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Buoyant Ventures
Chicago, United States
Buoyant Ventures invests in early‑stage digital climate solutions, focusing on software and simple hardware that mitigate or adapt to climate change. The firm targets sectors such as energy, built environment, agricultur...
Portfolio
14+
Employees
10+
Founded
2019
AUM
≈ $81.7M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Software OnlyHardwareAgriculture TechnologyData & Analytics
Geographic scope
CanadaEuropeUnited States
Fund details
Funds
Fund I
Vintage 2023 • $76.0M
Sources
Buoyant Ventures
Buoyant Ventures invests in early‑stage digital climate solutions, focusing on software and simple hardware that mitigate or adapt to climate change. The firm targets sectors such as energy, built environment, agriculture, mobility, and circular economy, seeking companies that can scale in the U.S. market and beyond. Investments are guided by the potential for both climate impact and market‑rate financial returns.
Portfolio
14+
Employees
10+
Founded
2019
AUM
≈ $81.7M
Funds
Fund I · Vintage 2023 • $76.0M
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Software OnlyHardwareAgriculture TechnologyData & AnalyticsClean Technology
Geographic scope
CanadaEuropeUnited States
Sources
Showing 14 of 14 matched portfolio companies
Provides a physics-based modeling platform that generates portfolio-wide decarbonization plans using only an address list, eliminating the need for time-consuming energy audits. By analyzing over 800,000 energy model simulations, it quantifies carbon reduction potential, project costs, and savings, enabling real estate teams to prioritize and execute net-zero strategies with budget-ready, property-level plans.
Funding: $10.5M
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Buoyant Ventures
Buoyant Ventures
Funding: $10.5M
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Beni aggregates listings from over 40 resale sites, allowing users to search the secondhand fashion market using images, text, or URLs. The platform surfaces exact matches and similar styles from millions of deals, helping shoppers find desired items at lower prices. A browser extension provides real-time resale deal comparisons while users shop on new retail sites.
Funding: $6.3M
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Buoyant Ventures
Buoyant Ventures
Funding: $6.3M
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Canopy Protect provides a cloud-based wearable safety solution that connects healthcare workers to immediate assistance in high-stress situations, enhancing their safety in home health environments. By enabling rapid alerts to security and colleagues, the technology reduces workplace violence risks and allows caregivers to focus on delivering quality patient care.
ElectroTempo offers a predictive analytics platform that forecasts EV charging demand for utilities and fleet operators. Its data-driven projections help clients de-risk EV investments by providing granular, hour-by-hour demand forecasts to optimize infrastructure planning and grid management.
Funding: $5.0M
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Buoyant Ventures
Buoyant Ventures
Funding: $5.0M
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FloodFlash provides parametric flood insurance using IoT-connected sensors to deliver rapid, data-driven claims processing for businesses and public entities at high risk of flooding. This technology addresses the limitations of traditional flood insurance by offering flexible coverage options and faster payouts, enabling quicker recovery from flood-related financial losses.
Founded 2017
Gravity provides an enterprise platform for automated carbon and energy management, streamlining data collection, measurement, and sustainability reporting. The solution enables organizations to reduce emissions and energy costs through actionable optimization insights and project execution. Industry leaders utilize this platform to achieve accurate reporting while delivering measurable business value.
Funding: $20.0M
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Ansa Capital
Ansa Capital
Funding: $20.0M
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Hammerhead provides a SaaS platform that uses reinforcement‑learning agents to continuously orchestrate power, cooling, and GPU scheduling in AI data centers, redirecting unused “stranded” megawatts to AI workloads in real time. By unlocking up to 30 % more compute capacity within existing power limits, the solution boosts token throughput, reduces marginal costs, and creates new revenue streams for colocation providers, AI cloud operators, and enterprise AI factories.
HData is a RegTech platform that automates access to regulatory data in the energy sector by utilizing artificial intelligence and centralized document management. This technology addresses the challenge of inefficient data discovery and analysis, enabling energy professionals to streamline compliance reporting and enhance decision-making with actionable insights.
Funding: $1.8M
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Funding: $1.8M
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The startup operates a data analytics platform that enables rapid analysis of large datasets, handling tens of terabytes to exabytes with trillions of rows. By ingesting billions of rows per second and providing filtered aggregate results, the platform simplifies complex data ecosystems for organizations.
Funding: $147.7M
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GreycroftOCA Ventures
GreycroftOCA Ventures
Funding: $147.7M
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Raptor Maps develops AI-powered software that utilizes drone technology and digital twins to monitor and optimize the performance of solar assets throughout their lifecycle. The platform enables operators to identify equipment defects, power loss drivers, and safety risks, preventing revenue loss and minimizing downtime.
Funding: $62.2M
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Funding: $62.2M
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ReelData offers an AI‑driven platform for land‑based aquaculture farms that automates feed management and provides continuous, non‑intrusive biomass monitoring through computer‑vision cameras. Its suite—including AI Smart Feeding, AI Biomass Monitoring (ReelWeight), and AI Cameras (ReelVision)—delivers real‑time appetite detection, weight distribution estimates, and health surveillance, all visualized in a cloud dashboard. By turning scarce data into actionable insights, farms can reduce feed waste, improve growth rates, and lower operational costs while supporting sustainable production.
Funding: $250.0K
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Funding: $250.0K
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Shifted Energy develops a Grid Maestro™ platform that optimizes the dispatch of electric water heaters and other distributed energy resources using machine learning to manage energy consumption and provide grid services. This technology enables utilities and real estate companies to reduce energy costs and enhance grid reliability by utilizing excess renewable energy while offering proactive maintenance insights.
Funding: $150.0K
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US Department of Energy
US Department of Energy
Funding: $150.0K
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Sphera’s Supplier Engagement platform automates outreach and consolidates supplier data through a configurable assessment engine and self‑service portal. Collected responses are validated in real time and fed directly into Sphera’s risk, compliance and sustainability analytics, enabling procurement, risk and ESG teams to monitor participation, score supplier risk, and generate reports via dashboards and API integrations.
1000+
50K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $14.7M
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Yttrium
Yttrium
Funding: $14.7M
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Sunairio provides Sunairio ONE, an omniscale ensemble forecasting platform that combines 3 km high‑resolution weather data with energy‑specific variables to deliver calibrated, 1,000‑member probability forecasts from the next 18 hours out to 15 years. The service offers hourly to annual updates, covering wind, solar, load and a proprietary Grid Stress Index for U.S. grid operators, traders and renewable asset managers, enabling precise risk assessment and planning across all market horizons.
Funding: $6.4M
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+ 2 Other investorsBuoyant Ventures
+ 2 Other investorsBuoyant Ventures
Funding: $6.4M
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