# Pale Blue Dot

> Pre-seed and seed venture capital firm investing €0.5M–€2M in climate tech founders across Europe and the US

Legal entity: Pale Blue Dot I AB. Founded 2020. Operating across Europe, United States. Focus areas: Climate tech, Pre-seed investing, Seed investing, Decarbonization, Climate adaptation, Energy transition.

## Pages
- [About us](https://paleblue.vc/about-us.md)
- [Contact](https://paleblue.vc/contact.md)
- [Contact Form](https://paleblue.vc/contact-form.md)
- [Home](https://paleblue.vc/home.md): We invest in diverse and ambitious founders building scalable companies that help us reduce or reverse climate change.
- [Jobs](https://paleblue.vc/jobs.md)
- [Media kit](https://paleblue.vc/media-assets.md)
- [Privacy Policy](https://paleblue.vc/privacy-policy.md)
- [Sustainability related disclosures](https://paleblue.vc/sustainability-related-disclosures.md)
- [Team](https://paleblue.vc/team.md)

## Portfolio (42 companies)
- [AgroLeague](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/agroleague.md): AgroLeague build the default operating system for farmers wanting to feed the world sustainably. (Food tech · Paris, FR).
- [Amini](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/amini.md): Amini leverage satellite data and AI to provide a single source of truth for environmental data in the Global South. (Data · Nairobi, KE).
- [Arctal](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/arctal.md): Arctal build AI agents that extract, structure and validate financial data from raw documents. They turn annual reports, disclosures, and regulatory filings into institutional-grade datasets for investors. What used to take a year now takes a week. (Financial services · London, UK).
- [Atlas](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/atlas.md): Atlas.co make working with maps and location data simple, fast, and collaborative. From planning renewable energy projects to mapping critical habitats and biodiversity hotspots, they help drive climate solutions. Built for teams, designed for action. (Software · Oslo, NO).
- [Bettaf!sh](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/bettafish.md): BettaF!sh make seaweed-based fish alternatives, allowing consumers to save the ocean while enjoying their favourite foods. With BettaF!sh, coastal communities can continue their livelihoods with regenerative and sustainable seaweed cultivation instead of fishing. (Food tech · Berlin, DE).
- [Brineworks](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/brineworks.md): Brineworks uses Direct Air Capture to deliver clean CO₂ and H₂. (Deep tech · Amsterdam, NL).
- [Care Weather](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/care-weather.md): Care Weather collect high-accuracy global weather data to prevent weather-related losses. (Weather · Utah, US).
- [CBAMBOO](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/cbamboo.md): CBAMBOO build the essential compliance and data platform for industrial firms looking to navigate CBAM and decarbonise their supply chains. (SaaS · London, UK).
- [Cinqo](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/cinqo.md): Cinqo helps industrial companies reduce waste costs and operational complexity by centralising all waste streams into a single, data-driven platform that optimises collections, improves recycling performance, and secures ISO and ESG compliance. (Waste · Paris, FR).
- [Cirplus](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/cirplus.md): Cirplus are Europe’s largest B2B procurement platform for recycled plastics. They aggregate and qualify supply and demand for recycled plastics, which creates the cost-efficiency, trust, and transparency necessary to scale a highly fragmented market. (Circular Economy · Hamburg, DE).
- [Climate X](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/climate-x.md): Climate X enable governments and businesses to analyse the impact of extreme weather events linked to climate change. They do this by delivering location specific risk ratings and climate adjusted loss estimates between now and 2100, under multiple climate emission pathways. (Data · London, UK).
- [Cosmic Aerospace](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/cosmic-aerospace.md): Cosmic Aerospace build ultra-efficient all-electric passenger aircraft capable of flying real aircraft ranges without needing battery miracles. (Aerospace · Denver, US & Brussels, BE).
- [Distill](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/distill-energy.md): Distill provide a forecasting and grid simulation platform that enables energy companies to make better decisions, faster, with less risk. (Energy · Boulder, US).
- [Ember](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/ember.md): Ember build the future of intercity transport – fully electric and tech-enabled. (Transport · Edinburgh, UK).
- [Green-Got](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/green-got.md): Every day, banks are pouring billions of euros into the fossil fuel industry. What if this money went into funding the transition instead? This is Green-Got's mission: building a green bank for a greener world. (Financial services · Paris, FR).
- [Hack Your Closet](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/hackyourcloset.md): Hack Your Closet offered a clothing subscription service with low climate impact. Their monthly subscription maximised the use of discarded garments, building a network of dark closets run by engineers, stylists, and operational hackers. (Consumer · Europe).
- [Hier Foods](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/hier.md): Hier enabled a more local, diverse, and resilient consumer food supply while simplifying the local supply chain. They digitised procurement processes between local suppliers and retailers. (Food tech · Berlin, DE).
- [HIVED](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/hived.md): HIVED revolutionise mass-market parcel delivery with tech, data, vertical integration, and process innovation: 100% zero-emission, more affordable, and 10X better experience. (Logistics · London, UK).
- [Improvin'](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/improvin.md): Improvin’ provide a sustainability performance platform for the agrifood industry. Food brands, processors, and mills use the platform to measure, verify, and report their value chain emissions — and collaborate with their suppliers to reduce the climate impact. (Agri-food · Stockholm, SE).
- [Infyos](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/infyos.md): Infyos help battery and car makers manage and improve their company with supply chain sustainability. They help companies get ahead of their customer and regulation requirement deadlines. (Supply Chain Technology, · London, UK).
- [Jane Energy](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/jane-energy.md): Jane help real estate groups unlock NOI across every property in their portfolios. Their AI-powered platform provides reliable energy data and surface high-ROI cost-saving opportunities – continuously, automatically, across every property. (Data · New York, US).
- [JaroFleet](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/jarofleet.md): Jaro Fleet exist to accelerate the electrification of trucking through the mass adoption of electric semi-trucks. (Hardware · Oakland, US).
- [Maiven](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/maiven.md): Maiven make climate policy simple. Using AI, they provide personalised insights on the impacts of climate policies on companies' operations. Their solution helps companies monitor climate policies, understand their business implications, and take actions to mitigate risk or capture opportunities. (Software · London, UK).
- [Monta](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/monta.md): Monta's operating system is designed to give charge point owners and electric car drivers a fully-fledged solution. Charge point owners can attract users and manage usage, pricing, and transactions — regardless of charge point brand. EV drivers can charge at home and on the go via the Monta app. (Software · Copenhagen, DK).
- [Nala](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/nala.md): Nala enable businesses to understand their impacts and dependencies on the complex world of nature and biodiversity. Through location-specific nature assessments considering water, land, and biodiversity, businesses gain transparency on site-specific impacts, dependencies, and nature-related risks. (Nature Tech · Berlin, DE & Zürich, CH).
- [Opna](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/opna.md): Opna help companies lead on timely and credible climate action by enabling them to drive catalytic financing into the highest-impact carbon removal projects in the Global South. (Carbon markets · London, UK).
- [Overstory](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/overstory.md): Overstory’s mission is to help solve the climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. They apply machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation, helping to reduce the risk of wildfires and power outages. (SaaS · Amsterdam, NL).
- [Paebbl](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/paebbl.md): Paebbl re-store CO2 into raw materials. Their proprietary technology mimics and speeds up Earth’s natural mineralisation process, in which our planet annually stores three gigatons of CO2. As a result, Paebbl produce carbon-negative raw materials for use across various industries. (Raw materials · Stockholm, SE).
- [Patch](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/patch.md): Patch build the infrastructure for a sustainable economy by enabling giga-tonne-scale carbon removal. They are an API-first carbon removal marketplace that enable companies to seamlessly purchase as little as a gram to giga-tonnes of carbon removal from reputable and trusted carbon removal projects. (API · San Francisco, US).
- [Pelikan Mobility](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/pelikan-mobility.md): Pelikan Mobility lease tech-enabled electric light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and leverage proprietary optimisation algorithms to deliver cheaper, more productive EVs tailored to each fleet. (EV leasing · Paris, FR).
- [Phytoform](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/phytoform.md): Phytoform unlock the power of plant genetics to make agriculture sustainable. Their crop improvement platform uses artificial intelligence and genome editing to discover and implement novel traits. (Agritech​/​Biotech · London, UK & Boston, US).
- [PIONIX](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/pionix.md): PIONIX are the open-source pioneers of EV charging technology. In 2020, they initiated EVerest, a freely accessible and holistic software solution for the booming e-mobility market. (E-Mobility · Bad Schönborn, DE).
- [Pivotal](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/pivotal.md): Pivotal provide the data people and companies need to invest in positive outcomes for nature, linking biodiversity commitments and actions to real, evidenced outcomes. (Nature & biodiversity · Cambridge, UK).
- [Podero](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/podero.md): Utilities use Podero’s platform to synchronise consumer devices, electricity markets, and software systems — unlocking new revenue streams, cutting CO2 emissions and costs for their customers, and offering highly competitive electricity contracts. (Energy · Vienna, AT).
- [SnoFox Sciences](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/snofoxsciences.md): The global refrigeration and cooling space is responsible for 10 - 17% of CO2 emissions worldwide. SnoFox Sciences increase the energy and operational efficiency of the global cold supply chain through data analytics. (Supply chain · Philadelphia, US).
- [Solarock](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/solarock.md): Solarock is a French company providing turnkey solar energy solutions. They specialise in self-consumption, local installations, and innovative technologies, helping homes and businesses reduce energy costs and increase sustainability through high-quality, efficient solar systems. (Energy · Paris, FR).
- [Sphere](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/sphere.md): Sphere amplify a social movement to get 401(k) retirement savings money out of fossil fuel companies. They are a registered public benefit corporation that help employers provide employees with authentic climate-friendly investment options while maintaining fiduciary duty with quality products at reasonable fees. (Finance · Covina, US).
- [Staer](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/staer.md): Staer builds the Physical AI infrastructure for autonomous mobile robots. Their platform provides shared spatial intelligence, real-time 3D mapping, and multi-vendor coordination, enabling robot fleets to see, navigate, and collaborate at scale. (Robotics · Malmö, SE).
- [Tangible](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/tangible.md): The world's biggest problems need hardware. Hardware needs debt. Equity won't cut it. Tangible is infrastructure for hardtech debt. We're the fastest route to game-changing financial products—from prep through lender matching to facility management. (Finance · London, UK).
- [VARM](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/varm.md): VARM bridge the skills gap hindering large-scale insulation by building the insulation champion to speed up decarbonisation. VARM train installers on insulation and open local shops based on a business-in-a-box solution. (Decarbonisation · Berlin, DE).
- [VEAT](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/veat.md): VEAT produce canteen machines with the potential to make an impact. They ensure plant-based cuisine is available to everybody — at unbeatable prices. Restaurants and top chefs prepare the delicious options with their original recipes. (Food tech · Stockholm, SE).
- [Way](https://paleblue.vc/portfolio/way.md): Way is a platform that enables efficient fleet transformation and intelligence by unlocking multi-source operational data management and sharing. (Logistics · Helsinki, FI).

## Writing (20 latest from Substack)
- [The waste problem you never see and the startup sorting it out](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/the-waste-problem-you-never-see-and): 2026-03-16. Why we invested in Cinqo.
- [How to fund the hard future](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/how-to-fund-the-hard-future): 2026-02-18. Why we invested in Tangible.
- [The most overlooked energy leak and the infrastructure to fix it](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/the-most-overlooked-energy-leak-and): 2026-02-12. Why we invested in VARM.
- [The Drop 2025](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/the-drop-2025): 2025-09-02. Why are we doing a massive conference - and why is it "climate?".
- [Why we invested in Way: Solving the Commercial Road Transport Data Gap.](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/why-we-invested-in-way-solving-the): 2025-06-04. If you’ve ever questioned the high cost of a package delivery, car insurance, or local taxes that go toward fixing a pothole, you can bet that you have encountered poor fleet management.
- [Stop talking about labels and get back to work.](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/stop-talking-about-labels-and-get): 2025-02-07. It is obvious that climate change is worse than ever, with escalating problems and the risk of an irreversible point of no return.
- [How to unlock billions in carbon credit demand](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/how-to-unlock-billions-in-carbon): 2025-01-14. It's possible to buy carbon credits you can trust to have an impact.
- [3 trends shaping European tech in 2025](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/3-trends-shaping-european-tech-in): 2024-12-16. What's set to influence the European tech scene in the new year?.
- [Mitigating climate-related risks with geospatial data](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/mitigating-climate-related-risks): 2024-11-19. Discover the platform that empowers anyone who seeks to interact with the Earth's data.
- [What’s next for the EV industry: An open-source operating system ](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/whats-next-for-the-ev-industry-an): 2024-11-04. Learn how taking an open-source approach can remove inefficiencies and accelerate the decarbonization of the transportation industry.
- [One platform to advance the green transition of power grids](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/one-platform-to-advance-the-green): 2024-10-10. Incumbent utility companies can accelerate Europe's energy resilience by partnering with real-time, enterprise-grade trading software.
- [Building bridges between business and nature ](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/building-bridges-between-business): 2024-10-04. Moving from greenhouse gas emissions to nature intelligence is key to futureproofing business operations.
- [Decarbonizing the aviation and shipping industries with seawater](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/decarbonizing-the-aviation-and-shipping): 2024-09-27. What if any nation in the world could make sustainable oil from seawater?.
- [Navigating the path of value alignment in fundraising](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/navigating-the-path-of-value-alignment): 2023-09-27. Introducing the value alignment interview, a key step in our LP selection process.
- [The Drop: Where climate action falls into place](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/the-drop-where-climate-action-falls): 2023-09-14. Looking back at the second edition of our climate conference.
- [Decoding climate-positive finance with the power of AI.](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/decoding-climate-positive-finance): 2023-09-07. Our investment into increased transparency and efficiency for sustainable finance.
- [Is our growing need for cold storage sabotaging sustainability? ](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/is-our-growing-need-for-cold-storage): 2023-08-15. How one startup’s data-driven approach is cutting costs and slashing emissions for the cold storage industry.
- [Reimagining sustainable food systems](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/reimagining-sustainable-food-systems): 2023-06-21. Looking back at our webinar on innovation for food loss and waste prevention.
- [Flight shame got you down? We have good news for you.](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/flight-shame-got-you-down-we-have): 2023-05-25. Why we invested in the future of air travel.
- [Can deep tech solve Africa’s data gap?](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com/p/can-deep-tech-solve-africas-data): 2023-05-18. Our investment into the environmental data infrastructure for climate action in Africa.

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- [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/palebluedotvcclimate)
- [palebluedotvc.substack.com](https://palebluedotvc.substack.com)