If you are attending Climate Week NYC next week, don't miss Johanna Wolfson, General Partner at Azolla Ventures, speaking at the Methane Reduction Intensive on Tuesday, September 24th. This event is hosted by The Astra Project, Overview Capital, and Azolla Ventures in partnership with FullCycle, Environmental Defense Fund, Project Drawdown, and Spark Climate Solutions. The intensive will bring together leaders from funds, corporates, non-profits, and governments to focus on implementing solutions for methane reduction. Key questions will focus on how the private sector can play a greater role in this global challenge. Main Event: 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET Happy Hour: 5:00pm - 6:00pm ET We're looking forward to inspiring conversations and meaningful progress! https://lnkd.in/g2mzVK59 #MethaneReduction #ClimateWeekNYC #AzollaVentures #Sustainability
Azolla Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Cambridge, Massachusetts 5,663 followers
Azolla Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact.
About us
Azolla Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact. Azolla Ventures was created by Prime Coalition, a nonprofit organization that partners with philanthropists and other mission-driven investors to support market-driven innovations designed to catalyze, deepen, or accelerate solutions for climate change. The management company of Azolla Ventures also manages the Prime Impact Fund portfolio of companies.
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2021
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625 Mass Ave
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Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, US
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📢 We’re pleased to announce the addition of Nolan English, Head of Platform, to our team. Nolan’s extensive experience and leadership will play a crucial role as we continue to deploy catalytic capital to scale climate tech solutions. Learn more about how Nolan will help our portfolio companies achieve gigaton-scale climate impact. 🔗 https://shorturl.at/EMU2H #ClimateTech #VentureCapital #AzollaVentures #CatalyticCapital #PlatformLeadership
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✨Don’t miss The Philadelphia Citizen's article spotlighting Carbon Reform and their innovative carbon capture technology!✨ Their carbon capsule, which seamlessly integrates with existing HVAC systems, captures and sequesters CO₂ directly from indoor air and turns it into limestone pellets. It also cleans the air of viruses and other pollutants. This process significantly reduces energy costs by minimizing the need for external air. This is a win-win for both businesses and the planet! As Amy Duffuor of Azolla Ventures puts it, “This is really an energy savings value proposition with carbon capture on the side.” Carbon Reform’s journey, led by co-founders Nick M. and Jo Norris, is a testament to the impact that deep technology hardware solutions can have. We are excited to see growing interest from companies and municipalities that wish to partner with Carbon Reform. Congrats to the entire Carbon Reform team on their incredible progress. The future is bright! Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eqrPT4yg #ClimateTech #CarbonCapture #Sustainability #CleanAir #BuildingTheFuture #AzollaVentures #CarbonReform #EnergySavings
Business for Good: Carbon Reform
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Azolla Ventures Featured in Bloomberg Article on Energy Transition Bloomberg’s Ari Natter and Michelle Ma recently explored the potential impacts on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s DOE Loan Programs Office (LPO) and its critical role in advancing clean technologies. The article highlights how future developments could influence energy policy and funding approaches, creating new challenges and opportunities for companies in the climate tech space. Matthew Nordan, Co-Founder and General Partner at Azolla Ventures, shared his insights: "Any CEO worth their salt is thinking hard about this right now. It’s a constant topic of discussion in any board meeting." At Azolla Ventures, we remain committed to supporting climate tech companies that drive the transition to a sustainable future, while thoughtfully navigating the evolving landscape. Read the full article here: https://shorturl.at/AILPy #ClimateTech #VentureCapital #DOE #AzollaVentures #Bloomberg
How Trump Could Turn a $400 Billion Green Bank Into a Fossil Fuel Lender
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Today marks the next phase at Oxylus Energy as we announce the closing of our over-subscribed Series Seed fundraising round. A total of $4.5M in new capital is coming to Oxylus Energy from leading climate, energy, and strategic investors across the globe, along with U.S. state support. Toyota Ventures and Azolla Ventures are co-leading the investment round. In order to decarbonize the hard-to-abate sectors of aviation, shipping, and petrochemicals that are currently responsible for ~11% of emissions we need to bring down the cost of alternative fuels such as green methanol. Oxylus' low-cost CO2 electrolysis to green methanol can reduce costs and inefficiencies at each level of green methanol production. The Seed funding will go towards developing a pilot electrolyzer for future commercial and industrial deployment. You can find the exclusive interview with TechCrunch Tim De Chant below. https://lnkd.in/dqP7mWWq Thank you to Lisa Coca at Toyota Ventures, Amy Duffuor at Azolla Ventures for co-leading the round and to Earth Foundry and Connecticut Innovations for joining the round and showing your belief in the technology. We also want to thank our advisors Prof. Hailiang Wang, Mike Matson, Pete Schork, Karan Khimji, and Dan K. for their mentorship & advice. We are grateful to all the startup support via ClimateHaven and Third Derivative, along with our community Yale School of Management, Yale Ventures, Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY), Yale School of the Environment, and Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
Oxylus Energy Raises $4.5 Million Seed Round for Clean Fuel Technology
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🚀 Big News! 🚀 We are thrilled to announce that Azolla Ventures, alongside Toyota Ventures, co-led a $4.5 million seed round investment in Oxylus Energy! Oxylus Energy is revolutionizing the production of green methanol—an essential solution to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors like aviation, shipping, and petrochemicals. The company's breakthrough technology eliminates the need for costly green hydrogen, bringing us one step closer to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Read more about this exciting development in TechCrunch: https://shorturl.at/81z1i
Exclusive: Oxylus Energy strikes 'beautiful balance' to make e-fuels for aviation and shipping | TechCrunch
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🎉 A Huge Thank You to Our Amazing Interns, Rodrigo Barrios, Celestial Gomes, and Sidney Smith! 🎉 This summer, we had the pleasure of welcoming Rodrigo, Celestial, and Sidney to the Azolla Ventures team as our summer interns. We're also excited to have our summer intern Aakriti Dhital returning for the fall. Here’s a glimpse into their experiences, shared in their own words:
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🌍 We’re excited to announce that our General Partner, Amy Duffuor, was recently featured on the Investing in Impact podcast hosted by Grant Trahant, Founder of Causeartist and Partner at PIF Ventures! 🎙 Amy’s story is truly remarkable—from her roots in Philadelphia and Ghanaian heritage to her academic and professional journey across the US, UK, and Singapore. Her diverse experiences, spanning consulting, investment banking, and impact investing, paved the way for her to co-found Azolla Ventures. 🌱 In the episode, Amy delves into how Azolla Ventures is making a difference by targeting high-impact, underfunded sectors such as rice cultivation, ocean conservation, and alternative proteins. With a $239 million fund, we’re dedicated to empowering visionary founders at the earliest stages, aiming for gigaton-scale emissions reductions and fostering equity and justice. Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gwaXteyD
Azolla Ventures: Investing in Transformative Climate Breakthroughs
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Congratulations to Spark Climate Solutions on their new methane research awards and exciting breakthroughs! 🎉
Spark is excited to announce four research awards from the first round of our Exploratory Grants for Atmospheric Methane Research funding opportunity, enabling research into two entirely new biological approaches and further core atmospheric chemistry research to improve our understanding of current oxidation dynamics and inform future development of additional methane removal approaches. Grantees include: — Arlene Fiore (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will explore how the capacity of the atmosphere to breakdown methane will change as the composition of the atmosphere responds to perturbations such as decreasing fossil fuel burning, increasing use of hydrogen as a fuel source, climate change, and other anthropogenic and natural trends. — Vincent Gauci (University of Birmingham) will advance understanding of the contribution from tree-based methane-consuming microbes to the global methane sink, and investigate approaches to enhance that sink, potentially unlocking new pathways to address growing atmospheric methane concentrations. — Jesse Kroll (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will explore the potential for chlorinated compounds to serve as marker species to quantify existing atmospheric methane oxidation pathways. If successful, this research could lead to a transformational new measurement approach to improve our understanding of atmospheric processes that breakdown methane and other pollutants. — Eli Hornstein (Elysia Creative Biology) will explore the possibility of expressing the enzyme that methane-consuming bacteria use to break down methane in crop plants, enabling plants to break down methane in the air. In addition to priority work that must happen to reduce anthropogenic methane removals, methane removal could be a critical tool to reduce near-term warming and address potential increases in natural methane emissions. The field is still in its early stages and no approaches are yet ready for deployment. In the last few years there has been growing interest and engagement from the scientific community. There was an even more ambitious response from the scientific community to the second round of Spark’s Exploratory Grants funding opportunity, and awards for the second round, which closed in June 2024, will be announced later this summer. Read more about the newly funded research projects: https://lnkd.in/gHuCKbNK
Announcing the Award Recipients from the First Round of Exploratory Grants for Atmospheric Methane Research — Spark Climate Solutions
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A couple of weeks ago, the Azolla Ventures team gathered for a memorable offsite in Ashland, MA! We spent time strategizing, collaborating, and diving deep into how we can drive meaningful change in climate tech and innovation. We also discussed how we can bring more diversity into venture capital. The energy, passion, and diverse perspectives in the room were inspiring. We are grateful for all of the founders we get to support, and the forward-thinking minds we interact with every day. Excited for what lies ahead as we continue to support breakthrough startups that are accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, carbon-neutral future. Here’s to the next steps forward, together! 🌎 #ClimateTech #Innovation #Sustainability #AzollaVentures #Teamwork #Offsite #TeamAzolla Amy Duffuor, Johanna Wolfson, Matthew Nordan, Ally Harada, Cass Vickers, Jillian Chase, Ph.D., Lauren Hartle, Tenzin C., Nolan English, Ryan D. Taylor, Eric Yao, Carrie Winters