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Ponderosa Ventures
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Ponderosa Ventures is an early-stage climate venture capital firm that aims to invest $100k–$750K in pre-seed and seed stage companies. It invests globally with a focus on the US and Europe, and reports an average time to a yes/no decision of 18 days.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsclimateagriculturefoodoceansforestrycarbon removal
Your fit with Ponderosa Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsPonderosa Ventures lists 11 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 80% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (70%), Climate & Energy (10%) and Real Estate & Construction (5%). 86% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Acre Venture Partners, Climactic and 640 Oxford.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Ponderosa 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 Ponderosa Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 11. 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 | 80% |
| Series A | 20% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 27th | 11 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 83th | 80% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 90th | 18% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 91th | 70% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Acre Venture Partners | 2 |
| Climactic | 2 |
| 640 Oxford | 1 |
| ANIMO Ventures | 1 |
| AP Ventures | 1 |
| AgFunder | 1 |
| AgLaunch | 1 |
| Alwyn Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers11100%
- 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 | 70% | 18% |
| Climate & Energy | 10% | 1% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 5% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Acre Venture Partners
Compare Ponderosa 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 Ponderosa Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 14 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 25 Aug 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Ponderosa Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Ponderosa Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
11 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides industrial intelligence for manufacturing using foundation models and model-powered solutions | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Ascribe develops natural crop protection based on small molecules from the soil microbiome. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Boomitra develops large-scale carbon removal projects that restore ecosystems and support farmers across the Global South | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| 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 | |
| The company translates plants' electric signals into actionable insights for plant and tree care | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Hoofprint Biome develops probiotics and natural enzymes to improve cattle health and reduce methane emissions. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Klim enables companies to quantify, improve, and deliver on the economic potential of regenerative agriculture | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Soil Action provides real-time soil intelligence and sensing technology for farmers to measure and manage soil chemistry and nutrients | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Terradot speeds up the natural process of rock weathering to deliver permanent carbon dioxide removal | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Terranova is lifting land out of flood zones using terraforming robots | Real Estate & ConstructionRobotics & Hardware | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| The company creates a new generation of material by leveraging the power of grains to replicate the structure of collagen in animal leather | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- ponderosavc.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 3 Aug 2022
- Companies checked
- 11
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