The capital backing climate companies in Los Angeles.
From Riot Ventures and Regeneration.VC to the funds investing across the region, here is a starter map of the investors active in the local climate ecosystem.
Riot Ventures
Riot Ventures is an LA-based deep-tech VC backing founders modernizing physical and critical industries across aerospace, defense, energy, robotics, manufacturing, and climate hard tech, entering at institutional pre-seed and seed where it leads or co-leads and follows on. Beyond capital it bakes executive and technical recruiting into its platform and partners operationally with a small, high-conviction portfolio. It is headquartered in LA with a Boston presence.
Regeneration.VC
Regeneration.VC is an LA-founded early-stage climate VC investing in consumer-powered climate innovation across next-generation materials and packaging, apparel and food brands, and recommerce and reverse logistics, at seed and Series A. Beyond capital it offers materials-science and circularity expertise, brand-building support, and a high-profile network. It is headquartered in Los Angeles.
Fifth Wall
Fifth Wall is the largest investment firm focused on technology for the built environment, combining proptech and climate, founded in LA with additional offices elsewhere. Its edge for climate founders is a network of many strategic real-estate owner-operator partners that serve as pilot customers and distribution for building-decarbonization technology across software, hardware, renewables, storage, and carbon tech, investing early through growth.
Idealab
Idealab is a Pasadena-based startup studio and company-builder, not a traditional accelerator, with a long history in renewable energy and climate. Its model is co-creation, generating or co-developing ideas, providing first capital, recruiting teams, and supplying shared operational infrastructure across product, marketing, legal, and business development, taking a founding equity stake, with companies joining by invitation rather than open cohorts.
MaC Venture Capital
MaC Venture Capital is an LA-based seed VC, among the larger seed firms in North America, investing with a cultural-investing thesis across frontier technologies, fintech, enterprise, consumer, and some climate and infrastructure. It offers seed founders strategic, perspective-driven guidance, a diverse multidisciplinary team, and an active lead-investor posture, as a generalist rather than a climate specialist. It is headquartered in Los Angeles.