Climate Investment
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Climate Investment (CI) is an independently managed specialist investor focused on driving industrial decarbonization. It invests in companies aiming to drive high GHG impact in energy-intensive sectors, targeting opportunities that may deliver scaled, quantified carbon reduction alongside attractive risk-adjusted returns. The firm seeks to accelerate impact by investing and collaborating widely. It provides venture to growth capital to companies, and supports them across their business lifecycle, with the objective of delivering both measurable GHG impact and financial success. The firm has made over 40 investments across energy, industry, buildings and transportation. CI’s portfolio companies offer solutions that avoid, reduce, recycle or store emitted methane or carbon dioxide. The firm reports its portfolio’s quantified GHG impact annually against a methodology it has co-developed with other investors to encourage adoption of common metrics. In the period 2019-2024 its portfolio companies collectively realized 133 million tonnes of CO2e1 of GHG reduction. Climate Investment was founded by members of the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative. They have invested in Climate Investment funds and deployed many of its portfolio innovations, supporting their early commercial development.
- Total investments:
- 103
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
- Fund size:
- $450M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Climate Investment invests in
Stages Climate Investment invests in
Countries Climate Investment invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $5M–$26M
- Series B
- $3.5M–$53M
- Series C
- $5M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- CleanTech 12 (12%)
- Energy 11 (11%)
- Manufacturing 11 (11%)
- Software 8 (8%)
- Industrial 6 (6%)
Stage
- Series B 18 (17%)
- Series C 12 (12%)
- Series A 10 (10%)
- Series D 9 (9%)
- Funding Round 9 (9%)
Country
- United States 26 (25%)
- Canada 7 (7%)
- United Kingdom 3 (3%)
- France 2 (2%)
- Spain 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aruna Ramsamy
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Curtis Schickner
Principal, Climate Investments
|
Principal, Climate Investments | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Daniel Palmer
Deployment Manager
|
Deployment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| CEO | Total investments: 28 | Find email | ||
Rick Cutright
Technology Principal
|
Technology Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voltus represents the "potential of us" to better manage energy through simple, cost and risk-free distributed energy resources programs. Our commercial and industrial customers generate cash by allowing us to maximize the value of their operational flexibility in energy markets. Voltus makes money when our customers make money by sharingthe cash generated from working together. What's more, there are significant community benefits that accompany working with Voltus - a cleaner, more reliable energy future and dollars invested back into your business instead of being wasted on a larger energy bill. To learn more, visit www.voltus.co. | $225M / Series D / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| SensorUp's vision is to be the fabric that interconnects the world's IoT data empowering the connected workers of the future to apply intelligent automation and drive safety, productivity, and job satisfaction forward. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| MTR is a manufacturing company that develops and produces membrane-based separation systems for various industries. The company offers a comprehensive variety of gas separation systems for petrochemical plants, refineries, and gas processing plants. They are also custom engineered to meet the application and industry. | $27M / Apr 10, 2026 | ||
| MTR is a manufacturing company that develops and produces membrane-based separation systems for various industries. The company offers a comprehensive variety of gas separation systems for petrochemical plants, refineries, and gas processing plants. They are also custom engineered to meet the application and industry. | $27M / Series B / Apr 07, 2026 | ||
| Via Separations is enabling industrial decarbonization with its novel chemistries that allow manufacturing facilities to slash their energy consumption while making more product. Targeting the 12% of US energy consumption that is wasted each year separating chemicals, Via reduces the load of the process by 90%, electrifies the mostenergy-intensive step in chemical production, and generates additional revenue for the customer. Today, Via is deploying its technology in pilot trials at pulp & paper facilities to eliminate 100 million metric tons of CO2 by 2050. Via’s innovation is a highly selective and robust membrane filter that replaces the energy-inefficient heat-based separations in industrial processes. Spun out of MIT’s Department of Material Science & Engineering, Via has scaled up the technology by more than 10 million times and demonstrated working prototypes at a commercial scale. | $36M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 01, 2026 | ||
| ZincFive is an intelligent energy storage and delivery solutions company providing nickel-zinc battery based UPS solutions for mission-critical applications in data centers, intelligent transportation, motive power, and other industries. With 74 patents awarded and 29 patents pending, ZincFive leverages nickel-zinc chemistry within our solutions toprovide high power density and performance simultaneous with superior safety and environmental advantages. ZincFive was founded in 2016 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon. | $30M / Series F / Dec 04, 2025 | ||
| Xnrgy Climate Systems is an engineering and manufacturing company that provides air treatment systems for data centers, and industrial institutional buildings. They provide air systems and air handlers incorporating energy recovery technologies, cooling, heating coils, fans, and humidification systems. | Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Energy Robotics has launched one of the first commercially available software platforms for industrial applications that combines three essential components of intelligent control of mobile autonomous robots: a hardware-independent robot operating system, cloud-based fleet management, and AI-powered data analysis. The robots are used for remoteinspection and monitoring, especially in industries with harsh and demanding environments such as the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries, but also increasingly in the energy and security industries. The company relies on a SaaS model to do this, offering its software solution and associated IT infrastructure along with hardware from various third-party vendors. | $13.5M / Series A / Oct 07, 2025 | ||
| Insight M develops aerial monitoring technology for methane detection for the energy industry. It supports physical science expertise with data analytics to survey large areas, create digital maps in optical and infrared wavelengths, and scan various pipelines and acres of territory to identify major sources of gas loss.The company completed thefirst-ever basin-wide aerial survey for methane detection in its 2019 survey of the Permian Basin. Kairos Aerospace’s mission is to improve operational excellence for the oil and gas industry with cost-effective, efficient methane reductions at scale. | $30M / Series E / Jun 20, 2025 | ||
| Carbon Upcycling converts industrial CO₂ emissions and byproducts into engineered low‑carbon cement materials, deploys modular capture and utilization systems at hard‑to‑decarbonize facilities, and supplies circular construction inputs that support supply chain resilience and emission reduction goals. | $18M / Convertible Note / Jun 18, 2025 | ||
| See all 103 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Climate Investment invest in?
Climate Investment invests primarily in CleanTech, Energy and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 103 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Climate Investment invest in?
Climate Investment typically joins rounds of $5M–$26M at Series A, $3.5M–$53M at Series B and $5M–$60M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Climate Investment's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Climate Investment took part in.
How do I contact Climate Investment?
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Who are the partners at Climate Investment?
The team at Climate Investment includes Aruna Ramsamy (Principal), Curtis Schickner (Principal, Climate Investments) and Daniel Palmer (Deployment Manager), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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