🇺🇸 180 US HardTech VCs backing Climate

As Climate Week NYC approaches and the world enters the final quarter of 2025, HardTech Founders are pushing forward - despite headwinds in venture markets and an uphill path for founders.

Whether it’s scaling biomanufacturing, rethinking aviation, pushing nuclear forward, or reinventing how we mine and process materials, HardTech is scaling up to redefine what’s possible.

To make it one step easier for HardTech founders to find US investors, we’re launching a go-to list of 180 VCs in the US who are backing Climate Hard Tech.

This essential resource is made for founders, investors, and policymakers looking to accelerate the transition from lab to market.

Before diving into the list, let’s hear from 10 US-based investors on some of the stand out opportunities in US HardTech and the VC Partners who’ll join us on stage at the HackSummit this December 10-11th.

Opportunities in Climate HardTech

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital

“At LDV Capital, we believe visual technologies are critical to address the most significant challenges facing our planet. Some examples could be leveraging spectroscopy & nanomaterials to enhance food & agricultural production, to renewable energy forecasting & grid management and predictive digital twins of the supply chain, we are excited to partner with people delivering this imperative future.”

Sierra Peterson, Founding and Managing Partner at Voyager Ventures

“We launched Voyager to invest in the foundational industries of the future: energy, materials, transportation, carbon management, and the software layer that organizes and optimizes the world's physical systems.”

Atlas Berry, Founder and General Partner at M1C

“Energy abundance - advanced nuclear, geothermal, and storage to meet surging demand from AI, robotics, and electrification. Cheap, reliable power is the new industrial advantage, and scaling it will decide the winners of the next decade.”

Victor Pascucci III, Co-Founder, Managing General Partner at Energy Capital Ventures

Energy Capital Ventures is extraordinarily bullish on green molecules® that expand energy in a cost-effective manner while leveraging the existing energy infrastructure.  The biggest opportunities are in energy expansion and green molecules are the answer.

Batchimeg Ganbaatar, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Nomadic Venture Partners

“The metals transition is being driven by the global shift toward electrification, decarbonization, and advanced technologies, which continue to accelerate demand for critical minerals. Copper, nickel, and lithium are not simply commodities—they serve as the backbone of clean energy, national security, AI data centers, and the technological infrastructure shaping the future.”

Tom Chi, Founding Partner at At One Ventures

“The biggest opportunity in hardtech is smart allocation of capital. Too many companies cave under the pressure to deliver quickly and at scale. They over-hire, skip pilots, back themselves into high CapEx. Companies that effectively deploy capital with discipline, alignment and execution will succeed.”

Anthony del Porto, General Partner and Founder at Betterway

“Bio-based solutions, whether that's bio-manufacturing, bio-feedstocks, or biomimicry are going to be the biggest source of innovation in climate tech. Humanity spent the last 150 years researching what we can do with petroleum. Life has been solving the same problems for 4 Billion.”

Alex Prather, Director of Ventures at Newlab

“The U.S. has always led the way on innovation and commercialization, and will continue to be uniquely positioned to do so. While there has been encouraging climate tech R&D globally, particularly among European technological institutions, the commercialization skill sets required for deep tech are still not widely disseminated to scientists who are essential actors in this process. Newlab, along with a consortium of like-minded partners, sees clear opportunities to accelerate this pathway from lab-to-market in the U.S. and globally.”

Paul Seidler, Managing Director at Evergreen Climate Innovations

“Grid-adjacent technologies are likely going to be a big hardtech opportunity to invest in. While 5 years is not a particularly long period of time, especially in the hardtech world, 5 years will be long enough to see a number of large hyperscale developments complete and start taxing the power grid. Innovations that will bring about either quicker deployments or increased reliability are needed to keep the US power grid operating at a level we all expect and require.”

Matt Kozlov, Partner at Multiball Capital

“Three words: nuclear power resurgence.”

Climate HardTech Meets Capital in NYC

This December in New York, the HackSummit will unite top VC partners shaping the future of Climate HardTech with the Founders behind frontier technologies.

These 6 VC Partners are already confirmed to join us, and with over $52 billion AuM between them, they’re ready to meet the up and coming talents in New York this December:

• Rachel Slaybaugh, Partner at DCVC

• Deborah Zajac, General Partner at SOSV

• Nick Durham, General Partner at Shadow Ventures

• Marc Andrusko, Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

• Sarah Sclarsic, Founder and Managing Partner at Voyager Ventures

• Jakob Diepenbrock, Founder and General Partner at Discipulus Ventures

180 HardTech Investors in Climate to Know

Discover the Funds and their investors who are powering the global economic transition to decarbonize the planet in mobility, energy, nature, materials, agrifood and biotech.

Ready to find your next US investor? We’ve done the hard work for you and built a go-to cheatsheet on the who’s who of Climate Hard Tech in the US.

Access the full list here.

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