# Adiari Vazquez

> Adiari Vazquez is a Series A investor at Climate Pledge Fund backing Renewable Energy. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Climate Pledge Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-pledge-fund)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adiarivazquez/

Adiari Vazquez is a Harvard-educated scientist and VC investor. She is passionate about leveraging disruptive tech to drive global businesses, and enjoys meeting ambitious entrepreneurs addressing big challenges. At Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Adiari is investing to accelerate Amazon's transition to net-zero carbon.Previously, at Next47, a€1 billion global venture fund backed by Siemens, she evaluated venture growth opportunities in Mobility, Chemistry, and AI. As the Industrial Tech lead for Caixa Capital’s Venture Capital team, she was an active venture builder while also executing early-stage investments in startups innovating in Chemistry & Materials, Sensors, Digital Industry, IoT, AgTech, and Energy.Adiari has also been an advisor to the European Commission on defining strategies for stimulating green and industrial innovation. She previously worked as a Cleantech Consultant and Engineer in Boston, U.S., focusing on water tech.While earning her Ph.D., she spearheaded an interdisciplinary collaboration executed at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and the U.S. Department of Energy, among others, and discovered novel microbial pathways that aggravate mercury pollution. She received the esteemed U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. She holds a B.Sc. in Engineering Sciences (2005), a Masters in Microbial Geochemistry (2010), and a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Engineering (2014) all from Harvard University, where she also lectured as a Teaching Fellow.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Renewable Energy | 1 | 50% |
| Environmental Consulting | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CarbonCapture | CarbonCapture is a climate tech company that develops direct air capture (DAC) machines to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere. The company works to reverse climate change by making machines that leverage innovative molecular sieves, low-cost renewable energy, and tunable purpose-built systems to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at scalecost-effectively. | $80M | Series A | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| CarbonCapture | CarbonCapture is a climate tech company that develops direct air capture (DAC) machines to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere. The company works to reverse climate change by making machines that leverage innovative molecular sieves, low-cost renewable energy, and tunable purpose-built systems to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at scalecost-effectively. |  | Series A | Sep 12, 2023 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ethos Family Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almanack-family-office) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aramco Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aramco-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IdealabX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idealabx) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Neotribe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neotribe-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Prime Movers Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prime-movers-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Climate Pledge Fund

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

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.

2 contacts available at Climate Pledge Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adiari Vazquez | Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adiari-v%C3%A1zquez |
| PHOEBE WANG | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phoebe-wang-4b4a |

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## FAQ

### What does Adiari Vazquez invest in?

Adiari Vazquez invests primarily in Renewable Energy and Environmental Consulting startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Adiari Vazquez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adiari Vazquez closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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