Takeaways

• Fourteen venture capital and growth equity firms with $60 billion in assets launch a collaborative climate tech fund.
• The All Aboard Coalition aims to bridge the “valley of death” for clean tech startups scaling from early-stage to commercial deployment.
• The fund will target breakthrough technologies such as clean hydrogen, long-duration storage, carbon capture, and marine decarbonization.

A group of 14 venture capital and growth equity firms has joined forces to launch a new fund to accelerate the growth of clean energy and decarbonization startups. Called the All Aboard Coalition, the initiative is spearheaded by TED Conferences curator Chris Anderson and seeks to help companies scale from pilot projects to global commercial operations.

Anderson said the initiative is designed to solve one of the biggest barriers in the climate technology sector, the so-called “valley of death”, where early-stage startups face difficulties in raising large funding rounds. These projects are often too big for early-stage venture capital but still considered too risky for late-stage investors.

“One of the biggest threats to the world’s future is that the companies capable of building a healthy low-emissions global economy are simply not getting the funding they urgently need,” Anderson noted. “ The only way to fix that is through collective action. By acting as a community, we can help propel these exciting vanguard companies to true global scale.”

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Coalition Members and Assets

The coalition includes leading climate tech investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Ara Partners, Clean Energy Ventures, Congruent Ventures, DCVC, Energy Impact Partners, Future Ventures, Gigascale Capital, NGP Energy Capital Management, Obvious Ventures, Prelude Ventures, and Spring Lane Capital. Collectively, these firms manage more than $60 billion in assets.

Stan Miranda, Founder of Partners Capital and Co-founder of the coalition, emphasized the importance of collective action:

“The All Aboard Coalition’s commitment—together with co-investment from the All Aboard Fund—sends a strong signal to the wider climate-tech investment community: these are the companies that will define the future.”

Funding Strategy

The group aims to raise $300 million for its first fund by October, according to a Bloomberg report. The All Aboard Fund will co-invest alongside coalition members through a semi-automatic matching mechanism, ensuring stronger financial backing for growth-stage climate tech startups.

Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, said:

“The idea is simple: more collaborative investing, fewer fragmented bets. Together, we can help more energy technologies make it through the valley of death.”

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Focus Areas

The coalition’s new fund will focus on climate technologies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the world’s growing energy needs. Priority areas include long-duration energy storage, geothermal, nuclear, carbon capture, clean hydrogen, and marine decarbonization. By bridging the funding gap, the group hopes to create “the next Microsofts and Nvidias of the climate era.”

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Source: CARBONCREDITS. com