity, stiffness, and durability benefits to existing composite materials, like carbon fiber, and sheet metals. Thecompany's products are made using 100 percent reclaimed carbon fiber enabling up to 80 percent GHG emissions savings compared to standard composite materials and metals. | $13.5M / Series A / Nov 07, 2024 | |
Elo Life Systems
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Elo Life Systems is a biotechnology company that focuses on human health and wellness through food. The company is driven by a mission to improve human health and wellness by bridging the gap between food, agriculture, and health. Elo partners with stakeholders in the food systems value chain to bridge gaps and meet needs across agriculturalproductivity, nutritional demand, food security, and human wellness. | $20.5M / Series A / Jan 24, 2024 | |
Zymochem
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The world they live in is built from petroleum. The paints on their walls, the carpets in their homes, the tires on their cars, the plastics for everyday consumer goods – these and many more products are made from chemicals that are mostly made from petroleum, creating a $3 trillion/yr industry. To fulfill their dependency on petroleum, theydo crazy things like setting up oil rigs in the middle of the ocean and drilling several miles into the ocean floor! They’ve done these things because they have had no alternative to meet their needs. Not anymore!Over the past decade, advances in engineering microorganisms have afforded us the opportunity to make the same chemicals that are traditionally made from petroleum. Instead of requiring raw materials buried deep within the earth, microbes can use abundant and renewable sources of carbon such as sugars during processes akin to brewing beer. Despite the numerous advantages, making chemicals this way at the industrial level is still rare. This is because it’s still more expensive than using petroleum for producing the chemicals. Although a few challenges need to be solved to usher in the era of renewable chemicals, a fundamental constraint that limits the economic competitiveness of using microbes is the loss of at least 33% of the carbon as carbon dioxide waste during the fermentation – think of this as the head on your beer. Because of this carbon loss, potential product is simply not made. In technical terms, the maximum achievable yields are 67%. As sugars are the most expensive component of a bioprocess, making the carbon dioxide waste translates to as much as 20% of total costs, which severely hampers the economics of the bioprocess and its competitiveness with petroleum-based production methods.At ZymoChem, they are re-imagining the microbe, one that is designed to eliminate (or substantially reduce) carbon loss during the production of chemicals. To do this, they had to design a completely new biosynthetic pathway – one that doesn’t exist in nature – to make the chemicals. Each individual step of this pathway is designed to not lose carbon as carbon dioxide, enabling their biosynthetic pathway to retain all of the sugar’s carbon into the final chemical product. This carbon conservation allows their approach to have superior theoretical yields, up to 50% better than existing state-of-the-art technology! In turn, their technology has the potential to substantially lower production costs and drastically improve cost-competitiveness for making a variety of chemicals from renewable sources, even at today's oil prices. | $21M / Series A / Jan 15, 2024 | |
GOZEN
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Gozen is to redefine how we engage with the world around us by promoting natural connection and a balance between creative expression and the sacredness of our earth. | $3.3M / Seed / Oct 25, 2023 | |
Gozen
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Gozen provides solutions and biomaterials developed with a biomimicry approach by combining science, art, philosophy, and design to raise awareness and help the planet, living creatures, and humanity. They create high-performance microbe-derived materials from natural inputs, such as next-generation leather, biotextiles, bioplastics, packaging, andinterior materials. | $3.3M / Seed / Oct 25, 2023 | |
CTVC
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CTVC operates as a newsletter powered by Sightline Climate. | $1.8M / Seed / May 19, 2023 | |
Andes
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Andes empowers microbes to enable positive action against climate change. | $15M / Series A / Mar 16, 2023 | |
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Elo Life Systems
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Elo Life Systems is a biotechnology company that focuses on human health and wellness through food. The company is driven by a mission to improve human health and wellness by bridging the gap between food, agriculture, and health. Elo partners with stakeholders in the food systems value chain to bridge gaps and meet needs across agriculturalproductivity, nutritional demand, food security, and human wellness. | $24.5M / Series A / Feb 15, 2023 | |
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What does Accelr8 invest in?
Accelr8 invests primarily in Biotechnology, Manufacturing and AgTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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