# Gratitude Railroad

> Gratitude Railroad is a VC fund backing Health Care and Sustainability. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Park City, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $2.8M
- Last fund: Aug 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gratitude-railroad/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/gratituderr
- Website: http://gratituderailroad.com/

Gratitude Railroad is a community of investors solving environmental and social problems. Its theory of change directs all its work to ensure its daily activities give way to measurable outcomes and ultimately move us closer to its end impact of realizing a critical mass of capital shifted from traditional finance to impact investing.GratitudeRailroad was founded in 2013 by Howard Fischer and Eric Jacobsen after attending the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 20% |
| Sustainability | 5 | 17% |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| Wellness | 4 | 13% |
| SaaS | 3 | 10% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 37% |
| Seed | 9 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Jacobsen | Co-founder and Conductor of Purpose | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-jacobsen-e8d2 |
| Howard Fischer | Founder & Chief Evangelist | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-fischer-fischer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Origin | Origin provides physical therapy services. They focus on pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and sexual health. They also offer physical therapy for the pelvic floor and the whole body. |  | Series B | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Bettani | Climax Foods is a data science company innovating the future of food. It has developed sophisticated machine intelligence tools to unlock smarter paths from plants to products, creating a new generation of plant-based foods that will out-compete animal-based predecessors.Together, a team of top data and food scientists from around the globe areintelligently harnessing the vast biodiversity of the plant kingdom to create the pinnacle of flavor, texture, and nutrition — at a price point for everyone.Climax Foods was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States. | $6.5M | Series A | Oct 06, 2025 |  |
| Glacier | Glacier is the creator of the first affordable, high-performing, and space-efficient AI-enabled robot for recycling. | $16M | Series A | Apr 28, 2025 |  |
| Cofertility | Cofertility is a human-centered fertility ecosystem that provides egg donation and egg-freezing services for fertility care and third-party reproduction. The company provides a normalized and scalable method for egg donation, which transforms the financial model of egg freezing by connecting women who wish to store their eggs with families unableto conceive otherwise. By donating half, women have the opportunity to freeze their eggs at no cost. | $7.3M | Series A | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Little Otter | Little Otter is a children's mental health company that developed an app that focuses on the mental health of children and their families. Little Otter is a family-focused mental health service for children. The company app makes it simple to connect with qualified providers from the convenience of the user's phone and gain access toadvice and guidance developed by Dr. Helen Egger and child mental health experts. | $9.5M |  | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Twentyeight Health | Twentyeight Health is a mission-driven women’s health platform, increasing access to healthcare services, starting with birth control.The company provides online doctor evaluations for birth control prescriptions, quick home deliveries, and secure messaging with doctors. Twentyeight Health also has sex ed content vetted by doctors so women canlearn about all their options. | $10M | Series A | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| Plankton Energy | Plankton Energy develops commercial rooftop and ground-mounted solar projects for property owners and businesses. The company designs, finances, and manages photovoltaic systems that generate on-site electricity and reduce utility expenses. Its team structures solar leases and power purchase agreements so customers can access solar without largeupfront capital. Plankton Energy coordinates project development activities, including site assessment, system engineering, permitting, and construction oversight through partner contractors. Ongoing services cover performance monitoring and operations support to help maintain expected energy output. The company focuses on long-term asset performance and portfolios of distributed solar installations across multiple sites. Plankton Energy works with sectors such as commercial real estate, industrial facilities, and recreational complexes seeking predictable energy costs and emissions reductions. | $7.1M |  | Dec 02, 2024 |  |
| itselectric | Itselectric is a curbside EV charging system designed especially for urban areas and to advance the adoption of electric vehicles. They increased access to public charging, which encourages the adoption of EVs and leads to cleaner air and healthier communities. | $6.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| Mae Health | Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes. |  | Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Blue Ocean Gear | Blue Ocean Gear designs and builds GPS tracking buoys capable of surviving the brutal operational demands of the modern fixed gear fisher. Our patented SmartBuoy product suite allows fishers, aquaculture farmers and ocean scientists to track and monitor data from their gear anytime and anywhere, enhancing operational efficiency and profitability byreducing fuel costs and lost gear while gaining previously unavailable insights into the local ocean conditions. Our 'IoT for the oceans' also directly address the environmental impacts of lost gear and entanglements. | $4.2M | Series A | May 23, 2023 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Portland Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portland-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rethink Education](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rethink-education) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [RH Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rh-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Impact Engine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-impact-engine) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alpha Edison](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-edison) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Gratitude Railroad invest in?

Gratitude Railroad invests primarily in Health Care, Sustainability and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Gratitude Railroad?

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### Who are the partners at Gratitude Railroad?

The team at Gratitude Railroad includes Eric Jacobsen (Co-founder and Conductor of Purpose) and Howard Fischer (Founder & Chief Evangelist). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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