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Overview

Climate Impact Fund I

Overview: VertueLab's Climate Impact Fund invests in companies that have the potential to reduce emissions, capture carbon, or convert carbon into useful products. These investments come at a critical times for startups, helping them survive the valley of death where traditional investing fails.

Geographic Scope: Pacific Northwest (focus on Oregon and Washington)

Focus Areas:

  • Emissions reduction technologies

  • Carbon capture innovations

  • Carbon conversion into useful products
  • What the Fund Does:

  • Provides catalytic capital to early-stage climate tech startups

  • Empowers companies to prove out their technology

  • Helps companies complete demonstration projects

  • Creates leverage for other funding opportunities
  • Portfolio Performance:

  • 14 companies invested

  • $23.4M in follow-on funding secured by portfolio companies

  • 6.4 gigatons emission reduction potential
  • Funders: Grantham Foundation, Roundhouse Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, The Lemelson Foundation, and numerous other organizations and individuals

    Contact: VertueLab, PO Box 212, Portland, OR 97207 | (971) 770-2378

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    Fields of Work

    startupsenvironment

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