Virescent Ventures
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Virescent Ventures is a climate venture capital manager based in Australia, investing in companies that address emissions reduction across sectors like clean energy, mobility, food and agriculture, and circular economy. It manages the Clean Energy Innovation Fund and Virescent Ventures Fund II.
Virescent Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Australia. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth, in clean energy, mobility, smart cities and food and agriculture. Over $500m under management under management and 35 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in deep tech and business model innovations, software and hardware.”
— Virescent Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Invests in
- Australia
- Sectors
- clean energy, mobility, smart cities, food and agriculture, circular economy, industry, deep tech, software, hardware
- Assets under management
- over $500m under management
- Portfolio
- 35 companies
Team, as Virescent Ventures publishes it
- Ben Gust Managing Partner
- Kristin Vaughan Managing Partner
- Blair Pritchard Partner
- Diane Connor Head of Finance
- Alex Oppes Investment Director
- Tess Englund Operations Manager
- Jonathon Cronin Investment Manager
- Mathew Velcic Investment Associate
- Madi Benton Investment Associate
- John Clifford Non-Executive Chair
- Sara Leong Non-Executive Director
- Gerd Goette Investment Committee Member
Names and roles exactly as listed on virescent.vc. 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. 32 co-investors found.
- Main Sequence Ventures 4 shared companies: loambio.com, xefco.com, samsaraeco.com, morsemicro.com
- Lowercarbon Capital 2 shared companies: loambio.com, novalith.com.au
- Right Click Capital 2 shared companies: morsemicro.com, redbacktech.com
- Archangel Ventures 1 shared company: i14.ai
- Blackbird Ventures 1 shared company: kwetta.com
- Outset Ventures 1 shared company: kwetta.com
- Acre Venture Partners 1 shared company: loambio.com
- Pacific Channel 1 shared company: xefco.com
- Greycroft 1 shared company: samsaraeco.com
- Hitachi Ventures GmbH 1 shared company: samsaraeco.com
and 22 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Virescent Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.virescent.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, portfolio_count, people, status
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