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Prime Impact Fund

Prime Impact Fund is an investment organization focused on transformative technology companies aimed at addressing climate change. It supports high-risk, high-reward ventures at the earliest stages with a long-term investment strategy.

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Overview

What Prime Impact Fund does

What Prime Impact Fund is

Prime Impact Fund is an investment organization focused on transformative technology companies aimed at addressing climate change. It supports high-risk, high-reward ventures at the earliest stages with a long-term investment strategy.

How it participates in the startup ecosystem

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Operational profile

Organization status and context

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Operational status
Active
Organization type
Venture Capital
Founded
Founded in 2018
Approximate age
About 8 years
Structured capabilities
Funder
Last reviewed
May 3, 2026

Official channels

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Capability profile

Prime Impact Fund as a funder

Investment thesis

Prime Impact Fund deploys impact-first catalytic capital into transformative climate ventures building hard-tech solutions for gigaton-scale climate impact, supporting high-risk, high-reward innovations that traditional venture capital sources often overlook.

Focus narrative

Prime Impact Fund invests in early-stage companies developing transformative technologies aimed at addressing climate change. The fund employs a long-term investment strategy, rigorously evaluating both techno-economics and climate impact. It specifically targets hard-tech solutions that can achieve gigaton-scale emissions reductions, often overlooked by traditional venture capital.

Value beyond capital

Prime Impact Fund provides catalytic capital that is risk-tolerant and impact-first, enabling early-stage climate ventures to bridge technology-validation gaps. The fund's backing helps founders access follow-on funding from mainstream climate VCs, validating their innovations and scaling their impact.

Focus and fit

Stages
Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
Regions
Global

Availability

Currently deploying
Yes

Portfolio and track record

Recorded portfolio count
16

Portfolio context

Charm Industrial: Converts waste biomass into bio-oil for underground geological storage, contributing to permanent biological-carbon sequestration. Lilac Solutions: Develops environmentally-friendly direct lithium extraction from brine, providing an alternative to high-water-footprint solar-evaporation lithium production. Additionally, the fund has a total of 16 climate-tech portfolio companies.

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Source basis

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Last reviewed

May 3, 2026

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