Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/

Version One Ventures

Union Square Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage, and startup financing. The USV portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets.  It exclusively invests in the internet world, focusing on the applications layer of the web, internet services, and web services that create large networks as well as the mobile sector. Some of its invested companies are based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and places in between. It typically makes a starting investment in portfolio companies of $1 million. In certain Series Around cases, the firm may make a starting investment between $2.5 million to $3 million. It typically invests up to $20 million in any single company. Union Square Ventures was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, United States.

Union Square Ventures

Alpha Edison is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology-driven innovation. The firm helps entrepreneurs to build a better world. Alpha Edison is an early-stage venture firm that partners with courageous entrepreneurs to build industry-changing technology platforms. It helps founders to create new markets, unlock latent demand, and scale businesses by sharing its research and expertise in business model innovation.

Alpha Edison

Gratitude Railroad is a community of investors solving environmental and social problems. Its theory of change directs all its work to ensure its daily activities give way to measurable outcomes and ultimately move us closer to its end impact of realizing a critical mass of capital shifted from traditional finance to impact investing. Gratitude Railroad was founded in 2013 by Howard Fischer and Eric Jacobsen after attending the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Gratitude Railroad

CoFound Partners is an early-stage venture firm that helps founders build a repeatable sales motion. The company was founded in 2019 by Jordan Wan and is headquartered in New York, United States.

CoFound Partners

Scribble Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A.

Scribble Ventures

Climactic VC invests in visionary founders solving our planet’s greatest challenges: battling climate change, achieving sustainability, and creating a more circular economy. Founded by serially successful entrepreneurs who have also seasoned venture capitalists and growth execs, Climactic will help engineer the next wave of multi-billion dollar companies aligned with planetary and societal prosperity - proving that capitalism and impact are not in conflict.

Climactic VC

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

SV Angel

Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund is an investment initiative to accelerate technology development and deployment of new climate innovations through equity and debt capital.

Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

Time Ventures is an investment fund for Marc Benioff. The company looks to invest in theB2B, hospitality, non-financial services, and commercial products and services sectors.

Time Ventures

Energize Capital is a global alternative investment manager focused on accelerating digital transformation in energy and sustainability. Founded in 2016, Energize has funded 21 companies to date and is backed by strategic and institutional LPs including CDPQ, Invenergy, Schneider Electric, General Electric, Caterpillar, and more. With an unmatched depth and breadth of industry and operational expertise, Energize works in partnership with its portfolio companies to realize their full potential from early commercialization to growth scaling and into the public markets.

Energize Capital

Intercontinental Exchange is an operator of regulated exchanges and clearing houses serving the risk management needs of global markets for agricultural, credit, currency, emissions, energy and equity index products. It operates marketplaces for trading and clearing a range of securities and derivatives contracts across various asset classes, including interest rates, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, bonds, currency, and commodities.  The company is known for providing trade processing, trade execution, listing services, clearing, post-trade processing, and market data services.  It is engaged in operating seventeen regulated exchanges and marketplaces, consisting of ICE futures exchanges, NYSE Liffe futures exchanges, New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Arca, NYSE MKT, the Euronext group of stock exchanges, 2 U.S. equity options exchanges, and the Singapore Mercantile Exchange.  Intercontinental Exchange provides its services for financial institutions, corporations, manufacturers, utilities, commodity producers and refiners, institutional and individual investors, and governmental institutions.  Intercontinental Exchange was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Intercontinental Exchange

Dalus Capital is an international venture capital firm that backs purposeful entrepreneurs building enduring market-leading companies that achieve the impossible. We partner with bold spirited-revolutionaries, sometimes contrarians, who challenge and question but ultimately take responsibility to create ethical positive change through technology. Our professionals bring insights, wisdom, and resources where experience makes all the difference in executing and learning fast. Investments have an emphasis on scalable solutions for significant problems in Latin America, in four investment themes: Inclusion, Climate Innovation, Business Productivity & Digital Consumers.

Dalus Capital

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is an asset manager for individuals, advisors, and institutions. Their investment professionals are located around the world, providing strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes. As one of the largest asset and wealth managers in the world, with assets under management of $1.7 trillion (as of December 31, 2014), they provide global market insights and a range of investment capabilities that few other firms can match.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management

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

NCX democratizes access to natural capital markets by opening up participation to landowners of all sizes. Massive climate, community, and landscape impact is delivered by connecting every landowner to carbon credit buyers on its Natural Capital Exchange. Through rigorous data and science practices, NCX carbon buyers are making real, measurable progress towards their sustainability goals.

Natural Capital Exchange (NCX), formerly SilviaTerra, is a data-driven forest carbon marketplace for forest carbon credits. As of February 2024, the project included over 22,000 landowners in 48 states, covering over 34 million acres, and operates the largest forest carbon project in the US by acreage. The company also launched NCX Rewards, a pilot program, which allows landowners to earn bonuses of up to USD 500.

New technology allows individuals and organizations to become carbon intelligent

Carbon Management Software

An update from NCX co-founders Zack Parisa and Max Nova

Natural Capital Exchange (NCX), formerly SilviaTerra, is a data-driven forest carbon marketplace for forest carbon credits. As of February 2024, the project included over 22,000 landowners in 48 states, covering over 34 million acres, and operates the largest forest carbon project in the US by acreage. The company also launched NCX Rewards, a pilot program, which allows landowners to earn bonuses of up to USD 500.Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s initial carbon credit buyers were Microsoft, South Pole, and Shell Environmental Products. The company also partnered with Microsoft through the “AI for Earth” program to create Basemap—the first high-resolution forest inventory map of the US. In August 2022, the company partnered with Pledge, an integrated carbon measurement and offsetting platform, to list NCX carbon credits on its platform.Funding and financialsNCX’s latest funding event was in March 2022, when it raised USD 50 million in a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8878">Series B funding </a>round led by Energize Ventures. The proceeds were used to support international expansion as well as creation of new natural capital markets. Previously in April 2021, the company raised USD 20 million in a Series A round led by TIME Ventures. The Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund also participated.

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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.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In March 2024, Circular IQ reported more than 2,000 CTI customer accounts in 94 countries. Microsoft, KPMG, Whirlpool, Saudi Aramco, Aptar, Rabobank, bp, Deloitte and Royal DSM were some of Circular IQ&rsquo;s high-profile clients.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Circular IQ

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 Cloverly offers an API-based digital infrastructure for voluntary carbon markets (VCM). The Cloverly platform is used by both corporate buyers and project suppliers. Buyers can directly purchase carbon removal credits through its platform or integrate its technology into their products, services, or supply chains. Similarly, project suppliers leverage the Cloverly Marketplace and the supplier software, to manage commercial operations such as inventory management and tracking of carbon credit sales. The supplier platform offers carbon credits from suppliers including Therm, KOKO Networks and CarbonCure. For each carbon credit purchase, Cloverly produces a unique transaction receipt and certificate.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Leading companies such as American Express, Salesforce, Visa, have added Cloverly to their platforms to facilitate the purchase of carbon offset credits. The online gift card company, Instagift, also allows its customers to offset emissions through Cloverly. In November 2021, Clovery partnered with Diversifi to launch a service that offsets the crypto-carbon footprint. 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. In November 2023, the company also collaborated with Sustain.Life, a B2B carbon intelligence startup, to supply carbon credits. As of February 2024, the Cloverly platform was used by over 300 global enterprises.&nbsp;
 
 
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 Cloverly&rsquo;s most recent funding was in May 2023, when it raised USD 19 million in a 
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 Series A funding
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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

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. 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.Key customers and partnershipsIn April 2023, Giki partnered with <a href="https://www.compass-group.co.uk/media/news/compass-partners-with-social-enterprise-giki-to-empower-its-45k-strong-workforce-to-reduce-their-carbon-footprint/">Compass Group </a>, a UK-based food and support services provider, to calculate and reduce the personal carbon footprint of its employees. As of March 2024, Giki had worked with over 100 global customers, including NatWest Group, Federated Hermes International, BBC, Deloitte, Adobe and Accenture, among others.

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.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In June 2022, Metrio was acquired by Nasdaq. After the acquisition, Nasdaq integrated Metrio&rsquo;s SaaS platform into its suite of ESG solutions. Metrio continued to remain an independent company and brand after the investment. 	
 
 
 As of January 2024, Metrio software was used by over 5,000 clients, including 100+ multinational companies across financial, food, manufacturing, retail, and transportation sectors. Major customers include Target, Air Canada, Decathlon, and Aldo.
 
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Metrio

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 Proof (formerly Proof of Impact) is an Impact-as-a-Service (IaaS) company based in the Netherlands. Proof offers a range of SaaS-based digital tools for businesses and investors to collect, verify, and analyze real-time sustainability data from community assessments, IoT 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.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Proof&rsquo;s services include: 1) Digital consultancy&ndash;digital assessments to create and deploy a company&rsquo;s sustainability strategy, 2) Impact dashboard&ndash;an end-to-end solution to collect, verify, analyze, and report sustainability data, and 3) Impact Catalyst Cloud&ndash;cloud-based tools and API solutions for tracking, verifying, and investing in sustainability projects. Proof also operates a marketplace for sustainability projects where investors may directly select, and fund verified sustainable projects.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 In May 2023, the company 
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 with AssetMetrix, a German-based next generation asset servicer, to offer an integrated solution for ESG data collection, reporting and optimization.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
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 Proof&rsquo;s most recent funding was in August 2022, when it raised USD 6 million in a 
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 round led by Rakuten Capital. Previously in December 2021, the company raised USD 2.3 million in a seed funding round led by Altera Investments.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Proof of Impact

Pure-play software solutions that measure, monitor, analyze, and report carbon footprints of internal business operations including ESG management and reporting software. Excludes supply chain and other Scope 3 carbon intelligence solutions.

Software for offsetting business carbon footprints including carbon intelligence startups that also offer offsetting solutions. Primarily includes instant offsetting services and carbon trading marketplaces.

Pure-play software solutions to measure, monitor, and analyze personal carbon footprints.

Software solutions to reduce, and offset personal carbon footprints including carbon intelligence startups that also offer offsetting solutions.

Pure-play software solutions that measure, monitor, analyze, and report carbon footprints from supply chains and other Scope 3 emissions.

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

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)

NCX

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