Prelude Ventures

Prelude Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2013, dedicated to investing in early-stage startups that aim to address climate change. The firm focuses on sectors such as advanced energy, food and agriculture, transportation, logistics, advanced materials, manufacturing, and advanced computing. By supporting innovative businesses in these areas, Prelude Ventures seeks to foster the development of the next generation of companies that can significantly impact environmental sustainability and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Katie Clasen

Principal

Matt Eggers

Managing Director

Bryan Shill

Associate

Nathaniel Simons

Co-Founder

Tim Woodward

Managing Director

113 past transactions

Terabase Energy

Series B in 2022
Terabase Energy is a digital solutions company whose products and services reduce costs and accelerate deployment in large-scale solar. The company's proprietary software is used by more than 400 engineering, procurement, and construction firms, developers, and independent power producers in 28 countries.

Arable

Series C in 2022
Arable is a developer of an integrated system for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production. The platform measures everything that matters to the crop, from the weather to the soil, to the plant itself by the use of a unique set of spectral and thermal sensors. This enables Arable to observe a crop’s development through the season and determine the onset of stress due to a lack of water or nutrients. Its integrated hardware, agronomic modeling, and software suite is enabling farmers, agronomists, researchers, processors, and food companies to understand the crop system at the plant, field, and region level, which helps to reduce risk, improve productivity, and optimize for sustainability. Arable received recognition, including the Irrigation Association’s Best New Product of 2018, Plug & Play’s Top 10 Ag Tech Companies to Watch in 2019, and THRIVE’s Top 50 Companies for 2020 awards.

Rumin8

Seed Round in 2022
Rumin8 is tackling one of the biggest contributors to climate change: methane emissions from livestock. The digestive process of beef and dairy cattle accounts for a full 3.7% of all greenhouse gas emissions, a huge contribution from a single source. With billions of people around the world relying on animal proteins as part of their daily diet, eliminating livestock methane production is a powerful lever in the quest toward a climate-optimal future. Rumin8 has invented a technology that has been shown to reduce the emissions from cattle by up to 95%. Our technology productizes the anti-methane compounds that occur naturally in plants and turns them into dietary supplements for livestock. The results are a reduction in methane emissions by up to 95%, an increase in the efficiency of the animal’s digestive systems, and more energy for the animal to grow The company is on a mission to decarbonize hundreds of millions of cattle around the world so the global food system can take a giant step forward.

Electric Hydrogen

Series B in 2022
Electric Hydrogen (EH2) is a deep decarbonization company building low-cost, high-efficiency, fossil-free hydrogen systems. Industrial sectors like ammonia and steel production account for a third of global GHGs and will require fossil-free hydrogen at cost parity to eliminate CO2 emissions. Electric Hydrogen is rethinking electrolysis from the ground up to compete with dirty hydrogen on cost and scale. The company's technology brings hydrogen solutions to industry, infrastructure, freight and beyond. The experience of Electric Hydrogen's leadership team at revolutionary clean energy companies like Tesla and First Solar makes EH2 a qualified hydrogen company to break through today’s barriers of efficiency and cost to make measurable progress toward a zero-emission industrial sector in this decade.

Latitude Media

Seed Round in 2022
Latitude Media is an integrated B2B news, research, and events company focused on the new frontiers of clean energy and climate technology. We go beyond the headlines to provide impactful and actionable coverage, diving deep into the trends and stories that matter most to professionals across the sector. Our mission is to deliver the news and analysis the climatetech industry needs to chart a path forward. Latitude Media helps investors, utilities, energy firms, and startups navigate the next era of the energy transition with rigorous business journalism and market analysis. Building on our decades of climatetech coverage, we aim to offer a clear picture of where emerging solutions stand today – and where they’re headed.

Quaise

Series A in 2022
Quaise is an energy company that is developing and commercializing novel millimeter-wave drilling systems to harness geothermal energy around the globe, overcoming the geographic constraints limiting this energy source today. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sense

Series C in 2022
Sense specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on the main breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application. Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Recurrent

Venture Round in 2022
We provide car dealers and private party buyers with vehicle reports for used electric cars. Understanding the battery health and typical ranges of electric cars as they age is more complicated. And it's more important than knowing the odometer reading.

Mori

Series B in 2022
Mori is a developer of an edible and natural biomaterial coating that extends the shelf life of perishable foods. It uses salt and water to extract the protein from natural silk and creates a protective layer that keeps food fresher for longer enabling it to economically and sustainably transform the food supply by developing and commercializing technologies for the food, agriculture, and packaging industries. It was founded in 2016 by Adam Behrens and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Living Carbon

Series A in 2022
The goal of the public benefit corporation Living Carbon is to restore equilibrium to the planet's metabolic process. We address this urgency by fusing cutting-edge biotechnology with plants' natural ability to capture and store carbon. Living Carbon is a public benefit corporation with the goal of rebalancing the planet's metabolic system. In order to fulfill this need, tey combine cutting-edge biotechnology with plants' natural ability to capture and store carbon. The company was established in 2019 by Maddie Hall and Patrick Mellor in San Francisco, California.

Quaise

Series A in 2022
Quaise is an energy company that is developing and commercializing novel millimeter-wave drilling systems to harness geothermal energy around the globe, overcoming the geographic constraints limiting this energy source today. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Verdox

Venture Round in 2022
Verdox is dedicated to reversing climate change through the development and deployment of advanced technology. The company’s proprietary electro-swing process, developed at MIT, enables carbon dioxide and other acid gases to be captured with up to 80% less energy and 70% less cost than conventional approaches.

Atom Computing

Series B in 2022
Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms. The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more. Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and based in Berkeley, California.

Persefoni AI

Series B in 2021
Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides users with a single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions.

Ripple Foods

Series E in 2021
Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Holo

Series B in 2021
Holo enables digital manufacturing at scale for high-quality, pure copper and other metals. Their patented technology excels at 3D printing complex geometries with specialized materials for a wide range of performance driven applications.

LevelTen Energy

Series C in 2021
LevelTen Energy is a company that provides renewable transaction infrastructure. It connects renewable energy buyers, advisors, and sellers and gives them the tools and services they need to get better deals done faster. Its technology-enabled marketplace connects a broader class of C & I to utility-scale projects.

Form Energy

Series D in 2021
Form Energy develops and commercializes a low-cost battery system that can store wind and solar energy for a long duration. It aims to make batteries that can dispatch energy for days, expanding the ability to supply wind and solar power to the grid. The company's technology transforms the electric grid by making renewable energy dispatchable year-round, as well as extending transmission capacity without building new wires, and replacing the need for conventional thermal generation. Its core technology was invented at MIT and is supported by investors which include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, MIT’s The Engine, Macquarie Capital, Eni Next, Capricorn Investment Group, and Prelude Ventures. Their team members are active learners who like working on tough technology problems that can only be solved with a combination of scientific innovation and hard work.

Atom Computing

Series A in 2021
Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms. The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more. Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and based in Berkeley, California.

Pivot Bio

Series D in 2021
Pivot Bio is improving and using a deep understanding of the microbiome to advance crop nutrition. They believe that microbes can deliver nutrients, protect against pests, and improve crop quality better than chemical fertilizers and pesticides. They leverage engineering principles and data science to map the dynamics of the plant microbiome and evolve beneficial traits. Their team thrives on collaboration and communication as they seek to create revolutionary fertilizers that transform food supply and improves the planet. Pivot Bio's proprietary ON Technology harnesses the power of naturally occurring microbes to provide more nutrients to crops. It’s a smart, sustainable way for farmers to improve yield as they work to help feed the world’s growing population. Their current efforts are focused on enabling microbes to fix and supply more nitrogen to corn. Pivot Bio was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

Meati

Series B in 2021
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. Meati Foods was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, United States.

Electric Hydrogen

Series A in 2021
Electric Hydrogen (EH2) is a deep decarbonization company building low-cost, high-efficiency, fossil-free hydrogen systems. Industrial sectors like ammonia and steel production account for a third of global GHGs and will require fossil-free hydrogen at cost parity to eliminate CO2 emissions. Electric Hydrogen is rethinking electrolysis from the ground up to compete with dirty hydrogen on cost and scale. The company's technology brings hydrogen solutions to industry, infrastructure, freight and beyond. The experience of Electric Hydrogen's leadership team at revolutionary clean energy companies like Tesla and First Solar makes EH2 a qualified hydrogen company to break through today’s barriers of efficiency and cost to make measurable progress toward a zero-emission industrial sector in this decade.

Voltus

Series C in 2021
Voltus represents the "potential of us" to better manage energy through simple, cost and risk-free distributed energy resources programs. Our commercial and industrial customers generate cash by allowing us to maximize the value of their operational flexibility in energy markets. Voltus makes money when our customers make money by sharing the cash generated from working together. What's more, there are significant community benefits that accompany working with Voltus - a cleaner, more reliable energy future and dollars invested back into your business instead of being wasted on a larger energy bill. To learn more, visit www.voltus.co.

Encycle Corporation

Venture Round in 2021
REGEN Energy Inc. designs, develops, and markets wireless energy management solutions in Canada and the United States. The company’s products include EnviroGrid swarm-logic controllers, which are attached to electrical loads to communicate and coordinate with each other to reduce electrical demand for commercial, industrial, institutional, and multi-unit residential facilities. Its products are used to control electrical demand for heaters, fans, compressors, chillers, cold storage systems, batter chargers, pumps, and dehumidifiers and humidifiers, as well as for new construction, retrofit, and ongoing building operations.

Heirloom

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Heirloom is a provider of direct air capture technology to enhance the natural process of CO2 absorption from the atmosphere. Its technology accelerates limestone's ability to capture carbon dioxide, storing it permanently underground while operating with renewable energy.

Thrilling

Series A in 2021
Thrilling is an online marketplace that offers curated vintage and secondhand items from the best boutiques across the United States. Thrilling is currently hosting 100 stores in 15 cities.

Solidia

Venture Round in 2021
Solidia Technologies enables next generation products that offer superior performance while significantly minimizing environmental impact. Solidia is an advanced materials company, focusing on developing scalable solutions for the world of building and construction materials. Their technology enables the design of next generation products made by low energy processes that utilize waste materials and consume CO2. The products offer superior performance and value when compared to cement, concrete and stone while significantly minimizing environmental impact.

Mori

Series B in 2021
Mori is a developer of an edible and natural biomaterial coating that extends the shelf life of perishable foods. It uses salt and water to extract the protein from natural silk and creates a protective layer that keeps food fresher for longer enabling it to economically and sustainably transform the food supply by developing and commercializing technologies for the food, agriculture, and packaging industries. It was founded in 2016 by Adam Behrens and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Fortify

Series B in 2021
Fortify is an advanced manufacturing startup that aims to disrupt additive manufacturing, ushering in a new generation of custom, high-performance products. Fortify has developed a patented process that combines 3D printing and magnetics to create aligned reinforced carbon fiber composites. Magnetics and DLP (digital light processing) are used in Fortify's technology to create bespoke microstructures in high-resolution 3D printed composite products. Engineers can create and print items with optimum material qualities for specific purpose. The application focus of the company varies from injection mold tooling to high-performance end-of-life parts.

Boston Metal

Series B in 2021
Boston Metal is a metallurgy company developing technology to reduce the carbon footprint of steel production. The company provides industrial-scale, metal production solutions utilizing its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) process. MOE provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower-cost, and greener solution for the production of a wide array of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks. Boston Metal was spun out of MIT in 2012 with an investment from Ingo Wender and has since scaled the technology 1,000x and produced thousands of kilograms of metal. Boston Metal’s headquarters and industrial development center are located in Woburn, MA.

Recurrent

Seed Round in 2020
We provide car dealers and private party buyers with vehicle reports for used electric cars. Understanding the battery health and typical ranges of electric cars as they age is more complicated. And it's more important than knowing the odometer reading.

Zapata Computing

Series B in 2020
Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use. It provides hardware-agnostic solutions for simulation, optimization, and machine learning applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Zapata Computing is a spun out of Harvard University launched by a group of Harvard scientists, including Alán Aspuru-Guzik. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Form Energy

Series C in 2020
Form Energy develops and commercializes a low-cost battery system that can store wind and solar energy for a long duration. It aims to make batteries that can dispatch energy for days, expanding the ability to supply wind and solar power to the grid. The company's technology transforms the electric grid by making renewable energy dispatchable year-round, as well as extending transmission capacity without building new wires, and replacing the need for conventional thermal generation. Its core technology was invented at MIT and is supported by investors which include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, MIT’s The Engine, Macquarie Capital, Eni Next, Capricorn Investment Group, and Prelude Ventures. Their team members are active learners who like working on tough technology problems that can only be solved with a combination of scientific innovation and hard work.

Voltus

Series B in 2020
Voltus represents the "potential of us" to better manage energy through simple, cost and risk-free distributed energy resources programs. Our commercial and industrial customers generate cash by allowing us to maximize the value of their operational flexibility in energy markets. Voltus makes money when our customers make money by sharing the cash generated from working together. What's more, there are significant community benefits that accompany working with Voltus - a cleaner, more reliable energy future and dollars invested back into your business instead of being wasted on a larger energy bill. To learn more, visit www.voltus.co.

Benson Hill

Series D in 2020
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

Arable

Series B in 2020
Arable is a developer of an integrated system for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production. The platform measures everything that matters to the crop, from the weather to the soil, to the plant itself by the use of a unique set of spectral and thermal sensors. This enables Arable to observe a crop’s development through the season and determine the onset of stress due to a lack of water or nutrients. Its integrated hardware, agronomic modeling, and software suite is enabling farmers, agronomists, researchers, processors, and food companies to understand the crop system at the plant, field, and region level, which helps to reduce risk, improve productivity, and optimize for sustainability. Arable received recognition, including the Irrigation Association’s Best New Product of 2018, Plug & Play’s Top 10 Ag Tech Companies to Watch in 2019, and THRIVE’s Top 50 Companies for 2020 awards.

Ripple Foods

Series D in 2020
Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Climax Foods

Seed Round in 2020
Climax Foods is a data science company innovating the future of food. The company provides plant-based food technology to accelerate food innovation processes through focused experimentation, resulting in the rapid development of dairy alternatives optimized for taste, texture, nutrition, and cost, allowing clients to produce plant-based foods that outperform their animal-based predecessors.

Zapata Computing

Venture Round in 2020
Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use. It provides hardware-agnostic solutions for simulation, optimization, and machine learning applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Zapata Computing is a spun out of Harvard University launched by a group of Harvard scientists, including Alán Aspuru-Guzik. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Meati

Series A in 2020
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. Meati Foods was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, United States.

Mori

Series A in 2020
Mori is a developer of an edible and natural biomaterial coating that extends the shelf life of perishable foods. It uses salt and water to extract the protein from natural silk and creates a protective layer that keeps food fresher for longer enabling it to economically and sustainably transform the food supply by developing and commercializing technologies for the food, agriculture, and packaging industries. It was founded in 2016 by Adam Behrens and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Natron Energy

Series D in 2020
Natron Energy is an energy storage company that develops sodium ion battery solutions leveraging Prussian Blue electrode materials. Natron’s battery products are based on a unique Prussian Blue chemistry and can integrate into a wide variety of energy storage applications, ranging from critical backup power systems to EV fast charging and behind-the-meter applications.

SCiFi Foods

Venture Round in 2020
SCiFi Foods is a food technology company creating transformational products by combining cultivated meat with plant-based ingredients to make burgers shockingly close to the taste of conventional beef. Already, it has successfully grown beef cells in suspension, which at scale will reduce its cost of production by 1000x—a massive milestone. It was co-founded by CEO Joshua March, a serial entrepreneur with two prior exits, and CTO Kasia Gora, PhD., who has led R&D teams in bioengineering for more than a decade, most recently at Zymergen. To date, it has raised $29M from leading investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Valor Siren Ventures, BoxGroup, Entree Capital, and Prelude Ventures, amongst others.

Lime

Venture Round in 2020
Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first- and last-mile transportation problems by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so they can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to the e-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet.

Pivot Bio

Series C in 2020
Pivot Bio is improving and using a deep understanding of the microbiome to advance crop nutrition. They believe that microbes can deliver nutrients, protect against pests, and improve crop quality better than chemical fertilizers and pesticides. They leverage engineering principles and data science to map the dynamics of the plant microbiome and evolve beneficial traits. Their team thrives on collaboration and communication as they seek to create revolutionary fertilizers that transform food supply and improves the planet. Pivot Bio's proprietary ON Technology harnesses the power of naturally occurring microbes to provide more nutrients to crops. It’s a smart, sustainable way for farmers to improve yield as they work to help feed the world’s growing population. Their current efforts are focused on enabling microbes to fix and supply more nitrogen to corn. Pivot Bio was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

Covercress

Venture Round in 2020
CoverCress is a biotechnology company that focuses on research and development of renewable fuel and livestock feed. It specializes in producing an oilseed crop for food, bioenergy, and cattle feed. It specializes in the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, plants, genetics, cover crop, and precision agriculture. CoverCress was founded in 2013 by Jerry Steiner and Dr. Tim Ulmasov and is headquartered in St. Louis Missouri.

OptimoRoute

Series A in 2020
OptimoRoute plans and optimizes routes and schedules for deliveries and mobile workforce. From the very beginning, our aim has been to offer the absolute state of the art in planning, routing and schedule optimization.

ClearMetal

Series A in 2020
ClearMetal, Inc., based in San Francisco, California, specializes in artificial intelligence software for supply chain operations, focusing on transport and supply chain visibility solutions. Founded in 2014 by experts from Stanford University and leading technology companies, ClearMetal's platform leverages machine learning algorithms to enhance the accuracy and quality of ocean freight data. This cloud-based application consolidates and processes information from multiple sources, providing real-time insights into shipment status and enabling organizations to predict arrival times and manage exceptions effectively. By facilitating access to reliable data, ClearMetal aims to improve logistics efficiency and enhance customer experiences in supply chain management.

AMP

Series A in 2019
AMP is an AI technology company that modernizes recycling infrastructure through smart sortation solutions. The company focuses on maximizing resource recovery while minimizing labor costs for waste management operations. With numerous deployments globally, AMP aims to transform the economics of recycling.

Citrine Informatics

Series B in 2019
Citrine Informatics is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It features a software platform that ingests and analyzes vast quantities of technical data on materials, chemicals, and devices to streamline R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain operations for any organization that produces a physical product. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Trove

Series C in 2019
Resale platform for Brands and Retailers.

Trove

Series C in 2019
Trove AI, Inc. develops a mobile email application. The company develops artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that solve email overload and enhance communications. Its AI solution offers smart multi-swiping and email notifications; surfaces insights about user’s relationships; and lets snoozing emails to get them out of the user’s way until the user is ready to get to them. The application works with existing email services. Its mobile application is compatible with iOS and Android devices. The company was formerly known as Notion AI, Inc. Trove AI, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Form Energy

Series B in 2019
Form Energy develops and commercializes a low-cost battery system that can store wind and solar energy for a long duration. It aims to make batteries that can dispatch energy for days, expanding the ability to supply wind and solar power to the grid. The company's technology transforms the electric grid by making renewable energy dispatchable year-round, as well as extending transmission capacity without building new wires, and replacing the need for conventional thermal generation. Its core technology was invented at MIT and is supported by investors which include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, MIT’s The Engine, Macquarie Capital, Eni Next, Capricorn Investment Group, and Prelude Ventures. Their team members are active learners who like working on tough technology problems that can only be solved with a combination of scientific innovation and hard work.

Sense

Series B in 2019
Sense specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on the main breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application. Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Fortify

Series A in 2019
Fortify is an advanced manufacturing startup that aims to disrupt additive manufacturing, ushering in a new generation of custom, high-performance products. Fortify has developed a patented process that combines 3D printing and magnetics to create aligned reinforced carbon fiber composites. Magnetics and DLP (digital light processing) are used in Fortify's technology to create bespoke microstructures in high-resolution 3D printed composite products. Engineers can create and print items with optimum material qualities for specific purpose. The application focus of the company varies from injection mold tooling to high-performance end-of-life parts.

Thrilling

Seed Round in 2019
Thrilling is an online marketplace that offers curated vintage and secondhand items from the best boutiques across the United States. Thrilling is currently hosting 100 stores in 15 cities.

Meati

Venture Round in 2019
Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. Meati Foods was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, United States.

Powerhive

Series B in 2019
Powerhive offers key tools and services for implementing profitable rural electrification projects in energy access markets. Its technology platform is ideal for energy providers and developers of any size and can be integrated with new projects or as a retrofit for existing mini-grids.

Sense Photonics

Series A in 2019
Sense Photonics is an RTP high technology company that enables reliable, modular, and configurable 3D sensing. The company produces advanced LiDAR and 3D sensor solutions for an autonomous vehicles, robotics, and industrial automation markets. Their core technology protected by over 200 patents enables a simple, high-performance, solid-state solution with no moving parts that can uniquely meet the rigorous performance, reliability and cost requirements for automotive and industrial applications. Sense Photonics was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

LevelTen Energy

Series B in 2019
LevelTen Energy is a company that provides renewable transaction infrastructure. It connects renewable energy buyers, advisors, and sellers and gives them the tools and services they need to get better deals done faster. Its technology-enabled marketplace connects a broader class of C & I to utility-scale projects.

unspun

Seed Round in 2019
Unspun is a robotics and digital apparel company building custom jeans for each consumer, on demand. The company's mission is to reduce global carbon emissions by 1% through automated, localized, and intentional manufacturing. The company's technology is currently being realized through our award-winning brand unspun.io (one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2019), a software B2B platform powering digital customization for multiple large apparel labels, and a National Science Foundation-backed hardware team working on the future of additive and automated apparel production. We’re a fast-moving company powered by Fifty Years, Prelude Ventures, SOSV, and the H&M Foundation.

Zapata Computing

Series A in 2019
Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use. It provides hardware-agnostic solutions for simulation, optimization, and machine learning applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Zapata Computing is a spun out of Harvard University launched by a group of Harvard scientists, including Alán Aspuru-Guzik. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Planet

Series D in 2019
Planet is a startup based in San Francisco and founded by former NASA employees that collects information about its changing planet via a fleet of compact, highly capable Earth-imaging satellites. The broad coverage and high frequency of Planet's satellite imagery will enable customers with unprecedented access to global and local insights that currently are either impossible or cost-prohibitive to obtain. It designs, builds, and operates the largest fleet of satellites, as well as online software, tools, and analytics needed to deliver data to users. Planet offers a diverse selection of imagery and analytic solutions, all made available online through our platform and web-based tools. They provide geospatial insights at the speed of change, equipping users with the data necessary to make informed, timely decisions.

Fortify

Seed Round in 2019
Fortify is an advanced manufacturing startup that aims to disrupt additive manufacturing, ushering in a new generation of custom, high-performance products. Fortify has developed a patented process that combines 3D printing and magnetics to create aligned reinforced carbon fiber composites. Magnetics and DLP (digital light processing) are used in Fortify's technology to create bespoke microstructures in high-resolution 3D printed composite products. Engineers can create and print items with optimum material qualities for specific purpose. The application focus of the company varies from injection mold tooling to high-performance end-of-life parts.

Boston Metal

Series A in 2019
Boston Metal is a metallurgy company developing technology to reduce the carbon footprint of steel production. The company provides industrial-scale, metal production solutions utilizing its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) process. MOE provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower-cost, and greener solution for the production of a wide array of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks. Boston Metal was spun out of MIT in 2012 with an investment from Ingo Wender and has since scaled the technology 1,000x and produced thousands of kilograms of metal. Boston Metal’s headquarters and industrial development center are located in Woburn, MA.

GreenLight Biosciences

Venture Round in 2019
GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection and support the health of bees and other pollinators.

Holo

Seed Round in 2019
Holo enables digital manufacturing at scale for high-quality, pure copper and other metals. Their patented technology excels at 3D printing complex geometries with specialized materials for a wide range of performance driven applications.

Covercress

Venture Round in 2018
CoverCress is a biotechnology company that focuses on research and development of renewable fuel and livestock feed. It specializes in producing an oilseed crop for food, bioenergy, and cattle feed. It specializes in the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, plants, genetics, cover crop, and precision agriculture. CoverCress was founded in 2013 by Jerry Steiner and Dr. Tim Ulmasov and is headquartered in St. Louis Missouri.

Sense

Series B in 2018
Sense specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on the main breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application. Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Atom Computing

Seed Round in 2018
Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms. The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more. Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and based in Berkeley, California.

Benson Hill

Series C in 2018
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

MineSense Technologies

Series D in 2018
MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sort ores easily and enhance mineral planning. MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Catalog

Seed Round in 2018
Catalog is a developer of a data conversion and storage platform used to offer the next generation of digital data archives and computation. Its platform facilitates the encoding of data and information into DNA format and makes it economically attractive to use DNA as the major medium for long-term archival of data that enables customers to store digital information in DNA molecules. It brings cutting-edge synthetic biology technologies to the world of information storage and computation. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Nyriad

Series A in 2018
Nyriad is developing the industry's first storage solutions based on a new architecture that redefines how data is stored. The architecture combines the power of GPUs and CPUs to deliver an unprecedented combination of performance, resilience, and efficiency, enabling massive amounts of data and multiple data types to be managed in a single storage system that is simple to deploy, operate, scale, and maintain. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Nyriad is building a new storage architecture from the ground up that empowers businesses to grow, adapt, and stay competitive in a data-driven world. For more information, visit us on the web at www.nyriad.io.

Ripple Foods

Series C in 2018
Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Solidia

Series C in 2017
Solidia Technologies enables next generation products that offer superior performance while significantly minimizing environmental impact. Solidia is an advanced materials company, focusing on developing scalable solutions for the world of building and construction materials. Their technology enables the design of next generation products made by low energy processes that utilize waste materials and consume CO2. The products offer superior performance and value when compared to cement, concrete and stone while significantly minimizing environmental impact.

Voltus

Series A in 2017
Voltus represents the "potential of us" to better manage energy through simple, cost and risk-free distributed energy resources programs. Our commercial and industrial customers generate cash by allowing us to maximize the value of their operational flexibility in energy markets. Voltus makes money when our customers make money by sharing the cash generated from working together. What's more, there are significant community benefits that accompany working with Voltus - a cleaner, more reliable energy future and dollars invested back into your business instead of being wasted on a larger energy bill. To learn more, visit www.voltus.co.

LevelTen Energy

Series A in 2017
LevelTen Energy is a company that provides renewable transaction infrastructure. It connects renewable energy buyers, advisors, and sellers and gives them the tools and services they need to get better deals done faster. Its technology-enabled marketplace connects a broader class of C & I to utility-scale projects.

ClearMetal

Series A in 2017
ClearMetal, Inc., based in San Francisco, California, specializes in artificial intelligence software for supply chain operations, focusing on transport and supply chain visibility solutions. Founded in 2014 by experts from Stanford University and leading technology companies, ClearMetal's platform leverages machine learning algorithms to enhance the accuracy and quality of ocean freight data. This cloud-based application consolidates and processes information from multiple sources, providing real-time insights into shipment status and enabling organizations to predict arrival times and manage exceptions effectively. By facilitating access to reliable data, ClearMetal aims to improve logistics efficiency and enhance customer experiences in supply chain management.

Heliotrope Technologies

Series B in 2017
Heliotrope develops next-generation electrochromic "smart" windows capable of independent control over light and heat transmission. The core technology was developed by Delia Milliron, Guillermo Garcia, and colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Alameda, California.

Metalenz

Seed Round in 2017
Metalenz develops optical elements that exploit structured Huygens' surfaces (metamaterial structures) for controlling wavefronts, polarization, and other properties of light. It provides ultra-thin planar optics for high-resolution full-color imaging and makes the lenses used by mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices smaller that enable businesses using the optical lenses to get miniaturized, lighter alternatives to established lenses.

Citrine Informatics

Series A in 2017
Citrine Informatics is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. It features a software platform that ingests and analyzes vast quantities of technical data on materials, chemicals, and devices to streamline R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain operations for any organization that produces a physical product. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Benson Hill

Series B in 2017
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

polySpectra

Venture Round in 2017
PolySpectra transforms 3D printing from a prototyping aid into a production manufacturing tool. PolySpectra makes functional materials for advanced additive manufacturing. The company uses light-activated catalysts to 3D print advanced functional materials. Its modular platform enables us to deliver materials with a broad spectrum of tailored properties from a single chemical system. PolySpectra helps inventors, designers, and engineers make their ideas real. Founded in 2016 by Raymond Weitekamp, PolySpectra is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Covercress

Venture Round in 2017
CoverCress is a biotechnology company that focuses on research and development of renewable fuel and livestock feed. It specializes in producing an oilseed crop for food, bioenergy, and cattle feed. It specializes in the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, plants, genetics, cover crop, and precision agriculture. CoverCress was founded in 2013 by Jerry Steiner and Dr. Tim Ulmasov and is headquartered in St. Louis Missouri.

MineSense Technologies

Series C in 2017
MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sort ores easily and enhance mineral planning. MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Sense

Series A in 2017
Sense specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on the main breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application. Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Encycle Corporation

Venture Round in 2016
REGEN Energy Inc. designs, develops, and markets wireless energy management solutions in Canada and the United States. The company’s products include EnviroGrid swarm-logic controllers, which are attached to electrical loads to communicate and coordinate with each other to reduce electrical demand for commercial, industrial, institutional, and multi-unit residential facilities. Its products are used to control electrical demand for heaters, fans, compressors, chillers, cold storage systems, batter chargers, pumps, and dehumidifiers and humidifiers, as well as for new construction, retrofit, and ongoing building operations.

EnergySavvy

Series D in 2016
EnergySavvy is a cloud software company that helps utilities transform their customer experience and operations. EnergySavvy provides personalized customer insights, breakthrough customer engagement, and automated program delivery with the industry's only platform purpose-built to enhance the customer experience and increase operational efficiency. Nearly 40 utilities and state programs rely on EnergySavvy to enable customer experience transformation in the modern, digital customer era. The company is led by alumni from Microsoft, Amazon, PG&E, and EnerNOC. EnergySavvy brings together expertise in software, user experience, and analytics to deliver cloud solutions that clients love.

Spark Thermionics

Seed Round in 2016
Spark Thermionics offers an energy-generation device that displaces conventional power production methods. The device utilizes heat-to-electricity converters that are based on thermionic energy conversion technology, can produce power from any fuel source at high efficiency, in a quiet package, and can scale from watts to megawatts, enabling people around the world to have cleaner, cheaper, and more secure electricity.

Zymergen

Series B in 2016
Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence. The company partner with nature to create materials and products across industries from agriculture to electronics, consumer care to pharmaceuticals, and more.

MineSense Technologies

Series B in 2016
MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sort ores easily and enhance mineral planning. MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Ripple Foods

Series B in 2016
Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Renew Financial

Series D in 2016
Renew Financial provides financing solutions that help efficiency and renewable energy contractors grow their businesses while promoting energy independence. Its aim is to develop advanced financing designed to transform America’s economy to clean energy. The company’s financing products include PACE financing model and the Warehouse for Energy Efficiency Loans, which opens the residential energy efficiency finance market to large institutional investors. Founded in 2008 by Cisco DeVries, Renew Financial has a partnership with SolarCity targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses utilizing PACE.

MineSense Technologies

Convertible Note in 2016
MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sort ores easily and enhance mineral planning. MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Powerhive

Series A in 2016
Powerhive offers key tools and services for implementing profitable rural electrification projects in energy access markets. Its technology platform is ideal for energy providers and developers of any size and can be integrated with new projects or as a retrofit for existing mini-grids.

Ripple Foods

Series A in 2015
Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Heliotrope Technologies

Series A in 2015
Heliotrope develops next-generation electrochromic "smart" windows capable of independent control over light and heat transmission. The core technology was developed by Delia Milliron, Guillermo Garcia, and colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Alameda, California.

Benson Hill

Series A in 2015
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

Simplus

Seed Round in 2015
Simplus is a Platinum Salesforce partner specializing in quote-to-cash implementations. It provides enterprise-wide digital transformation through advisory, implementation, change management, custom configuration, and managed services.
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