PR

Prime Impact Fund

VC
Boston, MAWebsite
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

AUM

$50M

Portfolio

18+ companies

Team

6 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Provides catalytic capital to supercharge climate innovations, spanning fusion energy and hard engineering tech.

Meet the Team

JW

Johanna Wolfson

Co-founder & Managing Director at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

Seed-stage climate innovation
Hard-to-abate sector technology
Tech-to-market & early-stage de-risking
AD

Amy Duffuor

Co-founder & General Partner at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

Nature-based climate solutions
Carbon removal & sequestration
Gender and background inclusivity in climate tech
JM

John Mulliken

Operating Partner at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

Ecosystem building
Founders support
Technical advising
JC

Jillian Chase

Principal at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

Early-stage climate investments
Due diligence in deep tech
Climate hardware startups
AH

Af Hernandez

Principal at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

Seed and early rounds
Capital deployment in overlooked areas
Climate impact in underserved geographies
MN

Matthew Nordan

Co-founder & General Partner at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

Early-stage climate breakthroughs
Industrial emissions technologies
Scaling gigaton-scale climate solutions

Industry Focus

Invests In

Climate / Energy
Other

Portfolio Companies (18)

Other

HE

Helion Energy

Fusion Energy
DI

Divert

Industrial Decarbonization
LI

Lilac Solutions

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Lilac Solutions is transforming lithium extraction, enabling low-cost and environmentally-friendly lithium to power electric vehicles and energy storage.

VI

Via Separations

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Via Separations replaces thermally-driven industrial separations with membrane-driven ones, dramatically reducing energy consumption and attendant emissions.

C-

C-Motive Technologies

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

C-Motive Technologies is reinventing the electric motor for high torque at low speeds, which could enable bigger wind turbines and ultra-efficient vehicles.

MI

MicroByre

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

MicroByre is building a synthetic biology platform to rapidly domesticate wild-type bacteria, cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the microbial source.

VE

Verdox

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Verdox is developing its electroswing adsorption technology to make scalable, cost-effective carbon capture and removal a reality.

GR

Gradient

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Gradient is creating new HVAC systems that are quiet, low-profile, and easy to install while delivering high efficiency and low greenhouse gas emissions.

SU

Sublime Systems

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Sublime Systems is developing technology for the manufacture of cement using intermittent renewable electricity.

CL

Clean Crop Technologies

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Clean Crop Technologies is developing cold plasma technology which can degrade the pathogens, toxins, and pests responsible for food waste.

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