New Climate Tech VC Funds in 2026

Seaya is a Madrid-based investment firm founded in 2013 by Beatriz González, investing across early-stage, impact, and growth-stage European technology companies through three strategies: Seaya Ventures, Seaya Andromeda, and its newest growth vehicle, Seaya Nova. The firm recently opened a London office alongside the Seaya Nova launch.

Vynn Capital is a Kuala Lumpur-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Victor Chua and Darren Chau, investing in early-stage technology companies across Southeast Asia with a focus on mobility, logistics, travel, and fast-moving consumer goods, including automotive and electric-vehicle technology. The firm closed its debut fund below its $40 million target in 2021, anchored by Malaysian government tech investor MAVCAP, and has now closed its second fund with a more selective strategy targeting 13 to 14 portfolio companies.

BackingMinds is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Sara Wimmercranz and Susanne Najafi, investing in early-stage companies across Sweden and the wider Nordics that tackle environmental or social challenges, such as cutting carbon emissions and improving healthcare and education. The firm backs founders who are often overlooked by traditional venture capital, including women, founders with immigrant backgrounds, and companies based outside capital cities.

Antares Ventures is a Singapore-based deep tech venture capital firm that invests in companies solving bottlenecks in global infrastructure, across energy, compute and digital infrastructure, industrial systems, and urban and transport infrastructure.

Balerion Space Ventures is a Dallas-based venture capital firm investing in founders building the infrastructure of space, defense, and deep technology. The firm backs companies developing space systems, national security technology, advanced energy, autonomy, and other critical infrastructure, and has grown its assets under management past $200 million since its founding.

Snowpoint Ventures is a Palm Beach, Florida-based venture capital firm investing in dual-use technology companies that serve both government and commercial customers. The firm backs US-based businesses in data, deep tech, and frontier technology, with an emphasis on national security and societal resilience, and manages roughly $1 billion in assets across its funds.

Union Square Ventures (USV) is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2003. Known as an early backer of category-defining companies including Twitter, Etsy, MongoDB, Coinbase, and Duolingo, the firm has historically focused on early-stage, Series A-led investing and is now entering a new cycle shaped around artificial intelligence, physical and offline data, open-source models, and energy.

Future Ventures is a venture capital firm co-founded by Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko in 2018. Based in the United States, the firm operates as an intentionally small, two-partner team and backs seed- and early-stage frontier technology companies pursuing founder-led, mission-driven ventures across deeptech, space, energy, biotech, and climate.

EUREKA! Venture SGR is an independent Milan-based asset management company founded in 2019, supervised by the Bank of Italy and Consob. The firm specializes in deep tech and technology transfer investing, backing spin-offs, startups, and innovative SMEs developing proprietary, high-barrier-to-entry technologies for international markets. EUREKA! Venture has raised more than $215M across five funds to date.

Commonweal Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in category-winning companies solving the country's toughest public-sector challenges. Founded by Nate Loewentheil, the firm backs founders building products where government functions as a customer, regulator, research partner, or market maker, drawing on an advisory network of former government officials, regulators, and industry operators.

Bramble Partners is a UK-based venture capital firm founded in 2024 by Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain and author of the UK government's National Food Strategy review, alongside co-founder Omar Habbal. The firm invests across the food value chain, aiming to build a food system that generates commercial returns while improving health outcomes and reducing environmental impact.

Energy Revolution Ventures (ERV) is a London-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in deep-science electrochemistry companies focused on the energy transition. Their investment areas include energy storage, grid technology, renewable fuels, carbon capture, and advanced materials. ERV closed its debut fund at $18 million in December 2024 and is now raising its second fund, targeting $50 million.

Lavni Ventures is an India-based venture capital firm and SEBI-registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund, founded in 2020. The firm invests in Indian deep-tech founders building foundational technologies in health and climate, with a thesis centered on capital-efficient, globally scalable science and engineering-driven solutions.

Amplify Capital is a Toronto-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage impact startups across climate, health and work technology. Founded in 2016 as the MaRS Catalyst Fund, the firm spun out of MaRS Discovery District in 2019 and is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

Pulse Fund is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm founded by Tenzin Seldon, investing in early-stage climate companies. The firm takes a cross-sector view, treating energy, food and agriculture, infrastructure, and mobility as interconnected systems rather than isolated verticals.

Wittington Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 by the Weston family's holding company, Wittington Investments, investing in technology-oriented startups across Canada and the US with support from affiliated Canadian retail brands including Loblaw, Shoppers Drug Mart, Choice Properties, and Holt Renfrew.

Zinc is a London-based specialist early-stage investor and venture builder founded in 2017 by Paul Kirby, Ella Goldner, and Saul Klein. The firm backs scientific founders turning research breakthroughs into companies that address health and environmental challenges, and also runs Zinc Academy and Zinc Innovation Partners alongside its investing activity.

Uplift Ventures is a Hamburg- and Berlin-based deep-tech venture capital fund founded in 2025 and backed by Jungheinrich, the German intralogistics company. It operates as an independent limited company outside the Jungheinrich Group, combining entrepreneurial freedom with access to Jungheinrich's industrial network.

Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on supporting female-founded and co-founded startups across Europe. Founded to address the significant gender gap in venture funding, Auxxo is one of the few funds in Europe built specifically around the goal of empowering women in entrepreneurship. The fund invests at the earliest stages and seeks to create systemic change by backing diverse leadership and inclusive innovation.

Mamor Capital Ventures is a Black women-owned and managed venture capital firm based in Midrand, South Africa. Founded by Mamokete Ramathe, the firm applies institutional investment discipline to back South African technology companies that expand access to digital and financial services.

North Karelia Growth Fund II is a regionally focused venture vehicle managed by Redstone, a Berlin-based multi-strategy European VC firm founded in 2014. Based in Joensuu, eastern Finland, the fund backs early-stage companies in the North Karelia region, building on Redstone's first North Karelia vehicle launched in 2020.

Industrial47 is a Bengaluru-based pre-seed venture fund founded by Rahul Seth, backing early Indian founders building in space, defense, energy, and other deep-tech categories central to the country's industrial buildout. Seth founded the firm in 2024 after serving as a Director at Antler VC's India office and as an officer in the Indian Army Reserves.

MassMutual Ventures (MMV) is the corporate venture capital arm of insurer MassMutual, founded in 2014. MMV invests across two fund families: Climate Technology, and Enterprise SaaS, Fintech, Cybersecurity, and HealthTech. This is a corporate venture fund (CVC), not an independently raised fund with outside LPs.

Redstone Blue is the dedicated ocean-tech and blue economy investment strategy of Redstone, a multi-strategy European venture capital firm founded in 2014. Based in Turku, Finland, Redstone Blue invests in early-stage startups building technology across sustainable maritime and port systems, ocean infrastructure and clean energy, marine intelligence, and blue biotechnology and water innovation. The strategy launched in 2025.

Floating Point is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York and Boston, founded in 2021 by Eddie Segel and John Loser, former Bridgewater hedge fund investors who were later on the founding team of Oscar Health. The firm invests in complex, regulated parts of the real economy, healthcare, logistics, finance, insurance, energy, and defense, backing full-stack businesses that pair technology with real-world operations and physical assets. Its portfolio spans more than 40 companies that have collectively raised over $2 billion, including Ledgebrook, Altana, Setpoint, Mevo, and Ataraxis.

All Aboard Fund is a New York City-based venture capital firm focused on the energy transition. The firm was formed following All Aboard’s first annual convening of global climate investors in 2024 and is positioned to back companies operating in capital-intensive segments of climate and energy infrastructure. Its strategy centers on mobilizing institutional capital toward large-scale decarbonization opportunities.

1885 Capital is a Houghton, Michigan-based early-stage venture firm co-founded by Jim Baker and Vince Nystrom, operating in partnership with Michigan Technological University, an R1 research institution with $124M+ in annual R&D and spinouts including Handshake and Orbion Space Technology. The firm describes itself as the first rural-based, early-stage venture firm launched in the United States since 2018, and is built on the conviction that great companies can be built anywhere, and that the Great Lakes region is significantly undercapitalized relative to its industrial and research output.

Activate Capital is a San Francisco-based growth-equity firm founded in 2017 by David Lincoln, Raj Atluru, and Anup Jacob, investing in the technology backbone of energy, critical infrastructure, and industrial systems. The firm's founders lived through the first cleantech boom and bust of the late 2000s, having co-founded Element Partners ($860M AUM) and DFJ Element, and built Activate's strategy around commercial traction and unit economics rather than pre-revenue technology risk. With the close of Fund III, Activate has crossed $1B in AUM with a portfolio of 10 companies generating more than $3B in cumulative revenue.

Catalyst Fund is a pan-African pre-seed venture fund and venture builder managed by BFA Global, focused exclusively on climate adaptation and resilience. The fund backs startups building solutions for communities already living with climate change, cold chains, resilient agriculture, clean water, waste infrastructure, and climate fintech, primarily across Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, and Tanzania. Originally launched as a grant-making accelerator, Catalyst converted to an equity fund model in 2023 and has since built a 28-company portfolio across 10 African markets, with nine follow-on investments completed to date.

Climentum Capital is a Copenhagen-based climate hard tech venture firm founded in 2022 by Morten Halborg and Stefan Maard. The firm backs early-stage European hard tech companies building the industrial backbone of a sustainable and resilient Europe, targeting the six sectors responsible for the largest share of CO₂ emissions. Climentum operates as an Article 9-regulated fund and applies a dual carry model that ties partner economics to both financial returns and verified CO₂ savings. The firm maintains teams across the Nordics and Germany, bridging what it describes as Europe's two most complementary innovation regions: the Nordics as a climate innovation hub and the DACH region as Europe's industrial heartland.

Ruya Ventures is a London-based solo GP deep tech fund founded by Rick Hao, former head of Speedinvest's deep tech investment team. At Speedinvest, Hao backed more than 30 companies across AI, battery tech, quantum computing, semiconductors, energy, and robotics. Ruya was named Newcomer of the Year in deep tech at the EUVC Awards in April 2026, before its public launch. The fund closed oversubscribed in under a year, with Hao deliberately capping it at $50M to match a concentrated, hands-on investment model.

InvestEco Capital is a Toronto-based venture capital firm and impact investor founded in 2002, focused exclusively on the sustainable food sector. The firm is one of the few funds globally that specializes in high-growth, health-focused, and sustainability-driven food companies across consumer packaged goods, AgTech, and food system infrastructure. Fund IV is InvestEco's largest raise to date and continues a 24-year track record of investing in companies that combine commercial growth with measurable health and sustainability impact.

Discipulus Ventures is an El Segundo, California-based pre-seed venture firm founded by Jakob Diepenbrock. The firm backs the earliest-stage founders building hardware, defense technology, energy, manufacturing, mining, and critical infrastructure for America. Discipulus operates a cohort residency model, relocating promising founders to El Segundo and running them through an intensive in-person program embedded in one of the densest hardware and defense-tech clusters in the country. The firm has run five cohorts under its inaugural $9M fund, and closed a $30M oversubscribed second fund in June 2026.

Norrsken Launcher is a Stockholm-based early-stage deep tech impact fund and part of the Norrsken Foundation ecosystem, one of Europe's leading impact-oriented venture organizations founded by Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth. Unlike conventional VC funds, Norrsken Launcher operates a concentrated portfolio model, taking deep operational involvement in a small number of companies for three to nine months to build teams, accelerate commercialization, and support their path from breakthrough science to scalable business. The firm focuses exclusively on researchers and engineers who have developed proven deep tech innovations but lack the operational infrastructure to commercialize them. Fund II closed oversubscribed at ~$88M in June 2026, its hard cap, with almost all Fund I investors reinvesting.

Pachamama Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based pre-seed venture fund founded by Karen Sheffield. The firm is built on the thesis that the physical economy, historically the largest source of global carbon emissions, is now the largest untapped opportunity in technology investing. Sheffield calls this the Second Industrialization: the reindustrialization of the physical world through breakthrough materials, energy systems, and industrial platforms. She brings 16 years of Fortune 100 operating experience across Visa, PepsiCo, and American Airlines, and offers portfolio companies direct access to Fortune 500 procurement and commercial relationships as a core part of the investment model.

Gigascale Capital is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Mike Schroepfer, former CTO of Meta, alongside Victoria Beasley and Evaline Tsai. The firm backs founders rebuilding the physical economy for climate impact, investing in companies developing technologies that enable energy, materials, and infrastructure systems to become cheaper, more productive, and cleaner than the systems they replace. Gigascale's core conviction is that climate impact is not the result of virtuous mandates but of better-performing systems: technologies that win on economics, not promises. With Fund I, the firm has invested in more than 25 companies across clean energy, advanced manufacturing, grid infrastructure, and physical AI.

Loom Ventures is a Vienna-based early-stage corporate venture fund launched in May 2026 by STRABAG, one of Europe's largest infrastructure and construction groups. The fund is operated through STRABAG Venture Capital GmbH, a wholly-owned independent subsidiary endowed with ~$52.8M USD (€48M) in initial share capital, and is positioned as a purely financial investor with no strategic mandate, an unusually founder-friendly structure for a corporate vehicle. The fund targets European InfraTech.

Transition Ventures is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 by David Helgason, co-founder and former CEO of Unity Technologies, which went public at a $13.7 billion valuation in 2020. The firm was originally built around the Stockholm Resilience Centre's Planetary Boundaries framework as a climate-first investment thesis. With Fund II, the firm has reframed its mandate around what Helgason describes as "physical AI", backing companies rebuilding real-world systems at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industrial infrastructure. Fund II takes total assets under management above $300 million. The firm's team has founded and scaled companies worth over $15 billion collectively across software, hardware, and deep tech.

Veriten is a Houston-based employee-owned research, strategy, and investment firm founded in January 2022 by Maynard Holt, former co-founder and CEO of energy investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. (TPH). The firm develops an unbiased, economics-based, long-term global outlook for energy, power, and technology, and invests in companies addressing critical challenges and opportunities across the energy value chain. Veriten comprises 20 professionals with backgrounds spanning investing, research, investment banking, public buyside, technology, industrial, and entrepreneurship.

Convective Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in hardware, software, and financial services companies building disaster resilience. Founded by Bill Clerico, the firm launched in 2022 as a specialist in wildfire technology before broadening its mandate to cover risk management across the physical world, wildfire, flood, grid failure, and other systemic disaster threats. The firm's core thesis is that the convergence of rising global temperatures and aging infrastructure has created a trillion-dollar market opportunity: America now suffers a billion-dollar disaster once every 18 days, a frequency that has tripled since the 1980s, with total annual costs exceeding $1 trillion. Convective operates Updraft, a 10,000+ person practitioner network spanning utility companies, state and federal agencies, insurance carriers, forestry services, emergency management agencies, and fire departments, which has generated over $100 million in revenue for its portfolio companies. The firm also runs the Red Sky Summit, an annual gathering in San Francisco bringing together leaders from utilities, insurance, government, and asset owners to evaluate emerging resilience technologies, and Disasterproof, a storytelling platform focused on resilience companies.

Nomi Capital is a boutique investment firm focused on late-stage venture capital, combining the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley with the discipline of over a decade of experience investing in private markets. Founded in 2024 and based in New York, the firm targets defense and dual-use technology companies at their inflection point, moving from the R&D phase to real revenue generation. With the close of Fund I, Nomi Capital surpasses $100 million in AUM across 24 investments, almost exactly two years after its founding.

Refactor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Zal Zally, a former a16z partner who helped launch the firm's first Bio Fund. Prior to a16z, Zal spent a decade in product roles, including on YouTube's early monetization team and as Netflix's first Head of Mobile. He also had a stint as a founder. Refactor is deliberately structured as a solo GP firm, one investor, no partners, no associates, no investment committee, built around the conviction that founders deserve direct, immediate access to the person writing the check. Ten years and five funds later, the firm manages ~$300M in AUM and has backed six unicorns.

Unconventional Ventures is a Copenhagen-based impact venture firm founded by Thea Messel and Nora Bavey, built to challenge structural bias in venture capital and demonstrate the economic value of backing underrepresented founders. The firm backs pre-seed and seed stage companies founded by women, people with immigrant backgrounds, and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs across the Nordics and Europe. All-women founding teams have historically received 1–2% of VC funding; founders of color less than 0.5%, Unconventional Ventures was built to redirect capital toward this structurally underserved pool.

KOMPAS VC is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 with offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Barcelona. The firm backs founders building technologies that improve productivity, resilience, and decarbonization across physical industries including manufacturing, energy, logistics, and the built environment.

Raisewell Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on Southeast Asia and the United States, with a debut fund of $50 million. The firm was founded by Jeep Kline, a former Intel executive with experience at the World Bank and UC Berkeley, who built the fund around the belief that durable companies emerge from founders solving real industrial and societal problems at the frontier of science and technology. Raisewell backs companies from pre-seed through Series B, with a portfolio that already includes three unicorns and one company on track for a NASDAQ listing.

Eka Ventures is a London-based impact venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Jon Coker, Camilla Dolan, and Andrew Richardson. The firm invests in early-stage UK companies building solutions in health and wellbeing, sustainability, and financial inclusion. With Fund II, Eka has become the largest early-stage impact VC in the UK.

Bondstone Ventures is the venture capital arm of Bondstone, a Lisbon-based private equity firm founded in 2016 that manages over €1 billion in development value across real estate and investment activities. Launched in 2026, Bondstone Ventures focuses on early-stage deeptech companies in Southern Europe and the broader European market, combining financial expertise with scientific and technical knowledge to support research-driven startups.

Empirical Ventures is a Bristol-based venture capital firm co-founded by Dr. Ben Miles (PhD, Physics) and Dr. Johnathan Matlock (PhD, Chemistry), two scientists who first worked together at Ziylo, a University of Bristol spinout acquired by Novo Nordisk in a deal valued at more than $800 million. The firm backs what it calls venture scientists: PhD founders with deep technical expertise navigating the transition from academic research to commercial operation.

Pax VC is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2026 by Michelle Volz, formerly a Partner on the American Dynamism team at Andreessen Horowitz. Fund I closed at $50 million in March 2026, oversubscribed, raised in approximately 12 months by a solo GP. The firm is built around a thesis the firm calls Pax Technica: that the next era of American global leadership will be rooted in technical superiority of the physical world, not software-on-software optimization. Pax backs founders building in defense, energy, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, logistics, space, and critical infrastructure, sectors that represent the largest portions of GDP but have historically been avoided by venture because of regulatory complexity and long development cycles.

Montis VC is a Warsaw-based venture capital firm launched by the team behind Montis Capital, which has been investing in technology and industry in Central and Eastern Europe since 2019. The new fund targets European pre-seed and seed startups building at the intersection of energy, industrial transformation, and artificial intelligence.

VitaminºC is a debut venture capital firm founded in 2026 by Nathalie Moral in Zurich and Sophie Lamparter in San Francisco, investing exclusively in climate technology at pre-seed and seed stage, targeting both climate mitigation and human adaptation.

Partech Impact is the inaugural impact fund from Partech, a global investment platform for tech companies with offices across Europe and the US. The fund reached its final close in March 2026 at EUR300 million and is led by General Partners Remi Said and Arnaud Minvielle. Partech Impact was created to address a structural gap in the European market: the absence of a dedicated growth-stage investor for commercially mature, impact-native companies.

Emerald Technology Ventures is a Zurich-based venture capital firm founded in 2000 that specializes in sustainability and climate tech, with offices in Toronto and Singapore. With over €1 billion under management, Emerald is one of the world's longest-running climate tech investors and operates a distinctive model that combines independent venture funds with corporate venture capital mandates for more than 50 large industrial corporations.

Phatisa is an Africa-focused private equity firm investing in food and agribusiness value chains. Founded in 2005, the firm combines commercial discipline with impact objectives, targeting scalable businesses that strengthen food security, productivity and inclusive growth across the continent. Phatisa operates with deep on-the-ground presence and sector specialization, particularly in food systems and related infrastructure.

SlateVC is a Paris-based venture capital firm focused on backing climate-tech companies that operate in the real economy and deliver measurable cost reduction alongside decarbonization. The firm positions itself as a growth-oriented investor supporting European scale-ups that move beyond pilots and into industrial and commercial deployment. SlateVC targets companies where climate impact and business fundamentals reinforce each other.

Voyager Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in frontier energy and industrial technology with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. Founded by Sarah Sclarsic and Sierra Peterson, the firm backs companies building the foundational infrastructure that will power the next era of economic growth. Voyager focuses on technologies that improve energy systems, reshape material production, transform mobility, and modernize the built environment.

The Footprint Firm is a Copenhagen based venture capital and impact firm founded in 2019 to back technologies that accelerate the global green transition. The firm invests across food, construction, materials, energy, biotech, and software, with a strong focus on Northern Europe. Alongside investing, The Footprint Firm operates a major sustainability advisory unit that supports corporates, investors, and public institutions. With more than 30 professionals, the firm has become a central climate tech platform in the Nordic region.

Clean Growth Fund is a London-based specialist climate tech venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage companies developing solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Founded to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero, the fund is recognized for its mission-driven approach and its B Corp certification, underscoring its commitment to sustainability and impact.

Norrsken Evolve is a Stockholm-based pre-seed venture capital fund launched by the Norrsken Foundation, a well-known impact-driven organization in the Nordics. The fund is the formal evolution of the Norrsken Accelerator, which has operated since 2021 and supported over 80 early-stage startups. The fund is part of a broader effort to foster sustainable innovation across Europe, particularly in sectors tied to climate resilience, health, and technology infrastructure.

Kembara is a European growth-stage venture capital platform created by Mundi Ventures to address one of Europe’s most persistent gaps: scaling deep tech and climate tech companies beyond early traction. Kembara was launched to provide the large, patient, and structurally sophisticated capital required for research-intensive companies to become global industrial champions, rather than stalling or exiting prematurely due to lack of growth funding.