Earth Foundry

Earth Foundry is a venture capital firm, founded in 2012, fueling visionary teams and breakthrough innovations in critical industries: energy, water, waste, mobility, and agriculture. It pioneered a venture approach for the over $106 trillion being deployed this decade to rebuild how the world powers, moves, and feeds itself. It invests at pre-seed and seed in hardware, software, services, and materials science companies. Portfolio companies include Span.IO, Recurve, GlidePath, and e-Zinc, and its portfolio companies have raised $1 billion in follow-on capital, more than four times of it non-dilutive. It works with institutional partners including ComEd, Exelon, Ameren, Calpine, Generac, GTI Energy, MaRS, Techstars, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It engages deeply with founders using proven frameworks, a network across the climate and cleantech ecosystem, and partnerships curated when they are needed most. Earth Foundry looks for novel, differentiated technologies that disrupt the status quo and create a sustained competitive advantage, a clear customer value proposition grounded in sound unit economics, and the ability to capture a leadership position in large or high-growth markets. It also wants a results-driven team looking for a long-term partnership.