Climate Capital Seed

Climate Capital invests in early stage founders across verticals, from carbon reduction & removal to adaptation.

Led by Sundeep Ahuja

Learn more & invest into the fund

  • 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

Agriculture

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

Alt Protein

Web3

Transportation & Real Estate

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