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Evergreen Climate Innovations
Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
Evergreen Climate Innovations is a nonprofit that supports entrepreneurs and startups bringing climate technologies to market. It runs a 501vc® Investment Fund that pools philanthropic and corporate contributions and provides portfolio companies with strategic guidance, mentorship, and connections to funding, demonstration opportunities, and customers.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordsclimate techclean energyenergy storagesustainabilityearly stage
Your fit with Evergreen Climate Innovations
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Or find every investor that fitsEvergreen Climate Innovations lists 32 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (32%), AI & Machine Learning (28%) and Education (15%). 94% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Imagine H2O, Techstars and Dipalo Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Evergreen Climate Innovations, 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 Evergreen Climate Innovations' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 70th | 32 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 68th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 56th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 32% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Education | 15% | 7% |
| Climate & Energy | 5% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 3% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Imagine H2O | 3 |
| Techstars | 3 |
| Dipalo Ventures | 2 |
| Earth Foundry | 2 |
| Groove Capital | 2 |
| HG Ventures | 2 |
| Halliburton Labs | 2 |
| Material Impact | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers32100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Evergreen Climate Innovations 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 Evergreen Climate Innovations| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 26 Jun 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Evergreen Climate Innovations
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Evergreen Climate Innovations' 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company makes buildings more efficient using smart sensors and controls | Real Estate & ConstructionIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Air Energy is a lithium-air battery manufacturer developing advanced solid-state lithium-air battery technology for aviation, autonomy, and defense systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Aquarry enables mining companies to reduce closure costs and carbon tax liabilities while extracting additional metals from tailings and waste rock. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Renewance provides comprehensive lifecycle management service solutions for industrial batteries | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| C-Motive develops and manufactures electrostatic motor-drive systems | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Cache Energy provides long-term energy storage solutions | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Carba transforms waste into valuable carbon for use in industrial materials, permanent carbon removal, and pollution management | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Continuum Ag helps farmers improve their profitability via improved soil health | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CorePower Magnetics manufactures high-performance inductors, transformers, and motors using proprietary magnetic materials. | Industrial & ManufacturingIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Darcy Solutions helps engineers, developers, and facilities teams harness groundwater to deliver efficient, reliable heating and cooling | Real Estate & ConstructionEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| ElectraMet designs and deploys electrochemical systems for difficult semiconductor streams | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Enspired Solutions provides technology to destroy PFAS in waters on-site | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| GreenLancer provides solar and EV charging project services, including design, engineering, repairs, and upgrades. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| GridStatus provides a platform for instant access to energy data and curated datasets for power markets | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Idle Smart automates idling and battery protection for heavy-duty trucking fleets | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Iris Light Technologies is pioneering a new class of opto-electronically active nanomaterials engineered to bring on-chip light sources and other photonic components into mainstream semiconductor manufacturing. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Kadeya provides waste-free beverage vending stations for workplaces | Food & AgricultureSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Kemvera is a chemical innovation company producing bio-based acetic acid and ethyl acetate to build a resilient, petroleum-independent chemical supply chain while providing cost-effective solutions to decarbonize the acetyl value chain. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Lakril Technologies commercializes bio-based chemicals, including bio-acrylic acid, using its breakthrough catalyst formulations. | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- evergreeninno.org
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 26 Jun 2026
- Companies checked
- 32
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