# Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

> Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Redmond backing Renewable Energy and Energy. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redmond, United States
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sustainability/climate-innovation-fund

Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund is an investment initiative to accelerate technology development and deployment of new climate innovations through equity and debt capital.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6.2M–$57M |
| Series B | $24M–$130M |
| Series C | $8M–$380M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Renewable Energy | 13 | 21% |
| Energy | 10 | 16% |
| Software | 8 | 13% |
| CleanTech | 8 | 13% |
| Sustainability | 7 | 11% |

79 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 25% |
| Series B | 14 | 22% |
| Series C | 6 | 10% |
| Series D | 6 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 10% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 34 | 54% |
| Canada | 4 | 6% |
| Kenya | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CrossBoundary | CrossBoundary recently formed CrossBoundary Energy, the first dedicated investment fund for Commercial and Industrial solar in Africa.Many businesses in Africa generate a significant portion of their own electricity through inside-the-fence diesel generation. Due to the cost of diesel, it would be economically and environmentally optimal forthese businesses to switch to renewable generation through solar and other alternatives. However, businesses are ill equipped to take the financial and technical risk to finance a conversion to renewables. At the same time, capital lacks a standardized platform to access these profitable but relatively small transactions.CrossBoundary Energy is a platform to aggregate finance for medium scale renewable self-generation. The platform finances renewable generation projects (0.2MW-10MW) that serve commercial customers in Africa such as off-grid light manufacturing, cell towers, farms, remote hospitals, eco-lodges and beverage bottlers. Our goal is to enable the delivery of energy-as-service and unlock the latent opportunity for renewable own-generation in Africa. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Fortera | Fortera develops a process for recreating the natural material that provides significant economic savings. It Founded in 2017 and is based in Campbell, California. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Group14 Technologies | Founded to enable the electrification of everything - from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation - Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Our novel composite materials and our industrial process to make them reliably answer thecost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future. | $463M | Series D | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| VEIR | VEIR is a company developing a new approach to using high-temperature superconductors for electricity transmission. Its passive evaporative cryogenic cooling delivers 20 times the cooling power per kilogram of nitrogen flow compared to mechanical subcooling. | $75M | Series B | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Terradot | Terradot is a developer of a carbon removal platform intended to reduce carbon footprints and revolutionize soil carbon management. | $54M | Series A | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| Cyclic Materials | Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. | $52.7M | Series B | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Twelve | Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design. | $200M | Series C | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Applied Carbon | Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world. | $21.5M | Series A | Jul 31, 2024 |  |
| LevelTen Energy | LevelTen Energy is a company that provides renewable transaction infrastructure. It connects renewable energy buyers, advisors, and sellers and gives them the tools and services they need to get better deals done faster. Its technology-enabled marketplace connects a broader class of C & I to utility-scale projects. | $61.1M | Series D | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| Cyclic Materials | Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. |  |  | Jul 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Capricorn Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capricorn-investment-group) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Munich Re Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/munich-re-hsb-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Moore Strategic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moore-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Temasek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/temasek) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund invest in?

Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund invests primarily in Renewable Energy, Energy and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 63 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 Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund's check size?

Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $6.2M–$57M at Series A, $24M–$130M at Series B and $8M–$380M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund participates in.

### When did Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 63 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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