Social Impact Capital
VC Fund
New York, United States
Social Impact Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence. Social Impact Capital specializes in investments that can deliver top decile returns. In addition to a positive social impact, the company focuses on the "essentials of human need energy, water, food, health, environment, education, housing, access to capital, and social justice.
- Total investments:
- 60
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
- Fund size:
- $42M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Social Impact Capital invests in
Stages Social Impact Capital invests in
Countries Social Impact Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$5.7M
- Pre-Seed
- $700k–$5M
- Series A
- $6M–$36M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 8 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (10%)
- Information Technology 5 (8%)
- Consumer Goods 4 (7%)
- Nanotechnology 4 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 30 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 10 (17%)
- Series A 5 (8%)
- Funding Round 4 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 35 (58%)
- United Kingdom 3 (5%)
- Nicaragua 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | ||
Michael Luciani
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Mourtallah Faye
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nik Sharma
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Sarah Cone
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Objection.ai is a new AI‑driven platform positioned as an “AI judge” for contested claims in journalism and public‑sphere reporting. | Seed / Apr 15, 2026 | ||
| Tumoni is a fintech company that offers digital banking services through free remittances. | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Oct 11, 2024 | ||
| Tiamat is a start-up producing affordable animal-free growth factors and biomolecules using plants as bioreactors. Thanks to its propriety platform, the company can manufacture a wide range of high-value proteins from antigens to growth factors.The company has already achieved a 10x cost reduction and at scale can get costs down 1000x even at 80%growth-margins, giving them a wide ability to price strategically. the coming years. The low investment needed to build a facility (up to 40x less than current solutions) combined with its unique technology makes Tiamat the ideal partner in production scale-up for promising markets that will soon become enormous such as cellular agriculture or cell & gene therapy. | $2M / Seed / Mar 09, 2023 | ||
| Quell delivers a virtual fitness world that offers a unique experience of intense workout while gaming to achieve fitness goals. The startup uses resistance bands to help players get fit while fighting their way through a virtual fitness world. It coins itself as a “Peloton meets gaming”, and charges a monthly fee to keep content fresh. | $9.6M / Series A / Feb 20, 2023 | ||
| Dextrous Robotics is a robotics company that develops AI-enabled warehouse robots. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Mozza engages in developing the science to create real dairy cheese from plants. Its mission is to make cheese from plants that are indistinguishable from cheese that comes from animals. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $9.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| Skillfully was founded on the belief that hiring should be efficient, inclusive, and skills-centric. Through experiential hiring methods using virtual simulations, employers now see applicant skills in action. This solution uncovers the perfect fit for a role before the interview phase, saving HR teams time, money, and effort.For decades,recruiters have relied on resume-based hiring to superficially qualify candidates by parsing applicant descriptions of skills to determine employability. The rise of AI tools that automatically enhance and submit applications at an unprecedented scale has overwhelmed employer pipelines, making accurate and precise decision-making nearly impossible.Enter Skillfully’s recruitment solution - HiredNow. The HiredNow tool allows employers create custom simulations of real-life, on-the-job scenarios to effectively assess an applicant’s actual skill level. For the first time, employers can see an applicant’s skills firsthand to determine if their abilities match the unique requirements of a job opening before engaging with the applicant directly. These simulations provide a precise skills scorecard for every applicant, vastly improving hiring efficiency compared to traditional resume-driven tools and enabling skills-first hiring at scale.Through the Skillfully platform, employers can also hire directly from our exclusive, skill-verified TalentNetwork, which includes national career partners such as leading universities, community college systems, HBCUs and workforce development organizations. Employers hiring from our TalentNetwork get access to a deeply diverse and highly motivated candidate pool often overlooked by conventional resume-first hiring tools and professional networks.In this new Age of AI “Good on Paper” is no longer good enough for employers searching for the very best talent. Discover how Skillfully can transform your hiring process today! | Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2022 | ||
| Optivolt builds the world's leading shade tolerant solar systems to seamlessly power electric devices & machines. Compared to today’s best solar technologies, Optivolt’s full-stack solar products are up to 25X more powerful in shade.Optivolt is taking solar where it's never gone before & creating an era of perpetually-poweredelectric machines that completely run on the sun. We enable fundamentally new solar applications such as self-powered 5G infrastructure, mission critical energy solutions for the military, & solar powered vehicles that can still charge when in shade. | $8.2M / Seed / May 17, 2022 | ||
| Voyage Foods is securing the future of our favorite foods. Many of the foods we love face uncertain futures due to a range of health, environmental and social reasons, and it will soon become harder to safely, economically and responsibly enjoy a cup of coffee, a bite of chocolate or a spoonful of peanut butter. Through the use of natural,sustainable and upcycled ingredients, combined with proprietary technology and food science, Voyage is creating delicious new foods that taste and look just like their original counterparts – unencumbered by global environmental issues. Our first three platforms: Nut-Free Spreads, Cocoa-Free Chocolate and Bean-Free Coffee. | $36M / Series A / May 05, 2022 | ||
| Aether Diamonds produces the world's first and only diamonds made 100% from captured carbon. Certified B Corp. 2022 Fast Company Top 10 Most Innovative Consumer Goods Companies. 2022 "Best for the World" B Corp. | $18M / Series A / Mar 02, 2022 | ||
| See all 60 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Social Impact Capital invest in?
Social Impact Capital invests primarily in Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 60 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 Social Impact Capital's check size?
Social Impact Capital typically joins rounds of $500k–$5.7M at Seed, $700k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$36M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Social Impact Capital participates in.
How do I contact Social Impact Capital?
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Who are the partners at Social Impact Capital?
The team at Social Impact Capital includes Jackie Cartwright (COO), Michael Luciani (Venture Partner) and Mourtallah Faye (Associate), among 6 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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