CLIMATE & DEEP TECH FUNDRAISING
Climate and deep tech rounds go to the small group of investors who understand your science. Metal finds them using how funds have actually invested, so you spend your time pitching instead of researching. Built for founders raising pre-seed through Series B.
YOUR RAISE
Climate Infrastructure
Seed · $3M Raise
Sector Fit · Stage Fit · Recent Activity · Check Size
01 Breakthrough Energy Ventures
02 Lowercarbon Capital
03 Congruent Ventures
04 Prelude Ventures
Illustrative matching view
THE PROBLEM
Climate and deep tech companies do not raise like typical SaaS startups. R&D cycles run longer, diligence goes into the underlying science or hardware, and the pool of investors with real domain expertise is far smaller than the general startup investor base.
A generic investor database returns hundreds of names and no way to tell who leads deals in your sector, at your stage, at your check size. Founders end up filtering by hand: cross-referencing portfolios, guessing at thesis fit, and emailing investors who were never going to say yes.
Metal replaces that manual research with investing-pattern data drawn from 1,000+ real investments, so the list you start with already fits your company.
GENERIC DATABASE
Hundreds of loosely filtered investors
Manual portfolio research
Guessing at fit
METAL
Behavior-based investor matching
Prioritized investors
Start outreach
INVESTOR LANDSCAPE
Climate and Deep Tech Investors Actively Writing Checks
Here is a starting list of active climate and deep tech investors, spanning pre-seed through growth stage.
Climate Tech
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Early to growth stage.
Funds science-driven decarbonization across electricity, manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation.
Lowercarbon Capital
Early to growth stage.
Backs carbon removal, fusion, and other hard-science decarbonization bets.
Energy Impact Partners
Multi-stage.
Energy transition software, hardware, and services with utility customer pathways.
Congruent Ventures
Seed and Series A.
Mobility, energy, materials, carbon, agriculture, and built-world solutions.
Prelude Ventures
Early stage.
Energy, carbon management, built world, compute, and mobility.
World Fund
Seed through growth, Europe-focused.
Evaluates startups on quantified climate impact.
Deep Tech
DCVC (Data Collective)
Seed through growth.
Industrial, defense, energy, and compute-heavy technology.
Lux Capital
Seed through growth.
AI infrastructure and compute-heavy science and engineering.
Khosla Ventures
Seed through growth.
Ambitious technology across climate, fusion, and AI.
SOSV (HAX / IndieBio)
Pre-seed and seed.
Hardware prototyping and biotech commercialization.
The Engine (MIT)
Pre-seed through Series B.
Lab-to-market tough tech with physical infrastructure support.
Prime Movers Lab
Pre-seed through Series A.
Breakthrough science commercialization.
This list is a starting point. Metal matches you to investors beyond these names based on your stage, sector, and thesis.
Looking at another sector? Metal also covers healthtech, climate, and deep tech together.
PLATFORM CAPABILITIES
Metal runs on proprietary data that generic AI tools cannot see: how an investor has deployed capital across 1,000+ investments, and outcome data from thousands of pitch decks that led to successful raises. A keyword search for “climate tech investor” returns names. Autopilot returns investors whose actual behavior says they back companies like yours.
Investor Patterns
Shows the sector, stage, and check-size behavior behind every investor on your list, beyond the thesis printed on their website.
Market Signals
Flags which climate and deep tech investors are deploying right now, so founders can skip funds that quietly stopped writing checks in their category.
Raise Agent
In Ask Mode, it answers questions about your investor list and raise strategy on demand. In Agent Mode, launched in August 2026, it plans an end-to-end outreach workflow, from prioritization to sequencing, and then executes it.
Building Access & Emerging Co-Investor Network
Maps warm paths into climate and deep tech investors through the founder’s existing network and portfolio founders, so fewer introductions start cold.
COMPARISON
Metal vs. Other Ways to Find Climate and Deep Tech Investors
Matched to your stage and sector
Yes, using investing-pattern data from 1,000+ investments
No, filter-based search
No, editorial coverage
No, sector directory
No, keyword and category search
Warm intro mapping
Yes, through your network and portfolio founders
No
No
No
No
AI outreach execution
Yes, Agent Mode plans and runs your outreach sequence
No
No
No
No
Built for fundraising
Yes, for founders raising pre-seed through Series B
Yes
No, market research and news
No, sector directory
No, broad company database
Built-in fundraising CRM
Yes
No
No
No
No
TRUSTED BY FOUNDERS
Metal is trusted by Techstars’ global network of 10,000+ founders, with roots in the YC ecosystem.
“Metal is a first-of-its-kind platform that helps founders with high-precision intelligence on investors, enabling a more intentional approach toward fundraising.”
Luis Huertas, Founder/CEO, Littio ($4.5M raised using Metal)
“Prior to investor meetings, we use Metal to look up investors and understand their prior investing patterns. This allows us to fully understand a given investor’s focus prior to the call, enabling us to build the conversation in the right direction.”
Charise Flynn, Founder/CEO, Hummingbirds
“Metal has completely transformed how we approach fundraising, allowing us to focus on investors who are a perfect fit for our stage and goals.”
Neal Jean, Founder/CEO, Beacons AI ($29.2M raised)
Backed by Y Combinator.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes Metal the best platform to find climate and deep tech investors?
What are climate tech investors looking for in a startup?
What do deep tech investors look for that generalist VCs do not prioritize?
How is fundraising for a deep tech startup different from a SaaS raise?
Can pre-seed and seed-stage climate and deep tech founders use Metal?
GET STARTED
Stop cross-referencing portfolios by hand. Metal builds your matched investor list, and Raise Agent runs the outreach.
