# J-Impact

> J-Impact is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Health Care and CleanTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Jul 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jimpact
- Website: https://j-impact.fund/

J-Impact is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Health Care and CleanTech. Empowering the companies that solve the world's biggest challenges using the world's best technology

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 38% |
| CleanTech | 2 | 25% |
| Clean Energy | 2 | 25% |
| Water | 1 | 13% |
| Energy | 1 | 13% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 50% |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neil M.Schloss | Investment Committee | 0 | — |
| Ziv Lautman | Limited Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Voltify | Voltify is a climate tech company that offers decarbonization solutions for the freight rail industry. | $30M | Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Powerline | GigElev develops an intelligence platform to help in transforming the electricity grid and mobility. Its platform is for future smart cities where e-mobility and electricity grid are intertwined to help clients convert every EV to an active contributor of stability and resiliency of the electricity grid.The company was founded in 2021 and isheadquartered in San Jose, California. | $7M | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Journey Live | Journey is a simple meditation practice designed for the modern world, providing on-demand and live-streamed meditation courses.Journey was created to share meditation in a way that all people could relate to, wherever they are in life. It has created a simple yet powerful technique that could appeal to a large-scale audience, changing a lot ofpeople’s lives. It takes a step beyond meditation by introducing six simple yet powerful Life Lessons.Founded in 2015 by Stephen Sokoler, Journey Meditation is headquartered in New York. | $8M | Series A | Jul 25, 2025 |  |
| Converge | Converge is building the next generation of wireless sensor networks for the industrial internet of things by augmenting existing sensors to help large industries replace manual monitoring with automated, continuous data collection and analytics. | $22.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Found Energy | Found Energy is a renewable energy company engaging in turning aluminum into a renewable energy carrier. It recovers aluminum waste from landfills and uses a carbon-free process to produce hydrogen on-demand for less than $0.50 per kilogram of hydrogen and at five times the volumetric energy density of liquid hydrogen. | $12M | Seed | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Joylux | Joylux is a health and wellness company that specializes in women's health and wellness. The company is committed to finding scientific solutions that are noninvasive, effective, and affordable to help improve all aspects of a woman’s intimate life. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $5.5M | Series A | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| GrayMatters Health | GrayMatters Health delivers beyond the pill digital therapeutics for mental disorders through self-neuromodulation of brain processes. | $10M | Series A | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Epic Cleantec | Epic Cleantec ("Epic") is a full-service water reuse firm based in San Francisco, CA. We provide turnkey wastewater treatment and reuse systems for customers, creating a one-stop-shop for design, engineering, permitting, installation, and ongoing operations. Our team has decades of experience across the wastewater and built environmentvalue chain, with expertise in wastewater and solids handling technology, project financing, policy, and operations. Epic is decentralizing wastewater treatment and reuse into individual buildings or groups of buildings, by converting building wastewater into treated water for non-potable applications like toilet flushing, irrigation, and cooling towers, as well as natural soil amendments that can be used to grow crops, enhance gardens, and beautify green spaces. The Epic system can help a project reduce its water demand by up to 95%, which saves owners hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on their water and sewer bills. Born out of initial work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge," Epic reduces the cost and complexity of onsite wastewater treatment and reuse, lowering costs for building owners, easing strain on municipal utilities, and strengthening sustainability and resiliency efforts. Winner of the United Nation's 2018 Global Climate Action Summit Innovation Showcase and a Fast Company 2020 World Changing Ideas Award honoree, Epic is now participating in the highly competitive Imagine H2O accelerator, the world's top water-focused startup program. | $9.4M | Series A | Dec 07, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [J-Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-ventures-f370) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abn-amro-sustainable-impact-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aleph](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleph-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Autodesk Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autodesk-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Cambrian Capital Partners — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does J-Impact invest in?

J-Impact invests primarily in Health Care, CleanTech and Clean Energy startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 J-Impact?

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### Who are the partners at J-Impact?

The team at J-Impact includes Neil M.Schloss (Investment Committee) and Ziv Lautman (Limited Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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