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Seed and early-stage lead/co-lead investor backing experienced teams in education, safety & care, and environment/climate, offering Goldman-level analytical rigor and explicit, quantified impact theses.
Operator-led biotech fund run by ex-founders targeting young PhD/postdoc and emerging academic scientists, focusing on overlooked genomics, diagnostics and AI-in-biotech, offering a Fellowship and academic partnerships
Requires investments to show 2.5Gt CO2 mitigation by 2050 via their calculator; >60% of team hold advanced science & engineering degrees, offering hands‑on technical support; ~15% write‑offs in hardware cleantech.
The Clean Growth Fund is a venture capital fund based in London that invests in companies that are driving clean growth in the low-carbon economy. They focus on innovations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve resource efficiency across power, transport, industry, buildings, waste and water. Additionally, they have recently launched the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, which aims to galvanise the asset management industry to commit to a goal of net zero emissions.
Clearco is a suite of performance financing products and services for founders in all stages of their journey. They provide early-stage founders with access to capital and the support they need to succeed. They have a suite of tools designed to help founders from idea to exit, including fundraising, investor relations, and liquidity options. They also have a community of founders, mentors, investors, advisors, and industry experts to help founders succeed. Clearco's mission is to make performance financing accessible to innovative companies and to empower founders to succeed.
Earliest-stage investor targeting female founders in the friend-and-family gap, backing female scout-investors sourced via journalists and influencers, plus a remote 2024 cybersecurity accelerator creating a proprietary security startup pipeline.
Mandated to deploy 75% to Black- and Hispanic-owned, 75% to Chicago's South/West Sides, and 50% to women-founded food & beverage companies, offering operating support via a ~50-person restaurant team.
Operator-led, software-first climate-tech investor focusing on energy, AI, automation and robotics, helping founders craft consumer-grade storytelling and go-to-market to position companies as acquisition targets in an expected M&A boom.
Climate Avengers is a Rolling Fund created by Yotta Energy that aims to invest in startups with a focus on climate change solutions. The fund is co-invested by WIND Ventures, EDP, Riverstone, and Doral Ventures, and is targeting to back the next generation of teams focused on mitigating climate change and its effects. The fund looks to invest in early-stage companies that can make a real impact in the fight against climate change.
Operates a rolling AngelList micro‑fund and syndicate that mobilizes 2,000+ operator and angel LP co‑investors into a broad distribution and mentorship network for climate startups.
Climate-KIC is a European-wide public-private partnership focused on mitigating climate change. The organization works to facilitate targeted research, business creation and investments to drastically reduce emissions and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Climate-KIC's activities range from innovation and entrepreneurship support to research, training, and acceleration of the adoption of new technologies. The organization operates in more than 20 countries and has over 100 partners in the public and private sectors.
Fintech-focused, non-lead co-investor (100+ fintechs) that avoids board seats, focuses on founder relationships, and uses hedge-fund-style evaluation of founders as decision-making engines.
Invests across R&D to commercial scale, uniquely combining VC, private equity, and project finance with an in-house collaboration lab and corporate demand partners while building North American recycling infrastructure.
CloudCap is an India-based cloud services and solutions provider. The company offers a range of cloud-based products and services, including cloud hosting, cloud security, cloud storage and backup, cloud network, and cloud application development. CloudCap offers its services to both large and small businesses, providing robust and reliable solutions for their cloud computing needs. The company also provides consultancy and training services, helping businesses to make the most of their cloud solutions.
Partner-owned, no outside investors takes faster, higher-risk crypto positions (yield farming, NFTs), pairing ex-Circle Trade founders' trading expertise and traded portfolio to offer trader reflexes with venture time horizon.
Pre-seed and seed investor run by three active founders, placing top women operators on cap tables to provide hands-on marketing, revenue, ops, product and engineering support without dilution.
Invests across public and private tech via an AI-native crossover platform that uses proprietary social and alternative-data research to inform deals, offers fund access ($50K min) and entertainment ties.
Cobin Angels is a business angel community that provides early-stage investment to startups and new tech. The organization was founded in 2015 and is based in Warsaw, Poland. Cobin Angels offers investment stages such as convertible notes and early stage ventures, and also provides accelerators, angel groups, co-working spaces, incubators, secondary purchasers, and syndicates. The organization also offers knowledge-sharing between individual investors, and provides investment opportunities for the Mentorist app, a tool for learning and self-development through brief book summaries.
Cocoon Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in Singapore. They focus on investing in frontier technology startups in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on the healthcare, enterprise SaaS, and fintech sectors. They have a strong network of mentors and advisors to help their portfolio companies succeed and grow.
Solo GP investing in pre-metrics B2B startups, using a 3,000+ AngelList backer community as a diligence engine to back validated weird ideas; excludes crypto, web3, bio, security, chips.
Cofounders Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cary, North Carolina, founded in 2015. They invest in B2B software startups, particularly in the Southeast and North Carolina, with a focus on mobile and enterprise SaaS. They have invested in over 40 companies in the past five years, and aim to help startups at all stages of their growth and development. Cofounders Capital also provides mentorship, resources, and advice to help entrepreneurs build successful companies.
CoFounder Zone is a website that provides resources and information to help entrepreneurs find the right co-founder for their business. The site offers a range of services, including a searchable database of potential co-founders, advice and guidance on how to choose the best partner, and a directory of resources for entrepreneurs. The site also features articles profiling successful co-founder teams, advice on building successful businesses, and tips on how to make the most of a co-founder\u2019s skillset.
A strategic corporate venture arm backing crypto and Web3 projects aligned with increasing economic freedom, coordinating with Coinbase's AI+crypto roadmap and offering thought leadership, proprietary data, and customer distribution.
Early cryptonative investor since 2015 that backs projects from pre‑launch through post‑token network effects, combining equity and liquid token positions and offering operator and technologist expertise.