Neglected Climate Opportunities
Boston, MA, United States
Overview
Neglected Climate Opportunities a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Foundation.
- Total investments
- 8
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 1
Investment portfolio
- StratX
Led · Equity · Jul 2026
StratX develops nature-leveraged landfill covers that combine locally available soil and gravel with indigenous microbes to oxidise methane before it escapes to the atmosphere. The company also builds proprietary measurement technology to reduce uncertainty in landfill gas quantification, enabling the generation of high-integrity, permanent carbon credits. StratX was developed with support from Deep Science Ventures. Its commercial model installs covers at no cost to landfill operators or municipalities and shares top-line carbon credit revenues with operators, host governments and local communities, positioning older landfills as potential revenue-generating assets. Pilot projects are being assessed in the Global South, with initial site focus in Tanzania, Colombia and Chile, and broader deployments planned across Asia, Africa and South America using the newly raised capital. The company aims to address both climate and local public-health risks from unmanaged dumpsites through fast-to-deploy, low-cost interventions.
- Renewable Metals
Participated · Series A · Apr 2026
Renewable Metals develops lithium‑ion battery recycling technology and modular commercial plants designed to recover critical minerals from spent batteries. The company reports it can recover about 95% of critical minerals and operate at roughly 50% lower operating costs than incumbent recyclers. It plans to expand production capacity in Australia and onshore recycling to avoid exporting battery waste to China. Renewable Metals positions its modular plants to scale into markets such as the EU, US and Australia as governments introduce recycled‑content mandates. Management and investors have framed the business as addressing geopolitical supply‑chain risks tied to critical minerals. The company’s recent $12M Series A will fund the next stage of commercial expansion.
- Propagate
Participated · Series A · Nov 2022
Propagate is a software, development and financing ecosystem led by CEO Ethan Steinberg that helps farms transition acreage to agroforestry. Its platform Overyield provides regenerative farm planning and management software along with agronomic insights, technical assistance, and financing to reduce risk for farmers. The Propagate ecosystem also includes commercial agroforestry development (Propagate Farm Services) and equity investments for agroforestry transition (Agroforestry Partners). The company currently advises over 20,000 acres, supports over 760,000 trees and shrubs, and actively manages over 600 commercial acres through regional agroforestry hubs. Propagate plans to use new funding to roll out profitability and production forecasting tools within Overyield, hire additional experts, and plant more trees across the estimated 158 million acres of U.S. farmland suitable for tree crops. Founded in 2017 and based in Denver, Propagate is Techstars-backed, a portfolio company of Elemental Excelerator, and a partner of USDA’s Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities. Propagate Ventures combines GIS-driven software analytics with field implementation and investor matchmaking to help farmers incorporate trees and tree crops into agricultural systems. The company maps land, recommends appropriate tree species, predicts long-term cost-to-revenue and yields, and manages on-the-ground installation and operations. It connects third-party investors to farmers via a revenue-sharing model and works to arrange commercial buyer contracts for agroforestry-sourced products. Propagate positions its offering to address both farm profitability and carbon sequestration goals, aiming to help farmers diversify production systems. The group, based in New York and Colorado, has expanded into eight states (primarily in the Northeast and Mid‑Atlantic) and is working with 20 different farms. In support of growth, Propagate received seed funding to scale its services and investor connections.
- Regrow Ag
Participated · Series B · May 2022
Regrow combines science and enterprise technology to help the largest food manufacturers, their suppliers, and farmers measure, report, and reduce on-farm emissions. Its unified software platform uses proprietary remote sensing, AI, and soil modeling to deliver Sustainability Insights and an MRV platform. The company recently launched Regrow PlanAI, an AI-driven solution to create high-ROI regenerative agriculture program plans for scope 3 emissions targets. Regrow serves major partners including PepsiCo, Nestlé, Cargill, General Mills and Kellanova. The company says its platform enables measurement and monitoring of farming-practice impacts and the development of regenerative agriculture programs. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Anastasia Volkova, Regrow is focused on expanding global reach and enhancing its science and software offerings. Regrow Ag offers a science- and technology-driven SaaS platform that measures and verifies carbon outcomes for food and agriculture companies, enabling regenerative agriculture programs. The company works with major food-sector clients such as Kellogg’s, Cargill, and General Mills. Its solutions currently power regenerative programs on over two million acres and touch scope-three supply sheds covering over 500 million acres. Regrow’s multinational team of scientists, agronomists, engineers, and software developers supports customers from growers to global food companies. The company raised growth capital in 2022 to expand its programs and connect more farmers to regenerative practices and ecosystem-market revenue streams. Regrow’s stated mission is to make regenerative agriculture ubiquitous across the globe. Regrow builds an MRV platform that customizes, optimizes and monetizes carbon-impact strategies across buyers, sellers, producers and verifiers in the agri-food supply chain. The platform integrates with numerous Farm Management Systems to ingest agronomic records, uses satellite imagery and the Operation Tillage Information System (OpTIS) to map practices like cover cropping and tillage, and supplements farmer records to reduce the need for extensive soil testing. It provides historical analyses, scenario planning and future projections to help growers estimate and increase soil carbon storage and other ecosystem outcomes. Regrow monitors over 150 million acres in 45 countries and supports customers including General Mills, Cargill, and Bayer AG. The company is collaborating with The Nature Conservancy and others to expand OpTIS application across the U.S. Corn Belt. Proceeds from the recent round will be used to accelerate global rollout and adoption of the MRV tool.
- ContextLabs
Participated · Equity · Feb 2022
Context Labs develops the Immutably™ enterprise data fabric and DaaS™ (Decarbonization as a Service™) platform to provide trusted, digitally‑provenanced and cryptographically‑attested ESG and climate data. The stack leverages machine learning and AI‑driven asset‑grade analytics together with a contextualized distributed ledger to render provenance and veracity across a 'supply chain of data.' The company says its platform aims to reduce greenwashing, transform ESG into quantitative tools, and inform asset‑grade decisions that accelerate capital deployment for climate action. Context Labs announced a $28 million strategic investor financing and a joint venture (Context Labs Energy) with BP Energy Partners to deliver trusted‑data solutions for the energy sector's decarbonization measurement, monitoring, and mitigation. Other strategic investors named include Equinor Ventures, KPMG LLP (US), Shamrock Ventures, Neglected Climate Opportunities LLC, and i(x) investments. The firm said the funding and partnerships will support commercialization with industry partners and scale deployments for energy‑sector stakeholders demanding asset‑grade disclosure and net‑zero transition tools.
Team
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