• Lydian

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

  Lydian has developed PIVOT™, a full‑stack, modular production platform that integrates proprietary reactors, catalysts, process design, software, and balance‑of‑plant into factory‑built modules for synthetic aviation fuel. The platform is designed to cut project capital costs by more than 50% versus competing technologies, operate flexibly with intermittent renewable electricity, and reduce lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions by up to 95%. Lydian produces ASTM‑approved, drop‑in sustainable aviation fuel from captured CO2 and hydrogen and is positioning PIVOT to enable faster, lower‑cost deployment of synthetic fuel projects. The company operates a tonne‑scale pilot plant at its Boston R&D Center of Excellence and plans a commercial demonstration facility targeted for 2028 with first full‑scale commercial deployment expected in 2030. Financially, the company completed a $43 million Series A to support commercialization and deployment activities.

• Atana Elements

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

  Atana Elements uses proprietary AI and machine-learning models combined with deep subsurface expertise to identify and de-risk overlooked mineral deposits. The company claims it can accelerate discovery timelines to roughly 22 months, compared with the typical five-to-ten year cadence. Atana is currently focused on lithium exploration, with plans to expand into helium, hydrogen, and copper. It already has projects underway across the EU and the Americas. The company is led by CEO Thomas Wilson. Financially, Atana recently closed a $27.5 million seed round from Overture Ventures to support its ongoing exploration and growth activities.

• Gridcare

  Participated · Series A · May 2026

  GridCARE develops the Energize platform, which uses physics-based AI models to evaluate grid conditions—congestion, outages, weather, and demand fluctuations—in real time to locate underutilized power capacity. The company positions this approach as a way to shorten interconnection timelines for large data centers and AI facilities from years to months by unlocking existing grid capacity. GridCARE reports active projects across more than a dozen markets representing over 2 gigawatts of prospective AI compute capacity and cites a Portland General Electric collaboration that identified a pathway to unlock more than 400 megawatts with 80 megawatts expected online in 2026. Co-founder and CTO Ram Rajagopal is a Stanford professor on leave, and the company emphasizes working collaboratively with utilities. GridCARE frames the market opportunity around a “Time-to-Energize Crisis,” arguing power availability is a growing bottleneck for AI expansion. Financially, the company recently raised a $64 million Series A in an oversubscribed round that materially increased its valuation versus a round less than a year earlier.

• Radify

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2026

  Radify develops plasma-based reactors that heat hydrogen into a plasma and blast metal oxide powders into the chamber to strip oxygen and yield pure metal, producing only water vapor as waste. The company says its design allows for smaller, more flexible reactors compared with incumbent large-scale equipment, which it believes can lower manufacturing costs and enable faster pivots between metals. Radify is focused initially on dysprosium and neodymium, key rare earths used in magnets and electronics, and is exploring additional metals including hafnium, uranium, scandium, titanium, iron, and aluminum. The five-person team is refining the technology in a lab in Campbell, California and expects to make several kilograms of pure metal per day by the end of the year. It plans to raise more capital to build a pilot reactor capable of producing up to 100 kilograms per day and to scale toward commercial competitiveness with incumbent producers. The company has raised just under $3 million to date from investors that include Overture, Founders Inc., Mana Ventures, and Acequia Capital.

• Endolith

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

  Endolith is a Denver-based biotechnology startup combining artificial intelligence with engineered microbial consortia to biologically dissolve metal-bearing minerals and convert them into recoverable solutions. Its software platform identifies and optimizes microbe cocktails that can liberate copper, cobalt and other strategic metals from low-grade or otherwise challenging deposits, offering a potentially lower-cost and more environmentally friendly alternative to conventional mining. Management positions the technology as a strategic resource solution for U.S. mineral security amid rising demand from electric vehicles and AI-driven data centers. Although still at an early stage, the company plans to channel fresh capital into pilot-scale engineering, process validation and the design of its first modular extraction units in partnership with industrial players. Endolith also intends to adhere to strict verification protocols to quantify efficiency, purity and economic viability of recovered metals. To accelerate commercialization, the team is pursuing additional industry collaborations and expects a follow-on tranche once certain technical milestones are met. The recent seed financing brings total capital raised to at least US$13.5 million, giving the company runway to advance toward initial commercial pilots.

No current team members are available.