The Next Internet and Climate Tech Investing

Cerulean invests in proven teams and trusted technology to address climate and decarbonize the economy through software for renewable and regenerative processes.

The Next Internet and Climate Tech Investing

The Climate crisis stems largely from an imbalance between what we take from nature and how we pay it back. This coordination and accounting problem is rooted in disconnected markets and misaligned incentives. Cerulean and its community of co-investors are working at the intersection of ecology and technology to find market-based solutions for cutting emissions and removing carbon and GHGs while also regenerating the planet for continued human prosperity.

Earth, Energy and Ecosystems

We see beyond extractive economics with its unpriced costs to society and its damage to nature, and we look towards regenerative financial markets where human innovation builds with nature. Investing in the natural capital means investing to create the networks of knowledge, stewardship and economic abundance that mimic and respect Earth’s interconnected natural ecosystems. It means investing in energy systems that renew themselves through the eternal energy of the sun; agricultural systems that regenerate the planet by building up soil health; and financial markets that reflect the full value of nature’s enduring abundance over an extractive one-time transaction.

Nature Markets to Value the Priceless

Nature is priceless and that is part of the problem. To change the world for the better we believe we must see and engage the world as it is. Today that means a world powered by global energy production and driven by global trade. These markets are globally connected and undergoing rapid digital transformation but they are disconnected from Nature, exploiting its most immediately valuable resources, while disregarding the costs of such extraction while ignoring the benefits of intact, healthy natural ecosystems. Cerulean Ventures is an investment firm that believes accounting for nature’s input to the economy via natural capital can be the biggest investment opportunity of our generation, and the highest leverage tool we have at our disposal against climate change. We back entrepreneurs that build these values into code.

Why Software?

In little more than a single human generation, the Internet connected humanity with a universal communications network built on open-source software supported by contributors - scientists, engineers and creatives - the world over. Today we have the opportunity to leverage software in a similar way to connect the planet and its ecosystems with the proven scientific and indigenous methods of stewarding Earth to help create a sustainable balance between human industry and the abundance of a healthy planet.

Software that codifies climate-positive practices, software that builds interconnected networks of nature, software that provides data and information to increase our knowledge of earth, improve its stewardship and reward ecologically sound practices.

A Lever Long Enough to Move the World into Balance

A decade ago, to express how ubiquitous software, computers and technology-enabled networks had become in every industry on Earth, Marc Andreessen famously said, “Software is eating the world.” At Cerulean we seek out and invest in software that is healing the world. Software that has zero-marginal cost of sharing science-based methodologies for regenerating degraded, unproductive agricultural land. Software that has the scalability to power instantaneous global prices for the costs human industry places on the planet. Software that has the ubiquity and universality to connect communities with sustainable economic opportunity for the protection, regeneration and equilibrium of Nature. Software that scales proven methods and connects new networks with nature to bring the world into balance.

Join the Exploration and Conversation

We are fortunate to be able to learn from entrepreneurs, technologists, ecologists, scientists and economists both from history and those making history today. Join us as we introduce these thinkers and doers in climate tech and nature markets today and as we explore the fundamental technologies powering these climate-positive solutions.

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