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ArcTern Ventures
Venture capital · Toronto, ON, Canada · North America
ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs mission-driven founders working on decarbonization and sustainable intelligence. It invests across three pillars: clean energy, clean compute, and clean industry.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsclimate techdecarbonizationclean energyclean computeclean industryartificial intelligence
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Or find every investor that fitsArcTern Ventures lists 32 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (27%), Industrial & Manufacturing (13%) and Space & Defense (12%). 46% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Energy Impact Partners, Active Impact Investments and Creative Destruction Lab.
Counts come from funding rounds that name ArcTern Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not ArcTern Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 32. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundArcTern Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 50% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 70th | 32 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 60th | 25% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 75th | 9% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 41th | 27% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 27% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 12% | 3% |
| Education | 12% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
| Fintech | 3% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Energy Impact Partners | 5 |
| Active Impact Investments | 3 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| S2G Investments | 3 |
| Climate Ventures | 2 |
| Costanoa Ventures | 2 |
| Greycroft | 2 |
| InMotion Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3197%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company13%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Energy Impact Partners
Compare ArcTern Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with ArcTern Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 1 Jun 2025 | Series B | |
| 19 Feb 2025 | Seed | |
| 14 Jan 2025 | Series B |
Round details for ArcTern Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in ArcTern Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
32 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquabyte provides technology for data-driven decision-making in fish farming, offering products such as cameras and software for monitoring fish welfare, behavior, and growth. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbon America captures and securely stores carbon dioxide, delivering the entire CO₂ capture-transport-storage value chain | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Clir Renewables provides an AI platform for renewable energy asset owners to monitor and manage their portfolios | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Cyclic Materials recovers rare earths from end-of-life products, building a secure and circular supply chain for materials that are critical to the global economy. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company's platform is used for end-to-end decarbonization solutions, including supply-chain and product carbon footprint capabilities. | Space & DefenseIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for orchestrating electric vehicles, solar, and batteries for both businesses and home users. | EducationE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Flashfood offers an app for finding and purchasing grocery deals at a discount | Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| GreenMantra Technologies converts plastics into advanced materials using molecular recycling technology and produces additives that improve asphalt, roofing, and industrial plastics. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Harbinger Motors manufactures electric and hybrid vehicles, including chassis, work trucks, and power systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Jan 2025Series B · 3 rounds | Page + round | |
| Hydrostor builds and operates advanced compressed air energy storage projects to provide long duration energy storage for the grid | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Feb 2025Seed | Page + round | ||
| Kebotix provides enterprise AI solutions for materials discovery and research and development acceleration. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| King Energy installs and manages commercial solar systems for multi-tenant sites, providing rental income to property owners and affordable clean energy to tenants and the local community. | Real Estate & ConstructionSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| MMB Networks is a Smart Energy Communication and Networking Company helping build a resilient Smart Energy strategy with the right technologies. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Morgan Solar develops and implements solar energy solutions, including diagnostics and net-zero building technologies. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Mosa Meat is a food technology company that grows beef using cell samples, producing real meat without harming animals. | Food & AgricultureFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Muon Space designs, builds, and operates high-performance satellite constellations | Space & Defense | Jun 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Normal is an applied research lab for hardware design. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and manufactures AI hardware and provides AI-accelerated co-design solutions for silicon engineering teams | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Mar 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Palmetto helps customers with energy savings and upgrades, including solar, HVAC, and battery solutions. | EducationFintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- arcternventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Jan 2025
- Companies checked
- 32
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