Climate-focused venture firm founded by Chris and Crystal Sacca investing in companies pulling carbon out of the sky, cutting emissions, and solving the climate crisis.
Why it's on ClimateTicker
Lowercarbon Capital is a pure-play climate VC founded by Chris and Crystal Sacca that deploys capital exclusively into companies cutting CO2 emissions, removing carbon from the atmosphere, and buying time on the climate crisis — making its core investment mandate genuinely aligned with climate mitigation. As a financier rather than an operator, its direct operational footprint is minimal, but its impact is entirely contingent on the climate integrity of its portfolio companies, which span early-stage deep-tech across energy, carbon removal, fusion, industrial decarbonization, and sustainable fuels. The firm earns credibility for its explicit refusal to accept capital from authoritarian petrostates and for backing hard-tech categories many VCs avoid, but it publishes no formal GHG inventory, holds no SBTi or CDP designation, and its portfolio-level emissions impact remains unquantified and unverified.
Controversy & Greenwashing Watch
Lowercarbon claims outsized climate impact through its portfolio but publishes no aggregated, independently verified emissions-avoided or carbon-removed figures, leaving impact claims unsubstantiated at the fund level.source ↗
In its 2023 fundraise letter, Chris Sacca publicly criticized climate VCs that accept capital from authoritarian petrostates — a reputationally positive but unverified claim about Lowercarbon's own LP base that has not been independently audited.source ↗
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