Carbon Direct

Written By Anjali Deshmukh

Impact Strategy Summary

  • Investment type/ asset class: Venture Capital

  • Stage: Growth Equity

  • Geographic Focus: Global

  • Sector: Climate tech

  • Organization type(s): Carbon Utilization, Carbon Capture, Carbon Removal, Hydrogen

  • Impact assessment capacity: Impact committee consisting of full-time senior members of Carbon Direct Capital along with Carbon Direct Inc.

  • Assets under management/tied to impact assessment: More than $500M

Methodology Summary

  • Metrics tracked: Removed, captured, utilized, and avoided

  • Relationship with the companies/ technologies being assessed: Carbon Direct Capital enjoys inbound deal flow, partly stemming from its close relationship with its affiliated consulting company, Carbon Direct Inc.

  • Fractionalize shares of impact among interdependent climate technologies: No

  • Fractionalize your share of impact as an investor among many investors: No

  • How realized impact is/will be tracked: Collect and analyze data annually from portfolio companies in tonnes of CO2

  • Other assessment or investment-decision making characteristics you're proud of: Carbon Direct Capital utilizes scientific experts in the space to perform deep due diligence on the technology and the IP held by the potential investment company.

Anjali Deshmukh
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