Cerulean Ventures
VC Fund
Santa Barbara, United States
Cerulean Ventures is a VC fund in Santa Barbara focused on Blockchain and Software. Cerulean Ventures invests in entirely new approaches, technologies and methods for combating climate change. We seek out innovative entrepreneurs and technology solutions that can unlock rapid, massive scale to make immediate, positive change. Cerulean Ventures backs crypto / web3 companies building the infrastructure and tools necessary toscale climate impact in this decade. Cerulean Ventures is an investment firm that believes natural assets will unlock the next $50 trillion in growth while incentivizing the regeneration of Earth through new coordination technologies.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries Cerulean Ventures invests in
Stages Cerulean Ventures invests in
Countries Cerulean Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$8.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 8 (32%)
- Software 7 (28%)
- Financial Services 5 (20%)
- Information Technology 5 (20%)
- Energy 4 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (44%)
- Pre-Seed 10 (40%)
- Series A 1 (4%)
- Convertible Note 1 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 14 (56%)
- Spain 1 (4%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
- Sweden 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Matthew Stotts
Co-Founder, General Partner
|
Co-Founder, General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Jahed Momand
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piq Energy provides a grid planning software platform designed to manage and accelerate the grid interconnection process for power projects. The company's platform integrates standard engineering tools, network models, and queue data into a unified workflow for energy developers, utilities, and grid operators. This software automatesengineering studies and evaluates transmission technologies to identify viable sites and unlock grid capacity. The central value proposition focuses on reducing the time required to connect energy generators and large loads to the electrical grid. | $5M / Seed / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| WattCarbon develops decarbonization measurement and verification tools to track the carbon intensity of building energy use. The company was founded in 2021 with its headquarters in Lafayette, California. | Seed / Jul 17, 2025 | ||
| Putting leading scientific data into context, to enable others to respond to climate change’s dynamism and act on solutions with confidence. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Popular Power is a B2B software platform that empowers solar companies with actionable data & insights to deliver post-sales excellence. Popular Power’s hardware-agnostic solution consolidates solar site monitoring into a single platform (via direct API integrations) to provide powerful alerts and analytics. With Popular Power, companies canfacilitate O&M activities, track portfolio performance, and automate reporting to end-users. Popular Power is purpose-built for solar companies operating in the residential and C&I markets. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Meridia is an AgTech company specialised in software solutions for field data within complex agri-commodity supply chains.Meridia Verify®, a SaaS product, verifies supply chain field data against regulatory and voluntary sustainability frameworks in minutes and provides hands-on guidance for risk mitigation. Procurement and sustainability teamseliminate commercial and reputational risks, prevent supply chain disruptions, and shift from guesswork to confident, evidence-based decisions.Our mission is to improve the veracity of datasets that drive decision-making in global agri-commodity supply chains. Our purpose is to build transparent and inclusive supply chains. | $5.6M / Series A / Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition, Powered by Bitcoin | Seed / Apr 08, 2024 | ||
| Neutral is an exchange for environmental assets. We combine tokenized carbon credits, renewable energy credits, and carbon forwards with specialized market infrastructure to deliver efficiency, transparency, and trust in environmental asset markets. | $3.2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 10, 2023 | ||
| Quantum EC offers TotalView Energy Platform, a clean energy decision-making tool that provides corporations, cities, and countries with a complete picture of data to make energy plans, policies, and investments that lead to better economic, environmental, and health outcomes. | Seed / Aug 14, 2023 | ||
| CommonShare is dedicated to building a common protocol for sustainable, traceable, and resilient supply chains. Our platform connects different stakeholders, creating a global ecosystem that fosters traceability, transparency, collaboration, and equity in sustainable production and consumption. The platform is used by retailers, manufacturers,producers, standard owners, and certification bodies committed to mainstreaming sustainable procurement. | Seed / Aug 14, 2023 | ||
| Renoster is a technology company that creates software and data platforms for the carbon markets. Deep transparency, powered by remote sensing, for the world's carbon projects. Renoster believes in a future for carbon to preserve and restore nature for generations. | $3.8M / Seed / Jul 20, 2023 | ||
| See all 25 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cerulean Ventures invest in?
Cerulean Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Cerulean Ventures invest in?
Cerulean Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$8.5M at Seed and $100k–$5M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Cerulean Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Cerulean Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Cerulean Ventures?
The team at Cerulean Ventures includes Matthew Stotts (Co-Founder, General Partner) and Jahed Momand (Co-Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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