# Closed Loop Fund

> Closed Loop Fund is a VC fund backing Recycling and Environmental Engineering. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/closed-loop-fund
- Website: http://www.closedloopfund.com/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $527k–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recycling | 5 | 42% |
| Environmental Engineering | 4 | 33% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 25% |
| Energy | 2 | 17% |
| Organic Food | 2 | 17% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 75% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Argentina | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Milligan | VP of Operations | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-milligan |
| Christopher Ladd | Investment Director & CFO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-ladd |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| CoLoadX | CoLoadX is a digital freight procurement platform built for freight forwarders, NVOCC’s, and logistics service buyers. | $740K | Pre-Seed | Jun 06, 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 |  |
| Rebound Technologies | Rebound Technology is rethinking refrigeration through tailored, thermally-driven heat pump architectures that provide efficient, practical, and cost-effective global solutions. Its tailored development approach enables dramatic improvement over the one-size-fits-all, state-of-the-art by utilizing renewable resources, waste heat capture, energystorage, and simple, low-cost construction. Rebound is currently developing two unique and potentially transformative technologies. IcePoint is a refrigeration cycle with embedded thermal energy storage, designed to save supermarkets 60% on their low-temperature cooling costs. SunChill is an ultra-low-temperature thermal cycle, designed for developing world agricultural applications, to convert 50C solar thermal energy into 10C refrigeration using locally sourced materials. Each technology represents a departure from the one-size-fits-all energy approach of the 20th century and instead focuses on tailored technologies that solve smaller problems better. This path reduces the cost of renewable/efficient systems by at an order of magnitude while at the same time growing self-sustaining businesses that create jobs without reliance on government incentives. It is currently funded by US Federal Government research grants. | $1.2M | Seed | Jul 20, 2017 |  |
| IntegriCo Composites | IntegriCo Composites is a manufacturer of composite industrial products that utilize patented manufacturing technology. The company produces its products from 100% recycled plastics. It has diverted in excess of 80 million pounds of landfill-bound plastics to the manufacture of valuable infrastructure products sold to a widely varied customer base.Its patented technology mixes landfill-bound plastics, to create composite railroad ties and other related products that far exceed industry standards for high consistency and structural integrity.Current IntegriCo clients include Union Pacific railway, U.S. military, Rock Island Arsenal, Superior Energy Resources as well as continuing international shipments to support the infrastructure of Germany and Russia. |  |  | Jul 06, 2017 |  |
| Evergreen | Evergreen, a division of Greenbridge, was originally established in 1998 to provide a sustainable, reliable supply of quality polyester resin for the company’s portfolio of PET strapping. | $9.9M |  | Dec 19, 2016 |  |
| Eureka Recycling | Eureka Recycling specializes in waste reduction through reuse, recycling and composting. | $9.9M |  | Dec 19, 2016 |  |
| CoLoadX | CoLoadX is a digital freight procurement platform built for freight forwarders, NVOCC’s, and logistics service buyers. |  | Seed | Jun 06, 2016 |  |
| Lakeshore Recycling Systems | Lakeshore Recycling Systems is a renewables & environment company specializing in recycling, waste removal, and dumpster rental services. | $1.5M |  | Mar 17, 2016 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Calvert Impact Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvert-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Communitas Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/communitas-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/er-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Silicon Badia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silicon-badia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Closed Loop Fund invest in?

Closed Loop Fund invests primarily in Recycling, Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 12 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. 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.

### How do I contact Closed Loop Fund?

Public channels for Closed Loop Fund include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 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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