# Climate Insiders

> Climate Insiders is a VC fund in Berlin backing Manufacturing, Chemical and CleanTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/climate-insiders/about/
- Website: https://www.climateinsiders.com

Climate Insiders is a community of Climate Tech investors who support disruptive hardware deeptech innovations with the potential to reduce 1 million tons of CO2e emissions. Our mission is to democratize climate tech investing, empowering thousands to align their money with their values and utilize money as a powerful tool to drive positivechange in combating climate change.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 25% |
| Chemical | 1 | 13% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 13% |
| Automotive | 1 | 13% |
| 3D Printing | 1 | 13% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| Belgium | 1 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crosstown H2R | Crosstown H2R is a product-focused company that was spun out from crosstown power, provides customized H2R® burners for gas turbine decarbonization and NOx reduction. | $3.8M | Seed | Jul 04, 2025 |  |
| New Iridium | New Iridium helps to decarbonize the chemical industry by utilizing CO2 to create value-added products and reducing carbon emissions through highly efficient chemical manufacturing. They efficiently upcycles CO2 to produce green and lower-cost products. By consuming more CO2 than emitted by the process and combining CO2 with lower-cost alternativefeedstocks, our technology creates carbon-negative and lower-cost versions of existing commodity chemicals. | $2.7M | Seed | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Crosstown H2R | Crosstown H2R is a product-focused company that was spun out from crosstown power, provides customized H2R® burners for gas turbine decarbonization and NOx reduction. |  | Seed | Sep 15, 2024 |  |
| Novobiom | Bioremediation for persistant and pervasive pollutants | $2.1M | Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Anodyne Chemistries | Anodyne's mission is to create critical chemicals sustainably. Anodyne's approach takes advantage of nature's factories, enzymes, and renewable electricity to produce carbon negative chemicals.Our breakthrough technology eliminates emissions by transforming CO2 into strategic chemicals, materials and fuels that today are madefrom fossil fuels. Carbon utilization fundamentally changes how we recycle emissions into products so that we can address climate change and reverse the carbon imbalance. Reimagining how we turn emissions into valuable products, we’re on a mission to create a climate positive world through the power of biochemistry and renewable energy.The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. | $6M | Seed | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| New Iridium | New Iridium helps to decarbonize the chemical industry by utilizing CO2 to create value-added products and reducing carbon emissions through highly efficient chemical manufacturing. They efficiently upcycles CO2 to produce green and lower-cost products. By consuming more CO2 than emitted by the process and combining CO2 with lower-cost alternativefeedstocks, our technology creates carbon-negative and lower-cost versions of existing commodity chemicals. | $3M | Seed | Feb 29, 2024 |  |
| Strong by Form | Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility. | $5.2M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Hephaestus Technologies | Hephaestus Technologies builds simulation acceleration engines for research and development. Our current focus is plasma science, enabling faster hardware development cycles. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 15, 2023 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ciri Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ciri-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Teampact ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/teampact-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Unruly Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unruly-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2100 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2100-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SDAC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bldrs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Canaccord Genuity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaccord-genuity) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Climate Insiders invest in?

Climate Insiders invests primarily in Manufacturing, Chemical and CleanTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Climate Insiders's check size?

Climate Insiders typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Climate Insiders participates in.

### When did Climate Insiders last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Climate Insiders closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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