Elemental Impact Fund

VCMatch tracks Elemental Impact Fund as an investor focused on Climate/Cleantech, Mobility/Transportation, and Agtech companies, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, United States and Global markets, and $94m to $100m check sizes. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

Check Size

$94m to $100m

Stages

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B

Focus Areas

Climate/Cleantech, Mobility/Transportation, Agtech

Geography

United States and Global

Investment Thesis

Elemental Impact operates as a mission-driven, nonprofit investor that targets market failures for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) and early-commercial climate projects by deploying catalytic capital alongside hands-on technical, policy, workforce, and capital coaching support. They prioritize closing the “Scale Gap” by combining investment capital with implementation support—policy engagement, community and workforce strategies, and bespoke deal structures—to de-risk deployments and accelerate durable local and environmental impact. The organization also complements this nonprofit model with a for-profit early-stage vehicle (Earthshot Ventures) to back founders who can deliver market-leading returns and climate benefits.

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

Elemental Impact Fund is most relevant for founders raising Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds in Climate/Cleantech, Mobility/Transportation, Agtech, and Foodtech, especially across United States and Global, with public check-size signals around $94m to $100m.

Focus statement

Elemental invests in entrepreneurs building technologies across energy, industry, food & agriculture, nature, water, transportation, and the built environment, with an explicit emphasis on first-of-a-kind and early commercial project deployment that creates local benefits and scales climate impact.

Value Add

Nonprofit investor model with 15+ years of experience focused on implementation and local impact (not solely financial return): "We are a nonprofit investor with 15+ years of experience advancing technologies that create lasting environmental and local impact."
Catalytic capital + bespoke financing tools and structures (e.g., Development-SAFE / D-SAFE) to reduce FOAK risk and bridge venture and project finance.
Integrated, hands-on support beyond capital: policy engagement, workforce development, capital coaching, project design and local stakeholder engagement—"providing catalytic capital and specialized expertise—from policy engagement to workforce development and capital coaching."
Demonstrated operational track record: 150+ projects deployed and 160+ portfolio companies, plus evidence of improved survival outcomes: "Our companies are almost 2.5x more likely to survive from early to late commercial stages than those we didn’t invest in."
Extensive partnership network and ecosystem role—collaboration with public sector, corporates, philanthropies, and 530+ investors to mobilize follow-on capital and deployment partners.
Hybrid ecosystem strategy: nonprofit deployment arm paired with Earthshot Ventures (a $94M venture fund) to support both impact-first project finance and market-return-seeking early-stage investing.