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Stepchange
Early‑stage venture fund investing in product‑led software companies that drive energy abundance and upgrade critical infrastructure to achieve climate impact.
Portfolio
17+
Employees
5+
Founded
2023
AUM
≈ $7.0M
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Stepchange Ventures Fund I
Vintage 2024 • $7.0M
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Stepchange
Early‑stage venture fund investing in product‑led software companies that drive energy abundance and upgrade critical infrastructure to achieve climate impact.
Portfolio
17+
Employees
5+
Founded
2023
AUM
≈ $7.0M
Funds
Stepchange Ventures Fund I · Vintage 2024 • $7.0M
Showing 17 of 17 matched portfolio companies
Aarden integrates geospatial data, market trends, and artificial intelligence to provide dynamic valuation analysis for land investments. The platform helps landowners and capital allocators determine optimal returns across diverse land uses, including timber, carbon, and solar. This intelligence enables users to confidently evaluate opportunities and track portfolio performance against shifting market conditions.
5+
1K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $4.0M
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Planeteer Capital
Planeteer Capital
Funding: $4.0M
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Abode provides a structured financing model that enables families to overcome financial barriers to homeownership through tailored payment plans and shared equity options. This approach allows families to access affordable housing solutions while building equity over time, making homeownership attainable for those who might otherwise be excluded from the market.
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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Bayou Energy provides a utility data access platform that integrates with various utility APIs, allowing clean energy companies to obtain customer utility data in real-time with a one-click connection. This technology enables businesses to access billing and interval data within 60 seconds, facilitating efficient energy management and customer engagement.
Funding: $1.2M
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Leap Forward VenturesVery Serious Ventures
Leap Forward VenturesVery Serious Ventures
Funding: $1.2M
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CapeZero provides a platform for modeling and structuring tax credit investments in clean energy projects, enabling users to optimize capital stacks and maintain clear economic visibility. The solution addresses the lack of standardization in financing processes, allowing developers to align capital expenditures and revenue decisions efficiently.
Funding: $2.6M
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Funding: $2.6M
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Eli provides a mobile application and web platform that engages employees in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives through gamified challenges and collaborative idea-sharing. This approach enhances internal communication, fosters a culture aligned with sustainability values, and enables companies to track engagement metrics and environmental impact effectively.
This company provides tailored financing programs for climate-focused businesses, enabling them to access capital for specific projects and initiatives. Their platform aims to accelerate the deployment of climate finance by connecting investors with impactful ventures.
Funding: $7.6M
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Funding: $7.6M
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FutureProof is a Managing General Agent that uses AI‑driven risk modeling to deliver precise, property‑specific excess and surplus lines insurance for homeowners and commercial properties in high‑risk coastal and storm‑prone regions. Its platform provides instant, granular quotes via a broker API, real‑time portfolio management for carriers and reinsurers, and incentives for policyholders who implement risk‑mitigation measures.
Funding: $6.5M
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Funding: $6.5M
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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.
This company deploys low-profile, Level 2 EV charging infrastructure directly onto city curbsides by partnering with property owners. They manage the installation and maintenance, utilizing existing electrical supply at no cost to the property owner. Drivers access the network using a portable cable provided upon membership signup, facilitating convenient urban electric vehicle charging.
Funding: $11.2M
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Failup VenturesUber
Failup VenturesUber
Funding: $11.2M
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Lemurian Labs develops Tachyon, a software stack designed to eliminate hardware dependency in AI workloads. This platform enables AI applications to run on any hardware or cloud infrastructure while matching or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned kernels. Tachyon provides AI developers with enhanced productivity, superior performance, and complete portability across diverse computing environments.
Funding: $9.1M
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Funding: $9.1M
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LGND provides a platform for creating and managing geographic embeddings, enabling developers and analysts to build location-aware applications. Their services simplify the process of integrating spatial data into machine learning models, allowing businesses to leverage location intelligence for various use cases.
Nevoya operates a fully-electric trucking carrier focused on zero-emissions freight movement for shippers and 3PLs. The company integrates electrification with AI-first operations to enable intelligent automation within logistics. This approach helps customers achieve scalable growth while embracing sustainable, automated transportation solutions.
Funding: $3.0M
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RedBlue CapitalThird Sphere
RedBlue CapitalThird Sphere
Funding: $3.0M
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Rhizome provides an AI‑driven grid planning platform that combines high‑resolution climate projections, asset inventories, and equity metrics to produce asset‑level risk models for utilities. The web‑based tool continuously updates with new weather, grid, and load data, enabling utilities to pinpoint vulnerable components and prioritize resilient, equity‑focused investments while integrating with existing asset‑management systems.
Funding: $6.5M
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+ 6 Other investorsBase10 Partners
+ 6 Other investorsBase10 Partners
Funding: $6.5M
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Shovels processes fragmented building permit data using AI to deliver actionable intelligence for the built world. This structured data is accessible through various interfaces, including API, direct data warehouse feeds, and a web application. Industries like construction technology, real estate, and telecommunications use this intelligence for market research, site selection, and lead generation.
Funding: $8.3M
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Coelius Capital
Coelius Capital
Funding: $8.3M
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Skyward Innovations has developed the MCP Multi-Reset Tool, which provides a readily available reset key for Manual Call Points (MCP) in high-density buildings to ensure fire compliance. This tool addresses the issue of 80% of buildings failing to meet Australian fire regulations due to the difficulty in sourcing these essential keys, ultimately reducing compliance-related costs and enhancing safety.
Funding: $14.6K
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RMIT Activator
RMIT Activator
Funding: $14.6K
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WATT provides an AI-powered sensor solution that automatically tracks weight, repetitions, and sets during strength training, eliminating the need for manual data entry. This technology delivers personalized workout metrics and guidance, enhancing training efficiency for users in gyms or at home.