Mission One Capital

Mission One Capital (M1C) is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at pre-seed and seed in startups driving energy independence and industrial resilience, with a reach spanning the US and Europe. It backs founders rebuilding how the world is powered and built, and calls itself a SWAT team that gets dirt under its nails to give founders high-velocity support. It invests across three pillars: energy independence, industrial resilience, and frontier industries. Portfolio companies include Chargerhelp!, Curo, Derapi, Elective, Lumindt, MinersAI, Solarock, Third Polaris, Zevvy, Maive AI, Deep Meta, Glid Technologies, Formulate Robotics, Shovels, ThreeV, Victus, Kodama Systems, Lux Aeterna, LGND, and Cloverly. Its work spans EV charging and distributed energy, hydrogen batteries, renewable project finance, factory operations, grid inspection, building permit data, autonomous rail and forestry, reusable satellites, and geospatial AI. Mission Reports publishes its research on the sectors it backs. M1C looks for founders with the mental toughness of elite athletes, a performance mindset, and the speed and precision to cross the finish line, partnering with them at the dawn of their journey. It describes itself as combining global expertise with a bias toward action.