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Counteract
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Counteract is an investment firm that backs early stage founders working on carbon removal. Its first fund, Counteract One, targets pre-seed and seed stage investments in solutions it describes as additive to the carbon removal ecosystem.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningClimate & Energy
In its own wordscarbon removalclimate techdirect air capturecarbon mineralizationenhanced weatheringocean carbon
Your fit with Counteract
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Or find every investor that fitsCounteract lists 9 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (56%), Climate & Energy (25%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (13%). 50% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Burnt Island Ventures, Propeller and ANIMO Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Counteract, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 20% |
| Seed | 20% |
| Series A | 60% |
| Series B | 0% |
| 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 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 19th | 9 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 66th | 40% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 87th | 56% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Burnt Island Ventures | 2 |
| Propeller | 2 |
| ANIMO Ventures | 1 |
| AP Ventures | 1 |
| At One Ventures | 1 |
| Azolla Ventures | 1 |
| Blossom Street Ventures | 1 |
| Connecticut Innovations | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 56% | 18% |
| Climate & Energy | 25% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 6% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Burnt Island Ventures
Compare Counteract head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Counteract| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 14 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 Jul 2025 | Series A | |
| 4 Mar 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Counteract
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Counteract's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
9 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Labs provides an end-to-end solution for aquatic monitoring needs, from instrumenting projects with scalable tools to providing real-time data-driven insights | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CarbonRun helps restore the natural ability of rivers to carry carbon to the sea for long-term storage | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Chloris Geospatial provides annual forest biomass and carbon data products | AI & Machine LearningClimate & Energy | Jul 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| CREW provides wastewater treatment facilities with a process intensification solution that improves performance, lowers costs, and permanently removes greenhouse gases. | Climate & EnergyAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Dashmote provides data and AI solutions for hospitality sales and food delivery services | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Mafix uses a mineral conversion platform to turn silicate rocks into carbon-negative fertilizer | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Norma pioneers a new, low energy pathway for carbon capture using supercapacitor technology to store and reuse energy required to capture carbon. | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Seqana provides the scientific foundation for measuring soil health with a focus on soil organic carbon (SOC) | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Vateris turns CO₂ into performance materials | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- counteract.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Mar 2025
- Companies checked
- 9
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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