Earthshot Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in climate technology companies at the Seed and Series A stages. The firm focuses on accelerating the adoption of climate technologies that address the largest sources and sinks of carbon, including energy, mobility, food systems, industry, and carbon management. Earthshot Ventures leverages its extensive global network to provide portfolio companies with strategic support, including introductions to investors, corporate partners, policymakers, and potential customers. The firm prioritizes software solutions but also invests in hardware that offers significant improvements over existing technologies. They emphasize commercialization and models that can rapidly impact climate solutions.

Earthshot Ventures

Earthshot Ventures invests in entrepreneurs solving the toughest climate challenges. 

We invest in both hardware and software companies from Pre-seed through Series B across energy, mobility, food & agriculture, industry, and carbon. We help supercharge our portfolio companies' growth by plugging them into our global network of customers, investors, and policymakers. 

Prior to Earthshot Ventures, our team has collectively invested in over 200 climate tech companies and celebrated more than 25 exits. We have deep experience working alongside entrepreneurs as they deploy technology with customers.

Earthshot Ventures is thrilled to continue backing Lilac Solutions, Inc. on its mission to scale the world's most cost effective and sustainable technology for harvesting lithium from salt water brines, where most of the world's lithium is found. In order to meet the growing global demand for EVs, the world will need an order of magnitude increase in lithium, and Lilac is positioned to play a major role.

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Earthshot Ventures is excited to announce our investment SuperCircle!

When I was the Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Boston, clothes and textiles were a major problem in our waste stream. SuperCircle's solution directs used garments straight from closets to their next best use, ranging from someone else's closet to a fiber recycling company.

When a consumer uses SuperCircle, a retailer sends them a discount code for a future purchase and a shipping label that takes the garment directly to where it needs to go. This eliminates two major cost drivers, the need for difficult sorting at a waste facility and the potential for contamination in transit. 

These operational improvements coupled with highly attributable new revenue for retailers can flip the economics of recycling and incentivize fashion brands to start circularity programs. By working with SuperCircle, premium retailers can get more revenue from their marketing spend and divert some of the 34 billion pounds of garments that end up in US landfills each year. By increasing brand loyalty and attributable revenue, SuperCircle moves sustainability and circularity from a "nice to have" for the Head of Marketing to a "must have" for the CFO.

Congratulations to Chloe Marie Songer, Stuart Ahlum and Phong Nguyen for building the team to make this all happen. Keep up the good work!

I’m delighted to announce the promotion of both Matt Logan & Austin Blackmon from Principal to Partner at Earthshot Ventures!
 
Matt was a founding member of the team and was an integral part of helping us raise our first fund, which was oversubscribed by almost 2x. Matt also built and leads our sourcing engine - and it’s working. We’ve made four investments from our in-house data platform, three investments from our Venture Partner program, and three investments from our deep accelerator partnerships. Beyond these tangible accomplishments, Matt brings a deep discipline and selfless pursuit of the truth to his craft, and our team is so much better because of the culture he has instilled.

Austin joined our team very early on and has never stopped learning and accepting the next challenge placed in front of him. He built our diligence process, our portfolio reporting and support infrastructure, and has become the de facto Chief Operating Officer at Earthshot. He has also somehow found time to lead several of our investments and generously lends his experience to companies across our portfolio. And most importantly, Austin has been a pure delight to work with - I've never seen a bad day get him down, and I know that whenever the next challenge for the firm arises, I have Austin in my corner to say "don't worry, I got this."

It has been a daily honor to work with you both.

So…please join me in congratulating Matt & Austin!

Dawn Lippert, Ramsay Siegal, Garrett Apel, Brianna Rodrigues

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