Material Impact
materialimpact.com Direct investor
Material Impact is a venture capital firm that invests in and builds deep tech companies powered by material science. They focus on early-stage companies addressing urgent human needs in sectors like sustainable manufacturing, biomanufacturing, and robotics.
Material Impact is a venture capital firm headquartered in Boston, United States. It invests directly in companies, at pre-seed, in material science, deep tech, biomanufacturing and sustainable manufacturing. $700M+ under management and 32 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back and build inception-stage companies that are pioneering products to address urgent human needs.”
— Material Impact, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Pre-seed
- Headquarters
- Boston, United States
- Sectors
- material science, deep tech, biomanufacturing, sustainable manufacturing, food & water, robotics & AI, data storage & security, transportation & mobility
- Assets under management
- $700M+
- Portfolio
- 32 companies
Team, as Material Impact publishes it
- Carmichael Roberts, PhD Co-Founder & Managing Partner
- Adam Sharkawy, PhD Co-Founder & Managing Partner
- Corinna Chen Partner
- Christian Theriault Partner
- Melissa Fensterstock Company Building Advisor
- Ben Schlatka Company Building Partner
- Alexa Horwitz Director of Marketing and Communications
- Shawna Sharkey Vice President
- Ezgi Emiroglu Venture Associate
- Paul Deninger Operating Partner
- Sapna Patel Associate Partner & Director of Financial Operations
- Joe Kennedy III Senior Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on materialimpact.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 57 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Capital Factory 2 shared companies: wpengine.com, jumpaero.com
- Energy Impact Partners 2 shared companies: 6kinc.com, koloma.com
- KdT Ventures 2 shared companies: debutbiotech.com, tierrabiosciences.com
- Prelude Ventures 2 shared companies: koloma.com, ripplefoods.com
- Sofinnova 1 shared company: werewool.bio
- Brinc 1 shared company: galy.co
- Mundi Ventures 1 shared company: galy.co
- Pillar VC 1 shared company: galy.co
- Emerald Technology Ventures 1 shared company: actnano.com
- Beringea 1 shared company: orbionspace.com
and 47 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Material Impact publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.materialimpact.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description
- https://www.materialimpact.com/about/stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, aum
- https://www.materialimpact.com/companies/sectors
- https://www.materialimpact.com/team/portfolio_count, people
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Record 778 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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