One potential source of funding for green and social entrepreneurs is venture capital (VC). Venture capital firms generally make equity investments in enterprises beyond the seed stage of development. In addition to financial resources venture capital firms can provide business guidance and other resources to entrepreneurs.
Many traditional venture capital firms now have dedicated funds and staff that focus on one or more aspects of environmental or social responsibility. In addition, some VC firms (sometimes known as “social venture capital firms”) explicitly incorporate additional investment criteria, such as social or environmental benefits, in their mission and investing activities.
This page also includes links to some relevant “angel investors.” Angel investors generally provide capital at an early stage of an enterprise’s development, prior to the period of investment by traditional venture capital firms.
This list is a work in progress — to suggest an addition send an e-mail to info [at] greenvc.org
General Resources
- Angel Capital Association
- Community Development Venture Capital Alliance
- National Venture Capital Association
Funding Sources
- Acumen Fund
- Access Venture Partners
- Braemar Energy Ventures
- CalCEF Angel Fund
- California Clean Energy Fund
- Clean Pacific Ventures
- Commons Capital
- Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- Element 8
- Element Partners
- ennovent
- Expansion Capital Partners
- Garage Technology Ventures
- Good Capital
- Good Energies
- Gray Matters Capital
- Gray Ghost Ventures
- GreenStart
- Haywood Dorland Energy Capital
- IGNIA
- Investeco Capital
- Investors’ Circle
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers: Green Growth Fund
- Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Massachusetts Green Energy Fund
- Mindful Investors
- Navitas Capital
- NGEN Partners
- Nth Power
- RockPort Capital Partners
- Root Capital
- RSF Social Finance
- SJF Ventures
- Solstice Capital
- Spring Ventures
- TBL Capital
- Toniic
- True North Venture Partners
- Underdog Ventures
- Virgin Green Fund
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