Prelude Ventures
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Prelude Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups focused on mitigating climate change. It manages capital exclusively for Simons' family philanthropic entities.
Prelude Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2009. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in climate, built environment, carbon management and compute. 60 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change.”
— Prelude Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sectors
- climate, built environment, carbon management, compute, food & agriculture, energy, manufacturing & industrials, mobility
- Founded
- 2009
- Portfolio
- 60 companies
Team, as Prelude Ventures publishes it
- Mark Cupta Managing Director
- Matt Eggers Managing Director
- Gabriel Kra Managing Director
- Tim Woodward Managing Director
- Juan Pablo Soulier Partner
- Katie Clasen Partner
- Julia Yan Senior Associate
- Edward Yang Senior Associate
- Eileen McMahon Coordinator of Operations and Executive Support
- Katy Young Chief Financial Officer
- Urwashi Govindji Executive Assistant
- Anneli Matheson Executive Assistant
Names and roles exactly as listed on preludeventures.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. 218 co-investors found.
- Lowercarbon Capital 11 shared companies: cnbc.com, axios.com, thea.energy, livingcarbon.com…
- DCVC 8 shared companies: cnbc.com, axios.com, citrine.io, fervoenergy.com…
- Congruent Ventures 8 shared companies: axios.com, fervoenergy.com, lightshiprv.com, latitudemedia.com…
- At One Ventures 7 shared companies: cnbc.com, axios.com, betakit.com, latitudemedia.com…
- Piva Capital 7 shared companies: axios.com, lunarenergy.com, ouster.com, canarymedia.com…
- Energy Impact Partners 7 shared companies: koloma.com, sense.com, mill.com, bostonmetal.com…
- BOLD Capital Partners 6 shared companies: cnbc.com, axios.com, betakit.com, washingtonpost.com…
- Engine Ventures 6 shared companies: axios.com, canarymedia.com, quaise.energy, heatmap.news…
- NGP Energy Capital Management 5 shared companies: leveltenenergy.com, mill.com, formenergy.com, persefoni.com…
- PETRONAS Ventures 5 shared companies: lunarenergy.com, ouster.com, koloma.com, bostonmetal.com…
and 208 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Prelude Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.preludeventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, status, confidence
- https://www.preludeventures.com/aboutfounded
- https://www.preludeventures.com/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://www.preludeventures.com/teampeople
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Record 1023 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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