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20 Investors Funding NatureTech Founders
Laura at ClimateHack
May 20, 2024
Investing in nature-based solutions is gaining traction.
VC funding in NatureTech startups increased by 18%, from $1.56bn in 2022 to $1.85bn in 2023.
And investors can help bridge the gap needed to develop nature-based solutions across biodiversity, regeneration, conservation and adaptation to climate change.
This International Day for Biological Diversity, we highlight 20 pioneering investors with growing portfolios of nature-first startups.
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See who is at the forefront of investment in biodiversity:
Type: VC
Who: Felix Ferstl
Portfolio includes: NatureMetrics, Klim, OroraTech
What: We invest in industry-changing companies that help us stay within or return to the safe operating space for humanity.
Type: VC
Who: Tom Chi
Portfolio includes: Colossal, Chloris Geospatial, Dendra Systems
What: The VC has an additional layer of impact categories – Air, Water, Soil, and Biodiversity – and carefully tracks the positive impact its portfolio companies have on each of these areas.
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Beringea
Type: VC
Who: Piotr Bukanski
Portfolio includes: Iceberg Data Lab
What: Transatlantic venture capital investor seeking to create lasting success for rapidly scaling entrepreneurial companies.
Type: Family Office
Who: Martin Studer
What: Providing beneficiaries with tailored research and insights, asset and wealth management solutions.
Type: Venture Studio
Who: Leo Caprez
Portfolio includes: XILVA, Inverto, Terrabiom
What: A for-impact venture studio for forests & climate, unlocking the full climate potential of forests at speed, scale, and quality through entrepreneurial approaches.
Type: Impact investing vehicle
Who: Paul Bunje
Portfolio includes: SharkSafe Barriers, SIMPLi, Tamoa
What: Managed by environmental nonprofit Conservation International, it invests in Investing in businesses that contribute to healthy ecosystems
🇩🇪 FoodLabs
Type: VC and Venture Studio
Who: Till Hoelzer
Portfolio includes: Klim, InPlanet
What: Backing bold entrepreneurs committed to planetary and human health.
Type: VC
Who: Heidi Lindvall
Portfolio includes: Nala, Pivotal
What: Investing in early-stage startups fighting climate change and creating a better world.
Type: VC
Who: Lena Thiede
Portfolio includes: The Landbanking Group, goodcarbon
What: Investing in European green tech start-ups that have a significant positive impact on the planet while building scalable businesses.
Type: VC
Who: Sophia Martin
Portfolio includes: NeoCarbon, Morfo
What: Backing the most promising European Tech entrepreneurs from pre-Seed to Series B.
🇬🇧 Sand River
Type: VC
Who: Edward Thorne and Greg Robson
Portfolio includes: Maltento
What: Funding start-ups with the potential to save nature and deliver scalable solutions that enable new ways to live sustainably within our planetary boundaries.
🇫🇷 Serena
Type: VC
Who: Xavier Lorphelin
Portfolio includes: Carbon Farm
What: Investing in early-stage startups combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability and diversity.
Type: Family Office
Who: Kelvin Chiu
Portfolio includes: Natrx, planblue, ISC
What: Catalysing systems change for both the restoration and conservation of nature, and to turn existing extractive, ecologically-destructive practices into regenerative ones.
Type: VC
Who: Kevin Webb and Tom Quigley
Portfolio includes: Sway, Amini
What: The first venture firm focused on biodiversity as a problem.
Type: Fund
Who: Laura Ortiz Montemayor
What: Investing in the transition to regenerative practices, ecosystem regeneration, and climate adaptation in agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and nature-based solutions.
Who: Matt Portman
Portfolio includes: MOMBAK, Earthbanc, Dendra Systems, Courageous Land
What: Direct investments in nature restoration, protection and technology to create value in favour of biodiversity.
Type: VC
Who: Irena Spazzapan
Portfolio includes: Naturemetrics, Basecamp Research, Dendra Systems
What: A ‘pure play’ climate and systems change company on a mission is to accelerate the transition to a net-zero, nature-positive and more inclusive economy.
Type: VC
Who: Antony Yousefian
Portfolio includes: Groundwork BioAg, ignitia, UNDO
What: Supporting early stage agri-food tech companies regenerating the planet.
🇦🇺 Wedgetail
Type: VC
Who: Lisa Kate Miller
Portfolio includes: Zorzal, EcoNusa, To’ak, Xylo Systems
What: Protecting and restoring biodiversity through long-term investments.
Type: Program of WWF
Who: Sybille Borner
What: A global program of the World Wildlife Fund to support impact investors and conservation businesses to have positive impacts on biodiversity and nature.
Are you an investor in NatureTech? Let’s add you to the list, get in touch [email protected]