Project 11 seeks to lead a startup’s first “outside capital” round, ranging in sizes of less than $500k up to $1.5M. Post investment, the P11 partners actively collaborate with founders to accelerate growth in company value. Criteria for investment include founder domain knowledge, a demonstrated ability to lead and execute, robust team dynamics along with, of course, a business opportunity that allows rapid growth and scale.

Project 11 Ventures

Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy in Australia, Singapore and Tel Aviv. The fund supports outstanding entrepreneurs solving big problems in a unique and differentiated way. The company is a group of individuals united by a passion for technology and its potential to change the world. It partners with outstanding entrepreneurs that are building online and technology leaders of tomorrow and support them by leveraging their decades of experience building, investing in, and advising technology businesses, from start-up to multi-billion dollar public enterprises. We focus on Australia and New Zealand, South-East Asia, and Israel.

Square Peg Capital

The Graduate Syndicate is led by Jeff Bussgang, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School (HBS) and co-founder and general partner, Flybridge Capital Partners. They invest in pre-seed and seed stage startups led by recent graduates of Harvard, primarily HBS. In recent years, entrepreneurship has grown tremendously on campus and many valuable companies have been created by recent graduates. Their goal is to bring investors, students, graduates, and friends of Harvard together to build successful, impactful and sustainable companies

The Graduate Syndicate

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

Canaan Partners

Fontinalis Partners, with offices in Detroit and Boston, is a venture capital firm strategically focused on next generation mobility. Fontinalis’ mission is to leverage the team’s considerable management experience, market access, strategic relationships, international expertise, and background in transportation innovation to scale companies providing next-generation mobility solutions. Fontinalis invests as a strategic partner across all facets of the world’s mobility systems on a stage- and size-agnostic basis. Fontinalis is not affiliated with Ford Motor Company.

Fontinalis Partners

JetBlue Ventures invests in and partners with early-stage startups improving the future of travel and hospitality. The company provides funding to promising startups.

JetBlue Ventures

SoftBank provides fixed-line, mobile telephony, internet, telecommunications, and digital television products. It is a multinational telecommunications and internet corporation focused on broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, the internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses. The company operates through four segments. The mobile communications segment provides mobile communications services, produces and distributes online games for smartphones and other devices, offers mobile broadband services, provides supply chain solutions, handset protection, and insurance, buy-back and trade-in services, omnichannel solutions, and financial services, and sells mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, and SoftBank smartphones. The Sprint segment offers mobile and fixed-line voice and data transmission services for individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. and sells mobile devices and accessories. The fixed-line telecommunications segment offers telecom services such as fixed-line telephone and data communications services to corporate customers and broadband services to individual customers. The internet segment is engaged in the operation of the Yahoo! Japan portal, the sale of internet advertising, the operation of e-commerce sites, the provision of membership services, the sale and marketing of data centers, the provision of online automobile-related information, and the operation of the internet affiliate system. SoftBank also generates and sells electricity from renewable energy sources; provides payment processing, invoice collections, and computation services for businesses; distributes video, voice, and data content via media; operates the IT information site ITmedia; provides solutions and services for online businesses; and operates online games and software downloads. Additionally, it is involved in the ownership of professional baseball teams, the operation of baseball games, the management and maintenance of baseball stadiums and other sports facilities, and the procurement of funds by issuing preferred securities.

SoftBank

Clearvision Ventures is a a venture capital firm that helps other entrepreneurs build category leading companies. The company invest as little as one million dollars to as much as ten million in a single company at any stage, from early to expansion to late stage growth. Currently, the company is interested in software companies that can drive disruptions in IoT, Big Data, and Security, and can establish clear category dominance and leadership.

Clearvision Ventures

Independent and evergreen venture capital fund investing in Data, Security, and IoT software

Envision Ventures

Ford Smart Mobility LLC, a new subsidiary formed to design, build, grow and invest in emerging mobility services.

Ford Smart Mobility

Evergy Ventures is the venture capital arm of Evergy specializing in investments in growth capital and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in the energy sector focusing on opportunities in the customer energy solutions, energy infrastructure industries, energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security, and renewables services, but is open to attractive investments outside of these sectors within the energy value chain.  Evergy Ventures prefers to make investments using equity and debt instruments. It prefers to invest in North America with a special focus on Midwest based companies.  Evergy Ventures began operation in 2015. It has its headquarters in Kansas City in Missouri.

Evergy Ventures

Intact Ventures invests in seed-stage startups and seeks to collaborate with founders. The company supports both direct and fund investments in core thematic areas, with a focus on Series A and B possibilities.

Intact Ventures

Counterpart Advisors is a Venture Capital, Private Equity & Consulting firm that engages in highly competitive and visible markets.

Counterpart Advisors

National Grid Partners makes and manages strategically and financially attractive investments and leads company-wide innovation efforts. National Grid Partners (NGP) is the venture investment and innovation arm of National Grid plc.

National Grid Partners (NGP)

Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech. With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently manages several venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.

Pitango VC

Stonecourt Capital is a private equity firm focused on transformational investments across a range of industries. The firm seeks to opportunistically capitalize on market dislocations by facilitating the growth of existing businesses and constructing or repositioning hard assets.

Stonecourt Capital

Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.  With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprise technology.  Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Leap Motion, LevelUp, Lycos, MapQuest, Nebula, QD Vision, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, Violin Memory, VistaPrint and WePay.  Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level.

Highland Capital Partners

Activate Capital is a growth equity partner to companies building smart, sustainable systems across the energy, transportation, and industrial technology markets. The firm aims to generate financial returns while contributing to this vision of the future by investing in entrepreneurial management teams in high growth companies using technology to make the world more efficient, intelligent, and sustainable. The partners have collectively invested over $1 billion across their target sectors, resulting in 30 successful exits through IPO and M&A.

Activate Capital Partners

Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem. They are an ambitious team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in Venture. Collectively they have over 100 years’ experience, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses, returning more than £750 million to their shareholders. They are also fortunate to have one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and experts in Earth Observation on board.  They work closely with their portfolio companies and always strive to create meaningful value and endeavour to ensure that the full value of their network and partners is utilised. The backing of leading global corporates in the Space sector and the leading Space related Governmental Agencies in the UK and Europe brings significant value. They are able to leverage their capital, industry leading knowledge and networks, creating an ecosystem that delivers real results for your business. From roots to market, sales and marketing, partnerships, follow-on capital, and M&A they can deliver value creation across the company growth cycle globally.

Seraphim Space

Chemonics International is a sustainable development company. Its mission is to promote meaningful change to help people live healthier, more productive, and more independent lives.

Chemonics

RTX Ventures is a venture capital arm of Raytheon Technologies that invests in companies accelerating the development of transformational aerospace and defense technologies. It enables partners to employ resources and mentorship to promote growth and fuel innovation.

RTX Ventures

Tomorrow.io

Tomorrow.io develops a SaaS Weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts. Fully customizable to any industry impacted by the weather, customers around the world including the NFL, Uber, Delta, Ford, National Grid, and more use Tomorrow.io to dramatically improve operational efficiency. Tomorrow.io was built from the ground up to help teams predict the business impact of weather, streamline team communication and action plans, improve productivity, and optimize profit margins. Tomorrow.io has operations across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

Tomorrow.io (formerly called ClimaCell) is a short-term weather analytics platform, serving businesses across a wide range of industries, including aviation, energy, insurance, on-demand companies, professional sports and venues, and logistics, as well as government agencies globally.

Climate Risk Analytics

Tomorrow.io gets DoD contract to launch two microwave weather sensor satellites

Azure

Using Tomorrow.io's weather intelligence and Microsoft Azure, the initiative aims to deliver timely notifications through MTN's mobile services, aiding in evacuations and preparedness for severe weather events.

Forecasts weather for up to 14 days by using AI/ ML solutions

Microsoft

Microsoft has partnered with Tomorrow.io to create a cloud-based solution for climate adaptation and early warnings in African countries.

Rekor Systems

To enhance regional preparedness and response to severe weather conditions by leveraging AI-powered data and technology from Rekor, Tomorrow.io, and Waze

Information to create a more efficient, cleaner and safer way to travel in the city of the future

Smart Mobility Information

Startups offering mobile and in-vehicle apps that provide real-time alerts on road hazards and traffic conditions

To enhance proactive traffic management operations by integrating weather data from Tomorrow.io's weather intelligence platform with Rekor's traffic management solutions, enabling transportation agencies to better predict and respond to weather-related challenges impacting road safety.

Google Cloud

ClimaCell is partnering with Google Cloud to launch a new high-resolution forecasting model for weather forecasting

Tomorrow.io (formerly called ClimaCell) is a short-term weather analytics platform, serving businesses across a wide range of industries, including aviation, energy, insurance, on-demand companies, professional sports and venues, and logistics, as well as government agencies globally.The company’s proprietary Weather and Climate Security platform uses machine learning to translate hyperlocal forecasts into actionable insights for business decision-making. The platform aggregates real-time data from existing numerical weather prediction models to provide customized climate risk dashboards and alerts for businesses using AI and machine learning. Tomorrow.io’s key value proposition is its five-day advanced warning on adverse weather.In May 2023, the company launched its first satellite, Tomorrow-R1, the world’s first commercially built weather-radar satellite. Tomorrow.io launched a second satellite (R2) in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19726">June 2023 </a>. This makes Tomorrow.io the first company to launch precipitation radar-equipped satellites following NASA’s GPM satellite.Key customers and partnershipsTomorrow.io was serving 1,000+ customers as of November 2022, which included some high-profile clients such as Microsoft, Uber Technologies, Ford Motor Company, Delta Airlines, JetBlue Airways, National Grid and the U.S. Air Force.Funding and financialsTomorrow.io’s most recent funding was in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19726">June 2023 </a>, when it raised USD 87 million in a Series E funding round led by Activate Capital. The funds were used to launch the complete constellation of 20 satellites. In March 2021, Tomorrow.io raised USD 77 million in a Series D funding round led by Stonecourt Capital, to launch more radar-equipped satellites and to improve the company's overall product offering.

Climavision offers an AI-powered radar-as-a-service solution to provide real-time weather prediction models and analytics. Climavision was a spin-off of Enterprise Electronics Corporation (EEC), a weather radar and satellite service provider. The company develops a private network of weather radars and satellites to fill in the coverage gaps across existing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS) systems. This reportedly allows Climavision to collect additional data points to provide more accurate weather predictions than those solutions that only use legacy weather data.Climavision’s product offering includes Radar-As-A-Service (RaaS), Numerical Weather Prediction with GPS Radio Occultation (RO), and Numerical Weather Prediction with GPS-RO+ Radar. 1) RaaS provides real-time weather data, via Climavision's proprietary sensing network. 2) Numerical Weather Prediction with GPS-RO is a numerical weather prediction model. 3) Numerical Weather Prediction with GPS-RO+ Radar leverages the real-time power of Climavision’s sensing network. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21793">September 2023</a>, Climavision installed its weather X-Band weather radar system in Alabama, to fill a low-level coverage gap in the Appalachian Plateau region. &nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30169">June 2024</a>, the company launched a new product suite called Horizon AI to support the renewable energy sector. The suite improves the accuracy and scope of forecasting models by integrating machine learning and AI-based tools.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30156">May 2024</a>, Climavision acquired Intersphere, a sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) weather forecasting platform (up to a year in advance), to enhance AI-powered weather prediction.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn June 2022, the company partnered with GE Digital, a provider of machine data to produce analytics and insights, to support the latter’s customers, improve their weather prediction ability, and better plan for severe storm events. Previously, in February 2022, the company added Cargill, a food and agricultural company to its customer portfolio.In June 2021, Climavision also entered into a strategic collaboration with GeoOptics, an Earth remote-sensing provider, to improve its weather forecasting solutions.Funding and financialsClimavision’s most recent funding round was in June 2021, when it raised USD 100 million in a Series A funding round led by The Rise Fund.

Climavision

Jupiter Intelligence provides climate risk analytics solutions across private and public sectors by incorporating AI and machine learning for predictive climate modeling. Jupiter covers a range of natural disasters such as flood, wind, heat, cold, wildfire, drought and water stress, hail, and extreme precipitation.As of November 2022, the company offered its solutions across 30+ companies in the Global 2000, US Department of Defense, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Jupiter serves across 20 sectors including banking, chemicals, insurance, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and construction and provides customers with access to nearly 150 trillion data fields using cloud-based supercomputing. The company offers its risk analytics solutions via web-based applications, reports, through an API, and consulting engagements.Jupiter’s ClimateScore Intelligence Platform claims to predict natural disasters from one-hour to 50+ years in advance. The company also offers a ClimateScore Planning suite, which includes FloodScore, HeatScore, WindScore, FireScore and ClimateScore Global solutions for climate risk assessment. As of November 2022, Jupiter’s platform was priced at USD 1 million per year and upward.Key customers and partnershipsIn June 2022, the company partnered with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to incorporate Jupiter’s climate analytics into BCG’s ClimateImpact.AI platform. In August 2022, Jupiter collaborated with Aon, a professional services firm, to address climate change for financial institutions’ balance sheets, identification of climate risks, and quantification of climate-related disclosure regulations. In January 2023, the company partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15706">FORVIS </a>, an accounting and advisory company, to develop a climate risk modeling tool. In March 2024, Jupiter entered into a strategic agreement with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27657">Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) </a>, an NYSE-listed real estate and investment management company, to provide AI-powered climate risk analytics for properties and portfolios. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33631">September 2024</a>, the company partnered with DNV, an assurance and risk management provider, to launch climate-driven hail risk service for solar PV across North America.&nbsp;Jupiter’s customers include Hawaiian Electric, Zurich, conEdison, bp, Liberty Mutual, QBE, MS&amp;AS Insurance, Terna, Bephila, New York City, City of Miami, NASA, and US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Jupiter Intelligence

ClimateAi provides climate risk modeling solutions across global supply chains. The company states that its digital platform monitors short-term, seasonal, and long-term climate risks, ranging from one day to 50+ years into the future. ClimateAi’s proprietary AI modeling platform optimizes supply chain operations from production planning, demand estimation, and inventory management to ensure minimum climate disruption across supply chains. The company also launched its Enterprise Climate Planning (ECP) platform, to quantify climate impacts and provide business-specific insights in order to mitigate climate risks across supply chains.Key customers and partnershipsAs of November 2022, the company was working with 20+ food and agricultural companies across 35 countries.Funding and financialsClimateAi’s most recent funding was in April 2023, when it raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17753">USD 22 million </a>in a Series B funding round led by Four Rivers Group. Previously in July 2021, the company raised USD 12 million in a Series A funding round led by Radical Ventures. The proceeds were utilized to expand its platform offering from existing food and agricultural companies to other industry supply chains. Part of the funds were also used to expand the company’s geographical footprint across India and Japan.

ClimateAi

Floodbase (formerly Cloud to street (C2S)) is a flood intelligence platform powered by satellites, machine learning, and on-the-ground observation data to track flood-events in real time. The company’s proprietary satellite imagery, historical data, and flood modeling provide governments and insurance companies with precise data to monitor people and assets at risk, identify blocked roads, and measure property and agricultural damage. The company utilizes 15 satellites to gather flood data.Floodbase also offers a Global Flood Database, a free and an open-sourced platform, which has mapped nearly 913 flood events across 169 countries globally as of November 2022.Key customers and partnershipsFloodbase supported 28 governments and institutions as of November 2022. The company’s customers include WillisRe, an insurance subsidiary of Willis Towers Watson. WillisRe adopted C2S’s platform to optimize its actuarial models in markets like Indonesia.In June 2022, the company partnered with two parametric insurance platforms, Raincoat and Munich Re Group, to deploy the world’s first parametric flood insurance program. Since then, Raincoat has leveraged Floodbase’s flood data to develop a platform that allows payouts to insured farmers within days of a disaster. In October 2023, the company partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates?industryIds=124">Ag Guard </a>to provide parametric flood insurance programs for farmers and governments in Australia and New Zealand in 2024. In December 2023, Floodbase collaborated with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24786">Oneglobal </a>, a UK-based insurance broker, to provide flood insurance solutions for the Asian market. In January 2024, the company partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25834">Capella Space</a>,, a space tech firm, to leverage high-resolution satellite data for parametric insurance payouts. In August 2024, Floodbase partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32691">Amwins</a>, a specialty insurance distributor, to launch the Tees-to-Green flood insurance program for US golf courses, and in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34663">October 2024</a> launched a flood insurance program for California municipalities.Funding and financialsThe company’s most recent funding was in January 2023, when it raised USD 12 million in a Series A funding round led by Lowercarbon Capital, alongside participation from Collaborative Fund, Floating Point, and Vidavo.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Floodbase

Forecasts weather for up to 14 days by using other next-generation solutions

Forecasts long-term climate risks (for up to ~50-80 years into the future) by using AI/ ML solutions

Forecasts long-term climate risks (for up to ~50-80 years into the future) by using other next-generation solutions

Provides long-term climate risk analytics to cover the gap in traditional insurance products

Provides climate risk scores for third-parties

Uses AI/ML tools to forecast climate risks for up to ~50–80 years

Provides tools to identify future hazards to protect industries like agri and insurance

Tomorrow.io

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