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Third Sphere (fka Urban Us) is a $100M Pre-Seed and Seed stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns. Fund strategy: Climate action - Track record of over 100 portfolio companies that unlock GHG reduction and resilience via strategies like electrification that don’t ask for premiums, just better products and services such as Cove Tool (building design), OneWheel (consumer EV), and Gradient (home hvac). First-in Capital - focus on ownership in pre-seed/seed stage teams and markets where we can help unlock institutional funding and multiple opportunities to expand ownership before Series A. Earned access - GPs (Shaun, Stonly, and Shilpi) have 9 years together with public reputation and ranks including; 99% percentile rank on NFX for climatetech; #1 ranked early stage fund by Climate 50; named in the top 10 of VCs who founders love the most by Techcrunch Repeatable differentiation - Proprietary curated network with over 12k people, enabling 1k annual 1:1 introductions, along with access to asset finance backed by Encina (KKR & Oaktree).
Industries:
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Software
Electric Vehicle
Energy Management
Hardware
Internet of Things
Payments
Transportation
Energy Efficiency
Wireless
Marine Technology
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Apps
Communities
Messaging
Social Media
Real Estate
Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Smart Cities
Autonomous Vehicles
Big Data
Data Integration
Developer APIs
Mobile
Navigation
Public Safety
Investor Types:
Venture Capital
Investment Stages:
Seed
Early Stage Venture
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