MCJ

Founded in 2019, MCJ is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company focuses on investing in technology startups that drive industrial transformation and infrastructure resilience, aiming to make industries cleaner, more profitable, and more resilient.

David Aronoff

Chairman and Managing Partner

Cody Simms

Managing Partner

Past deals in CleanTech

Exowatt

Series A in 2025
Exowatt is a next-generation renewable energy company that specializes in providing sustainable energy solutions for commercial and industrial applications. The company develops a modular full-stack energy system that consists of a heat collector, a heat battery, and a heat engine. This innovative system is designed to deliver dispatchable power and heat, ensuring that energy is consistently available to meet the demands of energy-intensive operations, such as data centers. By focusing on modularity and efficiency, Exowatt aims to enhance the accessibility and reliability of renewable energy, facilitating a transition towards more sustainable energy practices in various industries.

Fourier

Series A in 2025
Fourier specializes in developing modular, automated hydrogen production systems designed for on-site deployment. This eliminates the need for hydrogen transportation, making it universally accessible. Their innovative architecture contributes to a sustainable energy future by providing green hydrogen for industries such as transportation and power storage.

Moment Energy

Series A in 2025
Moment Energy specializes in battery energy storage systems that utilize repurposed electric vehicle batteries. Its solutions aim to provide clean, reliable, and cost-effective energy storage for both on-grid and off-grid applications.

Heirloom

Series B in 2024
Heirloom is a carbon capture company developing direct air capture technology that accelerates the natural absorption of carbon dioxide. Its approach uses a limestone-based process to increase CO2 uptake and stores the captured carbon permanently underground, powered by renewable energy. The company also applies carbon capture and utilization techniques to enhance natural CO2 removal. By offering a scalable, renewable-energy driven solution, Heirloom aims to help businesses meet sustainability goals with a cost-effective path to significant carbon removal.

Mantel

Series A in 2024
Mantel develops innovative carbon capture technology designed for use within boilers, kilns, and furnaces. Their method reduces energy losses and enables net-negative emissions, targeting gigaton-level carbon removal. This helps mitigate sustainability concerns across industries such as industrial heat, steel, and chemicals.

Paces

Series A in 2024
Paces is developing a data platform aimed at enhancing the development and operation of green infrastructure projects. By providing actionable data signals across 3,500 U.S. counties, the platform encompasses a variety of critical information, including environmental, permitting, zoning, interconnection data, and competition risks. Additionally, Paces offers modeled signals that assess climate risks, profitability forecasts, and parcel rankings. This granular data is tailored to specific land parcels and green infrastructure assets, enabling developers, operators, and investors to make informed decisions about profitable construction and investment in sustainable projects.

Verse

Series A in 2024
Verse provides software for organizations to understand, plan, and manage clean energy. Its SaaS platform, Aria™, leverages generative AI to help companies define clean energy goals and plan, procure, and manage optimal portfolios of clean energy assets at least cost. Customers can set parameters that target specific goals (e.g., cost, emissions, or hourly matching) and optimize for annual matching, emissions matching, or hourly matched carbon-free energy (CFE). By reducing transaction costs by up to 70% and providing real-time analysis within minutes, Aria helps scale and accelerate the clean energy transition.

Quilt

Series A in 2024
Quilt is a company focused on smart home climate solutions, specializing in advanced home temperature control technology designed to enhance energy efficiency. Its AI-driven systems seamlessly integrate into various home environments, providing users with room-by-room control and occupancy awareness features. This technology not only optimizes energy use but also incorporates predictive capabilities to ensure comfort. Additionally, Quilt's ductless heat pump system operates with zero carbon emissions, utilizing clean energy sources to promote sustainability and help users transition away from traditional combustion methods. Overall, Quilt aims to deliver a sleek and intelligent solution for modern heating and cooling needs, contributing to a more sustainable future.

Arch

Seed Round in 2024
Arch provides an AI-driven marketing platform tailored for HVAC contractors. The system utilizes machine learning to identify homes with aging HVAC systems, enabling contractors to target potential customers effectively. It offers hyper-personalized campaigns, automating the creation of direct mail and email content to engage homeowners. The platform integrates with tools like ServiceTitan, facilitating rapid campaign deployment and optimization. Arch aims to enhance lead generation, streamline sales processes, and promote the adoption of energy-efficient technologies in residential settings.

AirLoom Energy

Seed Round in 2023
AirLoom Energy develops wind energy technology that uses lightweight wings operating on a track to capture wind. The design aims to deliver the same amount of energy as conventional turbines at a fraction of the cost, enabling low-cost utility-scale wind energy. The system uses multiple small airframes on a slender oval track with downwind forces supported by a bridling system, and the configuration can be adjusted depending on the landscape, allowing clients to harvest wind energy in cost-effective and quicker ways.

Zeno

Venture Round in 2023
Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.

Opna

Seed Round in 2023
Opna is a financing platform dedicated to supporting climate projects that aim to reduce carbon emissions and protect natural ecosystems. The company specializes in providing data and proprietary risk assessments, along with creating efficient capital structures. This enables businesses to convert net-zero committed capital from financial institutions and corporations into direct financing throughout the lifecycle of climate initiatives. By facilitating these financial transactions, Opna plays a crucial role in advancing high-quality global climate projects.

Quilt

Seed Round in 2023
Quilt is a company focused on smart home climate solutions, specializing in advanced home temperature control technology designed to enhance energy efficiency. Its AI-driven systems seamlessly integrate into various home environments, providing users with room-by-room control and occupancy awareness features. This technology not only optimizes energy use but also incorporates predictive capabilities to ensure comfort. Additionally, Quilt's ductless heat pump system operates with zero carbon emissions, utilizing clean energy sources to promote sustainability and help users transition away from traditional combustion methods. Overall, Quilt aims to deliver a sleek and intelligent solution for modern heating and cooling needs, contributing to a more sustainable future.

Avalanche Energy

Series A in 2023
Avalanche Energy develops compact fusion reactors for distributed energy applications. Its modular reactor design enables clean energy production with high energy density, facilitating decarbonization efforts.

Noya

Series A in 2023
Noya develops carbon capture technology that enables industrial facilities to remove CO2 from the atmosphere by retrofitting existing equipment. The company adds a non-toxic CO2 absorbing chemical blend to current cooling towers, allowing simultaneous cooling and carbon capture without major mechanical changes to the towers. The captured CO2 is then sold to companies that use it as a raw material, supporting other industries' climate initiatives. Noya's approach is aimed at accelerating the world’s transition toward a carbon-negative economy by providing a modular, retrofit-based solution that tackles emissions from industrial cooling processes.

Lun

Seed Round in 2023
Lun decarbonises homes faster by building the operating system for heat pump installers.

BlocPower

Series B in 2023
BlocPower designs and implements energy efficiency and electrification upgrades for urban buildings, including schools, churches, small businesses, non-profits, and homes. Through proprietary software, machine learning, and IoT-enabled monitoring, it analyzes facilities to identify cost-effective retrofits, combines financing and project management, and delivers scalable deployment that reduces energy waste and utility bills while enhancing indoor air quality and comfort.

Verse

Seed Round in 2022
Verse provides software for organizations to understand, plan, and manage clean energy. Its SaaS platform, Aria™, leverages generative AI to help companies define clean energy goals and plan, procure, and manage optimal portfolios of clean energy assets at least cost. Customers can set parameters that target specific goals (e.g., cost, emissions, or hourly matching) and optimize for annual matching, emissions matching, or hourly matched carbon-free energy (CFE). By reducing transaction costs by up to 70% and providing real-time analysis within minutes, Aria helps scale and accelerate the clean energy transition.

Hoxton Farms

Series A in 2022
Hoxton Farms, based in London, UK, specializes in producing real animal fat without the use of animals. The company employs cell biology and advanced mathematical modeling to cultivate purified animal fat in bioreactors, catering primarily to the meat alternatives industry. This innovative approach enables the creation of cruelty-free fat that can be utilized not only in meat alternatives but also in other sectors such as bakery, confectionery, and cosmetics. By focusing on sustainable and ethical production methods, Hoxton Farms aims to transform the way fat is sourced and used in various products.

Climate Club

Seed Round in 2022
Clarasight operates a sustainability analytics platform designed to help organizations analyze, forecast, and implement effective carbon emissions reduction strategies. The platform integrates with various existing software systems and utilizes artificial intelligence to generate actionable insights and recommendations for sustainability initiatives. By providing dynamic carbon planning and real-time analysis, Clarasight enables companies to set and track sustainability goals at both team and individual levels. This approach empowers organizations to embed sustainability into their operations and support their journey toward achieving Net Zero emissions.

Patch

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2020, Patch specializes in developing infrastructure for a climate-positive economy. It offers an API that simplifies carbon removal, enabling businesses to calculate and mitigate their carbon footprint with minimal coding effort.

Lightship

Series A in 2022
Lightship is an early-stage hardware startup founded in 2020 by former Tesla employees, based in San Francisco. The company is focused on revolutionizing the recreational vehicle (RV) industry, which is valued at $26 billion, by developing an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer. This innovative vehicle aims to provide an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional gas-powered RVs, alleviating issues such as noise, emissions, and range anxiety. By prioritizing sustainability, Lightship seeks to enhance outdoor travel experiences while promoting the preservation of nature. The company’s approach allows travelers to reduce fuel costs and minimize their environmental impact, making it easier to explore the outdoors responsibly.

Fleetzero

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in Auburn, Alabama in 2021, Fleetzero develops a fleet of electric cargo ships to decarbonize ocean freight. Its vessels offer lower operational costs and higher reliability than traditional fossil-fuel ships.

Toucan

Seed Round in 2022
Toucan is a company focused on creating technology that facilitates large-scale climate action by enhancing the voluntary carbon market. It develops digital infrastructure aimed at improving transparency and integrity within this market, which is essential for directing funds to effective climate impact projects. By pioneering the use of tokenized carbon credits, Toucan aims to incorporate both established and emerging environmental assets onto the blockchain. The company's overarching goal is to establish a regenerative financial system that addresses climate change while promoting sustainable revenue flows to impactful initiatives.

Nitricity

Venture Round in 2022
Nitricity is an energy company focused on renewable nitrogen fertilizer production with zero carbon emissions. It develops electrified, climate-smart fertilizer products and manufactures nitric acid and ammonia, which can be used separately or combined to produce ammonium nitrate fertilizer. The approach aims to bring products closer to farmers, enable timely application, reduce runoff, and maximize nitrogen delivery on a global scale.

Arcadia

Series E in 2022
Arcadia, Inc. is a technology company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2014, that focuses on providing access to clean energy solutions. Through its platform, Arc, the company connects subscribers to renewable energy sources such as wind farms and community solar projects. By enabling users to manage their accounts, track energy usage, and participate in clean energy initiatives, Arcadia aims to democratize access to renewable energy and combat the fossil fuel monopoly. The platform aggregates energy data from over 125 utilities, representing more than 80% of U.S. electric utility accounts, thus facilitating a significant shift toward sustainable energy practices. Additionally, Arcadia's community solar program addresses energy injustice while promoting economic growth, contributing over five Terawatt-hours of energy demand from residential and commercial users.

Sense

Series C in 2022
Sense Labs, Inc. is a technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in home energy monitoring solutions. Established in 2013, the company develops and manufactures electronic devices that analyze electricity usage in households. Its flagship product, Sense, utilizes current sensors installed on main breakers to capture the electronic signatures of various appliances. This system employs advanced algorithms to identify and differentiate individual devices, providing users with insights into their energy consumption. Sense also offers a range of related products, including Sense Solar, add-on sensors, and various replacement components. The data collected by these devices is transmitted to users via a dedicated mobile application, enhancing the home automation experience.

David Energy

Series A in 2022
David Energy is an innovative energy company that optimizes electricity consumption and management via advanced software and hardware solutions. It aims to reduce costs, increase renewable energy adoption, and enhance sustainability through smart energy management.

Living Carbon

Series A in 2022
Living Carbon is a public benefit corporation based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by Maddie Hall and Patrick Mellor. The company leverages advanced biotechnology to enhance the natural ability of plants, particularly trees, to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2). By improving photosynthesis, inhibiting photorespiration, increasing growth rates, and shortening tree growing cycles, Living Carbon aims to create more durable wood for building and manufacturing applications while addressing climate change. The company's ultimate goal is to restore balance to the planet's metabolic processes through innovative forest biotechnology solutions.

MicroByre

Venture Round in 2022
MicroByre, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California. It specializes in the genetic engineering of non-model micro-species, particularly bacteria that are challenging to manipulate for industrial applications. MicroByre has developed an innovative platform for bacterial domestication, employing an automated characterization pipeline that identifies underutilized bacteria capable of efficiently converting unrefined biomasses into commodity chemicals. This platform leverages a unique dataset to inform minimally precise genetic modifications, enhancing the bacteria's flexibility, yield, and contamination resistance while reducing the need for nutritional additives. By bridging the gap between promising biological research and practical industrial applications, MicroByre positions itself as a valuable partner for various companies seeking to improve their fermentation processes and compete with traditional petrochemical synthesis.

Climate Club

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Clarasight operates a sustainability analytics platform designed to help organizations analyze, forecast, and implement effective carbon emissions reduction strategies. The platform integrates with various existing software systems and utilizes artificial intelligence to generate actionable insights and recommendations for sustainability initiatives. By providing dynamic carbon planning and real-time analysis, Clarasight enables companies to set and track sustainability goals at both team and individual levels. This approach empowers organizations to embed sustainability into their operations and support their journey toward achieving Net Zero emissions.

Clean Crop Technologies

Series A in 2021
Clean Crop Technologies develops an innovative cold plasma treatment that uses air and electricity to remove contaminants such as pathogens, toxins, molds, and yeasts from seeds and foods. This energy-efficient process improves crop yields, reduces food waste, enhances food safety, and leaves no harmful residues.

Helio Home

Seed Round in 2021
Helio is a company focused on facilitating the transition from fossil fuels to complete electrification of homes. It operates an innovative online platform that provides customers with a straightforward and cost-effective approach to achieve whole-home electrification. The platform integrates various systems including solar energy, heating and cooling, electrical systems, insulation, and ventilation, ensuring a holistic design for energy efficiency. By promoting the use of electric solutions, Helio aims to help customers reduce their carbon footprints and minimize reliance on fossil fuels, contributing to a more sustainable future.

Moment Energy

Seed Round in 2021
Moment Energy specializes in battery energy storage systems that utilize repurposed electric vehicle batteries. Its solutions aim to provide clean, reliable, and cost-effective energy storage for both on-grid and off-grid applications.

Leap

Series B in 2021
Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market. It allows every connected device to help balance the grid, and get paid for it and access wholesale markets through a single API and help build the flexible, renewable grid of the future. Leap aims to make global energy markets accessible to anyone, starting with demand response and expanding into generation and ancillary services. Leap was founded by Thomas Folker and Remco Van Den Elzen.

Lilac Solutions

Series B in 2021
Lilac Solutions, Inc. is a mining technology company based in Oakland, California, specializing in lithium extraction technology. Founded in 2015, the company develops innovative solutions that utilize ion-exchange theory to absorb lithium from brine deposits. This technology includes ion exchange beads and continuous brine processing systems, which enable lithium producers to enhance project development, increase lithium recovery, and optimize operations. Lilac Solutions aims to support industries such as electric vehicles and renewable energy storage by providing methods that reduce both costs and environmental impact associated with lithium production.

Dispatch Goods

Seed Round in 2021
Dispatch Goods designs and provides reusable packaging for the food service and delivery ecosystem. It manufactures reusable steel containers and operates a reverse logistics platform that collects, sanitizes, and returns containers, enabling restaurants, food trucks, and meal-delivery services to replace disposable packaging. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to deliver immediate cost savings for enterprise customers while reducing waste and carbon footprint by eliminating single-use packaging.

Yard Stick

Seed Round in 2021
Yard Stick develops a handheld device that measures soil carbon levels in real-time. This enables evidence-based regenerative farming practices, improving soil health, increasing farmer income, and combating climate change by sequestering carbon.

Arcadia

Series D in 2021
Arcadia, Inc. is a technology company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2014, that focuses on providing access to clean energy solutions. Through its platform, Arc, the company connects subscribers to renewable energy sources such as wind farms and community solar projects. By enabling users to manage their accounts, track energy usage, and participate in clean energy initiatives, Arcadia aims to democratize access to renewable energy and combat the fossil fuel monopoly. The platform aggregates energy data from over 125 utilities, representing more than 80% of U.S. electric utility accounts, thus facilitating a significant shift toward sustainable energy practices. Additionally, Arcadia's community solar program addresses energy injustice while promoting economic growth, contributing over five Terawatt-hours of energy demand from residential and commercial users.

Nitricity

Seed Round in 2021
Nitricity is an energy company focused on renewable nitrogen fertilizer production with zero carbon emissions. It develops electrified, climate-smart fertilizer products and manufactures nitric acid and ammonia, which can be used separately or combined to produce ammonium nitrate fertilizer. The approach aims to bring products closer to farmers, enable timely application, reduce runoff, and maximize nitrogen delivery on a global scale.

SINAI

Seed Round in 2021
SINAI Technologies, established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in enterprise decarbonization software. Its platform monitors, analyzes, and provides actionable recommendations to reduce carbon emissions across various departments and processes within a company. Key modules include carbon footprint tracking, low carbon scenario analysis, carbon pricing design, and target setting. The software enables organizations to automate carbon analysis and reporting, fostering a more sustainable and efficient business environment.

Lightship

Seed Round in 2021
Lightship is an early-stage hardware startup founded in 2020 by former Tesla employees, based in San Francisco. The company is focused on revolutionizing the recreational vehicle (RV) industry, which is valued at $26 billion, by developing an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer. This innovative vehicle aims to provide an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional gas-powered RVs, alleviating issues such as noise, emissions, and range anxiety. By prioritizing sustainability, Lightship seeks to enhance outdoor travel experiences while promoting the preservation of nature. The company’s approach allows travelers to reduce fuel costs and minimize their environmental impact, making it easier to explore the outdoors responsibly.

Pachama

Series A in 2021
Pachama uses AI and satellite data to monitor and verify carbon sequestration in forests. This enables businesses to invest in nature-based solutions for carbon offsetting, while supporting local communities and wildlife conservation.

Remora

Seed Round in 2021
Remora develops carbon capture technology tailored for trains and trucks. Their device extracts at least 80% of a semi-truck's carbon emissions directly from the tailpipe, purifies it, and sells the CO2 to end-users for long-term storage. This generates revenue for fleet operators, enabling reduced emissions and addressing national CO2 shortages.

Yard Stick

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Yard Stick develops a handheld device that measures soil carbon levels in real-time. This enables evidence-based regenerative farming practices, improving soil health, increasing farmer income, and combating climate change by sequestering carbon.

David Energy

Seed Round in 2021
David Energy is an innovative energy company that optimizes electricity consumption and management via advanced software and hardware solutions. It aims to reduce costs, increase renewable energy adoption, and enhance sustainability through smart energy management.

Pachama

Seed Round in 2020
Pachama uses AI and satellite data to monitor and verify carbon sequestration in forests. This enables businesses to invest in nature-based solutions for carbon offsetting, while supporting local communities and wildlife conservation.
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