Buoyant Ventures

Date: 2021

Asset Class: Venture Capital

Description:  Buoyant Ventures invests in early stage companies with digital solutions across energy, transport, agriculture, and the built environment segments with a focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation and laying the digital foundation for the future.

Why We Invest: Innovation is needed to blunt the worst effects of the climate crisis. By investing in digital climate risk solutions, Buoyant hopes to galvanize current climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, enabling a sustainable future and protecting against risks (such as wildfires, flooding, and extreme heat) that are already present. Buoyant’s focus on adaptation in addition to mitigation is a rarity in venture climate tech investing and amounts to recognition that climate change is already having an adverse effect on people around the globe, particularly disadvantaged groups. The fund’s four investment sectors of energy, transport, agriculture, and the built environment collectively represent 66% of US greenhouse gas emissions. Pursuing mitigation solutions in these climate intensive arenas offers significant opportunity for emission reductions. Investments in asset light software companies improve the likelihood of outsized returns. This first time fund is founded by two female general partners.