Climate Venture Capital Firms to Know

How we select: Organizations below follow Causeartist editorial standards. Directory membership does not purchase ranking. Last reviewed October 2026.

Founders searching for climate venture capital firms can use Causeartist’s funder directory to shortlist investors active in clean energy and climate tech. This page surfaces venture-typed funders from those sectors.

Directory shortlist

• Antler — Antler's pre-seed funds invest at inception after intensive residency and cofounder matching, typically writing $100K–$200K checks. Antler Elevate provides scal…
• Astanor Ventures — Astanor invests in technology-driven, impact-focused companies across six key sectors: sustainable agriculture, sustainable food, food as medicine, waste and ci…
• Avaana Capital — Avaana Capital invests in early-stage startups building solutions for climate and sustainability challenges. The firm focuses on sectors such as clean energy, m…
• Azolla Ventures — Azolla Ventures focuses on companies with breakthrough potential that could avert catastrophic climate change, specifically targeting ventures at the earliest s…
• Better Ventures — Better Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies addressing global challenges across sectors such as climate tech, health, and circular economy. The…
• Beyond Impact — Beyond Impact invests in early-stage companies building animal-free, sustainable alternatives across food systems, materials, and life sciences. The firm focuse…
• Breakthrough Energy — Breakthrough Energy invests in technologies and companies capable of dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions while supporting global economic growth and …
• Burnt Island Ventures — Burnt Island Ventures invests in water technology companies across four core impact categories: expanding access to safe, reliable water and sanitation; advanci…
• Cerulean Ventures — Cerulean Ventures invests in founders building asset-light, rapid scaling software companies that apply AI to create exponential climate and nature solutions. T…
• Clean Energy Ventures — Clean Energy Ventures invests in early-stage climate technology companies capable of delivering multi-gigaton greenhouse gas emissions reductions within 30 year…
• Climentum Capital — Climentum Capital invests in European B2B hard tech companies that can deliver significant greenhouse gas reductions while strengthening industrial resilience, …
• Collaborative Fund — Collaborative Fund's mission is to identify and support companies that live at the intersection of for-profit and for-good. They back entrepreneurs developing n…
• Congruent Ventures — Congruent Ventures backs audacious founders developing transformative climate technology companies that address carbon reduction and resource efficiency. The fi…
• Future Planet Capital — Future Planet Capital seeks to invest in outstanding companies that target the global challenges outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically …
• Just Climate — Just Climate employs a 'climate-led' investment approach that starts with climate impact first, identifying solutions that can make the biggest difference in ac…
• Katapult — Katapult invests in highly scalable impact tech startups that are solving the world's greatest challenges, with a particular focus on sectors like ocean technol…
• LowCarbon.Earth — LowCarbon.Earth focuses on supporting early-stage startups that develop breakthrough climate technologies across sectors such as renewable energy, mobility, air…
• Lowercarbon Capital — Lowercarbon Capital invests in companies that tackle climate change through three core areas: reducing new CO2 emissions across energy, transportation, industri…
• New Climate Ventures — NCV invests in early-stage startups developing next-generation technologies that can transform environmental impact while achieving price parity with incumbent …
• Pay it Forward Ventures — PIF invests in "source-solving" rather than symptom-solving — backing infrastructure, platforms, and technologies that solve problems at the root cause. They be…
• Planet A Ventures — Planet A invests in European green tech startups that address major environmental challenges across sectors including materials innovation, carbon capture, sust…
• Propeller — Propeller invests in companies operating at the edge of the ocean economy and climate transition. The firm believes some of the world's most important opportuni…
• Prosper Global Ventures — Prosper Global Ventures backs tech-enabled companies that can strengthen resilience for underserved people in emerging and frontier markets. It looks for full-t…
• Pulse Fund — Pulse Fund invests in early-stage climate companies across four interconnected sectors: food and agriculture, energy transition, infrastructure, and mobility. I…

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Updated October 2026. Corrections: Contact.