For Founders: Learn more on how to measure and build for impact
Our partner community posi2ive aims to help unique impacts drive greater financial outcomes for all startups. Here's a resource for your team to consider.
Positive Impacts are the Future of Venture Capital
We're a PreSeed VC Impact Fund, on a mission to back remarkable teams, focused on Sustainability and Social Good. 💚
Why?
Why you're building your venture geared startup, is almost as important as who you're building it for. We aim to understand this on a team level.
Who?
Is your customer willing to pay for your product or technology? We want to discover this with your team at PreSeed.
What?
What is it about the mission you are passionate about building for, that gives your startup a unique strategic advantage? We call this an impact moat.
Where?
Where is your startup planning to go? And how could it disrupt the market and create lasting positive impacts? We aim to back remarkable teams uniquely qualified.
Who we invest in
We encourage rapid scale, exponential impact, all aspects of inclusion, ethics, integrity, and customer love.
We support our Founders in realizing their Venture Scale Positive Impacts.
Our mission is to back remarkable teams
focused on Venture Scale Positive Impacts.
Impact Highlights
Recent startups we've backed, voluntarily reporting of their impacts. All Startup Impact Metrics (SIMs) sampled from our 2024 Annual VC Impact Report. 💚
it's electric: Awarded a 3 of the 10 Communities Taking Charge Funding Awards as a sub-recipient vie DOE. And won a $2.2M Federal Grants for the deployment of 100 curbside chargers in D.C. (2024 SIMs)
Kidsy: Served over 15,000 customers and diverted over 400,000 of products from ending up in the landfill. (2024 SIMs)
Climatize: Since launching in May 2023, Climatize has transformed nearly 1,600 everyday Americans into active stakeholders in the energy transition, facilitating over $6,300,000 in investments to date.
Parcel Health: Displaced 6.7 MTs of plastic in 2024. Avoided 750kg of CO2 or 13,798 MJ of energy in 2023, innovating in the healthcare and pharmaceutical packaging.
Quantum Energy: They extimated 12,500 human years of life saved (disability-adjusted life-years) via renewable energy projects annually that were enabled using the TotalView Energy Platform. (2024 SIMs)
LumiTerra: Mission to replace 500B+ plastic single-use cups, contributing to climate action. Displaced 6,000 single-use plastic cups in 2024, cutting waste in hospitality and live events.