Our Approach

We take a four-pronged approach to investing in companies and filling gaps in the market: catalytic capital, project expertise, local partnership, and investor mobilization.

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How We Invest

Catalytic Capital

We provide flexible funding to help entrepreneurs overcome early project risks, preparing climate solutions for commercial deployment.

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How We Deploy

Project Expertise

We guide entrepreneurs through the complexities of commercial-scale projects—from policy engagement to workforce development and capital coaching.

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How We Impact

Local Partnership

We foster partnerships between entrepreneurs and local partners—schools, farmers, homeowners, mayors, and workforce providers.

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How We Connect

Investor Mobilization

We bring together investors, insurers, financiers, and customers to foster the collaborative ecosystem needed to scale successfully.

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How we work

We are a nonprofit investor with 15+ years of experience advancing technologies that create lasting environmental and local impact.

Elemental works to address market failures for first-of-a-kind and early commercial climate projects by providing catalytic capital and specialized expertise—from policy engagement to workforce development and capital coaching. Our companies are almost 2.5x more likely to survive from early to late commercial stages than those we didn’t invest in.

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160+

Portfolio companies

17K

Jobs

$11.5M

Additional funding catalyzed

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