The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment

The Grantham Foundation takes early-stage positions in important yet underfunded climate opportunities, investing to redesign energy systems, improve soil health, spare the ocean from acidification, and directly recapture carbon from the atmosphere. As stated on their site: 'The venture capital industry can be reluctant to invest in risky technologies with externalized benefits, or in speculative business models which still require climate policy to mature. This leads to a gap in the market into which many ideas with enormous climate potential currently fall. We invest in this gap.' Many impact investments are made via the Grantham Trust's environmental venture capital vehicle, Neglected Climate Opportunities LLC, in partnership with allied philanthropies, often providing first capital or even funding first experiments for ideas the world needs but that others cannot help move forward.