Prelude Ventures

Prelude Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2013, dedicated to investing in early-stage startups that aim to address climate change. The firm focuses on sectors such as advanced energy, food and agriculture, transportation, logistics, advanced materials, manufacturing, and advanced computing. By supporting innovative businesses in these areas, Prelude Ventures seeks to foster the development of the next generation of companies that can significantly impact environmental sustainability and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Carly Anderson

Principal

Katie Clasen

Principal

Mark Cupta

Managing Director

Matt Eggers

Managing Director

Gabriel Kra

Managing Director

Past deals in Arizona

Persefoni

Series C in 2025
Persefoni AI Inc., established in 2020 and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based platform for carbon footprint accounting and management. The company's core product, Persefoni, is a SaaS-based platform that measures, analyzes, plans, forecasts, and reports organizational and investment portfolio carbon footprints. It provides actionable performance context, enabling businesses to manage carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor as financial transactions. Persefoni caters to a wide range of clients, including institutional investors, sustainability teams, CFOs, and business unit leaders, offering tools for carbon accounting, planning, forecasting, and sustainability reporting. The platform serves as a single source of carbon truth, facilitating compliance with stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements.

Persefoni

Series C in 2023
Persefoni AI Inc., established in 2020 and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based platform for carbon footprint accounting and management. The company's core product, Persefoni, is a SaaS-based platform that measures, analyzes, plans, forecasts, and reports organizational and investment portfolio carbon footprints. It provides actionable performance context, enabling businesses to manage carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor as financial transactions. Persefoni caters to a wide range of clients, including institutional investors, sustainability teams, CFOs, and business unit leaders, offering tools for carbon accounting, planning, forecasting, and sustainability reporting. The platform serves as a single source of carbon truth, facilitating compliance with stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements.

Persefoni

Series B in 2021
Persefoni AI Inc., established in 2020 and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based platform for carbon footprint accounting and management. The company's core product, Persefoni, is a SaaS-based platform that measures, analyzes, plans, forecasts, and reports organizational and investment portfolio carbon footprints. It provides actionable performance context, enabling businesses to manage carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor as financial transactions. Persefoni caters to a wide range of clients, including institutional investors, sustainability teams, CFOs, and business unit leaders, offering tools for carbon accounting, planning, forecasting, and sustainability reporting. The platform serves as a single source of carbon truth, facilitating compliance with stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements.
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