Pulse Fund is a climate venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies across four interconnected sectors: food and agriculture, energy transition, infrastructure, and mobility. Founded in 2022 by Tenzin Seldon, the firm focuses on scalable solutions that address climate challenges across multiple industries.
In September 2026, Pulse announced the $63 million close of its inaugural fund. Its portfolio includes Mast Reforestation, Twelve, Endera Motors, InventWood, BlocPower, Floodbase, Plantible Foods, and other climate technology companies.
Beyond capital, Pulse provides strategic guidance, industry connections, operational support, governance expertise, and access to additional financing. Its investment approach emphasizes commercially viable solutions with long-term environmental impact, guided by a philosophy it calls Pulse Time: generating returns today while building for the next century.
Pulse Fund invests in early-stage climate companies across four interconnected sectors: food and agriculture, energy transition, infrastructure, and mobility. Its thesis is that climate solutions often span multiple industries, creating opportunities that traditional sector-focused investors may overlook.
The firm targets scalable businesses with clear commercial potential, including vertically integrated food and agriculture companies, energy technologies for hard-to-decarbonize industries, software-enabled infrastructure, and mobility companies with demonstrated product-market fit.
Pulse primarily focuses on early-stage investments, including pre-seed, seed, and Series A opportunities, although it does not publish specific round restrictions or typical check sizes.
Its impact strategy centers on deploying technologies that reduce emissions and improve resource efficiency, from low-carbon materials and transportation to sustainable food systems and forest restoration. The firm also incorporates climate and financial diligence, with reported use of NASA Earth-observation data to assess portfolio climate impact.
Funder structure
Climate venture capital firm. The September 2026 announcement describes an inaugural fund closed at $63 million in commitments. The website privacy policy identifies the site operator as Pulse Investment Partners LLC in Santa Monica. Tenzin Seldon is founder and managing partner. The investment team also lists Iman Naqvi and Rhod Needham, with Kim Mueller as CFO/COO. The LLC and the fund are related public identities and are not given one combined asset total.
Focus geography
The firm is based in Santa Monica, California. Portfolio companies on the official page span the United States and include Unravel Carbon in Singapore, so the disclosed portfolio is not California-only. No country exclusion list or emerging-market mandate is published. Location tags record the firm's base, not a rule that only U.S. companies can be backed.
Focus sectors
Four stated verticals: food and agriculture, energy transition, infrastructure, and mobility, underwritten as one system. Examples on the portfolio page include alternative proteins, CO2-to-fuels, electric buses, curbside EV charging, refrigeration controls, flood parametric data, reforestation, engineered wood, building electrification, concrete operations software, and enterprise carbon planning.
Eligibility requirements
The published fit is a scalable climate company in or across those verticals, with a commercial path. Mobility language specifically prefers established technology and demonstrated deployment. Infrastructure language prefers capital-efficient, software-enabled approaches. There is no published revenue floor, geography test, founder demographic rule, or requirement to be a first-time founder. Fit is determined in diligence, not by an open checklist.
Decision process
The site describes internal and external diligence, commercial and technical review, and hands-on work after investment. Founders and partners use the contact form and choose the relevant inquiry type. No application deadline, partner meeting calendar, or public pass-through criteria were found. A form submission does not mean a company is in diligence.
Impact approach
Impact is the climate outcome of companies that can scale: emissions reductions, cleaner energy and materials, restored forests, and lower-carbon food, buildings, and transport. The firm says cross-sector companies produce larger markets and larger climate effects than siloed bets. Portfolio descriptions are company claims hosted by Pulse. They are not a fund-level audited impact report.
Reporting expectations
No public fund impact report or LP reporting template was found. Portfolio companies that sell carbon credits, carbon software, or regulated products have their own customer and auditor obligations. Those obligations are not Pulse reporting requirements unless an investment agreement says so, and no such agreement is public.
Geographic restrictions
No published geographic restriction. The Santa Monica address is the website operator's office. Portfolio examples already include a Singapore company and U.S. companies outside California. Sanctions, fund documents, and diligence can still exclude a company. Those limits are not printed as a country list on the site.
Alternatives and limitations
Cheque size is unpublished, so minimum and maximum fields are empty. The $63 million close is commitments, not deployed capital. Later rounds raised by portfolio companies are those companies' financings, not proof that Pulse's mandate includes growth or pre-IPO. Pulse is not a grantmaker, bank, or project-finance lender, though it says it helps companies reach those other capital sources.
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