Closed Loop Fund
VC Fund
New York, United States
Closed Loop Fund is a social impact investment fund that provides cities and companies access to the capital required to increase recycling rates in communities and build circular supply chains. It brings together the world’s largest retailers and consumer goods companies.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
- Fund size:
- $10M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Closed Loop Fund invests in
Stages Closed Loop Fund invests in
Countries Closed Loop Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $527k–$3.5M
- Debt Financing
- $2M–$9.9M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.5M–$9.9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Recycling 7 (32%)
- Manufacturing 5 (23%)
- Environmental Engineering 4 (18%)
- Sustainability 3 (14%)
- Renewable Energy 3 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (23%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (23%)
- Debt Financing 3 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (9%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
Country
- United States 16 (73%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
- Germany 1 (5%)
- Argentina 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Bob Milligan
VP of Operations
|
VP of Operations | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Christopher Ladd
Investment Director & CFO
|
Investment Director & CFO | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
ucrop.it
|
ucrop.it operates as a blockchain farming and crops traceability platform that delivers certainty across crop cycles. It connects medium-sized growers with corporate stakeholders from the agro value chain to agree on farming objectives for sustainable crop production, competitive financing, quality crops sourcing, amongst value drivers to achieveimproved gross margins for them all.The company was founded in 2018 by Diego Hoter, Matias O’Keefe and Marcos Botta. | $3.5M / Seed / Oct 19, 2022 | |
Thrive Lot
|
Thrive Lot is a platform for building beautiful, abundant, and sustainable outdoor spaces. The gardens of all types pollinators, vegetable, forest, and herbas well as the support and maintenance needed for lifelong abundance. They design to installation and maintenance. The experts in agroecological landscaping and systems They specialize increating sustainable, self-sufficient systems by mimicking patterns. | Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | |
Easy Aerial
|
Easy Aerial is a leading provider of autonomous drone-based monitoring solutions for commercial, government, and military applications. Developed and manufactured in the United States, Easy Aerial’s free-flight and tethered drone-in-a-box systems are fully autonomous, modular, portable, and rugged, with the ability to operate in the most adverseweather conditions. They can be deployed anywhere for a multitude of mission-critical applications such as perimeter and border security, event monitoring, first responder, agriculture monitoring and industrial inspection, without needing a human operator. The company’s customer base includes military, government, aerospace, and commercial organizations in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Easy Aerial was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, with regional offices in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and Belgrade, Serbia. Learn more by visiting us at www.easyaerial.com | $6.2M / Series A / Sep 01, 2020 | |
Algalife
|
Algalife specializes in providing and manufacturing fibers and dyeing fabrics. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 26, 2019 | |
The Home Recycle of 906
|
The Home Recycle of 906 is a waste disposal solution company. They offer services for residents, including the disposal of hazardous waste. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications. | $3M / Debt Financing / Aug 14, 2019 | |
rPlanet Earth
|
RPlanet Earth offers packaging solutions and manufactures quality packaging by reusing post-consumer plastics. RPlanet Earth's recycling and decontamination process is a sought-after material solution for sustainable plastic packaging with a low carbon footprint. RPlanet Earth recycles post-consumer PET plastics and manufactures rPET contentpackaging products, ensuring the efficiency, quality, and consistency of material supply for all of your plastic packaging needs. | $1.5M / Oct 12, 2018 | |
PureCycle Technologies
|
PureCycle Technologies offers the only recycled polypropylene with properties equal to virgin polymer. Its recycling service converts waste plastic into virgin-like plastic fully closing the loop on the reuse of recycled plastics while making recycled polypropylene more accessible at scale to companies desiring to use a sustainable, recycled resin.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Ironton, Ohio. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 11, 2018 | |
CoLoadX
|
CoLoadX is an online high-frequency freight marketplace providing instant search, booking, and tracking using a cargo visibility system and real-time rich data. Selected for the 2019 Freightwaves FreightTech 100 Award, honoring innovation and disruption within the freight industry:https://www.freightwaves.com/awards/freighttech | $740K / Pre-Seed / Jun 06, 2018 | |
First Star Recycling
|
First Star Recycling provides recycling practices for homeowners and businesses to manage their waste. They help their communities and surrounding areas reduce their waste going to landfills and make the most from their wasted resources. They provide residential recycling and resource management services. | $2M / Debt Financing / Feb 13, 2018 | |
GreenMantra Technologies
|
and fuels by recycling plastics utilizes a proprietary thermo-catalytic system and patented process to cost-effectively convert and up-cycle waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle materials such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals. These materials have a broad range of applications in the coatings,plastics processing, adhesives, roofing and paving industries. | $3M / Series D / Jul 26, 2017 | |
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FAQ
What does Closed Loop Fund invest in?
Closed Loop Fund invests primarily in Recycling, Manufacturing and Environmental Engineering startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Closed Loop Fund's check size?
Closed Loop Fund typically joins rounds of $527k–$3.5M at Seed, $2M–$9.9M at Debt Financing and $1.5M–$9.9M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Closed Loop Fund participates in.
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Who are the partners at Closed Loop Fund?
The team at Closed Loop Fund includes Bob Milligan (VP of Operations) and Christopher Ladd (Investment Director & CFO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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