Climate Capital Seed
Climate Capital invests in early stage founders across verticals, from carbon reduction & removal to adaptation.
With Climate Capital Seed, we are writing bigger checks to double down on our model, supporting the best climate founders we see in our portfolio and beyond.
See below for Seed fund investments & click here for the full Climate Capital portfolio.
Check size: $100k - $200k (plus another $50k - $200k via syndicate, when appropriate)
Team
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Sundeep is a 3x founder-turned-investor who founded Climate Capital in 2018.
He began working in climate in 2010 when he founded blissmo to introduce shoppers to sustainable products (acq by Garten). In 2014 he co-founded Silicon Climate, a non-profit climate accelerator.
He’s also the author of HALINE ("Hunger Games meets climate change"), and exec producer of Last Glimpse (a visit to the Maldives which faces rising sea levels).
View his non-climate portfolio @ Duro Ventures.
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Schaffer Ochstein is an investor at Climate Capital, where he sources deals and conducts diligence on startups, including market research, product roadmaps, investment risks, and the use of funds. He hosts the MCJ idea jams to support early-stage companies, where entrepreneurs obtain live feedback on their climate ideas/businesses.
Over the past three years, he built his portfolio of climate tech companies and has joined many great climate-focused communities, such as Climatebase, OPF, MCJ to learn from experts in the space.
Schaffer’s previous work at Capital One and Deloitte centered around understanding where the world is going in fintech and mobility. Now he is taking what he learned at these companies and applying it to climate tech.
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Ian Campbell has been focused on early-stage climate investing since 2020. Before joining Climate Capital, he helped stand up the 2030 Fund at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, supporting MA-based deeptech climate startups. Prior to that, Ian worked on the Systems Innovation team at Indigo Ag, developing business units around agricultural soil carbon sequestration.
Coalescing his work as an early-stage operator and investor, he joined Climate Capital in 2023 to scale fund operations and investment activity.