RockPort Capital

VC · Boston (United States)

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Seed

Series A

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RockPort Capital Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early, mid, late stage and emerging growth companies. The firm seeks to make equity investments in financial technology, energy and power, advanced materials, mobility, sustainability, and process and prevention sectors often described as cleantech or energy tech. In energy and power, it prefers opportunities across all sectors with a focus on electric power, oil and gas, alternative and renewable sources, distributed generation, mobile power, high reliability power, energy efficiency devices, transportation, green building technologies, intelligent systems, transmission, distribution, metering, load and grid management, and technologies in the oil and gas, pipeline, oil service and energy infrastructure sectors that improve efficiency and lower costs. Within the advanced materials sector, the firm typically invests in compound semiconductors, aerogels, advanced ceramics, advanced polymer technologies, nanotechnologies, MEMS, and specialty chemicals. For process and prevention, it primarily invests in technologies that reduce material inputs in production processes, improve resource efficiency and utilization, purify and treat water and air, diminish waste generation, reduce or alter industrial emissions, purify contaminated inputs, recycle materials treated as waste, or otherwise mitigate the environmental impacts of human activities and industrial processes in an economically beneficial manner.The firm seeks to invest in the United States. It typically makes initial investments between $0.5 million and $25 million and can participate as the sole, lead, co-investor, or follow-on investor in deals with transaction size between $2 million and $100 million.The firm primarily takes a seat on the board and also prefers to hold a significant ownership in portfolio companies. RockPort Capital Partners was founded in 1998 and is located in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

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