Catalyze Capital
Catalyze Capital is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in San Jose, CA investing in Climate / Energy, Other. The firm typically writes $300K–$1.5M checks and has 1 portfolio company in our records.
- Check size
- $300K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 1 company on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Climate / Energy, Other
- HQ
- San Jose, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-14
Seed, Pre-Seed
$300K – $1.5M
1+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Catalyze Capital is laser-focused on pre-seed and seed investments in sustainable energy storage, emphasizing hardtech solutions and advanced materials innovations.
How Catalyze Capital invests
Catalyze Capital is a vc firm based in San Jose, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on Climate / Energy, Other. It does not invest in FinTech, Consumer.
Catalyze Capital typically writes checks of $300K–$1.5M per investment.
Catalyze Capital has backed 1 company in our records, including NanoGrid.
Partners & Team
Henry Zhao
General Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (1)
Other
NanoGrid
- •Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Climate / Energy, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $300K – $1.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Henry Zhao, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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