Social Impact Capital

Social Impact Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York, that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in companies driven by social good. The firm is dedicated to generating positive social impact while also achieving top decile financial returns. Social Impact Capital prioritizes investments in sectors that address essential human needs, including energy, water, food, health, environment, education, housing, access to capital, and social justice. Through its targeted investment approach, the firm aims to support businesses that contribute to societal improvement while delivering strong financial performance.

Julie Majorelle

Venture Partner

42 past transactions

Mozza

Venture Round in 2022
Mozza engages in developing the science to create real dairy cheese from plants. Its mission is to make cheese from plants that are indistinguishable from cheese that comes from animals. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Optivolt

Seed Round in 2022
Optivolt is a technology company providing resilient, sustainable energy for humans. Pulse, our patented power electronics architecture, enables Optivolt panels to deliver up to 60x more power in shaded and non-ideal conditions compared to industry-leading solar panels, enabling the lowest cost of energy system on the market. Optivolt technology has been battle-tested with Defense customers, reliably powering mission critical systems for the U.S. Air Force, Ukraine Military, and leading military contractors. Optivolt products enable shade-tolerant solar power for residential, commercial buildings, military bases and much more!

Voyage Foods

Series A in 2022
Voyage Foods is securing the future of our favorite foods. Many of the foods we love face uncertain futures due to a range of health, environmental and social reasons, and it will soon become harder to safely, economically and responsibly enjoy a cup of coffee, a bite of chocolate or a spoonful of peanut butter. Through the use of natural, sustainable and upcycled ingredients, combined with proprietary technology and food science, Voyage is creating delicious new foods that taste and look just like their original counterparts – unencumbered by global environmental issues. Our first three platforms: Nut-Free Spreads, Cocoa-Free Chocolate and Bean-Free Coffee.

Aether Diamonds

Series A in 2022
Aether Diamonds produces the world's first and only diamonds made 100% from captured carbon. Certified B Corp. 2022 Fast Company Top 10 Most Innovative Consumer Goods Companies. 2022 "Best for the World" B Corp.

Leverage

Venture Round in 2022
Leverage enables automatic end-to-end supply chain insight across purchase orders, shipments, and inventory. Stop wasting time on manual calls and emails to suppliers and logistics partners, and instead respond to essential supply chain questions in real-time. Leverage tracks and manages supplier performance across your supply chain, driving cost savings through continuous improvement.

Outlines

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Outlines designs and manufactures home essentials. The company considers how basic products are made, used, and disposed of when designing new products. Outlines employs recycling specialists from the very beginning of the design process, enabling them to optimize their products for recycling.

Praan

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Praan creates hyperlocal clean air zones within open areas on corporate campuses, schools, universities, hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, malls and industrial areas through a low-cost, filterless and artificially intelligent outdoor air purification technology, enabling individuals to breathe clean, healthy, fresh and safe air.

Radicle Science

Venture Round in 2022
AI-driven healthtech B-Corp providing history's first Proof-as-a-Service solution for non-pharmaceuticals to easily prove their true effects.

Tiamat Sciences

Seed Round in 2021
Tiamat is a start-up producing affordable animal-free growth factors and biomolecules using plants as bioreactors. Thanks to its propriety platform, the company can manufacture a wide range of high-value proteins from antigens to growth factors. The company has already achieved a 10x cost reduction and at scale can get costs down 1000x even at 80% growth-margins, giving them a wide ability to price strategically. the coming years. The low investment needed to build a facility (up to 40x less than current solutions) combined with its unique technology makes Tiamat the ideal partner in production scale-up for promising markets that will soon become enormous such as cellular agriculture or cell & gene therapy.

MilkRun

Series A in 2021
MilkRun provides an online retail channel for small and mid-sized producers to engage directly with their customers, orchestrating the direct sale, distribution and fulfillment of locally grown and made goods. With an end-to-end solution, MilkRun can deliver a 6x improvement to producers by using technology to deploy the pre-industrial distribution model for local food systems.

Trident Desal

Seed Round in 2021
Trident Desal their temperature swing solvent extraction (TSSE) desalination is driven by low-grade thermal heat to cost-competitively treat high-salinity water.

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.

Catena Biosciences

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Catena Biosciences is a biotechnology company that offers protein conjugation, building biologic structures, and medical research.

Judy

Seed Round in 2021
Judy is the first emergency kit that’s digitally-connected keeping people prepared for any scenario. With natural disasters happening more frequently, and with bigger impact, having the right supplies and emergency plans are more important than ever. That’s why they are dedicated to making preparation for a household essential. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York.

Tiamat Sciences

Seed Round in 2021
Tiamat is a start-up producing affordable animal-free growth factors and biomolecules using plants as bioreactors. Thanks to its propriety platform, the company can manufacture a wide range of high-value proteins from antigens to growth factors. The company has already achieved a 10x cost reduction and at scale can get costs down 1000x even at 80% growth-margins, giving them a wide ability to price strategically. the coming years. The low investment needed to build a facility (up to 40x less than current solutions) combined with its unique technology makes Tiamat the ideal partner in production scale-up for promising markets that will soon become enormous such as cellular agriculture or cell & gene therapy.

Topl

Seed Round in 2020
Topl is an impact technology economy empowering businesses and corporations to unlock the value of their positive impact. Topl empowers the monetization of impact verified on the blockchain. The Topl Blockchain can support projects across borders and industries.

Aether Diamonds

Seed Round in 2020
Aether Diamonds produces the world's first and only diamonds made 100% from captured carbon. Certified B Corp. 2022 Fast Company Top 10 Most Innovative Consumer Goods Companies. 2022 "Best for the World" B Corp.

Quell

Seed Round in 2020
Quell delivers a virtual fitness world that offers a unique experience of intense workout while gaming to achieve fitness goals. The startup uses resistance bands to help players get fit while fighting their way through a virtual fitness world. It coins itself as a “Peloton meets gaming”, and charges a monthly fee to keep content fresh.

Emitwise

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Totus Medicines

Seed Round in 2020
Totus Medicines uses revolutionary chemical biology to create life-changing therapies to treat previously untreatable diseases across the entire human genome. Leveraging its groundbreaking platform, Totus Medicines can simultaneously screen billions of drug candidates against thousands of targets, identifying superior molecules. This includes candidates for traditionally challenging, undruggable targets.

Menten AI

Seed Round in 2020
Menten AI designs new protein drugs and enzymes using quantum computers and machine learning. Proteins are large molecules that can twist into many shapes. Discovering the right shape for a protein to be a drug or a biocatalyst among almost endless possibilities is a major challenge. Menten AI solves this problem by using machine learning and quantum computing to find better starting points for discovery and further development. Quantum computing makes it possible to represent multiple states of the protein simultaneously and efficiently find the best designs. The team created the world’s first peptide designed on a quantum computer and is now working on peptide therapeutics for oncology and neurodegeneration, as well as on enzymes for industrial applications.

MilkRun

Pre Seed Round in 2020
MilkRun provides an online retail channel for small and mid-sized producers to engage directly with their customers, orchestrating the direct sale, distribution and fulfillment of locally grown and made goods. With an end-to-end solution, MilkRun can deliver a 6x improvement to producers by using technology to deploy the pre-industrial distribution model for local food systems.

SIP Solutions

Funding Round in 2019
Stealth deeptech company innovating in water desalination.

Trilogy Sciences

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Trilogy Sciences develops life-changing therapeutics for untreatable diseases by applying cutting-edge chemical biology.

Emitwise

Pre Seed Round in 2019
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.

PreAct Technologies

Seed Round in 2019
PreAct Technologies aims to bridge the gap between collision avoidance systems and active safety technology. Every millisecond matters before a crash, and our patent-pending suite of sensor technologies, computing systems, and unique countermeasure algorithms aim to drastically reduce fatalities and injuries in a crash. Their Portland-based firm leverages existing vehicle infrastructure to predict and prepare both a vehicle and its occupants for an imminent collision. This alone can reduce the majority of injuries from the most common types of crashes while saving the industry billions of dollars annually. Seasoned automotive experts lead PreAct Technologies, with the engineering team comprised of leaders in computer vision, optics, and parallel processing. It arose from more than 15 years of DARPA-funded research in high-speed optics and computing systems and a major investment from Artis Corporation, the leading US provider of military active protection systems.

Actual

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ACTUAL provides SaaS modeling for large scale sustainable infrastructure projects. There is a massive wave of sustainable “net-zero” infrastructure proposed to mitigate climate change, address the challenges of growing populations, and other planetary challenges. But are they investible? Making sense of these projects requires multidisciplinary expertise in many technologies, regulatory regimes, financial and business models. ACTUAL is “SimCity” for the stakeholders of large scale sustainable infrastructure projects. ACTUAL’s platform brings together these stakeholders, giving them the tools to originate, understand and develop intuition, identify investable projects, and build them at the speed the world needs.

Everna

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Everna is a biotech company developing novel therapeutics.

Goodnation

Seed Round in 2019
Goodnation is the first philanthropic advising platform that uses a values-based approach to match you with top-performing charities that create real impact, making it easy and rewarding to build your own giving portfolio.

Prometheus

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Prometheus is an oil and gas company.

Andela

Series D in 2019
Andela operates the world’s largest private marketplace of skilled digital talent. Its adaptive hiring model gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy skilled talent based on need. The company’s exclusive AI-powered platform, Andela Talent Cloud, optimizes the process of finding the right talent and getting projects started fast. Clients can select individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 66% faster at 30-50% less cost than traditional approaches. Andela’s seasoned hiring professionals manage all the groundwork associated with borderless hiring, from compliance and payroll to talent management. Andela’s diverse talent ecosystem spans over 135 countries, including untapped markets like Africa and Latin America, and is highly skilled in advanced technologies to support Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & DevOps, Data Engineering, and more. The world’s best brands trust Andela, including GitHub, Mastercard Foundry, and Mindshare.

MentalHappy

Seed Round in 2018
MentalHappy, a Y Combinator backed startup working to create a better world of mental health but not just with therapists or apps - with real tools and connection to a community of peers and professionals.

Wild Earth

Seed Round in 2018
Wild Earth is a technology startup that specializes in developing protein pet foods. It is dedicated to reinventing pet food with science to offer healthier foods for pets that are better for the environment and more humane than conventional products. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Endless West

Series A in 2017
Endless West is a beverage startup using scientific production methods to create its own original blend of wines and spirits. Its winery uses molecules from plants, animals, and substances for taste, smell, and color and combines them to create sustainable wine without any grapes, yeast, or any kind of fermentation. The company's first product, Glyph, is the first aged-style spirit made using flavor and aroma molecules extracted from more efficient sources in nature. Glyph is made without aging or barreling which means significantly less wood, water, and land is used in its production process.

Ligandal

Seed Round in 2017
Ligandal's mission is to create precision delivery platform to cure and treat disease. We are driving the discovery and delivery of a broad array of gene therapies, genetic materials, and gene-specific payloads with unprecedented precision at the cellular and sub-cellular level. Our ligand discovery engine allows for rapid design of diagnostically-responsive materials, capable of shuttling a variety of nucleic acid and protein payloads (including CRISPR and mRNA) to specific cell types. We are initially applying this technology to indications in hematology, immuno-oncology, and infectious disease.

Stowaway Cosmetics

Seed Round in 2017
Stowaway Cosmetics offers cosmetics in different sizes for travel-sized makeup kits. It offers beauty balms, concealers, lipsticks, eyeliner, mascara, and more. The company was founded in April 2014 and is based in New York.

Advano

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2016, and 2017 graduate of Y Combinator, Advano is a New Orleans-based company delivering a scalable solution for lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density. By conquering the challenges of silicon, Advano integrates or completely replaces graphite in today’s lithium-ion batteries with its advanced silicon anode material - improving the longevity of lithium-ion batteries for blue chip battery manufacturers and Tier one consumer electronics and automotive companies.

Andela

Series B in 2016
Andela operates the world’s largest private marketplace of skilled digital talent. Its adaptive hiring model gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy skilled talent based on need. The company’s exclusive AI-powered platform, Andela Talent Cloud, optimizes the process of finding the right talent and getting projects started fast. Clients can select individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 66% faster at 30-50% less cost than traditional approaches. Andela’s seasoned hiring professionals manage all the groundwork associated with borderless hiring, from compliance and payroll to talent management. Andela’s diverse talent ecosystem spans over 135 countries, including untapped markets like Africa and Latin America, and is highly skilled in advanced technologies to support Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & DevOps, Data Engineering, and more. The world’s best brands trust Andela, including GitHub, Mastercard Foundry, and Mindshare.

Advano

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2016, and 2017 graduate of Y Combinator, Advano is a New Orleans-based company delivering a scalable solution for lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density. By conquering the challenges of silicon, Advano integrates or completely replaces graphite in today’s lithium-ion batteries with its advanced silicon anode material - improving the longevity of lithium-ion batteries for blue chip battery manufacturers and Tier one consumer electronics and automotive companies.

OpenInvest

Seed Round in 2016
Backed by capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and QED, OpenInvest was founded in 2015 with a core focus on helping advisors unlock the true impact of their clients’ investments. On June 29, 2021, J.P. Morgan announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OpenInvest. OpenInvest will retain its own brand and be integrated into J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank and Wealth Management client offerings

Mattershift

Venture Round in 2016
Mattershift makes programmable molecular gateways to create molecular factories to 3d print fuels, fertilizers, and other resources.
Catena Biosciences is a biotechnology company that offers protein conjugation, building biologic structures, and medical research.
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