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Top 50 Sustainability VC Funds in United States

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

Top 50 Sustainability VC Funds in United States

Investor	Sustainability United States investments
Breakthrough Energy Ventures	38
Clean Energy Venture Group	38
SOSV	38
Third Sphere	37
Congruent Ventures	31
Clean Energy Ventures	29
Alumni Ventures	26
Khosla Ventures	23
Energy Impact Partners	21
Prelude Ventures	21
Collaborative Fund	20
MCJ Collective	20
Climate Capital	19
DCVC	19
The Engine	19
Evergreen Climate Innovations	18
Powerhouse Ventures	18
Lowercarbon Capital	17
Shell Ventures	17
WindSail Capital Group	16
Good Growth Capital	15
First Round Capital	15
Ecosystem Integrity Fund	14
Blue Bear Capital	14
New Enterprise Associates	14
Right Side Capital Management	14
ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC	14
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center	13
Threshold	13
The Yield Lab	12
RockPort Capital	12
Climate Pledge Fund	12
Sand Hill Angels	12
Kleiner Perkins	12
Austin Ventures	12
Houston Angel Network	12
Liquid 2 Ventures	12
Safar Partners	11
Starlight Ventures	11
E8 Angels	11
Fifth Wall	11
SaaS Ventures	11
Chrysalix Venture Capital	11
Prime Impact Fund	11
Sustainable Ocean Alliance	11
Connecticut Innovations	11
City Light Capital	11
Social Capital	11
Andreessen Horowitz	11
Halogen Ventures	11

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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
M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
Prolific Machines — Prolific Machines harnesses light to produce everyday essentials more efficiently, from food and lifesaving drugs to novel biosolutions.

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 — Altus Thermal is rethinking energy use in the home. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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%.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators

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.

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

Muon Space — Earth intelligence for a Safe and Resilient World.
Camus Energy — Our grid management platform provides system-wide visibility and advanced control for the distributed energy future.
Fervo Energy — Fervo Energy delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal projects.

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.

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

Kudos — Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
Savvy Wealth — Savvy is the next-generation wealth management firm that pairs world-class advisors with modern software to help clients achieve their financial goals.

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

Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.

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

GridBeyond — Endeco's Energy ManagementSystem (EMS) provides wirelessenergy management and controlsystems for retail, commercial andindustrial users. Applications includebuilding control, refrigeration control,demand management, priceresponse, energy efficiency, anddemand response. Our automatedwireless systems seamlesslyintegrate intoyour existingoperations and/or BuildingManagement System (BMS) withoutany training of retail staff required.
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.

Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. For us, climate is everything.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Graphyte — Permanent, affordable, and immediately scalable
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.
LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.

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.

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.

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.

We are deep tech venture capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
ZwitterCo — ZwitterCo is revolutionizing water & wastewater treatment with cutting-edge membrane technology, along with providing sustainable, high-efficiency solutions.
Odyssey — Hollywood-grade visual AI.

A home for Tough Tech founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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
Amide Technologies — Amide synthesizes peptides that are difficult to obtain through existing means, bridging the gap between traditional solid phase peptide synthesis and biological expression. By using unnatural amino acids and artificial protein backbones, our team is expanding what is biologically possible. Amide’s Automated Fast Flow Peptide Synthesizer (AFPS)leverages flow to dramatically improve solid phase peptide synthesis. Using the power of flow, we can generate highly reactive intermediates in situ, maintain excellent heat and mass transfer, and achieve much better synthetic outcomes than alternative SPPS methods. With all these advantages, AFPS allows biopharma pioneers to dramatically re-think what’s possible. Let Amide broaden your horizons with better, faster synthesis.
Vaxess Technologies — Vaxess engineers novel technologies that uniquely engage the human immune system, enabling improved efficacy and simplified access for vaccines and therapeutics.

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

Kadeya — Kadeya is a closed-loop water vending business that utilizes digitally connected reusable water bottles and tiny bottling equipment. Kadeya was founded by Manuela Zoninsein.
Renewance — Renewance, a leading industrial battery management company, helps you manage key battery energy storage asset activities throughout the full battery life cycle.
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.

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.

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.

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

MIRICO — Detect, localise and quantify emissions with MIRICO's revolutionary technology. Find out how we can help you with your gas monitoring today.
Cartken — Launch your robot fleet with us. The AI powering our robots makes them the safest and most reliable in the market today.
Avnos — Our HDAC solution offers the broadest geographic potential available, enabling our technology to operate in water-scarce environments.

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

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.

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Didero — The AI agent for procurement
Rillet — Rillet develops accounting software to support financial management for high-growth companies. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expense recognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analyticscapabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reporting all embedded within one platform.
Clay — Clay's spreadsheet helps you find, enrich and act on people and company data from any source - without a line of code. Get started for free, today.

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.

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

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.
Skoon Energy — Rent clean energy from Skoon Energy. Sustainable solutions for construction, events, ports, and more. Clean energy, always.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

MBX Biosciences — Homepage - MBX Biosciences
Brenig Therapeutics — Brenig Therapeutics develops therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals — A Boston-based cardiovascular biotechnology company developing next-generation therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases.

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
HLRBO — HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform

ONE WORLD provides training & investment capital to social impact enterprises. The mission of ONE WORLD is to scale social impact and improve the lives of individuals globally. In January 2017, ONE WORLD launched its impact seed fund focused on early-stage for-profit companies that are addressing social or environmental challenges. As ofJanuary 2022, the portfolio has 25 active investments, has participated in 15 follow-on rounds of financing, and has had 2 exits.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ethic — Ethic is working towards a future where all investing is sustainable investing. We empower wealth advisors and investors to create portfolios that seek to align personal values with financial goals.
Sylvatex Inc — Energy solutions that meet the needs of both people and the planet.
Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.

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

Blaze Power — Blaze Power operates as a lithium-ion battery materials manufacturer. It innovates and commercializes iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification in transportation and energy storage. The company is driven to industrialize these cathodes in purpose-built inflation reduction act-compliant facilities.
Dottir Labs — Dottir Labs is a spectroscopy sensor technology that detects nutrients, metabolic markers, and organic and non-organic waste products.
Cala Systems — Altus Thermal is rethinking energy use in the home. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

The Yield Lab invests in AgriFood Tech companies with technologies focused on crops, animal health, digital agriculture, logistics, and food ingredients. Initial investments range from $100,000 – $1.5M.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Seedz — Seedz - Home - Produtores
Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
NanobOx — We use a low-voltage electric field to generate nanobubbles directly in water; significantly reducing the energy cost compared to conventional methods.

RockPort Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in the areas of alternative and traditional energy, mobility, and sustainability. For more than a decade RockPort has partnered with entrepreneurs to foster growth and create value in a broad range of industrial and consumer facing companies whose technologies and products provideinnovative solutions to significant worldwide markets. RockPort has a collaborative approach to investing, deep domain expertise, and insights into all aspects of energy and cleantech. With offices in Boston and Menlo Park, RockPort is globally recognized as being among the largest and most established energy-focused venture capital firms.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Software
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Qnovo — Trusted worldwide to power the products that power your life.
NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
NewLeaf Symbiotics — NewLeaf Symbiotics is a bioagriculture company dedicated to sustainable agriculture, innovative research and product development.

We aim to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 by scaling solutions across our operations and collaborating with partners to broaden our impact.

Investment focus

Energy, CleanTech, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

44.01 — We offer a permanent CO2 storage solution using the natural power of mineralisation
Subeca — Combine IoT chops, AMI savvy and a passion for KISS and you get Subeca. Add free telemetry with Amazon Sidewalk to start a revolution in water technology. Join us here!
Verne — Verne is a hydrogen optimized for heavy transport that allows vehicle operators to maintain existing operations and meet zero-emission targets.

For over two decades, Sand Hill Angels has worked openly and collaboratively with venture capital funds, other angel organizations, and the Bay Area ecosystem that fosters the growth of technology startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Pulzaid — Platform for hybrid specialty care
GaeaStar — The zero waste clay cup. GaeaStar is an engineering company developing sustainable multiple use products and technology.
PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fizz — Fizz, the student debit card that builds credit. Build your credit while you earn amazing rewards! No hidden fees, no credit check & no security deposit.
CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.

Austin Ventures is a venture capital and private equity company that specializes in partnering with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build companies. It was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Tasktop — Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automation, visualizations, and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis.
Ambiq Micro — Ambiq has developed breakthrough technology innovating battery-powered endpoint devices by reducing the total power consumed. Learn more.
Veros Systems — Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines.Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence onelectromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability.

The Houston Angel Network (HAN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the innovation ecosystem in Houston, Texas by supporting founders and startups with financial resources and mentorship.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Prana Thoracic — A minimally invasive, lung-sparing device that will provide physicians and patients with the certainty they need to move forward with treatment.
Materna Medical — Materna Medical empowers women to protect and restore their pelvic health.
Amplified Sciences — Providing innovative diagnostic tests that enable earlier detection, risk stratification and monitoring of challenging diseases.

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tezi — Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball.
Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
District Cover — District Cover takes a data-driven approach to understanding city-based businesses' risk profiles and creates tailored insurance policies for small businesses. We exist to ensure brokers and small businesses can rely on consistent access to insurance solutions that empower continued growth. Our proprietary, non-admitted commercial insuranceproduct provides a new solution as existing options become harder to get, less relevant, and more expensive.

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.

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.

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....

Fifth Wall Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on technology solutions for the Built World.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Brazil, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Soly — Binnen tien jaar kunnen we de zon als energiebronweer op 1 hebben. Doe je mee? Sluit je aan bij enie.nl. Zonnepanelen, laadpalen en meer.
Sealed — Level up your sales with simplified rebates and incentives. Sealed empowers contractors by providing point of sale incentive and rebate qualification with guaranteed amounts.
Document Crunch — Identify risks, standardize your process, & get a project playbook with our AI-assisted solutions. Learn how we can save you 8 hours a week with a free demo.

SaaS Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in visionary B2B SaaS founders at the earliest stages and alongside proven winners at the later stages by utilizing unused pro-rata rights.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

GovSky — Building cybersecurity technology to secure America’s supply chain.
KredosAI — KredosAI is a fintech company that provides financial solutions with the help of technology. KredosAI is an early-stage company at the convergence of artificial intelligence, behavioral economics, payments, and a dedication to the financial success of those they serve.
StepSecurity — Enhance GitHub Actions Security with StepSecurity Maintained Actions and robust runner runtime security with network egress filtering

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.
VerAI Discoveries — VerAI Discoveries is disrupting Mineral Exploration by deploying a revolutionary Artificial Intelligence Platform that detects concealed mineral deposits.

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.

SOA develops leaders, cultivates ideas, and accelerates solutions to the biggest problems facing our ocean through the Leadership and Accelerator programs

Investment focus

Sustainability, CleanTech, Marine Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
Hohonu — Science-Driven Water Monitoring to Improve Climate Change Adaptation; Governments, businesses, are installing Hohonu sensors to help them understand their water risk
bound4blue — bound4blue provides Rigid Sails Technologies for vessels which deliver fuel consumption reductions of up to 40%.

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

Conduce Health — Conduce Health is a multi-specialty value-based care marketplace providing turnkey solutions for primary care organizations.
DeepLook Medical — Enhancing Medical Imaging with Revolutionary Software: DeepLook Medical envisions a future where data-driven imaging enables accurate, efficient, and personalized care across the entire treatment pathway.
Manifest Technologies — Manifest Technologies was founded by a group of leading experts in computational neuroimaging and psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine. Our goal is to transform therapeutic development, diagnosis and treatment for CNS disorders. The company is advancing the world's first AI-powered computational neuroimaging system that quantifies neural and symptom data to create and choose the right therapy for the right patient at the right time.

City Light is a venture capital firm that invest in impactful companies in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Chamber Cardio — Our mission is to empower cardiology teams to operate in a value-based world, ensuring that providers are compensated for delivering the right care at the right time.
Conduce Health — Conduce Health is a multi-specialty value-based care marketplace providing turnkey solutions for primary care organizations.
Clarity Pediatrics — We are specialists in Behavioral Parent Training (BPT), the gold standard therapy for pediatric ADHD care. Our child psychologists bring expert treatment to your family via live video sessions.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Idrx — IDRx is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming cancer care with intelligently designed precision combination therapies.
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles, California-based Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-stage consumer technology startups with a female on the founding team. Halogen Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A companies creating groundbreaking technologies and products in the consumer space. It is hands-on and supports foundersthrough their full lifecycle. The firm helps them build their networks, get brand exposure, hire great talent, raise follow-on rounds and find their path to acquisition or IPO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

itselectric — Itselectric partners with city property owners to unlock access to untapped electricity supply while they earn passive income.
HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

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