About Climate Capital
Welcome to Climate Capital! We've been investing in ambitious climate founders since 2015 and are proud to be one of the most active climate investors in the world.
Our primary focus is deploying $100k - $200k checks into exceptional pre-seed, Seed & Series A via our Seed fund. We also actively write $10k - $25k checks via our microfund and $50k - $150k checks via CC Syndicate.
Subscribe via Substack for occasional Insight emails and weekly founder podcasts where we sit down with the brilliant people architecting our future.
Questions? contact [at] climatecap [dot] co
About The Climate Scout Fund
The Climate Scout Fund combines the global networks of Climate Capital, Earthshot Ventures, and Elemental Impact to empower a diverse set of today’s climate-tech leaders with capital and community to seed tomorrow’s most impactful climate solutions.
We’re recruiting ~20 exceptional climate scouts who are plugged into powerful early-stage networks (eg. YC, GoogleX, startup founders, etc.), many of whom invest today. Our goal is to recruit at least 50% of our scouts from groups underrepresented in VC.
Programs
About Climate Angels
Climate Angels is a cyclical program which aims to prepare new & emerging angel investors to start or accelerate their climate investing journey by learning alongside the Climate Capital team.
Members of our team have participated or taught in a number of different programs, from Techstars Venture Deals to GoingVC to 500 VC Unlocked to Terra.do. These programs are all good at different things, but we felt there was an opportunity for Climate Capital to offer something different given our collective experience in early stage climate investing.
Press
Axios Pro (9/7/2023): “The Busiest Venture Investors in Climate Tech”
Fortune Climate Finance (8/22/2023): “The top 13 seed stage climate tech VCs to watch”
Invested in Climate (11/15/22): “From venture syndicates to funds with Climate Capital’s Sundeep Ahuja, Ep #29”
Insights from Enduring Planet (11/1/22): “Tips for Raising VC Funding for your Early-stage Climate Hardware Startup with Michael Luciani”
CLIMB by VSC (10/19/22): “Sundeep Ahuja - Identifying Founder-Market Fit and Creating Value as an Investor in Climate Startups”
This Week in Startups (7/24/22): “TWiCS: Michael Luciani of Climate Capital”
Invested in Climate (7/11/22): “Synthetic bio investing with [Climate Capital Bio fka] Exponential Impact, Ep #11”
Forbes (1/24/22): “Fast Lessons From One Of Today’s Hottest Climate Syndicates”
The Meb Faber Show (4/5/21): “Sundeep Ahuja, Climate Capital - Earth Is A Big Ship, And It’s Going To Take A While For Us To Turn This Ship Around”
In Loving Memory: former CC Partner Mike Kruzeniski
Logo
The Climate Capital logo was designed on a pale blue dot as a daily reminder of our why. The following quotes are excerpts from Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot that provide inspiration for our logo.
“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.”
“[It’s] our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
Origin
“It was after helping launch the global non-profit Kiva.org in 2006 that I decided to focus on climate. My experience at Kiva was life changing as it was there that I realized I wanted to be at the intersection of technology & impact. After months of reflection, I embraced 'climate change' as the issue to focus on as it would exacerbate so many other issues, from poverty to geopolitics, education to disease, food supply to basic human happiness.
It wasn't until 2010 that I was able to focus full-time on climate when I started a company to introduce shoppers to more sustainable products (article I wrote on why). I quickly realized that most people didn't view climate change as a pressing issue, so I wrote a novel about a post-climate change future, produced a TV pilot about rising sea levels in the Maldives, and co-founded an accelerator for companies at the intersection of tech & climate, all to raise awareness & drive action.
In those years I'd begun syndicating deals on AngelList, and in 2015 I was able to syndicate an allocation in my first climate deal, Mosaic. It wasn't until 2018 that 'cleantech 2.0' (as some call it) got going, allowing me to launch Climate Capital. Since then, I've invested in over 100 climate companies across industries, backed by some of the best investors in the world — and in so many ways we're just getting started.”
- Sundeep Ahuja