Climate Capital Respect
Investing in platforms & technologies that detoxify & protect our bodies & planet.
Led by Sundeep Ahuja
From 1970 to 2016, the Living Planet Index (LPI) recorded an average 69% decrease across 32,000 monitored wildlife populations.
Nanoplastics we rely on can pass through many physiological barriers and permeate every corner of the food web.
Air pollution is lowering life expectancy (more than tobacco), increasing dementia risk, and impacting biodiversity.
Throughout the various revolutions that have enabled humanity to grow food and manufacture goods at unprecedented scale, we have over-leveraged our natural systems & poisoned our bodies. We support founders developing solutions to detoxify our food, our materials, and our environments — from agricultural inputs, to biodiversity through reforestation, to managing freshwater (and beyond).
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Sundeep is a 3x founder-turned-investor who founded Climate Capital in 2018.
He began working in climate in 2010 when he founded blissmo to introduce shoppers to sustainable products (acq by Garten). In 2014 he co-founded Silicon Climate, a non-profit climate accelerator.
He’s also the author of HALINE ("Hunger Games meets climate change"), and exec producer of Last Glimpse (a visit to the Maldives which faces rising sea levels).
View his non-climate portfolio @ Duro Ventures.
On-thesis investments from our portfolio
C16 Biosciences (Palm oil alternative)
Upward Farms (Sustainable produce)
Clarity Air (Air quality measurement)
Coral Vita (Coral reef restoration)
Terraformation (Biodiverse reforestation)
Ecosafi (Cleaner-burning cooking system)
Check size: $25k - $50k (plus another $50k - $200k via Climate Capital Syndicate, when appropriate)
Join us: If you have material VC experience, a passion for backing early stage climate founders, and you are fun to work with, please leverage your network for an introduction to Sundeep.