Climate Capital Seed
Climate Capital invests in early stage founders across verticals, from carbon reduction & removal to adaptation.
Led by Sundeep Ahuja
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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.
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Ian Campbell has been focused on early-stage climate investing since 2020. Before joining Climate Capital, he helped stand up the 2030 Fund at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, supporting MA-based deeptech climate startups. Prior to that, Ian worked on the Systems Innovation team at Indigo Ag, developing business units around agricultural soil carbon sequestration.
Coalescing his work as an early-stage operator and investor, he joined Climate Capital in 2023 to scale fund operations and investment activity.
Energy
Mosaic (Solar financing)
Swell (Distributed battery network)
Bright (Residential solar for Mexico)
Weave Grid (Load balancing for utilities)
Banyan Infra (Renewable finance platform)
Gaiascope (Renewable energy trading)
Leap (Distributed energy exchange)
Ohmium (Scalable green hydrogen)
Amperon (Smart meter AI)
Raptor Maps (Aerial solar inspection)
Span (Re-invented electric panel)
Swift Solar (Next-gen solar)
ION Energy (Battery mngmnt system)
Kanin Energy (Waste heat -> power)
Lumen Energy (Solar financing)
Zanskar (Geothermal discovery)
Enode (Appliance energy mngmnt)
Rhythmos (Predictive grid analytics)
Moxion (Zero-emission mobile power)
Electric Era (High power EV charging)
Gridsight (Energy network management)
inBalance (Electricity forecasting)
HeyCharge (Multi-user EV charging)
General Fusion (Fusion power plant)
Renaissance Fusion (Nuclear fusion)
BoxPower (Solar microgrids)
Avalanche Energy Designs (Modular fusion)
Jasmine Energy (NFT energy RECs)
Channing St Copper Co. (Electric home appliances + storage)
Phoenix Hydrogen (Hydrogen storage + hub development)
Kopperfield (EV charger installation platform)
Arbor (Digital home energy advisor)
Agriculture
IronOx (Robotic farming)
Four Growers (Robotic farming)
C16 Biosciences (Palm oil alternative)
Upward Farms (Sustainable produce)
Scoot Science (ML for Aquaculture)
Mootral (Methane reducing cow feed)
Nitricity (Renewable fertilizer production)
Rumin8 (Methane-reducing cow feed)
Lithos Carbon (Soil carbon sequestration with basalt)
Monarch Tractor (Electric, driver-optional tractors)
Planet A Foods (Sustainable chocolate)
Adaptation
Atmo (Realtime weather predictions)
Kettle (Climate impact re-insurance)
reThought (Climate impact insurance)
Pano (Automated wildfire management)
Waterplan (Water risk resiliency)
FloodMapp (Flood risk assessment)
Overstory (Vegetation management + wildfire prediction)
Carbon & Other
SINAI (Carbon pricing software)
Twelve (Turning C02 into industrial inputs)
Wren (Carbon offset subscriptions)
Terraformation (Global reforestation)
Living Carbon (Super trees)
Coral Vita (Coral reef restoration)
Frost Methane (De-methanization tech)
Ecosafi (Clean fuel for cookers)
NCX (Forest carbon market)
Unspun (Custom-made jeans)
Carbo Culture (Carbon sequestration)
Carbon Built (Emissions into concrete)
Remora (Carbon capture from semi trucks)
Noya (CO2 capture from cooling towers)
Aerial (Carbon tracking and offsets)
Carbon Collective (Sustainable investing)
Aether (Sustainable diamonds from air)
Perennial (Soil carbon market)
Colossal (Conservation via genetic eng.)
Enduring Planet (Fast growth capital)
MicroByre (Replacing petrochemical stock)
Ezra (Climate Studio)
CarbonFarm (Co2 management remote sensing)
Arbor Energy (Biomass-to-energy + sequestration)
Lydian (Carbon utilization using electro-thermal catalysis)
Carbon Crusher (Zero carbon roads)
General Galactic (Modular, distributed fuel production)
Heimdal (Direct air capture)
Bedrock Energy (Geothermal for buildings)
Cambio (Real estate portfolio decarbonization)
Magrathea Materials (Electrochemically produced magnesium from seawater)
Get Weatherized (Platform for insulation contractors)
Paces (Data for energy project planning)
Climate Club (Employee emissions reduction platform)
Alt Protein
Rebellyous (Plant based nuggets & patties)
Shiru (Sustainable proteins via ML)
Kuleana (Plant based seafood)
Plant Provisions (Plant based deli meats)
New Culture (Cow cheese without the cow)
The Better Meat Co (Plant protein blend)
Juicy Marbles (Plant based steak)
Chippin (Plant based pet food)
Unicorn Meat (Food microbes to enhance the flavor and texture of plant-based proteins)
Web3
Nori (Agricultural carbon credits)
dClimate (Decentralized climate data)
SolidWorld (Tokenized carbon projects)
Senken (Carbon token exchange)
Transportation & Real Estate
Odys Aviation (EVTOL)
Statiq (EV charging network in India)
Upshift (EVs on demand)
MightyBuildings (3D printed homes)
Arthur (90% reduction in biz travel via VR)
AtoB (Stripe for transportation)
Zitara (Battery tech)
H3X (Electric aircraft motors)
Zevvy (EV financing)
Verne (Hydrogen for transportation)
Blocpower (Home energy upgrade platform)
Lightship Energy (Electrified RVs)
Fleetzero (Electrified shipping)
BasiGo (Electric busses for Kenya)
Ampaire (Hybrid-electric aircrafts)
Seabound (Carbon capture from ships)
Halo.car (Remote electric car share)
Growth Investments (Series A+)
Sinai (Enterprise software to measure, analyze, price & reduce emissions)
Span (Reinvented the electric panel)
Mighty Buildings (The sustainable future of construction)
Arcadia (Software to de-carbonize the grid)
Leap (Capture the full value of your distributed energy resources)
Moxion Power (Mobile energy storage)
Blokable (Vertically integrated modular housing developer)
Eclipse Foods (Plant-based, vegan ice cream)
Boom Supersonic (Supersonic airplane manufacture)
KoBold Metals (Finding the materials of the future with AI)
Twelve (Making the world's most critical chemicals, materials and fuels from air)
Atomo Coffee (Beanless coffee)
Pyka (Autonomous electric aviation)
Check size: $25k - $50k (plus another $50k - $200k via syndicate, when appropriate)
Exits: Blueprint Power (BP), Amply (BP), XOS Trucks (SPAC)
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.
In Loving Memory: former CC Partner Mike Kruzeniski