Clean Energy Ventures

Why it's on ClimateTicker

Clean Energy Ventures is a genuine climate-first VC that embeds a quantitative gigaton impact threshold into its investment mandate — requiring each portfolio company to demonstrate potential to mitigate at least 2.5 gigatons of CO2e cumulatively by 2050. The portfolio spans industrial decarbonisation, energy storage, critical minerals, grid technology, and sustainable fuels, all sectors with hard-to-abate emissions. As an enabler of deep-decarbonisation technologies rather than an operator, its own direct emissions footprint is minimal, but its climate credibility rests almost entirely on portfolio selection discipline and the absence of fossil-fuel-adjacent investments.