ArcTern Ventures

ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital fund that provides early-stage capital to cleantech companies. The privately-backed venture capital fund provides early-stage capital to companies developing breakthrough ideas in the cleantech sector. The Fund has developed a unique early-stage investment model through its partnership with MaRS, one of the largest innovation centers in the world.

Fariborz Fallah

Venture Partner

Mira Inbar

Associate Partner

Tom Rand

Managing Partner

Nikhil Shukla

Principal

42 past transactions

Liminal

Series A in 2023
Liminal operates as a battery manufacturing intelligence provider that utilizes data and analytics. Its mission is to make electric vehicles the default option for any driver. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Scythe

Series B in 2023
Scythe Robotics is a robotics company that develops autonomous machines to tackle challenges in unstructured outdoor environments. Scythe aims to provide advanced and sustainable autonomous technology for maintaining off-road environments safely, effectively, and responsibly. Founded in 2018, Scythe is headquartered in Longmont, Colorado.

Woltair

Series A in 2022
Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.

Emitwise

Series A in 2022
Emitwise’s unique AI technology empowers companies to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint across their operations and supply chain, future-proofing businesses for a zero-carbon world. The company is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and trusted by global businesses. Emitwise's mission is to empower businesses to respond to the climate emergency, accelerating the transition to a net-zero carbon world by equipping them with all the tools they need to drive emissions cuts across their operations and supply chain.

Flashfood

Series A in 2022
Flashfood is the App for Grocery's best Deals. As a certified B-corp, our mission is to Feed Families, not Landfills. Our marketplace connects Food Retailers in North America who have product that is near-expiry or surplus that may have been destined for waste, and offer it instead to motivated Consumers who want to save serious cash. B2B2C that has saved consumers over $250B USD and redirected over 150M pounds of food from waste streams.

Ev.energy

Series A in 2022
Ev.energy is a smart charging software platform for electric vehicles, to reduce carbon emissions and costs. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, England.

Aquabyte

Venture Round in 2022
Aquabyte builds machine-learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms. Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. The company's diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs, and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact. Real-time sea lice counting, biomass monitoring, and appetite detection are just a few of the many applications that will eventually be possible with the Aquabyte system. Aquabyte surpasses modern farm monitoring products with our machine-learning platform and smart camera system. The company's solution offers easy installation, continuous monitoring, and multiple applications. Aquabyte’s mission is to use machine learning to make fish farms more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.

Carbon America

Series A in 2021
Carbon America transforms the carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) industry by lowering costs and rapidly increasing deployment. Carbon America is a carbon capture and sequestration developer. It is vertically integrated, nimble, and built to scale, with a multi-strategy approach to capture and sequester carbon dioxide faster, cheaper, and smarter than the competition. To achieve this, Carbon America has built a team combining world-class engineers, developers, and financiers into a vertically integrated CCS company.

Zoomo

Series B in 2021
Zoomo is a provider of electric bikes accessed via subscription models to help gig workers in the food delivery industry. Zoomo's high-quality LEV (light electric vehicle) range includes e-Bike, e-Moped, and e-Cargo options. Zoomo plans to use the funding to add new corporate categories such as parcel, mail, and grocery deliveries that its bikes can be used for as well as other models better suited for individual consumers.

Xeal

Series A in 2021
Xeal provides EV charging solutions for apartments, condos, and workplaces. Xeal offers charging solutions from installation, and cloud-based EV charging management solutions to mobile applications for apartments, condos, and workplaces. Its mobile application provides features to find, track, and reserve the charging points, thereby allowing users to charge their cars from anywhere and for property owners to earn passive income and cut CO2 emissions.

reThought Insurance

Series A in 2021
reThought Insurance is a technology-centric managing general agency that specializes in commercial flood insurance services.

Mighty Buildings

Series B in 2021
Mighty Buildings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in the manufacturing of 3D printed custom homes. The company aims to disrupt the residential housing market by utilizing advanced 3D printing technology, robotics, and composite materials to create prefabricated, environmentally friendly, and climate-resilient homes. Its innovative platform is designed to make housing more affordable and accessible, addressing challenges in urban development and construction efficiency. Through its patented technology, Mighty Buildings offers smart housing solutions that prioritize sustainability and affordability in the construction industry.

Clir Renewables

Series B in 2021
Clir is a renewable energy optimization and reporting software that increases the performance and profitability of renewable plants through a cloud based platform software as a service, that integrates deep domain expertise with AI.

Emitwise

Seed Round in 2021
Emitwise’s unique AI technology empowers companies to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint across their operations and supply chain, future-proofing businesses for a zero-carbon world. The company is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and trusted by global businesses. Emitwise's mission is to empower businesses to respond to the climate emergency, accelerating the transition to a net-zero carbon world by equipping them with all the tools they need to drive emissions cuts across their operations and supply chain.

Mosa Meat

Series B in 2020
Mosa Meat produces slaughter-free hamburgers. The burger is harvested from cow cells, rather than raising and slaughtering a whole animal. By growing meat naturally from cells, Mosa Meat strives to accelerate the transition to a truly sustainable global food system.

SRTX

Series B in 2020
SRTX is a textile manufacturer that develops and sells unbreakable stockings. The company's pantyhose is made with the same type of fiber found in bulletproof vests and climbing equipment, enabling women to find and purchase premium and stylish inner garments.

ThinkIQ

Series A in 2020
ThinkIQ develops a supply chain management cloud-based software designed to combine existing disparate and siloed supply chain data with modeling technology to detect material movements. Its software integrates advanced cloud, big data management, and time series historian technology to provide context for the data and correlate events over time to enable end-to-end granular supply chain visibility, allowing manufacturers and enterprises to generate significant financial savings and improve engagement with customers. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.

Aquabyte

Venture Round in 2020
Aquabyte builds machine-learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms. Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. The company's diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs, and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact. Real-time sea lice counting, biomass monitoring, and appetite detection are just a few of the many applications that will eventually be possible with the Aquabyte system. Aquabyte surpasses modern farm monitoring products with our machine-learning platform and smart camera system. The company's solution offers easy installation, continuous monitoring, and multiple applications. Aquabyte’s mission is to use machine learning to make fish farms more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.

Palmetto Clean Technology

Series B in 2020
Just as technology has advanced society and delivered exciting consumer products, like Tesla cars and the iPhone, tech innovation is empowering homeowners across the country to join the New Utility Revolution. Palmetto’s clean energy marketplace and custom software tools help homeowners quickly estimate utility cost-savings and get renewable energy sources up and running, with ongoing data insights and support. For individuals, this innovation means lower utility bills, more transparency, control over energy use, increase in property value, and protection against power outages. When adopted en masse, a clean energy shift is a major step towards combating climate change and achieving American energy independence.

Span

Series A in 2020
Span.IO develops products to enable the rapid adoption of renewable energy and deliver an intuitive interface for the home. They are a group of engineers with a passion for building products that can deliver a positive impact on the environment while enhancing the consumer experience. They believe that developing intelligent hardware and software that provides visibility and control at the edge of the grid will be transformational to the energy sector. The company is backed by domain experts in energy, software, hardware, and consumer finance. They leverage their teams' collective experience in power generation, energy conversion, controls, and system integration to develop core products focused on enabling the rapid adoption of renewable energy.

Kebotix

Series A in 2020
Kebotix is a high-tech materials discovery and production company. It is to reinvent the materials industry and enable a new age of discovery of new materials using AI, machine learning, and robotics. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Terramera

Series B in 2020
Terramera offers agriculture technology platforms to deliver alternatives to chemical pesticides and fertilizers. It focuses on fusing artificial intelligence, science, and nature to transform how to grow foods and offer a healthy, safe environment free of toxic chemicals for agriculture and public health.

Clir Renewables

Series A in 2019
Clir is a renewable energy optimization and reporting software that increases the performance and profitability of renewable plants through a cloud based platform software as a service, that integrates deep domain expertise with AI.

Hydrostor

Venture Round in 2019
Hydrostor develops and operates long-duration energy storage systems to replace the use of fossil fuels. It addresses bulk electricity system needs for dispatchable capacity, renewable integration and optimization, transmission deferral, and ancillary services, and is ideal for use in behind-the-meter or remote applications for mines and large industrial operations. Hydrostor’s solution delivers low-cost, long-duration bulk energy storage (hundreds of MWs, 4-24+ hours) that is synchronous and emission-free and can be located where required by the grid, including the ability to replace retired fossil fuel plants and the need for a new transmission.

SRTX

Series A in 2019
SRTX is a textile manufacturer that develops and sells unbreakable stockings. The company's pantyhose is made with the same type of fiber found in bulletproof vests and climbing equipment, enabling women to find and purchase premium and stylish inner garments.

Parity

Series A in 2019
Parity is a software for buildings that automatically manages their energy and tracks their savings.

Kebotix

Seed Round in 2018
Kebotix is a high-tech materials discovery and production company. It is to reinvent the materials industry and enable a new age of discovery of new materials using AI, machine learning, and robotics. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GreenMantra Technologies

Venture Round in 2018
and fuels by recycling plastics utilizes a proprietary thermo-catalytic system and patented process to cost-effectively convert and up-cycle waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle materials such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals. These materials have a broad range of applications in the coatings, plastics processing, adhesives, roofing and paving industries.

Aquabyte

Seed Round in 2018
Aquabyte builds machine-learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms. Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. The company's diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs, and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact. Real-time sea lice counting, biomass monitoring, and appetite detection are just a few of the many applications that will eventually be possible with the Aquabyte system. Aquabyte surpasses modern farm monitoring products with our machine-learning platform and smart camera system. The company's solution offers easy installation, continuous monitoring, and multiple applications. Aquabyte’s mission is to use machine learning to make fish farms more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.

Hydrostor

Series B in 2016
Hydrostor develops and operates long-duration energy storage systems to replace the use of fossil fuels. It addresses bulk electricity system needs for dispatchable capacity, renewable integration and optimization, transmission deferral, and ancillary services, and is ideal for use in behind-the-meter or remote applications for mines and large industrial operations. Hydrostor’s solution delivers low-cost, long-duration bulk energy storage (hundreds of MWs, 4-24+ hours) that is synchronous and emission-free and can be located where required by the grid, including the ability to replace retired fossil fuel plants and the need for a new transmission.

Morgan Solar

Series C in 2016
Morgan Solar Inc began with a mission in 2007 – to develop highly efficient, low cost solar technology. Until now, all the real advancements in solar power always seem to be “10 years away”. John Paul Morgan, a Physics Engineer, with a background in optics, medical imaging and photovoltaics, developed an idea to make solar energy more affordable. His idea was to design an optical concentration system that would elegantly solve many of the problems of existing CPV systems. There first product to market, the Sun Simba HCPV, is designed for solar farm applications. Demonstration and test installations will begin in 2009, and our first commercial systems will be available in early 2010. The second set of products, the Sun Stream Window and the Sun Block Panel, are designed for building applications and smaller scale demonstration and test systems are also scheduled for 2009, with sales begining sometime after mid 2010.

GreenMantra Technologies

Series C in 2016
and fuels by recycling plastics utilizes a proprietary thermo-catalytic system and patented process to cost-effectively convert and up-cycle waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle materials such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals. These materials have a broad range of applications in the coatings, plastics processing, adhesives, roofing and paving industries.

Circuit Meter

Debt Financing in 2016
CircuitMeter has developed groundbreaking electrical energy submetering hardware, integrated with Big Data and cloud based CircuitMonitoring™ enterprise software. The advanced energy analytics represents a major step forward in comparison with current practice and is designed to analyze real time, circuit level energy usage for large organizations and portfolio managers. CircuitMeter’s software can identify unnecessary and inefficient equipment usage at the circuit level, enabling users to better manage their consumption and reduce costs. Real time notifications are included to facilitate precision maintenance, alerting staff by email when benchmarks are exceeded, or power drops to levels indicative of an operating problem.

MMB Networks

Series B in 2016
MMB Networks Inc. is a Toronto-based engineering firm specializing in hardware solutions, software tools, and development kits for home automation and smart energy applications. The company provides the RapidConnect embedded software platform, which facilitates connections across various markets, including telecommunications, security, retail, and utilities. Its offerings include RapidConnect modules for ZigBee connectivity, USB sticks, and development boards that allow developers to integrate ZigBee modules with their devices. Additionally, MMB Networks provides software platforms such as RapidSE Desktop ESI for simulating smart energy networks and RapidHA Desktop for home automation network simulation. The company also offers custom hardware design and contract development services, alongside support and maintenance, which includes troubleshooting and interoperability testing. Founded in 2008, MMB Networks aims to accelerate the adoption of smart energy technology by enabling clients to efficiently bring connected solutions to market.

GreenMantra Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
and fuels by recycling plastics utilizes a proprietary thermo-catalytic system and patented process to cost-effectively convert and up-cycle waste plastics, including hard-to-recycle materials such as grocery bags and film, into high-value waxes and other specialty chemicals. These materials have a broad range of applications in the coatings, plastics processing, adhesives, roofing and paving industries.

Sparq Systems

Venture Round in 2014
SPARQ Systems Inc. is a Canadian company specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced solar micro-inverter solutions for residential and commercial applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Kingston, Canada, the company offers innovative products such as the Q1000 four-port micro-inverter, which optimizes the performance of multiple photovoltaic modules. SPARQ's technology is built on a unique power electronics topology that enhances energy conversion efficiency while reducing costs. The company's SparqLinq serves as a wireless communication gateway for its micro-inverters, while SparqVu provides a comprehensive fleet management solution for monitoring system performance. SPARQ has established strategic partnerships across the solar industry, ensuring compatibility with both traditional and smart grid power distribution networks. The company is committed to maximizing energy harvesting from solar installations through its software-driven approach, positioning itself as a leader in the rapidly evolving solar market.

Smart Energy Instruments

Series A in 2014
Smart Energy Instruments (SEI) develops game-changing, ubiquitous measurement technologies for the burgeoning Smart Grid to address today's global energy-environment challenges.

Polar Sapphire

Seed Round in 2013
Polar Sapphire has developed a proprietary method of producing low-cost high-purity alumina. Alumina is used to make artificial sapphires, a key component of the LED lighting manufacturing process.

Sparq Systems

Seed Round in 2013
SPARQ Systems Inc. is a Canadian company specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced solar micro-inverter solutions for residential and commercial applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Kingston, Canada, the company offers innovative products such as the Q1000 four-port micro-inverter, which optimizes the performance of multiple photovoltaic modules. SPARQ's technology is built on a unique power electronics topology that enhances energy conversion efficiency while reducing costs. The company's SparqLinq serves as a wireless communication gateway for its micro-inverters, while SparqVu provides a comprehensive fleet management solution for monitoring system performance. SPARQ has established strategic partnerships across the solar industry, ensuring compatibility with both traditional and smart grid power distribution networks. The company is committed to maximizing energy harvesting from solar installations through its software-driven approach, positioning itself as a leader in the rapidly evolving solar market.

Hydrostor

Venture Round in 2013
Hydrostor develops and operates long-duration energy storage systems to replace the use of fossil fuels. It addresses bulk electricity system needs for dispatchable capacity, renewable integration and optimization, transmission deferral, and ancillary services, and is ideal for use in behind-the-meter or remote applications for mines and large industrial operations. Hydrostor’s solution delivers low-cost, long-duration bulk energy storage (hundreds of MWs, 4-24+ hours) that is synchronous and emission-free and can be located where required by the grid, including the ability to replace retired fossil fuel plants and the need for a new transmission.

Smart Energy Instruments

Venture Round in 2012
Smart Energy Instruments (SEI) develops game-changing, ubiquitous measurement technologies for the burgeoning Smart Grid to address today's global energy-environment challenges.

Smarter Alloys

Pre Seed Round in 2010
Smarter Alloys™ is at the forefront of the smart materials revolution. Our unique ability to program shape memory behaviour makes it possible to create complex machine-like function in simple devices.
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