Our Portfolio

We love every startup in our portfolio, and invite you to learn more about their impact focus, diversity, and respective industries below.

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Ampere Financial

Decarbonize SMB industrials

Fintech

Manufacturing

Industrials

Climate Tech

Decarbonize SMB industrials by making it easy to identify and finance electrification upgrades.

UN SDGs: 7, 9, 13

Los Angeles, CA

www.amperefinancial.com

Atelier

Empowering people to ethically design their homes

Marketplaces

E-Commerce

Proptech

Consumer

Empowering people to ethically design their homes.

UN SDGs: 8, 11, 12

Carbondale, CO

www.atelier-app.com

Banqloop

Innovating the circular economy with just one platform

Circularity

Artificial Intelligence

Waste Management

Banqloop is on a mission to provide real-time intelligence, decarbonizing infrastructure and supply chains in support of the closed-loop economy.

UN SDGs: 9, 11, 12

San Francisco, CA

www.banqloop.com

Blind Insight

Blazing Fast Searchable Encryption

Health Tech

Privacy and Security

APIs for real-time searchable encryption plus fine-grained, programmable access controls so you don't have to choose between data protection and innovation.

UN SDGs: 3, 9

Washington DC

www.blindinsight.com

Climatize

Climatize is aiming at goal to fund $1 billion per year of renewable energy projects by 2027

Climate Fintech

Climate

Consumer

Clean Energy

Climatize makes it easy for you to invest in renewable energy projects.

UN SDGs: 7, 11, 13

Santa Cruz, CA

www.climatize.earth

Deep Trust

Defend against social engineering and deepfakes

Privacy and Security

Artificial Inteligence

Cyber Security

Layered threat detection with in-call security coaching to help employees identify and action on risks in real-time. For contact centers, hiring teams, finance departments, IT help desks and more.

UN SDGs: 9

San Francisco, CA

www.deeptrust.ai

Determinant  Materials

Revolutionizing electronic waste recycling and ethical materials production

Resource Production

Climate

Waste Management

Manufacturing

Electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. Typical solutions for electronics recycling are fragmented and polluting, not leading to a final manufactured end-product, and often rely on exporting material abroad.

UN SDGs: 9, 12, 13

Pensacola, FL

www.DeterminantMaterials.com

Faura

Preparing properties today for the disasters of tomorrow

Insure Tech

Artificial Inteligence

Disaster Mitigation

Uses property data to allow insurers and brokers to place more profitable business in high-risk areas.

UN SDGs: 9, 11

Las Vegas, NV

www.faura.us

FAVS

Keep your favorite people close

SocialTech

Social Networking

Productivity

No ads. No brands. A whole new social media experience

UN SDGs: 3

Los Angeles, CA

www.favshq.com

Flow Aluminum

A high performance, low-cost, non-flammable, Aluminum-CO2 battery alternative to Lithium-Ion

Batteries

Grid Storage

Climate

Direct Air Capture

Flow Aluminum is a high performance battery that uses aluminum instead of lithium and intakes CO2 instead of using cobalt and nickel.

UN SDGs: 7

Albuquerque, NM

www.flowaluminum.com

Focus On Words

The Online Independent Bookstore for Independent Authors.

Media Tech

Artificial Inteligence

SMB Tech

Aims revolutionize the publishing industry by empowering authors to publish, market, and sell their books directly to readers while fostering sustainability and reducing waste.

UN SDGs: 8, 10, 12

Charlotte, NC

www.focusonwords.com

Goodie Bag

A marketplace for surplus food

Food Tech

Circularity

SMB Tech

Goodie Bag is creating a more sustainable and accessible local food system by reducing food waste, providing more affordable options to consumers, and supporting local businesses.

UN SDGs: 11, 12, 13

Boulder, CO

www.goodiebag.co

ItsElectric

Curbside EV charging built for cities

Transportation

Electrification

Infrastructure

ItsElectric partners with city property owners to unlock access to untapped electricity supply while they earn passive income.

UN SDGs: 7, 9, 11

Brooklyn, NY

www.itselectric.us

Jungle

Active learning is better than passive learning

EdTech

Artificial Intelligence

Consumer

Transform  students into super learners with AI by turning dull and complex learning  material into an interactive, enjoyable, and personalized learning experience.

UN SDGs: 4

San Francisco, CA

www.jungleai.com

Kidsy

Light on your wallet, light on the planet

Circularity

Marketplace

Sustainable Tech

Kidsy offers incredible deals on all the items children need, at up to to 50% off retail. The company also gives members a platform to shop with intention, reject throwaway culture and stand for sustainability.

UN SDGs: 12, 13

Chicago, IL

www.kidsy.co

ItsElectric

Curbside EV charging built for cities

Clean Energy

EV

Sustainable Cities

Partners with city property owners to unlock access to untapped electricity supply while they earn passive income.

UN SDGs: 3, 7, 9, 11

Brooklyn, NY

www.itselectric.us

Lumi

Aim to replace 500B plastic single-use cups consumed annually with an endlessly recyclable  aluminum alternative

Hospitality

Consumer

Sustainable Food Packaging

LumiCup’s mission is to solve the problem of single-use plastic cups. Our planet is awash in single-use plastic waste, especially disposable plastic cups of all sizes.

UN SDGs: 9, 12, 13

Los Angeles, CA

www.lumicup.com

OOM Earth

On a mission to eliminate packaging waste for a cleaner planet

Circularity

Industrial

Waste Management

OOM's Reuse Platform enables brands to implement reusable initiatives and create a future without single-use primary packaging.

UN SDGs: 9, 11, 12, 13

Los Angeles, CA

www.oom.earth

Outlines

Responsible Replenishments

Sustainable CPG

Home Goods

DTC

Made to last forever and designed to elevate. Easy to replace when the time is right, and fully recyclable

UN SDGs: 9, 12

New York, NY

www.livingoutlines.com

Parcel Health

Addressing global healthcare challenges through innovative product design

Healthcare

Pharmaceutical

Sustainable Packaging

Overarching mission is to craft eco-friendly, user-centric products that bring benefits not only to individuals and businesses but also to our planet.

UN SDGs: 3, 11, 12

Pittsburgh, PA

www.parcelhealth.co

The Sloths

Digital closet for busy shoppers

Sustainable DTC

Circularity

Consumer

Because not everything we buy is a keeper.  Sell your items online just as easily as you shopped them in the first place.

UN SDGs: 12

Brooklyn, NY

www.thesloths.co

Thrive Lot

Create your home ecosystem

SustainableTech

Climate

SMBtech

Thrive Lot builds beautiful, sustainable, outdoor spaces. Their network of local eco pros work with any soil, water, light and plant conditions to create thriving garden ecosystems.

UN SDGs: 11, 13, 15

Knoxville, TN

www.thrivelot.com

VMind

Improving Ai compute performance

Artificial Intelligence

Climate

Infrastructure

Accelerating compute for the world's leading AI companies and labs for faster, cheaper, greener AI.

UN SDGs: 4, 9, 13

Cambridge, MA

www.vmindai.com

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Our community is centered around a shared mission around Venture Scale Positive Impacts

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UN SDG Impact Alignments

We support our startups' efforts aligned with Sustainability and Social Good.

Our Startups are Impact Focused

Learn about the ventures and initiatives taken by the teams we invest in, including the SDGs our startups align with voluntarily. They each focus on unique overlapping combinations of impact.

Diversity of Founding Teams

We ask our Founders annually to self-identify across various identity groups.