Cerulean Ventures

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Cerulean identifies systemic leverage points where unique proprietary data, compute, AI scaling, and fintech solutions can rapidly scale into transformative niches across industries like mining, niche manufacturing, soft tropical commodities, pharma supply chains, and natural capital markets.

Check Size

Not specified

Stages

Pre Seed, Seed

Focus Areas

Climate Cleantech, Ai Ml, Data Infrastructure

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Investment Thesis

Cerulean Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital firm that backs founders applying AI to build exponential solutions for nature and climate change. They reject the traditional climate investing approach that focuses on incremental changes or niche products with green premiums, instead seeking systemic leverage points where proprietary data, AI scaling, and fintech solutions can rapidly transform large industries resistant to digital disruption. Their philosophy emphasizes finding software that will drive demand for renewable energy and environmental assets while creating radically new markets that value and protect nature.

What Sets Them Apart

Former tech founders themselves who roll up their sleeves alongside entrepreneurs
Get to know entrepreneurs months before investing and actively demonstrate worth by helping secure first customers, make key hires, and find co-founders
Focus on digital technologies (software, IoT, platforms) that create systemic market disruption rather than incremental improvements
Target markets resistant to digital transformation with potential to "radically upend current markets"
Emphasis on originating net new environmental assets and data, not just optimizing existing systems
Global investment scope with focus on EU, US, and African continent