Seed + Speed Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed investments. They invest in software startups mainly in the B2B sector mostly in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. As part of the Maschmeyer Group with offices in Hanover, Munich, Berlin, and San Francisco, they provide innovative startups with equity investments and free of charge sales support.

seed + speed Ventures

We are an early stage venture fund backing entrepreneurs that build profitable solutions to fight climate change

Übermorgen Ventures

kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations and startups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon. As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.

kopa ventures

Carbon Removal Partners is an investment firm.

Carbon Removal Partners

Empowering ambitious tech4good entrepreneurs will accelerate the transition to a sustainable world while delivering robust financial performance. We believe that companies that focus on sustainable and financial returns will outperform profit-led companies. And that technology will drive accelerated impact.

4impact

Founded in 2021, Sustainable Future Ventures (SFV) is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The firm invests from late Seed to Series B with a focus on technology companies that enable a more sustainable built environment. SFV is backed by PATRIZIA, whose global real estate and infrastructure assets under management exceed €50B.

Sustainable Future Ventures

Carbonfuture

Carbonfuture is the end-to-end platform for scaling durable carbon removal credits.

Carbonfuture offers a marketplace for carbon removal credits. The company offers a monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) platform for digital carbon tracking, project financing tools, and third-party credit standards.&nbsp;

New technology allows individuals and organizations to become carbon intelligent

Carbon Management Software

Carbonfuture offers a marketplace for carbon removal credits. The company offers a monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) platform for digital carbon tracking, project financing tools, and third-party credit standards.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsCarbonfuture’s high-profile customers include Microsoft, Swiss Re, Klarna, and the South Pole. In January 2023, Carbonfuture entered into a long-term agreement with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16028">Klimate.co</a>, a Denmark-based carbon removal management company, to supply the latter with 1,800 carbon removal credits. In August 2023, the company entered into a similar carbon removal agreement with Sitos Group. In the same month, Carbonfuture partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21430">Puro.earth</a> to integrate the latter’s certification into Carbonfuture’s Trust Infrastructure and to facilitate the sale of CO2 removal certificates (CORCs) via the Carbonfuture Marketplace.In September 2023, Carbonfuture partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21831">CEEZER</a> to integrate their portfolio of CDR projects into CEEZER's platform. Furthermore, in October 2023, Carbonfuture provided durable carbon removal credits to <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22818">Greenly's</a> customers. Funding and financials&nbsp;Carbonfuture’s most recent funding round was in September 2022, when it raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13345">EUR 5.5 million</a> (USD 5.3 million) in a seed funding round led by its existing investors Carbon Removal Partners, Übermorgen Ventures, and WiVenture. The proceeds were used to expand the company’s geographic footprint with a core focus on the US market.

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 Circular IQ is a Netherlands-based digital platform that offers SaaS-based solutions for businesses to assess their circular performance through smart data-gathering and analytics. Circular IQ collects and analyzes supplier-specific data and provides tailor-made reports for businesses about the circularity of their operations.&nbsp;
 
 
 Circular IQ offers three main services 1) Circular Procurement Program, a service that monitors and reports the circular performance of a business&rsquo;s existing supply chain, 2) Product Circularity Improvement Program, a service in collaboration with KPMG to identify areas where the circularity of an existing supply chain can be improved, and 3) Circular Transition Indicators (CTI) Program, a service that supports and guides businesses through circular transition. The monthly subscription for CircularIQ&rsquo;s services is EUR 5,000 (USD 5,960).&nbsp;
 
 
 In June 2023, Circular IQ reported more than 2,000 CTI customer accounts. 
 KPMG, Whirlpool, Saudi Aramco, Aptar, Rabobank, and Royal DSM are some of Circular IQ&rsquo;s high-profile clients.
 
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Circular IQ

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 Cloverly offers an application programming interface (API)-based business-to-business carbon offset solution that can be integrated into existing e-commerce, rideshare, aviation, fintech, enterprise resource planning, and shipping platforms. Cloverly offsets emissions on a per-transaction basis, which gives businesses the option of transferring the cost of offsetting to customers. For instance, a business using Cloverly can ask the customer to pay slightly extra to offset the carbon footprint of that particular transaction at checkout.&nbsp;
 
 
 Cloverly determines the amount of carbon emitted by a transaction based on data such as package weights and transportation destinations and matches it with carbon offset projects located as closely as possible to the location and the source of the initial carbon-producing activity. After which, Cloverly purchases verified carbon offsets or Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from the matched carbon offset projects in the amounts needed to cover the carbon footprint of the transaction. As of March 2021, Cloverly charges a service fee of USD 0.25 per transaction.
 
 
 As of March 2021, Cloverly&rsquo;s main focus has been e-commerce by allowing merchants to add Cloverly to their Shopify, BigCommerce, and Magneto stores. The online gift card company, Instagift, also allows its customers to offset emissions through Cloverly.&nbsp;As of February 2020, Cloverly had facilitated 150,000 transactions offsetting nearly 11 million pounds of carbon. In November 2021, Clovery partnered with Diversifi to launch a service that offsets the crypto-carbon footprint.&nbsp;In May 2022, Cloverly also partnered with 
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 BeZero Carbon
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 Redwood Logistics
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 to measure freight emissions and offset those via carbon credits in July 2022.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Cloverly&rsquo;s most recent funding was in May 2023, when it raised USD 19 million in a 
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 round led by Grotech Ventures. 
 In July 2021, Cloverly raised USD 2.1 million in a seed funding round led by TechSquare Ventures. As a part of the transaction, Cloverly was also spun out from Southern Company, an American gas and electric utility where it was incubated.
 
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Cloverly

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 UK-based Giki offers two mobile apps to reduce the personal carbon footprint of its users:  
 
 
 Giki Badges is an app that allows users to find sustainable and healthy products in supermarkets through 15 unique badges to UK supermarket products based on sustainability, health, and fairness. Customers can scan the product barcode to find the badges that are being awarded to the product. As of March 2021, Giki Badges reported awarding badges to over 280,000 supermarket products.
 
 
 Giki Zero is an app that allows users to calculate and reduce the personal carbon footprint. Giki Zero estimates the personal carbon footprint of a user based on a lifestyle survey (a set of detailed questions about the user’s lifestyle) and provides customized advice to reduce the user’s carbon footprint. Giki Zero Pro is an extension of the same product for businesses which allows employees to monitor and reduce their carbon footprint. 
 
 
 In April 2018, the software company Simpleweb invested an undisclosed amount in Giki in what is the company’s only funding round.
 
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Giki

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 Canada-based Metrio primarily offers SaaS-based Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting solutions for businesses. Metrio allows companies to monitor their ESG performance in real-time using dashboard tools to create customized reports based on any standard ESG framework. In addition to ESG reporting, Metrio also offers ESG industry benchmarking, supply chain ESG monitoring, and ESG investment management services. 
 
 
 As of June 2021, Metrio reported over 5,000 clients including 75 multinational companies such as Target, Air Canada, Decathlon, and Aldo.
 
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Metrio

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 Proof of Impact (POI) is an Impact-as-a-Service (IaaS) company based in the Netherlands. POI offers a range of SaaS-based digital tools for businesses and investors to collect, verify, and analyze real-time sustainability data from community assessments, Internet of Things devices, and corporate disclosures. The company also verifies and secures them using blockchain technology and presents them in a quantifiable form for sustainable decision making. 
 
 
 POI’s services include: 1) Digital consultancy–digital assessments to create and deploy a company’s sustainability strategy, 2) Impact dashboard–an end-to-end solution to collect, verify, analyze, and report sustainability data, and 3) Impact Catalyst Cloud–cloud-based tools and application programming interface (API) solutions for tracking, verifying, and investing in sustainability projects. 
 
 
 POI also operates a marketplace for sustainability projects where investors may directly select, and fund verified sustainable projects. 
 
 
 POI’s most recent funding was in August 2022, when it raised USD 6 million in a 
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 December 2021, when it raised USD 2.3 million in a seed funding round led by Altera Investments. 
 
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Proof of Impact

Solutions used improve carbon tracking transparency across internal and external business operations

Provides tools to monitor and offset CO2 emissions using reforestation, renewable energy credits, etc

Some carbon trading marketplaces are blockchain based (e.g., Nori)

Some carbon tracking companies use AI to measure and report CO2 emissions (e.g., Persefoni)

Carbon trading marketplaces that allow individual and business users to buy and sell carbon offsets.

Carbonfuture

EDGE Insights

Carbon Management Software (Q1 2023): SEC ruling delayed; funding rebounds amid slowdown in activity

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Carbonfuture partners with Greenly to expand carbon credit portfolios

Carbonfuture partners with CEEZER to expand carbon market access

Carbonfuture and Puro.earth partner to scale up CO2 removal

Carbonfuture partners with Klimate.co for carbon removal

Swiss Re to choose Carbonfuture as its carbon removal supplier

Carbonfuture secures EUR 5.5 million in seed funding

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