Prelude Ventures
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Investment thesis
The firm invests in businesses that drive the transition to a low-carbon economy, viewing climate change mitigation as both the greatest investment opportunity of the century and a moral imperative. They support entrepreneurs developing innovative solutions across the climate and cleantech sectors, with a focus on category-defining businesses that generate significant positive environmental impact while delivering financial returns.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 17, 2026.
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from the firm's websiteInvestments · 60 tracked
- A global solution to manage weather risk and crop health
- A life science company committed to ensuring sustainable global development with bioprocessed RNA
- A technology-enabled marketplace that connects C&I buyers to large-scale renewable energy projects
- Accelerating industrial decarbonization through low-cost thermochemical energy storage systems
- All-electric RV manufacturer
- B2B news, research, and events focused on the new frontiers of clean energy and climate technology
- Balanced, 100% natural, plant-based food products with unsurpassed nutrition and fantastic taste
- Battery pack algorithm optimization
- Bioprocessed RNA life science
- Building highly scalable, gate-based quantum computers with atomic arrays of optically-trapped neutral atoms
- Building low-cost Direct Air Capture technology that will permanently remove CO2 at a billion-ton scale
- Building the world's most efficient and low-cost electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen from water and renewable energy
- Builds advanced AI platforms specifically developed for the materials and chemicals industry
- Carbon dioxide removal solution
- Carbon-free geothermal energy
- Clean energy and climate technology media
- Clean energy financing solutions
- ClearMetal
- Climate management and accounting platform
- CO₂ removal via ocean carbon capture
- Construction industry efficiency automation
- CoverCress
- Creating a new system to help customers outsmart waste at home and keep nutrients in the food system
- Creating algorithms that improve the safety, performance, and longevity of large-scale battery packs
- Creating effective, scalable, and economic feed additives that radically reduce enteric methane emissions from livestock
- Delivering 24/7 carbon-free energy through the development of next-generation geothermal projects
- Democratizing weather and climate forecasting, making the latest AI weather forecasting tools available to all
- Developing an industrial-scale process to produce pure metals without carbon emissions
- Develops and implements innovative financing solutions designed to lead the transition to clean energy
- Develops module-integrated microinverter solutions that reduce the Levelized Cost of Energy for solar installations
- Direct Air Capture technology
- Driving efficiency and sustainability in the construction industry by automating building design
- Electric aviation technology
- EnergySavvy
- Green hydrogen electrolyzer manufacturer
- Home energy monitoring and savings
- Industrial decarbonization energy storage
- Industrial metals production without carbon emissions
- Leveraging digitalization and automation to make solar deployable at terawatt scale
- Leveraging electrification and automation to make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible
- Livestock methane reduction feed additives
- Making high-performance, solid-state flash LiDAR to enable the autonomous revolution
- Materials and chemicals AI platforms
- Mining sustainability technology
- Planet
- PLANT PV
- Plant-based food products
- Power generation asset transformation
- Quantum computer developer
- Raxium
- Removes CO₂ from the air by accelerating the ocean's natural ability to capture and store carbon
- Renewable energy marketplace
- Sense Photonics
- Solar digitalization and automation
- Solar energy microinverter solutions
- The first American recreational vehicle company to design and build aerodynamic, all-electric RV trailers
- Used EV battery health assessment
- Vacuum-insulated glass solutions
- Waste management and food system optimization
- Weather and climate forecasting AI
Frequently asked questions
- What sectors does Prelude Ventures focus on?
- Prelude Ventures focuses on Climate Tech.
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