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Prime Impact Fund

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Boston, MAWebsite

Prime Impact Fund is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Boston, MA investing in Climate / Energy, Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 18 portfolio companies in our records.

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.

How Prime Impact Fund invests

Prime Impact Fund is a vc firm based in Boston, MA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Climate / Energy, Other.

Prime Impact Fund typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $50M in assets under management.

Prime Impact Fund has backed 18 companies in our records, including Helion Energy, Divert, Lilac Solutions.

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
JM

John Mulliken

Operating Partner at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

Ecosystem building
Founders support
Technical advising
AH

Af Hernandez

Principal at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

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

Jillian Chase

Principal at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund

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

Industry Focus

Invests In

Climate / Energy
Other

Portfolio Companies (18)

Other

HE

Helion Energy

Fusion Energy
DI

Divert

Industrial Decarbonization
LI

Lilac Solutions

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

VI

Via Separations

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

C-

C-Motive Technologies

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

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

VE

Verdox

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

GR

Gradient

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

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

CL

Clean Crop Technologies

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

How to pitch Prime Impact Fund
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, 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 $500K – $3.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Johanna Wolfson, Co-founder & Managing Director at Azolla Ventures / Prime Impact Fund.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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