Top 25 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in October 2023
Top 25 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in October 2023
| Investor | CleanTech Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) | 4 |
| Wingman Ventures | 3 |
| Zürcher Kantonal Bank | 2 |
| TiVentures | 2 |
| ACE Investment Partners Ltd. | 1 |
| VAS Ventures | 1 |
| Ciech Ventures | 1 |
| BayWa | 1 |
| Verve Ventures | 1 |
| Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures | 1 |
| Yokogawa Electric Corp. | 1 |
| Privilege Ventures | 1 |
| Session.vc | 1 |
| Innovation Fund | 1 |
| Amcor | 1 |
| Les Crudettes | 1 |
| Rütters | 1 |
| JD Investments | 1 |
| Sylvain & CO | 1 |
| Innosuisse | 1 |
| Capagro | 1 |
| exelixis capital | 1 |
| Breakthrough Energy Ventures | 1 |
| ACE & Company | 1 |
| Third Sphere | 1 |
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The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) has been helping startups since 1994, encourages entrepreneurship & supports innovation.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.
- PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
- AdVentura Works — AdVentura Works is a Swiss technology company offering material handing as a service to logistics and industrial companies
We dedicate our know-how, experience and energy to the new generation of startup founders, helping them navigate the skies on their way to success.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
- Tune Insight — Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive data between multiple organizations to extract collective insights.
- Saeki Robotics — Building the future of autonomous robotic manufacturing.
Zürcher Kantonalbank - as an independent, incorporated public-law institution - is wholly owned by the canton of Zurich.
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Helio — Carbon Aware Cloud Computing.
- Tune Insight — Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive data between multiple organizations to extract collective insights.
- Nagi Bioscience — Enabling small organisms testing to any lab. Unleash unique datapoints efficiently at a high-throughput rate.
TiVenture is a seed investment fund owned by the Fondazione Centenario Banca Stato that invests in early stage companies with innovative technologies and high growth potential, principally in southern Switzerland. TiVenture is actively looking and ready to support exceptional founders and entrepreneurs developing scalable products for the globalmarket. TiVenture has a diversified portfolio of companies and is mainly active in the life science, medical, high-tech and IT sectors.
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- Software, Analytics, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BigOmics — Get robust and reproducible results in a few clicks with Omics Playground: your user-friendly Omics Data Analysis Software.
- Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
- Gaia Turbine — Gaia Turbine creates a plug-and-play hydroelectric microturbine with an efficiency of over 90% that is perfect for aqueducts and the smallest necessary outflows. Gaia's two patent applications have been filed to protect the technology of the mini/micro hydroelectric turbine.
ACE Investment Partner is a Geneva based investor with a focus on early & venture opportunities.
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- Software, Renewable Energy, Collaboration
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Switzerland, United States, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Enuu — Connected Epods and Ecargos.
- Skydweller — Skydweller is a US-Spanish aerospace company developing solar powered aircraft solutions capable of achieving perpetual flight with the highest—and most meaningful—payload capacity. Utilizing technology based upon the longest continuous solar powered flight program in history, our fast-growing startup is developing a new class of unmanned aircraft,providing the persistence of geosynchronous satellites with the powerful sensing capabilities and range of a large, airborne platform.
- Natufia — Grow and harvest fresh vegetables, herbs and flowers all year round and enjoy unparalleled freshn...
VAS Ventures is Martin Varsavsky's early stage investment fund. They are looking for companies whose innovative founders think big and are courageous enough to shape the future. Martin is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School and investor.As a founder, he has built 5 successful companies,Viatel, Jazztel, Ya.com, Fon and Prelude. Viatel, Jazztel, and Ya.com all sold for over $700m. As an investor, he backed fascinating companies such as 23andMe, Eolia, Smarthings, Tumblr and Aura Biosciences.VAS Ventures’ key for success is offering hands-on mentoring from Martin.
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- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Food Delivery
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Spain, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Enuu — Connected Epods and Ecargos.
- Jüsto — Jüsto is an online delivery-only grocery store chain that offers a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meat products, beauty products, and house supplies that can be delivered at every consumers' doorstep. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico City.
- Mox — Mox mission is to use technology and smart operations in order to provide an end-to-end last mile logistics solution that allows us to maintain a sustainable relationship with our workforce, our environment, and our customers.
An open innovation platform of Ciech Group
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- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- Ecobean — Ecobean developed a proprietary technology to process waste coffee grounds into sustainable raw materials and specialty chemicals. The company addresses a global problem with a scalable, deep-tech solution that decreases carbon footprint and creates significant economic value. Coffee is the second most valuable commodity traded globally and itswaste is a rich source of compounds which require greater reuse.
- UniSieve — UniSieve is a cleantech company that provides molecular separation membrane solutions for a wide range of applications. Its platform technology enables a unique combination of various molecular sieves and polymeric membranes, yielding reliable separation solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
BayWa is a global corporation with the core segments of agriculture, energy and construction as well as the innovation and digitalization development segment. As a global player, it develops leading solutions and value-added projects for the basic needs of nutrition, energy and construction. Seat of 1923 founded parent company is Munich. It has itsorigins in the cooperative agricultural trade with the task to provide the rural area with everything that agriculture needs. The cooperative idea and the regional connection are still shaping the company. Traditionally, the core markets lie in southern Germany and Austria, but within the scope of a growth strategy BayWa has expanded strongly internationally in recent years. In the meantime, the company is the largest agricultural trader in Germany and one of the leading international suppliers of agricultural raw materials. The Renewable Energies business segment has developed into a significant pillar. BayWa re, which bundles all activities in the field of renewable energies, is driving its project business around the world with great success.
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- Food and Beverage, AgTech, Agriculture
- Series A, Seed, Series D
- Israel, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Neggst — Neggst develops plant-based whole egg alternative that consists of a white, yolk, and a biodegradable shell. The company has begun pilot projects with several food service providers and is planning on launching at supermarkets.
- Equinom — Equinom is a fully integrated food-tech company, combining agricultural know-how, culinary expertise and deep technology to develop delicious, nutritious, affordable and sustainable non-GMO plant-based ingredients – from the ground up.Sustainable, plant-based proteins are key to feeding Earth’s 10B people by 2050 The plant-based food market grew27% in 2020 and is projected to reach $162B by 2030.The industry is unable to supply the full demand for food vs. feed For decades, crops have been farmed primarily for animal feed – not for human consumption. To be palatable in human food, these crops require extensive and expensive processing. . With limited processing facilities equipped for this use, the industry is on track to supply only 50% of projected demand for plant-based foods.What is Equinom doing about it? Equinom is using science and technology to develop superior ingredients naturally, at the source – in a fraction of the time typically required to breed new crops. Equinom crops are bred naturally, without genetic editing or modification, and are optimized to make meat and dairy analogues more delicious, nutritious, cost-effective and sustainable. Ingredients designed by deep tech to bring out nature’s best The company’s proprietary Manna™ technology platform uses AI to speed the development of superior, high-yield, non-GMO ingredients as nature intended – featuring the quality traits that satisfy consumer expectations. The technology also ensures biodiversity and climate resilience that are critical to ensure food security in light of climate change. What makes Equinom a compelling foodtech investment and collaborator? Working with great partners including Meatless Farm, Roquette with GoodMills Group., Equinom is recognized as a trusted developer and supplier of unrivaled ingredients. Prestigious strategic investors such as BASF and Roquette have helped position Equinom as one of the breakout Round C companies to fuel the worldwide surge in plant-based eating.
- AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.
Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
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- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Switzerland, Germany, France
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- MedTrace Pharma — MedTrace develops a hardware platform (MT-100) that automates the production and injection of the gold standard tracer 15O-water into the patient. MedTrace also develops an analytical software platform to interpret the results from the PET scanner.By use of 15O-water, doctors will increase sensitivity in the analysis of the patient while at thesame time increasing patient throughput up to a factor of 4 compared to today's clinical workhorse.
- Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.
- Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Aramco Oil Company. It's mission is to invest globally into start-up and high growth companies with technologies of strategic importance to Saudi Aramco, and to accelerate their development and deployment in Saudi Aramco’s operations. Based out of Dhahran (Saudi Arabia),SAEV also operates through regional offices in North America and Europe. SAEV's Objectives are: - Enhance reserve identification, management and production - Increase energy production - Improve operational efficiency - Increase value in downstream processes - Optimize energy & water consumption in Saudi ArabiaSAEV's investment Focus Areas are: - Upstream Oil & Gas - Downstream & Petrochemicals - Sustainability - Digitalization and IR4.0 - New Drivers of Hydrocarbon Demand
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- Energy, Oil and Gas, Software
- Funding Round, Series C, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Norway
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- Grand perspective — Grandperspective scanfeld is the first remote sensing solution for automated early-warning gas leak detection in chemical plants.
- Syzygy Plasmonics — Illuminating Chemical Engineering. Where everyday chemicals like hydrogen are made from light instead of heat - it's called photocatalysis.
Founded in 1915, the US$3.7 billion company engages in cutting-edge research and innovation. Yokogawa is active in industrial automation and control. This segment plays a vital role in a wide range of industries including oil, chemicals, natural gas, power, iron and steel, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, and food.
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- Software, Energy, Manufacturing
- Corporate Round, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Spain
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- waylay — Waylay is a leading Enterprise IT-OT digital unification software company delivering low-code based orchestration, automation and analytics software solutions. Waylay has a passion for supporting enterprises on their IoT automation journey and ensuring it puts all valuable data to work for developers, data scientists and domain experts.
- CyberneX — CyberneX developed a compact and lightweight earphone device for measuring brainwaves.
- Web Synergies — Web Synergies provides IT Services, Business Consulting, Tech Support and Digital Solutions. Helps with Ecommerce Solutions, RPA, BI, ERP, CRM
Privilege Ventures is the venture capital arm of Privilège Management and invest in seed and early stage companies. Geographical focus is Switzerland and the rest of Europe. Focus sectors are industrial-tech, med-tech, wearables and in general ICT.
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- Health Care, Hardware, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Wyth — Wyth makes technologies that help humans create meaningful relationships by bringing emotions, stories and connections beyond the interface.
- Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
- Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia
At session we back early-stage companies in the Software and Consumer space. As active investors, we can only partner with a few companies. When we do, we roll up our sleeves and get to work, providing entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
- Saporo — Improve cyber resistance by prioritizing and reducing user access risk.
- deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
Chemical, Advanced Materials, Cosmetics, Recycling, CleanTech, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Biosciences
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- Health Care, Manufacturing, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Belgium, France, Luxembourg
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- Aloxy — Aloxy offers reliable IIot solutions tailored to the needs of the process industry. Our valve sensor provides an open and close indication of manual valves.
- Graftys — Graftys, an Aix-en-Provence, France-based early stage company focused on advanced bone biologics.
- SENSE in — SENSE in manufactures monitoring solutions based on thermomechanical sensors sensitive to deformation, pressure, temperature, humidity, and more. Their solutions evaluate in real time or periodically the expected characteristics and alert on abnormal behavior, threshold overruns, and damage.
Amcor is a provider of packaging solutions in Australia, Western Europe, North America.
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- Manufacturing, Sustainability, Packaging Services
- Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- Canada, Sweden, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- PulPac — PulPac provides the packaging industry with a groundbreaking manufacturing technology for low-cost, high-performance fiber-based packaging and single-use products. By pioneering the technology of cellulose molding we enable our customers to replace single-use plastics with a sustainable and cost competitive alternative globally.
- Bloom Biorenewables Ltd — By transforming natural materials found in biomass, we create the first true alternative to petroleum.
- ePac Flexible Packaging — Flexible packaging made simple with ePac. We are a flexible packaging company that creates pre-media design, digital printing & pouch making for your business. Contact us today for a quote! 844-623-8603
Les Crudettes offers green salads, raw vegetables, and mixed salads. Since 1984, Les Crudettes, a company of the LSDH Group, has been located in the heart of the plant production areas of the Loire Valley (at Châteauneuf-sur-Loire - 45) and Provence (at Cabannes - 13). It transforms and distributes on a national level, on the Supermarkets andOut-of-Home Catering circuits, with its brand or private label, fresh salads and vegetables ready to use, as well as snacking salads made from plants.
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- AgTech, Farming, CleanTech
- Series A
- Switzerland
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- CleanGreens Solutions SA — High-performance aeroponics systems. A unique, patented, clean, growing system, Mobile aeroponics is an economically viable and locally scalable technology that provides the best sustainability vs. yield balance
Rütters operates as a family investment office.
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- Textiles, CleanTech, Recycling
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- OceanSafe — OceanSafe is a textile technology company for circular, biodegradable, and toxin-free circular textiles.
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- Health Care, AgTech, Medical
- Series A, Series C
- China, Switzerland, United States
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- LifeDojo — LifeDojo is turning the traditional corporate wellbeing model upside down, by giving employees a platform to design their own health behavior change programs. The result? Large, self-insured employers achieve unprecedented engagement, leading to 45% of employees creating new health habits that stick for 6+ months. With a demonstrable 4.4x ROI ina $31B industry where long-term behavior change is rare, LifeDojo is being trusted by the world’s largest companies to reduce healthcare costs, improve productivity, and inspire a genuine culture of health.
- SiBionics — SiBionics is a medtech specialized in R&D & commercialization of implantable medical devices and medical imaging artificial intelligence.
- AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.
Sylvain & CO offers ready-to-eat salads and ready-to-cook vegetables.
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- AgTech, Farming, CleanTech
- Series A
- Switzerland
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- CleanGreens Solutions SA — High-performance aeroponics systems. A unique, patented, clean, growing system, Mobile aeroponics is an economically viable and locally scalable technology that provides the best sustainability vs. yield balance
Innosuisse’s role is to promote science-based innovation in the interests of industry and society in Switzerland.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Switzerland, United States, Taiwan
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- Pelt8 — Pelt8 enables climate action through the platform with scalable processes and controls to collect sustainability-related data in an easy and traceable way.
- Atinary — Atinary is an end-to-end AI, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing technology platform for digitizing R&D operations.
- Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
The First European Independent Venture Capital fund dedicated to AgTech and Food Tech
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- Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- France, Sweden, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 77 Foods — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
- Agriodor — Agriodor is to provide concrete and effective alternatives to insecticides to help farmers produce more sustainably.
- Cuure — We are building a great and honest company that delivers personalized vitamins and food supplements to everyone so they improve their daily wellness and consciousness
exelixis capital operates as an investment firm.
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- Textiles, CleanTech, Recycling
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- OceanSafe — OceanSafe is a textile technology company for circular, biodegradable, and toxin-free circular textiles.
Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Dioxycle — Dioxycle is develop electrolyser solutions for carbon dioxide emissions.
- Boston Metal — We're on a mission to transform how metals are made. Our breakthrough technology produces emissions-free liquid iron.
- Sortera Technologies — Sortera Alloys manufactures low-cost, high-quality metal alloys for domestic manufacturing using its artificial intelligence technology.
ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage. ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
- Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.
Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.
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- Software, Real Estate, Transportation
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Switzerland, Germany
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- SOS — SOS is transforming wellness on-the-go through a network of smart vending machines that deliver just-in-time necessities where and when you need them most. And yes, that includes tampons!
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- wasted* — Wasted* is an premium, eco-friendly, and sustainable porta potty and waste management company located in Burlington, Vermont.
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