Voyager Ventures

📣 Calling all founders! 📣 Union Square Ventures and Voyager Ventures are teaming up to host a private event for European climate tech founders on September 17 at The Drop. We would love to meet some new faces. We'll be curating a crew of 60 and will be prioritizing early-stage founders and company-builders. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gkbGYR9m See you in Malmö!

News is out! We pre-empted SirenOpt's Seed round, joining the stellar team of Jared O'Leary, Ali Mesbah and John Busch on their journey to dramatically improve the efficiency of advanced manufacturing. Co-led with our friends at Tomorrow | Visionaries Club, this raise enables SirenOpt to accelerate their phenomenal traction across a number of multi-billion-dollar manufacturing markets, including semiconductors, electronics, batteries, and aerospace. SirenOpt's manufacturing intelligence product non-destructively collects materials properties and otherwise unobtainable manufacturing data on quality and yield. By enabling factories to measure what was previously unmeasurable, SirenOpt is unlocking extraordinary gains in production efficiency and enabling manufacturers to mitigate manufacturing variability in real-time. Thanks to Katie Fehrenbacher and Axios for breaking the news! https://lnkd.in/gB47Fd4K

Voyager is proud to be an investor in Copper, recently featured in The Wall Street Journal for its innovative approach to home electrification. Copper's battery-powered oven and induction cooktop enable homeowners to switch from gas to electric cooking without costly electrical upgrades. By removing this significant barrier, Copper is accelerating the transition to homes that run on cleaner, safer, and more durable sources of energy. Beyond its obvious climate benefits, Copper’s ranges provide a best-in-class cooking experience and avert indoor methane and carbon monoxide pollution in homes. We've tried the Copper ranges ourselves and the cooking experience is amazing - it's why the best chefs in the world are increasingly switching to induction. We look forward to seeing Sam, Eric, Tucker and the Copper team improve kitchens across the US and around the world! https://lnkd.in/gHYCHUuy

Rice cultivation generates an emissions footprint equivalent to global aviation. Today, we are proud to announce Voyager's investment in Mitti Labs' first institutional round, backing the stellar founding team of Xavier Laguarta Soler, Devdut Dalal and Nathan T. in their ambition to decarbonize rice production worldwide. We look forward to working alongside the brilliant Hemant Mohapatra and our friends at Lightspeed India to support Mitti's important work. https://lnkd.in/gPBPs8e4

In the US alone, simply installing solar on warehouse roofs has the potential to generate 186 TWh of power every year, nearly enough to power all US data centres. What if we could financially incentivise commercial roofspace owners to install solar whilst offering nearby energy-hungry businesses like data centres cheap and zero-carbon electricity? InRange makes it effortless and financially obvious for building owners to install solar across their commercial properties, transforming rooftops into valuable electricity-generating assets. We're delighted for John Mushriqui and the InRange team for their coverage in today's The Wall Street Journal highlighting InRange's incredible work with the global data center operator Iron Mountain and InRange's £100M debt facility that will fund deployments across 300 buildings and 20 customers. https://lnkd.in/gZqfmu-E

For SF Deep Tech Week, we're teaming up with our friends at Union Square Ventures and DCVC to host rooftop drinks next Tuesday, June 25. See you there! https://lu.ma/1jdrob42

On June 4, Sierra Peterson will be speaking at SuperReturn Berlin on the near-term investment opportunities in climate tech and the energy transition. Voyager Ventures will also be cohosting the SuperClimate event on June 5. See you in Berlin! https://lnkd.in/gs_EirWT

I'm looking forward to spending time at Yale this Friday as a judge for the Sustainable Venture Prize, awarding $25,000 to a high impact startup business in sustainability. If you'll be there and are working on something in climate, I'd love to hear about it! Event details here: https://lnkd.in/eWZftBEB

The chemicals industry makes modern life possible: from our materials to our food, the global economy would not exist without industrial chemicals. It's also one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonize. In Voyager’s latest letter, we investigate the paths to producing chemicals and materials without fossil fuels, and the new opportunities this shift enables. https://lnkd.in/gJnvdy9F

I'll be (back) at Harvard this Friday to talk about The Future of Carbon Capture at the Harvard Climate Leadership Summit. Looking forward to what's sure to be a great discussion alongside panelists Cameron Halliday of Mantel Capture, Aliya Haq of Breakthrough Energy, and Andrew Fishbein of Climeworks. Come say hi if you're a founder, student, policymaker, or otherwise working on climate and attending the conference! https://lnkd.in/e35ZSDii