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Top 50 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in United States

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Renewable energy startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Renewable energy companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in United States

Investor	Renewable Energy United States investments
Clean Energy Venture Group	18
Congruent Ventures	17
Breakthrough Energy Ventures	13
Clean Energy Ventures	13
Khosla Ventures	10
Third Sphere	9
Good Growth Capital	9
Lowercarbon Capital	9
MCJ Collective	9
Energy Impact Partners	8
Starlight Ventures	7
Threshold	7
Powerhouse Ventures	7
Climate Capital	7
LaunchPad Venture	6
Social Capital	6
E8 Angels	6
Ecosystem Integrity Fund	6
Evergreen Climate Innovations	6
Union Square Ventures	6
Collaborative Fund	6
Foothill Ventures	6
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center	6
Prime Impact Fund	6
Blue Bear Capital	5
Connecticut Innovations	5
Version One Ventures	5
Alumni Ventures	5
MassVentures	5
Chrysalix Venture Capital	5
WindSail Capital Group	5
Ulu Ventures	5
Spero Ventures	5
Safar Partners	5
Shell Ventures	5
TDK Ventures	5
National Grid Partners (NGP)	5
Wireframe Ventures	5
Coatue	4
Fine Structure Venture	4
Angeleno Group	4
DFJ Mercury	4
BoxGroup	4
NGEN Partners	4
8VC	4
Trinity Capital	4
Braemar Energy Ventures	4
PRIME Coalition	4
Eni Next	4
Standish Spring Investments	4

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CEVG is an angel investor collective that invest in and mentors early-stage cleantech and climatetech startups across North America.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

VoltServer — VoltServer develops innovative power distribution products based on the company's patented Digital Electricity technology. It is a venture-backed technology leader reinventing how electrical energy is distributed. VoltServer's patented Digital Electricity solutions deliver touch-safe electricity where, when, and how it is needed. DigitalElectricity can be delivered using an off-the-shelf data cable, at a significantly reduced cost, and with greater speed, power, distance, efficiency, intelligence, and flexibility, when compared to competing for electrical installations. VoltServer began shipping in early 2015 and is installed today powering 4G/LTE mobile services in many large sports stadiums, office towers, hotels, condominium, and medical buildings.
Cala Systems — Discover Cala, the innovative heat pump water heater that customizes heating to your lifestyle. Save money, reduce your carbon footprint, and enjoy easy installation with Cala. Reserve yours today and experience efficient, eco-friendly hot water tailored to your needs.
Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.

Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in Mobility and Urbanization, Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production & Consumption sectors. We look for technology companies that will positively impact our energy and resource consumption. If we see an opportunity to partner with a like-minded teamfocused on scale across hardware, software, or services, we’re interested.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
Muon Space — Earth intelligence for a Safe and Resilient World.
Fervo Energy — Fervo Energy delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal projects.

Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Graphyte — Permanent, affordable, and immediately scalable
Guidewheel — In manufacturing unplanned downtime and idle time are huge hidden costs. Guidewheel's real-time machine monitoring helps improve OEE and increase production capacity.
M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.

Clean Energy Ventures invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing global climate change.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

UpSmith — UpSmith is significantly enhancing lives by giving people access to training in practical skills and long-lasting careers.
Evari — Evari is pioneering a path to sustainable energy with radically new heat pump compressors.
Ndustrial — Ndustrial delivers a real-time industrial intelligence platform that enables companies to gain new levels of insight into their business processes and energy intensity and then optimize and transform them for sustained competitive advantage.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
Father Son Matching Shirts — FatherSonMatchingShirts store offers a wide variety of apparel such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, and mugs. We're trying our best to bring customers. You are welcome to FatherSonMatchingShirts. We're trying our best to bring customers the shirts are made of high quality materials for maximum comfort in whatever you do.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Loamist — Loamist operates as a climate-tech startup.
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.

Good Growth Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm known for its expertise in finding, assessing and cultivating complex science and technology.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

VenoStent — VenoStent is a clinical-stage tissue engineering company that’s developed tunable, bioabsorbable smart polymer wraps in order to fundamentally transform the 5 million vascular surgeries performed each year.
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a startup manufacturing lightweight solar panels that are cheaper and more efficient than conventional panels using perovskite materials.
Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.

Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Energy
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Zanskar — Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources. Its platform includes subsurface characterization technology and massive data sets, enhancing and reducing risk in the exploration of geothermal resources.
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.

MCJ Collective drives collective creativity for climate solutions by breaking down silos and unlocking problem-solving potential.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Arch — Arch is a vertical SaaS company that leverages AI to optimize and finance sustainable HVAC systems.
Verse — Define & achieve your financial and emissions reduction goals with Aria, a software platform that helps companies buy and manage clean power.
Quilt — Quilt is the best home climate system available. Our electric, energy efficient heat pump uses smart technology to save homeowners money and cut emissions.

Energy Impact Partners (EIP) is a collaborative strategic investment firm that invests in companies optimizing energy consumption and improving sustainable energy generation. Through close collaboration with its strategic investor base, EIP seeks to bring the best companies, buying power and vision in the industry to bear on the emerging energy landscape.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Site 20/20 — Site 20/20 provides smart traffic control systems for construction projects and traffic management. Contact us today.
FLO — FLO is a leader in electric vehicle charging, offering a selection of reliable EV charging stations and a coast-to-coast network with 98% uptime.
XONA Systems — XONA enables frictionless user access that’s purpose-built for operational technology (OT) and other critical infrastructure systems. Technology agnostic and configured in minutes, XONA’s proprietary protocol isolation and zero-trust architecture immediately eliminates common attack vectors, while giving authorized users seamless and secure controlof operational technology from any location or device. With integrated MFA, user-to-asset access controls, user session analytics, and automatic video recording, XONA is the single, secure portal that connects the cyber-physical world and enables critical operations to happen from anywhere with total confidence and trust.

Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Finland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

AtmosZero — Industrial electric boilers to meet carbon neutral goals. Modular electrified boilers that takes the heat in the air and turns it into decarbonized steam at the temperature you need, when you need it.
Thea Energy — Discover Thea Energy, a fusion energy company reinventing the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Ritten — Ritten delivers a platform that helps clinicians and administrators provide personalized, data-informed care. The company's platform offers customized workflow configurations that help to deliver complex treatment consistently and compliantly, enabling clinicians and administrators to maintain a comprehensive patient record that tracks allaspects of a patient's care, including clinical notes, medications, and treatment plans, and deliver personalized, data-informed care.
Transcarent — The One Place for Health and Care
ChangeEngine — Elevating People leaders to deliver the employee moments that matter most.The challenge people leaders face is that the employee experience design process resides across distributed teams, disparate HR systems, and in many cases, spreadsheets & powerpoints. Once people programs are launched, there’s an initial buzz, then they get swept underthe rug in sixty days and it’s onto the next burning need.Creating & executing best-in-class people programs to treat employees like internal customers is extremely manual and time-consuming—they include many moving parts such as goals, branding, content, communications, timeline, rewards, and ROI. In the hybrid workplace, there’s no effective way to manage this.We’re here to change that—our goal is to elevate the role of people leaders everywhere and help them to sustain their people program utilization over time. We’re empowering them to showcase the impact of the people org to their leadership team & board while helping them to get executive buy-in and unlock more budget internally to experiment & run innovative people programs.

Powerhouse Ventures backs entrepreneurs building the digital infrastructure for rapid decarbonization.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Solar
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sybill AI — Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Video Calls
ThinkLabs AI — ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability.
Sesame Sustainability — Sesame Sustainability is a SAAS company that offers industrial decarbonization platform for modeling, optimization, and analysis.

Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SirenOpt — SirenOpt platforms provide non-destructive, real-time, inline and off-line materials characterization and classification solutions for manufacturers
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a startup manufacturing lightweight solar panels that are cheaper and more efficient than conventional panels using perovskite materials.
Matereal — Matereal is a biobased polyurethane manufacturer that seeks to replace the toxic polyurethane industry and bring a new environmentally safe plastic to market.

Financial & Human Capital Investment in Boston Startups

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Cyvl.ai — Next-gen infrastructure asset management for governments and civil engineers. Powered by Cyvl's 3D scanning sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Groma — We blend traditional real estate investment, development and management with innovative technology to better serve our tenants, investors and communities.
Jaia Robotics — Aquatic data collection is our passion using micro sized low cost hybrid autonomous surface vehicles and underwater vehicles.

Element 8 is an investment company that provides capital, guidance, and networking opportunities to early stage cleantech companies.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Beta Hatch — Beta Hatch Insect Entrepreneurs
LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.
ConnectDER — ConnectDER adapters let anyone connect solar panels or EV chargers to their home at a fraction of the typical time and cost....

The Ecosystem Integrity Fund (“EIF”) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies contributing to environmental sustainability. It seeks to demonstrate that there is no trade-off between having a positive impact and achieving outstanding financial returns. The movement toward environmental sustainability is making incrementalimprovements to the largest industries in the world. Over the next several decades, the economy will be transformed by this movement.Sustainability is fundamentally about making things better: more efficient, more functional, less toxic, less costly. This is the next phase of the Industrial Revolution.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.

Evergreen Climate Innovations supports entrepreneurs and startups that are bringing impactful climate technologies to market.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Electronics
Convertible Note, Seed, Grant
United States

Portfolio highlights

Renewance — Renewance, a leading industrial battery management company, helps you manage key battery energy storage asset activities throughout the full battery life cycle.
Grid Status — Grid Status offers an open platform for understanding what is happening on the electrical grid. Grid Status provides organized and dependable data, allowing the next generation of energy innovators to focus on developing innovative solutions rather than maintaining their own complex data pipelines.
NanoGraf Corporation — SiNode Systems is a materials venture based out of Northwestern University that is commercializing a novel silicon based anode technology developed by research team led by Professor Harold Kung. SiNode aims to change the status quo of the industry by developing high performance anodes for Li-ion batteries.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Avian Labs — We're building software so that you can pay people, not numbers. Anywhere in the world.
Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries

Collaborative Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Verne — Verne is a hydrogen optimized for heavy transport that allows vehicle operators to maintain existing operations and meet zero-emission targets.
Voyage Foods — Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favoritefoods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.
Matereal — Matereal is a biobased polyurethane manufacturer that seeks to replace the toxic polyurethane industry and bring a new environmentally safe plastic to market.

Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed-to-A-round startups in the United States. It is a successor fund to the TEEC Angel Fund. Foothill Ventures was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Supio — Supio is a dependable and precise AI that assists attorneys in obtaining the vital information they require to secure greater settlements for their customers.An engaging AI chatbot to help clients receive the care they require by identifying undiagnosed or untreated symptoms.
Feon — Feon is pioneering new-molecule-based liquid electrolytes for advanced batteries. We are a "pharmaceutical company" in the battery space, creating "new drug molecules" to treat the "diseases" of next generation batteries.
Jacobi Robotics — Jacobi Robotics is a software building block for robot arms.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is dedicated to accelerating the success of clean energy development and implementation—while creating high-quality jobs and long-term economic growth in Massachusetts. MassCEC is the first state agency in the nation dedicated solely to facilitating the development of the clean energy industry. We areled by people who bring knowledge, experience and an entrepreneurial attitude to help clean energy companies take full advantage of all the state’s unique assets, to help accelerate the development of renewable energy generation projects, and to help develop a workforce that is ready to roll up its sleeves to ensure Massachusetts’ place as a national and global clean energy hub.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
Grant, Series A, Seed
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cala Systems — Discover Cala, the innovative heat pump water heater that customizes heating to your lifestyle. Save money, reduce your carbon footprint, and enjoy easy installation with Cala. Reserve yours today and experience efficient, eco-friendly hot water tailored to your needs.
Adept Materials — Adept Materials manufactures smart multi-functional construction and advanced coating materials to enhance buildings' sustainability. These products help to increase energy efficiency, improve comfort, increase durability, and simplify the construction of buildings.Adept Materials was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville,Massachusetts.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute — WPI has a lot to offer - extraordinary students, world-renowned faculty members at the top of their fields, state-of-the-art research facilities, and a community teeming with activity. You have a lot to offer too - you're ambitious, you want to be challenged, you want to succeed, and you want to make a difference in the world. You know whereyou want to go; WPI can help you get there.

Prime Impact Fund invests in transformative technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Tynt Technologies — Tynt Technologies, Inc. - The Future of Dynamic Windows - RME (reversible metal electrodeposition) Technology out of Stanford University
Avalanche Energy — Avalanche Energy operates as a fusion energy start-up.
Clean Crop Technologies — Clean Crop Technologies is translating groundbreaking research on ways to reduce molds, toxins, and pests into commercial scale services for the global grain and nut sectors.

Blue Bear Capital is a venture capital investor supporting companies that apply AI and data-driven technologies to energy infrastructures. The firm specializes in the fields of venture capital, financial services, and clean energy investments. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, The Netherlands, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
Omnidian — Omnidian is a provider of comprehensive protection plans for investments in residential solar energy systems. It serves both individual homeowners and financial institutions, such as funds and third-party owners, that manage large portfolios of residential solar assets. The company's lifetime performance guarantee includes real timemonitoring, proactive service alerts and 100% covered hardware and software through a nationwide network of field service professionals, as well as a 100% guarantee on energy or plan owners will be reimbursed for energy loss.The company's mission is to protect and accelerate capital invested in the residential solar industry. Omnidian is backed by the DOE SunShot Program which accelerates the development of highly impactful solar technologies.Omnidian was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Pioneer — Pioneer is your team of AI-powered experts trained to win grants, contracts, loans, and tax credits.

At Connecticut Innovations, we see venture capital the way you see your business. Like no one else. We invest in innovative biotech, IT, and other industries.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Oxylus Energy — Oxylus Energy provides new carbon utilization technology for the generation of e-fuels It strives to make CO2 capture and conversion competitive, scalable, and circular for a decarbonized future.
Halda Therapeutics — Halda Therapeutics is a research-stage drug discovery company, seeking to create the next generation of precision medicine based on a novel therapeutic modality which may be a platform for a number of disease states.
Aware Recovery Care — Aware Recovery Care is a healthcare company that provides an innovative in-home approach to addiction treatment that is revolutionizing the industry. It offers a full continuum of home-based care including in-home withdrawal management, medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and management, individual therapy, family therapy, and coordinated medicaland behavioral healthcare.

Version One Ventures is an early-stage venture fund investing in the next generation of mission-driven founders who are early in new areas.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dinari — Discover Equity Boundless - Simplify everything from equity management and options grant to payroll so that you no longer have to worry about compliance, taxes, or vesting schedules no matter where your employees are.
ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
Bedrock Materials — Bedrock Materials pioneers affordable sodium-ion batteries with revolutionary materials and production techniques, changing energy storage for a more sustainable future.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.
Fortera — 8% of global greenhouse emissions are caused by cement manufacturing, accounting for more than 3.5 billion tons of CO2 produced each year. Fortera addresses CO2 emissions directly from the kiln.
Trestle — Trestle helps construction organizations streamline the vendor contracting and procurement process with integration, smart tools, and use data that's currently going uncollected to reduce risks in future contracts.

MassVentures is a venture capital firm focused on fueling the Massachusetts innovation economy by funding early-stage, high-growth Massachusetts startups as they move from concept to commercialization.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Grant, Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eyebot — Vision care at the touch of a button
Cyvl.ai — Next-gen infrastructure asset management for governments and civil engineers. Powered by Cyvl's 3D scanning sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Feon — Feon is pioneering new-molecule-based liquid electrolytes for advanced batteries. We are a "pharmaceutical company" in the battery space, creating "new drug molecules" to treat the "diseases" of next generation batteries.

Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

HaiLa Technologies Inc. — HaiLa's ultra-low power RF technology paves the way for battery-free operation of wireless IoT sensors and devices.
Sortera Technologies — Sortera Alloys manufactures low-cost, high-quality metal alloys for domestic manufacturing using its artificial intelligence technology.
Rithmik Solutions — We increase uptime in mines with advanced analytics that optimize maintenance and extend equipment life.

Growth Capital for the Clean Economy

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Manufacturing
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Axiom Cloud — Axiom Cloud Inc. uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling/refrigeration industry ($120B/year in the US alone). Our first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install/configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaSfees for one or more cloud-based software apps that run on the IoT platform.
Stafl Systems — Stafl Systems provides battery management systems and telematics solutions for electric and hybrid electric vehicles.
Copperstone Technologies — Copperstone is a leading robotics engineering company that designs and manufactures amphibious robots for hazardous site investigations and water surveys

With deep connections to Stanford and Silicon Valley, Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm that actively seeks and funds women and diverse founder teams.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Seven Starling — Seven Starling offers comprehensive online care for postpartum mental health. Take the free assessment to get started.
NewRetirement — The #1 retirement planning tool online. Go beyond savings and investments with the best and most comprehensive financial planning software.
Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.

Spero Ventures makes venture investments in the things that make life worth living - wellbeing; sustainability; learning, work, and play.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Eli — Streamline access to rebates, tax credits, and financing for your home energy and electrification projects with Eli.
Telo Trucks — Explore TELO Trucks: Compact electric trucks unmatched in EV efficiency. Discover the future of electric pickups today!
Base Operations — Base Operations aggregates and visualizes threat data to help companies keep their people and operations safe around the world.

Safar Partners is a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing primarily in technology companies out of MIT, Harvard, and the University of Rochester. We invest in platform technologies in the cleantech and advanced materials, AI/IT and robotics, and life science/medical device areas.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Zanskar — Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources. Its platform includes subsurface characterization technology and massive data sets, enhancing and reducing risk in the exploration of geothermal resources.
Active Surfaces — Active Surfaces is commercializing MIT-developed ultra-thin-film solar technology.
Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.

Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Cartken — Launch your robot fleet with us. The AI powering our robots makes them the safest and most reliable in the market today.
Sunswap — Sunswap is developing zero-emission transport refrigeration products to reduce noise and air pollution in our cities. Our mission is to replace the dirty diesel engines currently in use in the cold chain with our electric Transport Refrigeration Units (TRU).
FreshBus — Spread the Green

TDK Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm investing globally in early-stage, impact-scaling, tech startups.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Semiconductor
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, China

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Amperesand — Amperesand operates as a grid infrastructure solution provider.
Silicon Box — We are an advanced chiplet interconnection company specialising in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services. Learn more about our proprietary integration technology.
Nubis Communications — Nubis Communications is a cloud startup company providing services to the electrical and electronic manufacturing industries. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in New York City Metropolitan Area.

For entrepreneurs with a provocative vision for energy & IT; NGP is the only utility venture & innovation fund that taps into the global network of National Grid, accelerating companies with investment, innovation, incubation & biz dev; realizing the full potential of energy.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

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AiDash — AI-first SaaS company on a mission to transform operations, maintenance, and sustainability in industries with geographically distributed assets by using satellites and AI at scale.
Exodigo — Exodigo is a revolutionary non-intrusive subsurface imaging platform providing a digital geolocated 3D map of buried assets. Our team has a decade of experience in ground-penetrating technologies
Luminance — Luminance develops document analysis software to secure big data systems for multinational and governmental organizations. Its software provides overview of various companies and picks out warning signs without any instructions; and document clustering and filtering to enable users focus on eliminating administrative tasks. Luminance identifiesrisk clauses, data visualization, and anomaly detection, as well as reviews and enables users to allocate tasks and track the progress of their team; and manages numerous mergers, acquisitions, and financings. It also helps lawyers and legal teams to categorize, review, and analyze various documents and contracts in the data room. Emily Foges founded founded Luminance in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Seed venture capital for technology founders driven by a mission to build a healthier and more sustainable future.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Energy
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

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SirenOpt — SirenOpt platforms provide non-destructive, real-time, inline and off-line materials characterization and classification solutions for manufacturers
Sora Fuel — Sora Fuel makes affordable, scalable, carbon-negative jet fuel by capturing carbon from the air.
Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.

Coatue is a lifecycle investment platform focused on turning big ideas in world-shaping technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

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Norm AI — Norm Ai provides solutions for sludge problem by enabling compliance teams to delegate tasks to Regulatory AI via high-level instructions, while at the same time validating the resulting work product.
Fantasy Chess — Fantasy Chess is a platform that allows users to pick teams of real-world chess players, track their performance in tournaments, and receive points based on their achievement.
Butterflies.AI — Where AIs and humans coexist

Venture capital for disruptive scientific innovation

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

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Osmoses — Osmoses is a cleantech company that is transforming chemical separations. Its mission is to eliminate energy waste with efficient membrane technology, reducing production costs for customers and CO2 emissions for the environment. Hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewable natural gas are some of the in
Mantle — Precision metal 3D printers for the tooling industry. 3D printing injection mold, prototype tooling, conformal cooling San Francisco Bay Area
Feon — Feon is pioneering new-molecule-based liquid electrolytes for advanced batteries. We are a "pharmaceutical company" in the battery space, creating "new drug molecules" to treat the "diseases" of next generation batteries.

Angeleno Group ("AG") is a California-based private equity firm focused on high growth investments in the energy sector. AG makes investments broadly across the energy industry to support innovative, well-managed, rapidly growing companies.Angeleno Group believes that a series of fundamental changes in the energy and environmentalindustries are generating significant private equity opportunities. These changes revolve around three major themes: (1) the need for energy independence, (2) the requirements of a stable and reliable energy infrastructure, and (3) imperatives relating to environmental sustainability. Taken as a whole, these themes affect the entire sector value chain -- from the extraction of natural resources and the conversion of fuels into electricity to the distribution of energy and the way in which power is ultimately consumed. In each case, innovative products and services are emerging as potential solutions to global energy and environmental challenges.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Solar
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

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Fictiv — Get precision parts on-demand, for rapid prototyping and production. Get an instant quote with DFM for CNC machining, 3D printing, Injection Molding.
Span — Span reinvented the electrical panel. Control every circuit in your home from your phone. Contact us!
Anza Renewables — Anza is a BESS & solar software platform built by a world-class engineering & procurement team. Instantly see solar panel costs & specs & BESS data to make optimal design and procurement decisions.

Early-stage venture fund, parent fund is Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
United States

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GameSalad — GameSalad is a development platform that enables anyone to create their own games with a visual programming interface. It’s also a way of introducing programming concepts, game design, and digital media creation to students.Launched in 2010, GameSalad has been used by over one million aspiring game developers and has powered over 75 games thatreached the top 100 in the App Store.
Ambiq Micro — Ambiq has developed breakthrough technology innovating battery-powered endpoint devices by reducing the total power consumed. Learn more.
Sinopsys Surgical — Sinopsys Surgical develops medical devices for surgical procedures for the lacrimal glands. The company was formerly known as DCS Surgical, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Mexico

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Lekko — Dynamically configure your software without redeployments. With Lekko, engineers can focus on executing and safely hand off daily reconfigurations.
Didero — The AI agent for procurement
Slingshot AI — Slingshot is an AI research company driven by our mission to exponentially increase global access to mental healthcare.We’re developing technology to help humans feel and perform better, be more connected, and adapt to the future in a time where the demand for mental health support far exceeds providers by 10,000:1, and the large-scale changesahead are unprecedented.By leveraging AI to delve deep into human psychology, we expect to learn something about human nature that no humans have before, in order to help people change their minds.Based in NYC and London, our cross-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and broader mental health experts is dedicated to building tools that empower individuals to take on any challenge that arises.

NGEN Partners is an active venture investor committed to backing world class entrepreneurs seeking to change industries through innovation, creativity and the promotion of environmentally sustainable products and services.Founded in 2001, NGEN Partners invests in companies that positively improve the environment and human wellness. We seekentrepreneurs with unique business models and differentiated products and services, capable of rapid growth and sustained profitability. We invest in and alongside these entrepreneurs, helping them grow and sustain category leaders. We invest throughout North America, and have offices in California and New York.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Canada

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BrightFarms — BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.
Choose Energy — We are committed to making energy choice simple and easy. When we started back in 2008, we had a vision to simplify shopping for the best electricity and natural gas rates, plan terms and renewable energy options. Today, using data and energy expertise, we now manage over a billion dollars in energy bills while delivering the highest qualityservice and saving millions of dollars for people and businesses across America. We take comfort in knowing you and your neighbors are getting the energy plan that’s right for you.
Renew Financial — Renew Financial provides financing solutions that help efficiency and renewable energy contractors grow their businesses while promoting energy independence. Its aim is to develop advanced financing designed to transform America’s economy to clean energy. The company’s financing products include PACE financing model and the Warehouse for EnergyEfficiency Loans, which opens the residential energy efficiency finance market to large institutional investors.Founded in 2008 by Cisco DeVries, Renew Financial has a partnership with SolarCity targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses utilizing PACE.

8VC seeks to enable industry transformation. In a wave of creative destruction, they believe emerging platforms will replace the decades-old technology infrastructure behind many industries, promoting greater innovation and prosperity.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

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Vercel — Vercel's Frontend Cloud gives developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web.
Hello Patient — AI meets Healthcare Operations Coming soon
Amber Therapeutics — Developing intelligent bioelectrical therapies that can adapt, respond and learn from each person's individual physiology

Trinity Capital is a leading provider of venture debt financing, a smart financing option for high-growth venture capital-backed startups.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Canada, France

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Denim — Denim is an all-in-one financial enablement platform for the logistics industry. We work with brokerages to offer freight factoring and back office automation.
Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.
Neuros Medical — Neuros Medical is a neuromodulation company, is focused on developing proprietary therapies for the unmet needs of patients worldwide. The Company's patented platform technology, Electrical Nerve Block, is focused on the elimination of chronic pain in a variety of applications including neuroma/residual limb pain, chronic post-surgicalpain, and chronic migraine.

While energy has been a key to global development since the dawn of the electronic age, the beginning of the new century has seen a tremendous surge in the technology advancements, market activity and the strategic importance of energy around the world. While many companies and investors have sought to take advantage of the tremendous opportunitytoday's energy industry presents, the unique market issues, scientific contributions and complex web of interrelationships require a specialized expertise.Braemar Energy Ventures was formed in 2002 to create a venture capital firm with that expertise. Focused exclusively on technology and communications opportunities in the energy sector, Braemar Energy Ventures has both the industry and operating knowledge to select promising young companies, bring them into the larger energy world and guide them to reach their full potential.The firm's four principals have a long history of successful investments, as well as experience financing and operating companies in the energy sector. Together, they have been responsible for investing in almost 40 energy technology companies, including early stage companies which have grown to become some of the most successful in the sector.Braemar Energy Ventures works with management teams who are skilled in their industry but who can benefit from Braemar's assistance with strategic direction and financing issues. Having worked with many early stage companies, the Braemar Energy Ventures principals understand the challenges that many young companies face and provide invaluable counsel to their portfolio companies on longer-term issues, allowing management to focus on daily operations.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Canada, France

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3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
Utilidata — Utilidata is an AI-powered technology company that provides utilities with robust, real-time insights to operate a connected grid and better serve their customers.
LO3 Energy — LO3 Energy is a technology and business development consulting firm with a focus on emerging decentralized business models. The company builds tools and develops projects to support and accelerate the proliferation of the distributed energy, utilities, and computation sharing economy of the future.

PRIME Coalition is a 501(c)(3) public charity

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Grant, Series A
United States

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Noon Energy — Noon Energy develops a flow battery technology that enables economical long-duration energy storage. The company's design will allow intermittent renewable electricity sources, such as solar and wind, to meet continual demand. Noon Energy was founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California.
Sublime Systems — Sublime Systems develops technology to decarbonize cement.
Via Separations — Process intensification For today's industries. Do More. With Less. info@viaseparations.com

Eni Next LLC has been recently established as the venture investing arm of Eni Group. It aims to be a key role in Eni's open innovation strategy towards energy transition through investing in startups with disruptive technologies. Its focus investment areas include Clean-Tech, Industrials, Digital technologies, Magnetic Fusion, and others.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Italy, Canada

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e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a startup manufacturing lightweight solar panels that are cheaper and more efficient than conventional panels using perovskite materials.

Standish Spring Investments provides entrepreneurs with the financial and managerial support they need to grow their companies. The company is based in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

GreenTech, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
United States

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Pellucere Technologies — Pellucere Technologies is developing the future of anti-reflective thin films that is compatible with manufacturing processes and techniques. The CSD Nano anti-reflective coatings can be applied to a wide variety of industries including: Solar cover glass, Concentrated solar applications, Photovoltaic solar cells, Building materials, Auto glass,Specialty applications.
Jolt Energy — Our mission is to bring ultra-fast charging downtown, providing convenient, easy-to-use and accessible fast-charging services for e-cars in metropolitan areas
Odyssey — Provider of an online platform intended to streamline the development of mini-grids in emerging markets. The company's online platform manages how mini-grid data is analyzed and communicated via software tools, data analytics and marketplaces, enabling mini-grid project developers to connect with investors, suppliers, donors and other marketstakeholders.

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