Capital Partners

Streetlife Ventures

Streetlife Ventures is a New York firm investing at pre-seed and seed in B2B companies at the intersection of cities and climate, across buildings, energy, mobility and logistics, water and waste, and resilience. It favors founders with a working product and early pilots and is services-heavy, helping teams stack non-dilutive capital, navigate urban regulation, and de-risk in city test beds. Its partners bring operating credentials from New York transportation, government, and urban tech. Suits pre-seed and seed urban-climate founders needing help winning pilots and clearing regulatory hurdles.

Energy Impact Partners

Energy Impact Partners is a New York-headquartered energy and climate platform built on a coalition of utility and industrial partners, giving companies access to pilots, decision-makers, and distribution. It invests across the stack: an early-stage strategy for deep-decarbonization bets, a flagship for companies at their scaling inflection, plus growth, credit, and diversity-focused vehicles. Beyond capital it deploys its corporate network for pilots, board support, and business development. Suits energy and climate founders, early or scaling, who can turn utility partnerships into traction.

Collaborative Fund

Collaborative Fund is a New York venture firm investing at seed and early stage where profit meets purpose, with a climate strategy across materials, ingredients, energy, and supply chains. It comes in early, takes technical and scale-up risk, and backs founders pre-revenue, then helps with team building, hiring, brand, and the consumer side. Its climate portfolio spans hard-tech and consumer sustainability brands. Suits pre-seed and seed climate and consumer founders wanting a mission-aligned, brand-savvy early investor.

Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures is a small, thesis-driven New York firm whose Climate Fund invests at seed and Series A in companies and projects that mitigate or adapt to climate change, across software and hardware. It invests once the science is de-risked, funding scaling and engineering over lab research, and comes in as early as a prototype, leading or co-leading with an active role. Its climate bets span energy markets, carbon removal, and consumer climate action. Suits seed and Series A founders wanting a high-conviction lead with strong networks and thesis discipline.

Elemental Impact (Elemental Excelerator)

Elemental Impact is a non-profit climate investor providing catalytic, patient capital and technical services to scale technologies with community benefit. It invests through equity, debt, and hybrid structures, including a project track for Series A and later companies deploying first-of-a-kind projects, paired with support in policy, workforce, community partnerships, and follow-on fundraising. It pioneered financing tools for the gap between pilot and scale. Suits climate founders from early stage through deployment needing catalytic capital and help reaching communities.

Newlab

Newlab invests directly in critical-tech and climate startups alongside a broad syndicate, mostly through early catalytic checks tied to its Founder Fellowship with NYCEDC, and co-invests beside leading funds. Its capital comes with the platform: prototyping infrastructure, corporate and civic pilots, community, and investor introductions. Checks are early and catalytic, sized to get hardware founders moving toward a larger round. Suits deep-tech and climate hardware founders wanting a small early check plus physical infrastructure and pilots.