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Carbon Direct Capital
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Carbon Direct Capital is an investment firm that partners with companies in the carbon management ecosystem. It describes a selective, science-focused approach to investing intended to maximize both climate impact and financial returns.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingEducationClimate & Energy
In its own wordscarbon managementclimategrowthscience
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Or find every investor that fitsCarbon Direct Capital lists 14 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (35%), Education (27%) and Climate & Energy (15%). 78% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lowercarbon Capital, Override and United Airlines Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Carbon Direct Capital, 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 Carbon Direct Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 14. 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 33% |
| Growth | 33% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 36th | 14 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 85th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 63th | 35% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lowercarbon Capital | 4 |
| Override | 3 |
| United Airlines Ventures | 3 |
| Aera VC | 2 |
| Aramco Ventures | 2 |
| Cantos | 2 |
| Elemental Impact | 2 |
| MOL Switch | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers14100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 35% | 7% |
| Education | 27% | 7% |
| Climate & Energy | 15% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 12% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 12% | 18% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Lowercarbon Capital
Compare Carbon Direct Capital 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 Carbon Direct Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Jan 2026 | Series A | |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Series B | |
| 19 Sept 2024 | Series C+ |
Round details for Carbon Direct Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Carbon Direct Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
14 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Company produces synthetic fuels using various energy sources and technologies. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| CarbonCure helps concrete producers maximize cement efficiency and reduce embodied carbon by injecting captured CO₂ into fresh concrete | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Graphyte delivers durable carbon removal today in partnership with farmers, foresters, and rural communities. | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Heirloom permanently removes carbon dioxide from the air using a process that harnesses the natural power of limestone. | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| LanzaTech transforms industrial emissions, carbon dioxide, and gasified waste into ethanol and other sustainable products using bio-fermentation technology | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Leilac develops and implements a technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from cement and lime production | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Neurophos develops and manufactures the Optical Processing Unit, a chip that compresses AI compute into a smaller size and power draw. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Jan 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Syzygy Plasmonics converts waste biogas and renewable electricity into low-carbon aviation fuel using a proprietary process. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Sage Geosystems develops competitive and resilient energy production and storage using geothermal technology. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jan 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Solugen turns American feedstocks into critical materials for energy systems and national security | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Sunfire produces electrolyzers for the hydrogen industry. | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| The company makes filters and machines that capture and remove CO2 from industrial emissions and the air. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Twelve is a next-generation industrial company that advances how everyday products are made from the molecule up using its Power-to-X hydrocarbon platform. | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Sept 2024Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Velocys licenses advanced Fischer-Tropsch technology that enables the commercial production of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and eFuels. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- carbondirectcapital.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Sept 2024
- Companies checked
- 14
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