At One Ventures

At One Ventures, established in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, is a venture capital firm dedicated to catalyzing a world where humanity positively impacts nature. It invests in early-stage (Seed, Series A) companies globally, focusing on disruptive deep tech that can significantly reduce the environmental footprint of established industries while maintaining strong business potential. The firm's portfolio spans across sectors such as energy, ag-tech, food tech, cleantech, climate tech, and technology, with a particular interest in businesses that can upend traditional unit economics and pioneer new, regenerative industries. At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams that align with its mission to create a positive impact on planetary health.

Helen Lin

Partner

Brian Steinberg

Principal

Luke Zhan

Senior Associate

Past deals in GreenTech

Simplifyber

Series A in 2025
Simplifyber is a manufacturer focused on transforming the apparel industry by introducing sustainable advanced manufacturing techniques. By employing a proprietary additive manufacturing process that utilizes biomaterial formulas, the company creates fully biodegradable clothing and soft goods, including shoes and accessories. This innovative approach replaces traditional sewing methods with a chemistry-based assembly, significantly reducing waste, carbon emissions, and water pollution associated with conventional garment production. Simplifyber aims to modernize the outdated factory system of fashion, promoting a more environmentally friendly and efficient method of manufacturing that aligns with sustainability goals.

Avalo

Series A in 2025
Avalo is a plant biology company that employs interpretable machine learning, genomic discovery, and evolutionary theory to innovate crop development for future agricultural needs. Utilizing AI-assisted plant breeding, Avalo ensures that all its products are non-GMO and promote natural biodiversity. The company's core technology is a discovery engine that efficiently identifies the genetic foundations of complex traits, significantly shortening the time and reducing the costs associated with developing new crops. By focusing on traits such as drought tolerance, water-use efficiency, and nutrient density, Avalo's platform enhances crop evolution to adapt to changing climate conditions. This approach allows researchers to improve crop quality while providing diagnostic forecasting and gene discovery capabilities, ultimately advancing agricultural practices.

Mojave Energy Systems

Series A in 2024
Mojave Energy Systems specializes in providing energy-efficient air conditioning solutions designed for commercial building applications, such as grocery stores, hospitals, schools, and natatoriums. The company manufactures advanced equipment, including a thermally regenerated liquid desiccant air conditioner that not only enhances indoor comfort but also operates reliably. This innovative system costs approximately the same as competing products while delivering significant energy savings, using about half the energy of traditional air conditioning systems. By focusing on reducing energy consumption and minimizing the carbon footprint associated with air conditioning, Mojave Energy Systems enables clients to achieve cost savings and contribute to environmental sustainability.

Monarch Tractor

Series C in 2024
Monarch Tractor specializes in the development of fully electric, autonomous tractors aimed at improving agricultural productivity and sustainability. These tractors are designed to operate without human intervention, utilizing advanced sensors, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to navigate fields, monitor crop health, and perform various farming tasks. By significantly reducing reliance on fossil fuels, Monarch tractors help farmers lower their carbon footprint and work towards sustainability goals. The integrated sensors collect valuable data on crop health, soil conditions, and other key variables, allowing for data-driven insights that enable farmers to optimize their practices, reduce costs, and increase yields.

Transmutex

Series A in 2024
Transmutex is a Swiss company founded in 2019 that specializes in advanced nuclear technology aimed at significantly reducing the stockpile of existing nuclear waste. The company utilizes particle accelerators to transmute long-lived nuclear waste, transforming it into less harmful materials while simultaneously generating carbon-free energy. This innovative approach offers a solution to the challenges faced by traditional nuclear power plants, allowing for scalable energy production that can either be reintegrated into the energy grid or utilized for green hydrogen production. The team at Transmutex comprises physicists, computer scientists, and environmentalists, and builds upon technologies previously tested at CERN and the Paul Scherrer Institute.

GIGABLUE

Seed Round in 2023
Gigablue is focused on addressing climate change through the development of advanced technologies for ocean fertilization, aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of carbon dioxide removal methods. By deploying geo-optimized nutrient particles, Gigablue supports phytoplankton growth in the ocean, facilitating the rapid sequestration of significant amounts of carbon dioxide. This approach provides a viable solution for governments and corporations striving to achieve their negative emissions targets, positioning Gigablue as a key player in the carbon capture and sequestration industry. Through its initiatives, the company seeks to contribute to a sustainable future by tackling global warming at its source.

Mojave Energy Systems

Seed Round in 2023
Mojave Energy Systems specializes in providing energy-efficient air conditioning solutions designed for commercial building applications, such as grocery stores, hospitals, schools, and natatoriums. The company manufactures advanced equipment, including a thermally regenerated liquid desiccant air conditioner that not only enhances indoor comfort but also operates reliably. This innovative system costs approximately the same as competing products while delivering significant energy savings, using about half the energy of traditional air conditioning systems. By focusing on reducing energy consumption and minimizing the carbon footprint associated with air conditioning, Mojave Energy Systems enables clients to achieve cost savings and contribute to environmental sustainability.

Material Evolution

Series A in 2023
Material Evolution is a manufacturing company focused on decarbonizing the cement industry through innovative technology. It specializes in producing smart and sustainable concrete that significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the company transforms material chemistry to create a sustainable cement replacement sourced from hyper-local waste streams. This low-capital expenditure, low-energy manufacturing process allows the construction industry to adopt a more sustainable alternative to traditional ordinary Portland cement, helping businesses meet their environmental goals effectively.

Dendra Systems

Series A in 2023
Dendra Systems is an environmental technology company focused on restoring natural ecosystems worldwide. The company's mission is to create tools that facilitate scalable ecosystem restoration, addressing issues caused by the degradation of land resulting from years of imbalance between ecosystem destruction and restoration efforts. Dendra offers an integrated approach that combines data analytics and automation services, enabling enterprises to meet their ecosystem restoration and reporting requirements effectively. Through its innovative technology, Dendra aims to empower humanity in the effort to restore and maintain the balance of the natural world.

Gradient

Series A in 2023
Gradient’s mission is to cool the world by transforming every home to be more comfortable and healthy for the people who inhabit it — without compromising the environment. Today, heating and cooling equipment emits more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, and expansion in the use of cooling is projected to double these emissions in the next 30 years. However, comfortable buildings are critical for health and productivity, especially among communities that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Gradient’s vision is a future where everyone has access to comfortable buildings that are fully decarbonized. Our launch product is a direct-to-consumer high-efficiency and low-carbon heat pump.

Mojave Energy Systems

Seed Round in 2023
Mojave Energy Systems specializes in providing energy-efficient air conditioning solutions designed for commercial building applications, such as grocery stores, hospitals, schools, and natatoriums. The company manufactures advanced equipment, including a thermally regenerated liquid desiccant air conditioner that not only enhances indoor comfort but also operates reliably. This innovative system costs approximately the same as competing products while delivering significant energy savings, using about half the energy of traditional air conditioning systems. By focusing on reducing energy consumption and minimizing the carbon footprint associated with air conditioning, Mojave Energy Systems enables clients to achieve cost savings and contribute to environmental sustainability.

Cruz Foam

Series A in 2022
Cruz Foam, Inc. is a manufacturer of structural foams that addresses the issue of plastic pollution by providing eco-friendly alternatives to conventional petroleum-based foams. Founded in 2017 and based in Santa Cruz, California, the company transforms chitin, a biopolymer derived from shrimp shells, into biodegradable packaging materials. Cruz Foam's products are used across various industries, including consumer packaging, electronics, automotive, and shipping, offering scalable and compostable solutions that can be integrated into existing supply chains at competitive costs. By focusing on sustainability, Cruz Foam aims to empower industry leaders to adopt environmentally friendly practices and reduce reliance on single-use plastics.

Halo.Car

Seed Round in 2022
Halo.Car aims to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles by offering an innovative car-sharing service. The company focuses on improving access to electric cars, making them more convenient for users. Halo.Car provides semi-autonomous vehicles equipped with advanced technologies such as cameras, radars, and ultrasonics. These vehicles are connected to remote operators through a 5G network, allowing users to book and drive to their destinations with ease. This service alleviates concerns about parking and enhances road safety while contributing to reduced vehicle emissions. Through its offerings, Halo.Car seeks to promote sustainable mobility for all.

Helios

Seed Round in 2022
Helios is a technology company that develops novel technologies to ensure viable and sustainable life on earth and beyond. From Moonshot to Earth Impact: Helios began as a space technology company with the bold mission to extract oxygen from the moon, with the challenge to enable the separation of oxygen from lunar minerals in extreme environments, where zero emissions are not an option but a necessity. Helios efforts resulted in a breakthrough zero-emission process for metal production, applicable also on Earth – known as the Helios Cycle™. Enabling Zero-Emission Iron Production: the Helios Cycle™ revolutionizes iron production. It produces iron from iron ore using mostly thermal energy, emitting only oxygen. This eco-friendly method requires significantly less energy, cuts costs, minimizes environmental impact, and maximizes existing resource utilization. Beyond Iron: the Helios Cycle™ doesn’t stop at iron. It extends to other critical elements—silicon, copper, nickel, and lithium—offering a greener path for resource extraction. Helios has evolved from its lunar origins to focus on green steel innovation. Through partnerships and collaborations, Helios aims to impact the steel industry.

Simplifyber

Seed Round in 2022
Simplifyber is a manufacturer focused on transforming the apparel industry by introducing sustainable advanced manufacturing techniques. By employing a proprietary additive manufacturing process that utilizes biomaterial formulas, the company creates fully biodegradable clothing and soft goods, including shoes and accessories. This innovative approach replaces traditional sewing methods with a chemistry-based assembly, significantly reducing waste, carbon emissions, and water pollution associated with conventional garment production. Simplifyber aims to modernize the outdated factory system of fashion, promoting a more environmentally friendly and efficient method of manufacturing that aligns with sustainability goals.

Cruz Foam

Seed Round in 2021
Cruz Foam, Inc. is a manufacturer of structural foams that addresses the issue of plastic pollution by providing eco-friendly alternatives to conventional petroleum-based foams. Founded in 2017 and based in Santa Cruz, California, the company transforms chitin, a biopolymer derived from shrimp shells, into biodegradable packaging materials. Cruz Foam's products are used across various industries, including consumer packaging, electronics, automotive, and shipping, offering scalable and compostable solutions that can be integrated into existing supply chains at competitive costs. By focusing on sustainability, Cruz Foam aims to empower industry leaders to adopt environmentally friendly practices and reduce reliance on single-use plastics.

Monarch Tractor

Series B in 2021
Monarch Tractor specializes in the development of fully electric, autonomous tractors aimed at improving agricultural productivity and sustainability. These tractors are designed to operate without human intervention, utilizing advanced sensors, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to navigate fields, monitor crop health, and perform various farming tasks. By significantly reducing reliance on fossil fuels, Monarch tractors help farmers lower their carbon footprint and work towards sustainability goals. The integrated sensors collect valuable data on crop health, soil conditions, and other key variables, allowing for data-driven insights that enable farmers to optimize their practices, reduce costs, and increase yields.

Iron Ox

Series C in 2021
Iron Ox, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing robotic systems for sustainable agriculture. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Carlos, California, Iron Ox operates greenhouses in Gilroy, California, and Lockhart, Texas. The company utilizes advanced plant science, machine learning, and robotics to cultivate fresh, pesticide-free produce, including a variety of leafy greens and culinary herbs. One of its key innovations is Angus, an autonomous mobile robot designed for crop harvesting. By integrating technology into farming practices, Iron Ox aims to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture while enhancing the quality and availability of fresh produce for consumers.

Avalo

Venture Round in 2021
Avalo is a plant biology company that employs interpretable machine learning, genomic discovery, and evolutionary theory to innovate crop development for future agricultural needs. Utilizing AI-assisted plant breeding, Avalo ensures that all its products are non-GMO and promote natural biodiversity. The company's core technology is a discovery engine that efficiently identifies the genetic foundations of complex traits, significantly shortening the time and reducing the costs associated with developing new crops. By focusing on traits such as drought tolerance, water-use efficiency, and nutrient density, Avalo's platform enhances crop evolution to adapt to changing climate conditions. This approach allows researchers to improve crop quality while providing diagnostic forecasting and gene discovery capabilities, ultimately advancing agricultural practices.

Precision AI

Seed Round in 2021
Precision AI focuses on enhancing agricultural practices through the use of artificial intelligence and drones. By employing custom-built AI technology, the company enables precise crop production decisions that can be made at the individual plant level, moving away from traditional bulk spraying methods. This innovation aims to reduce chemical overuse and improve farm profitability while promoting healthier farming practices. Headquartered in North America, Precision AI is rapidly expanding its operations with a dedicated team committed to addressing the challenges faced by farms globally.

MightyFly

Seed Round in 2021
MightyFly is transforming the logistics sector with its innovative autonomous freight delivery systems, which are designed to be faster, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly. The company specializes in developing patent-pending, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that can carry up to 500 pounds, travel 600 miles, and reach speeds of 150 mph. This freight-focused design enhances efficiency and throughput, making it suitable for various industries, including medical, mining, defense, and oil and gas. By connecting remote locations with advanced aerial transport solutions and customized drone delivery services, MightyFly enables clients to achieve expedited deliveries that are both cheaper and faster.

Monarch Tractor

Series A in 2021
Monarch Tractor specializes in the development of fully electric, autonomous tractors aimed at improving agricultural productivity and sustainability. These tractors are designed to operate without human intervention, utilizing advanced sensors, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to navigate fields, monitor crop health, and perform various farming tasks. By significantly reducing reliance on fossil fuels, Monarch tractors help farmers lower their carbon footprint and work towards sustainability goals. The integrated sensors collect valuable data on crop health, soil conditions, and other key variables, allowing for data-driven insights that enable farmers to optimize their practices, reduce costs, and increase yields.

Dendra Systems

Series A in 2020
Dendra Systems is an environmental technology company focused on restoring natural ecosystems worldwide. The company's mission is to create tools that facilitate scalable ecosystem restoration, addressing issues caused by the degradation of land resulting from years of imbalance between ecosystem destruction and restoration efforts. Dendra offers an integrated approach that combines data analytics and automation services, enabling enterprises to meet their ecosystem restoration and reporting requirements effectively. Through its innovative technology, Dendra aims to empower humanity in the effort to restore and maintain the balance of the natural world.

Iron Ox

Series B in 2020
Iron Ox, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing robotic systems for sustainable agriculture. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Carlos, California, Iron Ox operates greenhouses in Gilroy, California, and Lockhart, Texas. The company utilizes advanced plant science, machine learning, and robotics to cultivate fresh, pesticide-free produce, including a variety of leafy greens and culinary herbs. One of its key innovations is Angus, an autonomous mobile robot designed for crop harvesting. By integrating technology into farming practices, Iron Ox aims to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture while enhancing the quality and availability of fresh produce for consumers.
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