Investors / United States / Imperative Ventures
Imperative Ventures
Venture capital · Stillwater, MN, United States · North America
Imperative Ventures is an investment firm that provides capital and expertise to hard tech decarbonization startups during commercialization and scale-up. It targets the funding gap between the seed stage and the growth stage, typically investing in Series A-C.
Invests inEducationIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsdecarbonizationhard techenergy transitionindustrialclimate techmaterials
Your fit with Imperative Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsImperative Ventures lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Education (75%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (25%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside All Aboard Fund, Aster and Clearvision Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Imperative Ventures, 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 | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 100% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| All Aboard Fund | 1 |
| Aster | 1 |
| Clearvision Ventures | 1 |
| Cross Creek | 1 |
| Decarbonization Partners | 1 |
| First Star Ventures | 1 |
| Lowercarbon Capital | 1 |
| Munich Re Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3100%
- 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
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 75% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 25% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Imperative 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 Imperative Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Jan 2026 | Series C+ |
Round details for Imperative Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Imperative Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monolith produces carbon black and co-products such as hydrogen and steam using a patented thermal plasma hydrocarbon pyrolysis process | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company discovers and delivers geothermal energy | EducationEducation | Jan 2026Series C+ | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- imperative.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Jan 2026
- Companies checked
- 3
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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