Extantia Capital

This climate-first VC firm invests in scalable clean tech and supports climate-focused venture capital funds to accelerate a decarbonized world.

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Extantia Capital is a climate-first venture capital firm accelerating the path to a decarbonised world. Extantia unites mission-driven entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and business leaders to advance the transition. With over €100M in assets under management, Extantia has two investment strategies. Extantia Flagship backs scalable deep decarbonisation tech companies, while Extantia Allstars invests in climate venture capital funds.

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Feb 6, 2026	Uplift360	$8.7M Seed	Extantia Capital	Fund F, NATO Innovation Fund, Promus Ventures
Jul 1, 2025	Tulum Energy	$27.0M Seed	—	Piva Capital, TDK Ventures
Jan 1, 2025	Reown	$13.0M Series B	—	1k(x), Han Hua, Union Square Ventures, Ajit Tripathi, Alexander Salnikov, Matias Woloski, Rahul Sethuram
Dec 1, 2024	Vaeridion	$15.0M Series A	—	Alpine Space Ventures, Icebreaker.vc, JLL Spark, Kompas VC, Project A Ventures, Vsquared Ventures, World Fund, Alexander Ljung, Andrej Henkler, Anya Ruvinskaya, Chris Schagen, Christian Vollmann, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss, Ragnar Sass
Oct 1, 2024	Vamo	$8.0M Seed	—	75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Khosla Ventures, NEO, Offline Ventures, SciFi VC, South Park Commons, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Charlie Songhurst, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Jed Stremel, Sam Shank, Scott Banister
Aug 1, 2024	Optiml	$4.0M Seed	—	Innovation Endeavors, JLL Spark, Kompas VC, World Fund, Alexander Ljung, Christian Vollmann, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss
Apr 1, 2024	AIPERIA GmbH	$8.0M Series A	—	Earlybird Venture Capital
Apr 1, 2022	Procuros	$9.0M Seed	—	2.12 Angels, BackBone Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Creandum, Cupule Ventures, EQT Ventures, foobar.vc, Frontline Ventures, FTX Ventures, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, La Famiglia, Northzone, Possible Ventures, Spark Capital, Telescope Partners, Visionaries Club, Chris Murphy, Christian Bertermann, Christian Reber, Dominik Richter, Dylan Field, Hakan Koc, Haroon Mokhtarzada, Johannes Reck, Kelly Ford, Matthias Hilpert, Maximilian Tayenthal
Jan 1, 2022	Clearword	$4.0M Seed	—	2.12 Angels, Air Street Capital, Jamison Hill, btov Partners, Connect Ventures, Dawn Capital, Embedded Capital, Frontline Ventures, Hyper, LocalGlobe, Look Up Ventures, mExpand Family Office, Passion Capital, Point Nine Capital, Seedcamp, Storm Ventures, Y Combinator, Alexander Ljung, Arthur Kosten, Chris Murphy, Christian Bach, David Rosenberg, Fredrik Björk, Harsh Sinha, Ian Hogarth, Jan Deepen, Janis Krums, Leonard Picardo, Märt Kelder, Mathias Biilmann Christensen, Michael Pennington, Othman Laraki, Stefan Jeschonnek, Tony Jamous, Victor Jacobsson, Vinay Hiremath
Aug 1, 2021	Concord Material	$2.0M Seed	—	2.12 Angels, Frontline Ventures, Chris Murphy
Aug 1, 2021	Contact	$2.0M Seed	—	Ballast Point Ventures, Episode 1 Ventures, Flex Capital, Founders Fund, JLL Spark, Klossy, Kompas VC, LAUNCH, Passion Capital, StartHer, Sweet Capital, World Fund, Abe Burns, Alexander Ljung, Christian Vollmann, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss, Jonathan Neman, Paul Forster, Ramesh Haridas, Simon Beckerman, Will Brooks, Will Martin, Yahya Mokhtarzada
May 1, 2021	Swarmia	$1.0M Seed	—	2xN, 75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, Alaya Capital, Alven, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Creandum, Dig Ventures, DST Global, Goodwater Capital, Khosla Ventures, Lifeline Ventures, Motier Ventures, NEO, Offline Ventures, Pareto Holdings, RTP Global, SciFi VC, South Park Commons, Tiger Global Management, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Charlie Songhurst, Fabio Muniz, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Jed Stremel, Sam Shank, Scott Banister, Thibaud Elziere
Mar 1, 2021	Detail	$2.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Air Street Capital, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Balderton Capital, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Change Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Episode 1 Ventures, Future Positive Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Hyper, Indeed.com, JLL Spark, Kearny Jackson, Kompas VC, mExpand Family Office, MMC Ventures, monashees, Oak HC/FT, Salesforce Ventures, SBK Tech Ventures, Slack Fund, SNR, Social Capital, Soma Capital, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, World Fund, Y Combinator, Alexander Ljung, Andrus Purde, Arthur Kosten, Christian Vollmann, David Rosenberg, Eric Nadalin, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Jaan Tallinn, James Berdigans, Janis Krums, Mantas Mikuckas, Märt Kelder, Othman Laraki, Roger Bamford, Sam Altman, Tony Jamous, Vinay Hiremath
Sep 1, 2018	Freightos	$70.0M Series C	—	Aleph VC, Battery Ventures, Benchmark, Dell Technologies Capital, MoreVC, Yaron Valler
Mar 1, 2017	Freightos	$25.0M Series B	—	Aleph VC, Battery Ventures, Benchmark, Dell Technologies Capital, MoreVC, OurCrowd, Yaron Valler
Sep 1, 2015	Freightos	$14.0M Series B	—	Aleph VC, Battery Ventures, Benchmark, Dell Technologies Capital, MoreVC, OurCrowd, Yaron Valler
Jun 1, 2015	Blue Bottle Coffee	$72.0M Series C	—	75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Balderton Capital, Benchmark, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DST Global, Endeavor Catalyst, Fifth Wall, Founder Collective, Founders Fund, Galaxy Digital, Garden City Companies, Greylock, Hanabi Capital, Hardware Club, IVP, Khosla Ventures, LAUNCH, Left Lane Capital, Luv Ventures, NEO, Offline Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Piva Capital, Propeller VC, SciFi VC, South Park Commons, True Ventures, Unanimous Capital, Venrock, Winklevoss Capital, Aaron Levie, Adam D'Angelo, Adam Jackson, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Andreas Ehn, Ben Davenport, Charlie Cheever, Charlie Songhurst, David Marcus, David Petersen, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, James Hong, Jed Stremel, Marc Benioff, Sam Shank, Scott Banister, Sohail Prasad
Jun 1, 2014	Dwellable	$2.0M Seed	—	75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Khosla Ventures, NEO, Offline Ventures, SciFi VC, South Park Commons, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Charlie Songhurst, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Jed Stremel, Sam Shank, Scott Banister
Apr 1, 2014	Nervana	$600K Seed	—	75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, Alumni Ventures, AV8 Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Brainchild, David Namdar, Costanoa Ventures, Creandum, CRV, Freestyle Capital, G20 Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, M13, Markd VC, Moonshots Capital, NEO, NextView Ventures, Offline Ventures, Operator Stack, Owl Ventures, Prefix Capital, REMUS Capital, SciFi VC, Seven Seven Six, Sound Ventures, South Park Commons, Spero Ventures, Third Kind Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Brock Pierce, Charlie Songhurst, Eric Ries, Farzad Nazem, Grace Stanat, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Jed Stremel, Mikael Pawlo, Osama Bedier, Sam Altman, Sam Shank, Scott Banister
Apr 1, 2014	The Last Guide Company	$2.0M Seed	—	1776, 75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, ACME Capital, Big Sky Health, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Cosmic Venture Partners, Craft Ventures, CRV, Energy Capital Ventures, Expa, First Round Capital, Founders Fund, Fuel Capital, M.G. Siegler, Human Ventures, Index Ventures, Inspired Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, LAUNCH, Lavrock Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Moonshots Capital, NEO, Offline Ventures, Ribbit Capital, SciFi VC, Scout Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Sound Ventures, South Park Commons, Visionaire Ventures, Wildcat Ventures, Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Charlie Songhurst, Daniel Rosensweig, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Jared Leto, Jed Stremel, MG Siegler, Rashaun Williams, Sam Shank, Scott Banister, Shervin Pishevar
Mar 1, 2014	Freightos	$5.0M Series B	—	Aleph VC, Battery Ventures, Benchmark, Dell Technologies Capital, MoreVC, OurCrowd, Yaron Valler
Jan 1, 2014	Mindie	$1.0M Seed	—	75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, Asylum Ventures, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Draper Associates, Khosla Ventures, NEO, Offline Ventures, Pareto Holdings, SciFi VC, Scrum Ventures, Seven Seven Six, South Park Commons, Waverley Capital, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Charlie Songhurst, Gil Elbaz, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Jed Stremel, Matt Mazzeo, Pete Cashmore, Sam Shank, Scott Banister, Troy Carter
Nov 1, 2013	Wire	$2.0M Seed	—	75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Canaan Partners, Cipio Partners, Craft Ventures, Founders Co-op, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Helpful Capital, Iterative, Kapor Capital, Khosla Ventures, LAUNCHub Ventures, NEO, Norwest Venture Partners, Offline Ventures, Practical Venture Capital, Prefix Capital, SciFi VC, Sequoia Capital, Shasta Ventures, South Park Commons, Streamlined Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Trucks Venture Capital, XFactor Ventures, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Andrew Viterbi, Charlie Cheever, Charlie Songhurst, Erik Blachford, Greg Kidd, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Hugh Crean, Jed Stremel, Kenny Van Zant, Marc Benioff, Richard Branson, Rudy Gadre, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin, Sam Shank, Scott Banister, Vishal Makhijani
Sep 1, 2013	Flexe	$7.0M Seed	—	75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Construct Capital, Khosla Ventures, NEO, Offline Ventures, SciFi VC, South Park Commons, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Charlie Songhurst, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Jed Stremel, Sam Shank, Scott Banister
Sep 1, 2013	Academia.edu	$11.0M Series B	—	20VC, 75 & Sunny, Acequia Capital, Alumni Ventures, Alven, Arrive, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Bling Capital, Bono, BoxGroup, Broadhaven Capital Partners, CFV Ventures, Coatue, Cubit Investments Ltd, Khosla Ventures, Lionheart Ventures, Mercato Partners, NEO, Offline Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Fund, Redpoint Ventures, RTP Global, SciFi VC, SeaX Ventures, #SecretFund, sequel, South Park Commons, Spark Capital, Stellar Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, Adam D'Angelo, Adrian Aoun, Alexander Algard, Antoine Martin, Calvin Chu, Charlie Songhurst, Christian Reber, Guy Podjarny, Hadi Partovi, Hanno Heintzenberg, Jed Stremel, Martin Li, Nicolas Steegmann, Sahin Boydas, Sam Shank, Scott Banister, Simon Dawlat

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Leadership Team

Key people at Extantia Capital.

Carlota Ochoa Neven Du Mont

Leadership Team

Key people at Extantia Capital.

Carlota Ochoa Neven Du Mont

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

Extantia Capital is a climate-first venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests primarily in early-stage (Seed to Series A) software and hardware solutions addressing large, near-term market opportunities in climate technology. Their mission is to back pioneers in climate tech who have the potential to redefine industries and accelerate the transition to a decarbonized world. Extantia focuses on scalable clean tech innovations across Europe, providing hands-on support in commercialization, organizational scaling, and fundraising to their portfolio companies. By also supporting climate-focused venture capital funds, Extantia aims to build a robust climate tech ecosystem that fosters collaboration, innovation, and economic resilience in the face of climate change[1][2][3].

Origin Story

Extantia was founded in 2020 by partners Yair, Sebastian, and Joern-Carlos, who shared a conviction that capital is the most powerful asset in combating climate change. The founding team was later joined by Oliver and Torben, expanding the partnership and launching their first fund. Starting as a generalist climate tech investor, Extantia has evolved to manage a flagship fund with a final close of €204 million, actively deploying capital and seeking bold innovators. The firm’s growth included making nine early-stage investments and launching initiatives like Super Climate, a global event platform that later became a standalone company, reflecting Extantia’s commitment to fostering a connected climate tech community[1].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focus on early-stage climate tech companies with a generalist approach covering both software and hardware solutions addressing large market opportunities.
Network Strength: Extensive network including over 160 companies through direct investments and climate-focused venture funds (e.g., Extantia Allstars).
Track Record: Successful deployment of capital in pioneering startups and climate tech funds, with a flagship fund closed at €204 million.
Operating Support: Hands-on partnership offering support in commercialization, scaling, and fundraising, positioning Extantia as a long-term collaborator rather than just a capital provider[1][2][3].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Extantia is riding the accelerating global trend toward decarbonization and climate resilience, driven by intensifying climate change impacts and geopolitical competition. The firm’s timing is critical as climate tech is emerging as a vital sector requiring significant capital and ecosystem development. By investing in scalable clean tech and supporting climate-focused funds, Extantia helps build a strong ecosystem that enables innovation, cost-effective solutions, and green discounts—making sustainable technologies more accessible and competitive. This ecosystem approach not only fosters economic growth but also enhances security and resilience in industries undergoing transformation[2].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Extantia is poised to continue expanding its influence by deploying its €204 million flagship fund to back boundary-breaking climate tech startups. The firm’s commitment to ecosystem building and hands-on support suggests it will remain a key player in shaping the European and global climate tech landscape. Trends such as increased regulatory pressure on emissions, technological advances in clean energy and materials, and growing investor interest in sustainability will likely accelerate Extantia’s journey. Their evolving initiatives, like Super Climate, indicate a strategic focus on community and knowledge sharing, which will further amplify their impact in driving a decarbonized future[1][2].

High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focus on early-stage climate tech companies with a generalist approach covering both software and hardware solutions addressing large market opportunities.
Network Strength: Extensive network including over 160 companies through direct investments and climate-focused venture funds (e.g., Extantia Allstars).
Track Record: Successful deployment of capital in pioneering startups and climate tech funds, with a flagship fund closed at €204 million.
Operating Support: Hands-on partnership offering support in commercialization, scaling, and fundraising, positioning Extantia as a long-term collaborator rather than just a capital provider[1][2][3].

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