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Earthshot Ventures invests in entrepreneurs solving the toughest climate challenges. We invest in both hardware and software companies from Pre-seed through Series B across energy, mobility, food & agriculture, industry, and carbon. We help supercharge our portfolio companies' growth by plugging them into our global network of customers, investors, and policymakers. Prior to Earthshot Ventures, our team has collectively invested in over 200 climate tech companies and celebrated more than 25 exits. We have deep experience working alongside entrepreneurs as they deploy technology with customers.

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Congratulations to our portfolio company Vaulted Deep and CEO Julia Reichelstein on your $32m Series A led by Prelude Ventures!

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Exciting news from Vaulted Deep! We’re thrilled to announce our $32.3 million Series A raise, led by our newest investor Prelude Ventures, alongside returning investors Lowercarbon Capital, Earthshot Ventures and WovenEarth Ventures. We’re also excited to welcome new partners, Fall Line Capital and Rethink Impact, LPSince launching, Vaulted has issued more than 7,000 tonnes of durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR), achieving the industry’s fastest and highest rate of deliveries in its first year. With this funding, we'll be able to scale operations at our current facilities and develop new sites to drive even greater, faster delivery. Vaulted is proud to lead the industry in driving highly verifiable, rapid, and scalable CDR delivery. You can read more about our Series A in Reuters here. https://lnkd.in/gXSr936T
Climate tech startup Vaulted Deep raises funds to inject carbon waste down wells reuters.com
We're happy to share that former Stripe executive, Dan Myers, will be joining the brilliant team at our portfolio company Vibrant Planet as COO. Welcome, Dan!
Today, we welcome Dan Myers to the team as our Chief Operating Officer! We are thrilled to have Dan support the growth of Vibrant Planet into new sectors focused on wildfire and climate risk mitigation, and nature based climate solutions. Learn more about Myers’ experience from the link in the comments, and join us in welcoming him to the team!
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Announcing our most recent investment in Etched, a company building purpose-built artificial intelligence chips that consume 93% less energy than state of the art chips available in the market today. In 2022, it was estimated that AI processing consumed 460 terawatt hours of electricity, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) expects this to double in just four years. Data centers could be using a total of 1,000 terawatts hours annually by 2026. “This demand is roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of Japan,” says the IEA. Etched chips are specifically optimized for transformer model inference, leading to a 15x increase in throughput and a 15x improvement in energy consumption. Etched is led by a brilliant team including - CEO Gavin Uberti, COO Robert W., CTO Mark Ross, and VP of Hardware Engineering Ajat Hukkoo. 🚀 Earthshot Ventures, Matt Logan, Mike Jackson, Dawn Lippert, Ramsay Siegal, Austin Blackmon https://lnkd.in/g2Qn4EWd
Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com
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We’re excited to be sharing our 2023 Impact Report, which really isn’t about us. It’s about the incredible work of our portfolio companies who are building technologies to decarbonize energy, mobility, food systems, and industry at scale. A few highlights from 2023: 🌎 - The market remains strong for climate technology: In 2023, in spite of an overall market slowdown, our portfolio raised $342 million. While the broader venture market declined 30% (U.S.) to 45% (Europe), climate tech venture remained resilient, staying within 15% of 2022 volumes. The category remains very active and we’re seeing competitive rounds across stages. ☀ - We continue to outperform our peers in DEI: 45% of the dollars deployed from Earthshot Ventures have gone to underrepresented founders, reflecting our commitment to diversity and inclusion. 31% of our dollars have been deployed to female founders, which is well above the average across the venture ecosystem. 🌳 - Our portfolio continues to grow: Our portfolio expanded to 21 investments. We’re particularly excited about growth across our portfolio including KoBold Metals, Parade AI, and Vaulted Deep, who are featured in this report. Each investment in our portfolio is carefully considered for climate impact and financial performance. 📈 - Carbon impact is primed to scale: We continue to track and measure direct carbon reductions across our portfolio. Our report showcases 4,581 tons of CO2 equivalent reduced by our portfolio in 2023, with nearly 40,000 tons of CO2 equivalent projected to be reduced in 2024. Each commercial inflection point that we support through our dollars and coaching creates momentum toward greater impact. ☘ - We’re doubling down on a collaborative investment approach: We have co-invested and collaborated with diverse and experienced VC firms, from both inside and outside of climate, highlighted on page 21 of the report. We are also continuing our deep collaboration with Elemental Excelerator by sharing investment opportunities and resources. Looking ahead, we believe the news regarding the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will be a meaningful accelerant in addressing climate change, and we look forward to collaborating with Elemental as the capital is deployed through this historic fund. Check out the full Earthshot Ventures 2023 Impact Report here: https://lnkd.in/gE_GVxxY Planet FWD, Lilac Solutions, Vibrant Planet, Mitra Chem, Kanin Energy, KoBold Metals, Halo.Car, Mootral, Noteworthy AI, Toucan, Tread, Derapi, Aquabyte, Pattern Ag, Sunstone Credit, LayerUp, SuperCircle, Vaulted Deep, Sightline Climate (CTVC), PitchBook, Mike Jackson, Dawn Lippert, Matt Logan, Austin Blackmon, Garrett Apel, Brianna Rodrigues
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This climate tech investor and his team have invested in 200+ startups with over $1B in follow-on capital. Here's my EFI (Entrepreneurs for Impact) podcast with him. Episode #178: Mike Jackson, Managing Partner of Earthshot VenturesEarthshot VC is an early-stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs making a dent in climate change. Mike is an investor, entrepreneur, board member, and advisor to companies in the clean energy, food & agriculture, buildings, and mobility. He is formerly an Investor in Residence at Elemental Excelerator and Developer in Residence at Generate. 🔗 Links: Earthshot Ventures - https://www.earthshot.vc/Mike - https://lnkd.in/e6W9Ah8j🍎 Listen on Apple:https://lnkd.in/epqXpi8w🟢 Listen on Spotify:https://lnkd.in/e52r_dGS✔️ Learn about EFI's climate CEO peer groups:https://lnkd.in/ePfQdsp7 Dawn Lippert
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Earthshot Ventures invested in Vaulted Deep last year because they have the lowest cost proven technology for high quality permanent CDR that we've seen. Today I'm thrilled to share that Vaulted has signed a $58.3M offtake agreement with the leading CDR buyer, Frontier. This is Frontier's largest offtake to date! While Vaulted only officially became a company last year, they're building off of decades of work. Applying a mature technology originally commercialized in the oilfield space to carbon removal means that Vaulted can reach massive scale in the near term. It also means Vaulted has a CDR approach that's safe, tested, and fully regulated. Congrats to Julia Reichelstein, Omar Abou-Sayed, and the rest of the Vaulted team!
Frontier bets $58.3M on carbon removal startup Vaulted Deep canarymedia.com
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Earthshot Ventures is thrilled to continue backing Lilac Solutions, Inc. on its mission to scale the world's most cost effective and sustainable technology for harvesting lithium from salt water brines, where most of the world's lithium is found. In order to meet the growing global demand for EVs, the world will need an order of magnitude increase in lithium, and Lilac is positioned to play a major role.https://lnkd.in/dYtHk2Gw https://lnkd.in/gr8QZvMv
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Earthshot Ventures is excited to announce our investment SuperCircle! When I was the Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Boston, clothes and textiles were a major problem in our waste stream. SuperCircle's solution directs used garments straight from closets to their next best use, ranging from someone else's closet to a fiber recycling company. When a consumer uses SuperCircle, a retailer sends them a discount code for a future purchase and a shipping label that takes the garment directly to where it needs to go. This eliminates two major cost drivers, the need for difficult sorting at a waste facility and the potential for contamination in transit. These operational improvements coupled with highly attributable new revenue for retailers can flip the economics of recycling and incentivize fashion brands to start circularity programs. By working with SuperCircle, premium retailers can get more revenue from their marketing spend and divert some of the 34 billion pounds of garments that end up in US landfills each year. By increasing brand loyalty and attributable revenue, SuperCircle moves sustainability and circularity from a "nice to have" for the Head of Marketing to a "must have" for the CFO. Congratulations to Chloe Marie Songer, Stuart Ahlum and Phong Nguyen for building the team to make this all happen. Keep up the good work!

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