# Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in United States in October 2023

## Clean Energy Venture Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

CEVG is an angel investor collective that invest in and mentors early-stage cleantech and climatetech startups across North America.

## Third Sphere
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Transportation

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.

## Breakthrough Energy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

## Congruent Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy

Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in Mobility and Urbanization, Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production & Consumption sectors. We look for technology companies that will positively impact our energy and resource consumption. If we see an opportunity to partner with a like-minded teamfocused on scale across hardware, software, or services, we’re interested.

## Clean Energy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

Clean Energy Ventures invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing global climate change.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

## The Engine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing

A home for Tough Tech founders.

## Energy Impact Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy

Energy Impact Partners (EIP) is a collaborative strategic investment firm that invests in companies optimizing energy consumption and improving sustainable energy generation. Through close collaboration with its strategic investor base, EIP seeks to bring the best companies, buying power and vision in the industry to bear on the emerging energy landscape.

## Evergreen Climate Innovations
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Convertible Note, Seed, Grant
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Electronics

Evergreen Climate Innovations supports entrepreneurs and startups that are bringing impactful climate technologies to market.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

## Collaborative Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software

Collab Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

## Powerhouse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Energy, Solar

Powerhouse Ventures
backs entrepreneurs building the digital infrastructure for rapid decarbonization.

## DCVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

We are deep tech venture capital.

## Prelude Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Energy, Manufacturing

Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. For us, climate is everything.

## My Climate Journey Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Software

My Climate Journey Collective is an early-stage climate tech fund. It seeks to invest in early-stage climate tech startups(primarily pre-seed, seed, and A across a wide range of sectors. Its typical check size is between $100-250k and aims for between 3-5 investments per quarter.

## WindSail Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy

Growth Capital for the Clean Economy

## Lowercarbon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Energy

Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet.

## Blue Bear Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Blue Bear Capital is a venture capital investor supporting companies that apply AI and data-driven technologies to energy infrastructures. The firm specializes in the fields of venture capital, financial services, and clean energy investments.
It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

## Climate Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sustainability, Manufacturing, Biotechnology

Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

## ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Health Care, Software

ONE WORLD provides training & investment capital to social impact enterprises. The mission of ONE WORLD is to scale social impact and improve the lives of individuals globally. In January 2017, ONE WORLD launched its impact seed fund focused on early-stage for-profit companies that are addressing social or environmental challenges. As ofJanuary 2022, the portfolio has 25 active investments, has participated in 15 follow-on rounds of financing, and has had 2 exits.

## Chrysalix Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech

Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe.

## Threshold
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

## Shell Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software

Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.

## The Yield Lab
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology

The Yield Lab invests in AgriFood Tech companies with technologies focused on crops, animal health, digital agriculture, logistics, and food ingredients. Initial investments range from $100,000 – $1.5M.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## Houston Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

The Houston Angel Network (HAN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the innovation ecosystem in Houston, Texas by supporting founders and startups with financial resources and mentorship.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

## Good Growth Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Software

Good Growth Capital specializes in finding, cultivating, and assessing complex science and deep-tech start-ups. GGC invests in seed-stage and Series A deals through the General Fund family and in pre-seed and seed-stage companies through the Infinite Corridor Fund, which primarily targets MIT-affiliated and transformative science start-ups. GGC ismajority women- and minority-owned and is uniquely positioned geographically in both the Southeast and New England.

## Austin Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet

Austin Ventures is a venture capital and private equity company that specializes in partnering with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build companies.
It was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

## Ecosystem Integrity Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

The Ecosystem Integrity Fund (“EIF”) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies contributing to environmental sustainability. It seeks to demonstrate that there is no trade-off between having a positive impact and achieving outstanding financial returns. The movement toward environmental sustainability is making incrementalimprovements to the largest industries in the world. Over the next several decades, the economy will be transformed by this movement.Sustainability is fundamentally about making things better: more efficient, more functional, less toxic, less costly. This is the next phase of the Industrial Revolution.

## Connecticut Innovations
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

At Connecticut Innovations, we see venture capital the way you see your business. Like no one else. We invest in innovative biotech, IT, and other industries.

## Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Grant, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is dedicated to accelerating the success of clean energy development and implementation—while creating high-quality jobs and long-term economic growth in Massachusetts. MassCEC is the first state agency in the nation dedicated solely to facilitating the development of the clean energy industry. We areled by people who bring knowledge, experience and an entrepreneurial attitude to help clean energy companies take full advantage of all the state’s unique assets, to help accelerate the development of renewable energy generation projects, and to help develop a workforce that is ready to roll up its sleeves to ensure Massachusetts’ place as a national and global clean energy hub.

## RockPort Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Software

RockPort Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in the areas of alternative and traditional energy, mobility, and sustainability. For more than a decade RockPort has partnered with entrepreneurs to foster growth and create value in a broad range of industrial and consumer facing companies whose technologies and products provideinnovative solutions to significant worldwide markets. RockPort has a collaborative approach to investing, deep domain expertise, and insights into all aspects of energy and cleantech. With offices in Boston and Menlo Park, RockPort is globally recognized as being among the largest and most established energy-focused venture capital firms.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

## Liquid 2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

## Sand Hill Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

For over two decades, Sand Hill Angels has worked openly and collaboratively with venture capital funds, other angel organizations, and the Bay Area ecosystem that fosters the growth of technology startups.

## City Light Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness

City Light is a venture capital firm that invest in impactful companies in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.

## Sustainable Ocean Alliance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sustainability, CleanTech, Marine Technology

SOA develops leaders, cultivates ideas, and accelerates solutions to the biggest problems facing our ocean through the  Leadership and Accelerator programs

## Element 8
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar

Element 8 is an investment company that provides capital, guidance, and networking opportunities to early stage cleantech companies.

## SaaS Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

We are enterprise software experts. We look to co-invest with strong leads, bringing our network of coinvestors and next round investors as well as enterprise software expertise to add value. We see ourselves as partners who can fill out a round quickly and be a positive influence, and non-competitive as we don't lead or take significantstakes in our portfolio companies. We generally write a small check into rounds of $750k-$3M that are mostly full, being low pain-in-the-ass to entrepreneurs compared to relatively high value add. Having been entrepreneurs, we know that's the most important part.While we'll invest anywhere in the US, we love "second tier markets" that can still support major exits but attract relatively less venture funding: Chicago, Toronto, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, etc etc!

## Fifth Wall
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Venice, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS

Fifth Wall Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on technology solutions for the Built World.

## Foundation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Building companies is in our bones.

## Halogen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles, California-based Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-stage consumer technology startups with a female on the founding team. Halogen Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A companies creating groundbreaking technologies and products in the consumer space. It is hands-on and supports foundersthrough their full lifecycle. The firm helps them build their networks, get brand exposure, hire great talent, raise follow-on rounds and find their path to acquisition or IPO.

## Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

A seed stage investment fund based in Brooklyn, NY

## Bolt
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet of Things

Bolt: Investing at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds

## BoxGroup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com

## Social Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

## Energy Foundry
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Software, Internet of Things

We back today's most promising energy & cleantech innovators, and engage the world's leading companies to help build and scale. Our approach merges venture capital and an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help you quickly achieve success.

## Backstage Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.

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