Soma Capital

Founded in 2015, Soma Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco. It focuses on investing seed capital in early-stage software startups globally, with a notable track record including investments in companies now valued at over $60 billion combined.

Juan Abundes

Venture Partner

Mir Faiyaz

Investor

Fouad Farhat

Investor

Juliet Fern

Investor

Nikhita Jaaswal

Investor

Past deals in Natural Resources

Cambium Carbon

Series A in 2025
Cambium Carbon is an early-stage social enterprise focused on natural climate solutions through reforestation and urban wood reuse. It partners with cities and other public and private stakeholders to divert urban wood waste from landfills, repurpose fallen city trees for reuse, and channel revenues into planting and maintenance projects. It operates reforestation hubs that create a circular economy for urban forests, reclaiming city wood waste and building local regenerative supply chains, with the aim of reducing climate impact while creating jobs and strengthening urban resilience.

AstroForge

Series A in 2024
AstroForge is a pioneering space mining company specializing in asteroid extraction. Its innovative process involves breaking up asteroids, refining them, and returning only the valuable minerals like gold, leaving behind waste materials to minimize payload return to Earth.

Impossible Metals

Seed Round in 2022
Impossible Metals, founded in 2020 and based in Pasadena, California, focuses on sustainable energy by developing innovative underwater robotic vehicles that responsibly extract essential battery metals from the seabed. The company's technology employs a dredge-based approach that prioritizes ecological preservation, allowing for the collection of metal nodules while minimizing environmental impact. By utilizing multiple high-speed manipulators, these robots can harvest materials individually and remain buoyant above the seafloor, ensuring that the delicate marine habitat is not disrupted. Impossible Metals aims to support the growing demand for critical metals needed in carbon-neutral energy solutions, contributing to a more sustainable future.

AstroForge

Seed Round in 2022
AstroForge is a pioneering space mining company specializing in asteroid extraction. Its innovative process involves breaking up asteroids, refining them, and returning only the valuable minerals like gold, leaving behind waste materials to minimize payload return to Earth.

Cambium Carbon

Seed Round in 2022
Cambium Carbon is an early-stage social enterprise focused on natural climate solutions through reforestation and urban wood reuse. It partners with cities and other public and private stakeholders to divert urban wood waste from landfills, repurpose fallen city trees for reuse, and channel revenues into planting and maintenance projects. It operates reforestation hubs that create a circular economy for urban forests, reclaiming city wood waste and building local regenerative supply chains, with the aim of reducing climate impact while creating jobs and strengthening urban resilience.

TransAstra

Pre Seed Round in 2021
TransAstra is a company focused on advancing technologies that facilitate the exploration and utilization of space resources, such as water and valuable materials found on asteroids and the lunar poles. The company excels in identifying and locating asteroids and orbital debris, including fast-moving objects that are difficult to detect with current technologies. By developing methods to prospect, harvest, and utilize these resources, TransAstra aims to support the growth of existing space industries and foster the emergence of new sectors, including space tourism. Their innovative approach includes the extraction of space resources to create rocket propellants, which can be used for commercial satellites and other applications, significantly enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of space operations.
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