Prelude Ventures

VC · San Francisco (United States)

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About

Prelude Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to investing in and supporting early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. Since its inception in 2013, the firm has invested in over 60 companies across sectors such as advanced energy, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, advanced materials and manufacturing, and advanced computing. Prelude Ventures emphasizes a long-term commitment to the sector, accepting informed risks, and coupling a fundamental emphasis on venture-level returns with an understanding of deep-tech and hardware development timelines. The firm manages approximately $2 billion in assets and is a founding member of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

Investment Criteria

Other investors that have backed the same portfolio companies as Prelude Ventures. Expand any entry to see the shared portfolio companies.

• Breakthrough Energy Ventures

  16 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation
  • Electric Hydrogen Co.
  • Fervo Energy Company
  • Form Energy, Inc.
  • Graphyte, Inc.
  • Heirloom Carbon Technologies, Inc.
  • Koloma, Inc.
  • LuxWall, Inc.
  • Photara Inc.
  • Pivot Bio, Inc.
  • RedoxBlox, Inc.
  • Rumin8 Ltd
  • Solidia Technologies, Inc.
  • Terabase Energy, Inc.
  • Windfall Bio, Inc.
  • Xcimer Energy, Inc.
• Congruent Ventures

  8 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • AMP Robotics Corp
  • Ebb Carbon, Inc.
  • Emergy Inc.
  • Fervo Energy Company
  • Lightship Energy, Inc.
  • OptimoRoute Inc.
  • PolySpectra, Inc.
  • Thrilling, Inc.
• Alumni Ventures

  6 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • Arable Labs, Inc.
  • Citrine Informatics, Inc.
  • Eat SciFi Inc.
  • Lightship Energy, Inc.
  • Persefoni AI Inc.
  • Thea Energy Inc.
• Carbon Equity

  6 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation
  • Electric Hydrogen Co.
  • Form Energy, Inc.
  • Graphyte, Inc.
  • Koloma, Inc.
  • LuxWall, Inc.
• Collaborative Fund

  6 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • Benson Hill, Inc.
  • Cambridge Crops, Inc.
  • Carbon Removal CO., Inc.
  • Channing Street Copper Company
  • Quaise Energy, Inc.
  • Ripple Foods PBC
• DCVC

  6 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • Catalog Technologies, Inc.
  • Citrine Informatics, Inc.
  • Fervo Energy Company
  • Pivot Bio, Inc.
  • Pyka Inc.
  • Unspun, PBC
• GV

  6 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • AMP Robotics Corp
  • Benson Hill, Inc.
  • LevelTen Energy, Inc.
  • Neutron Holdings, Inc.
  • Ripple Foods PBC
  • Sense Labs, Inc.
• Khosla Ventures

  6 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • Koloma, Inc.
  • LuxWall, Inc.
  • Natron Energy, Inc.
  • RedoxBlox, Inc.
  • Ripple Foods PBC
  • Trove AI, Inc.
• Energy Impact Partners

  5 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation
  • Electric Hydrogen Co.
  • Form Energy, Inc.
  • Koloma, Inc.
  • Sense Labs, Inc.
• M12

  5 shared

  Shared portfolio companies

  • AMP Robotics Corp
  • Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation
  • Electric Hydrogen Co.
  • Heirloom Carbon Technologies, Inc.
  • LevelTen Energy, Inc.