- Join the Cool Climate Fund: Our primary investment vehicle offers diversified exposure to the most promising early-stage climate tech companies. LPs gain priority access to co-investments and benefit from our rigorous diligence process powered by collective intelligence. Click here to request more information about the fund.
- Join the Cool Climate Collective Syndicate: Click the link above. By joining our syndicate, you can learn about select investments we make and decide to invest alongside us on a deal-by-deal basisāno upfront commitment required. Minimums generally start at $2,500, with priority given to fund LPs.
What We Believe:
- A mass convergence of top-tier talent and capital is creating a climate tech goldrush that will persist as markets experience climate-driven volatility.
- The next generation of unicorns will emerge from the climate tech sector.
- A collaborative approach to investing will define the winners on a global stage.
- Weather volatility and climate risks are global issues, opening avenues for scalable technological solutions.
- Climate solutions offer benefits beyond carbon reduction, encompassing health and societal gains.
What We Donāt Do:
- This is NOT an impact fund.
- We are NOT chasing carbon markets.
- We DONāT like business models that are dependent on a green premium, carbon offsets or subsidies. Instead, we believe in solutions that deliver tangible benefits for individuals, communities, and society at large, thriving at the cutting edge of climate innovation.
What We Do:
- Back exceptional founders.
- Love hardware, but we also like software that can accelerate the deployment of climate technologies. (Especially as Portfolio Multipliers)
- Invest early, but avoid 24+ months for go-to-market (thatās considered R&D).
- Identify opportunities in āemerging marketsā (as we define them).
- Foster meaningful relationships through collaborative co-investing and learning.
- Serve as trusted thought partners and a reliable support system for our founders.
We build strong relationships with founders early on in their startup journey. Thus, we often get really good valuations before they blow up.
These are proven entrepreneurs that have business-building experience and are going after hugely impactful problems in growing trillion-dollar markets.
They also have a big vision and know-how to get people excited about it. Since we reach them early, we often get favorable valuations while also de-risking with accelerator partners, VCs, and climate experts.
Coming from both operator and investor backgrounds, we source our deals through various ClimateTech communities and startup networks that we are actively engaged in.
About us
Mehrad was the former Program Director of Terra's Climate Change for VCs program as well as a partner at Climate Foundry and has been involved in various programming at MENA-based accelerators, while also being a mentor to various Techstars programs.
Heās also built deep relationships in the academic and scientific communities, including at Yale, Berkeley, and other tech transfer offices.
Tristan has spent the last decade building, selling, and investing in startups and is bent on spending the next decade dedicated to fixing our climate problem.
He's been a VC at 500 Startups where he directed $30M in funding, an EIR at Google for Startups, listed at Forbes 30 Under 30, a Terra ClimateTech VC Fellow, and a mentor at hundreds of accelerator programs, including Techstars, Katapult Climate, and Norrsken Impact.
Heās also built and sold 2 startups at the intersection of impact and technology.
