Climate VC

MUUS Climate Partners is the venture capital arm of MUUS & Co, and has been investing at the convergence of climate solutions and high-tech applications for 6 years, with team members bringing decades of relevant entrepreneurial and sector experience. Fund I investments apply technologies such as AI, robotics, nanotechnology, and computational fluid dynamics to decarbonize energy, transportation, industry, buildings, and agriculture. MUUS Climate Partners has backed 26 companies to date, and is currently in the process of raising Fund II. The team today consists of nine members, five of whom are full-time investment and operational staff, and four of whom serve as advisors, Investment Committee Members, and support staff. MUUS & Co, the parent company of MUUS Climate Partners, is a values-driven, privately held, entrepreneurial investment company founded by serial entrepreneur Michael Sonnenfeldt. Michael’s experience includes leading the largest commercial redevelopment in the country, founding the real estate investment group EMMES, chairing the public solar company Carmanah Technologies, and founding the high-net-worth peer network Tiger 21.

We are obsessed with finding & funding passionate, brave & resilient entrepreneurs who are solving real world problems leveraging technology. TARGET SECTORSE-mobility Battery Packs Cell Chemistry Motor & Controller Technologies Battery Management Systems EV Financing Autonomous/Connected Vehicles Net zero & decarbonization Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage Carbon Accounting, Exchange and Trading Green Buildings and Materials Climate Intelligence Green hydrogen Electrolysers Transportation Storage Fuel Cells Capture Technology Other IOT Edge Computing Augmented Reality Advance Robotics Health Tech Genomics

We look for startups to address global climate and UN Sustainable Development goals in the following areas: Low carbon mobility solutions Sustainable Energy & Resource Optimization: We're looking for companies that can help power our societies with cleaner energy and optimize our resource utilization to hand over our beautiful earth to the next generations. Sustainable Food & Agriculture: We look at solutions that enable a regenerative and carbon-negative economy, such as alternative protein, ag innovation, carbon sequestration, and blue economy. Sustainable production and heavy industry: We support innovative technologies and solutions eliminating carbon from society in industry, such as alternative plastics, sustainable materials, and processing Decarbonized built environment: We support innovations that contribute to energy efficiency, low carbon construction, and end-use. Integrated Solutions: Further holistic decarbonization efforts such as carbon capture, circular economy, climate risk, insurance tech, green finance, behavioral change, consumer B2B+B2C solutions including carbon accounting, reporting, and more Vectors Impact Pledge We are dedicated to supporting companies that can create a positive impact in solving global challenges. We encourage our portfolio companies to sign the Vectors Impact Pledge, which they quantify their current positive impacts and their long term impact goals

Link Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm, making investments into early-stage startups across Europe. Currently investing out of its third fund, Link III – Energy Transition Fund, Link Capital has made more than 70 investments into startups. Since inception of the first fund in 2016, Link Capital has successfully directed five of their portfolio companies to an initial public offering, amongst numerous other exits (M&A, asset sales). Today, Link Capital is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors in the energy transition. In Link III, all twenty-six portfolio companies actively contribute to the decarbonization, decentralization and digitalization of our economies. Currently, investments in Link III are focused on the following five sectors: (i) electric vehicles, (ii) clean energy, (iii) energy storage, (iv) mobility, (v) software and others.

With each investment we consider the lasting impact on future generations. Our primary focus is on supporting growth companies. Building stronger and more sustainable companies in order to accelerate positive change, our mission is making impact mainstream. Vision on impact At SevenGen, we believe that a sustainable world can be achieved through individual choices. Your choices of today conduct the impact for generations to come. As meaningful impact is driven by innovative companies that offer sustainable solutions to a wide audience, we focus our investments on sectors with the highest positive impact on climate. To achieve this synergy, we rely on our extensive experience and network. Our managing partners have consistently delivered both impact and strong financial returns since 2015. Identifying and supporting impactful opportunities, SevenGen builds upon a rigorous investment approach and solid knowledge of the field, to accelerate positive change through growth capital. Vision on investing SevenGen prioritizes companies with strong management, clear risk profiles, solid governance, high impact potential and a commitment to setting the new standard to their industries. Within our field, we target companies with the ability to be price competitive in order to reach a wider audience and make their products mainstream. How we create value in our portfolio? Through strategic planning for growth and strengthening of teams using our ambassador network. We offer disciplined financial management and pursue international opportunities. Our commitment to transparency and accountability ensures we closely monitor and adapt to financial, impact, and operational metrics, driving long-term success for our investments. Team Allow us to introduce our dedicated and dynamic team: Frederik Deutman, Pieter Smit, and Rass Butt, all armed with extensive expertise in driving positive change through climate impact investments. Core to our success are our joint values of ambition and reliability, connecting to whom we work with and for, thinking beyond generations and adding a bit of fun into each endeavor. Join us on our exciting journey towards impactful and profitable investments.

With teams based in both Paris and Singapore, we mostly focus on European and South East Asian opportunities. Who We Are We focus on disruptive technologies and scalable business models which can reshape the whole mobility sector. We write meaningful cheques: We can deploy between €0.5m and and €20m per company. We mostly invest in Series A and Series B rounds and can allocate 10% of our funds to pre-Series A rounds. Our base of international LPs include Tier 1 corporates, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, renowned family offices and engaged entrepreneurs. We like to lead or co-lead the rounds. What We Do We are sector-focused to be more impactful. We only invest in smart and sustainable mobility opportunities aimed at decarbonizing the transportation sector. We have developed our proprietary Investor Readiness scorecard to screen opportunities and design improvement roadmaps for each and every portfolio company. We leverage our base of engaged corporate LPs to boost speed, scale, and returns. Our operating model accelerates tech roadmaps execution, business model validations, international expansions, and strategic partnerships build-ups. We are an Impact Fund. We invest to build global champions that could, at scale, move the needle when it comes to climate change. We closely work with the entrepreneurs we are backing and our Impact Committee to build Impact Plans and support their execution. Additional info:Focus on Series A and Series B rounds Investment Ticket Size: between US$4m and US$20m per company. Geographies: With teams based in Paris and Singapore, we mostly focus on European and Southeast Asian opportunities. Our equity-only funds are backed by corporate, institutional, and private investors who genuinely understand the urgency of the environmental crisis we are in.