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, from seed to Series A, 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
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 57 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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