Our Executive Director, Sarah Kearney, joined Laurie Lane-Zucker of Impact Entrepreneur for a deep exploration into the world of catalytic capital, offering a unique perspective on the role of catalytic capital in absorbing disproportionate risk across a variety of climate-related sectors.

Their conversation included topics such as engaging philanthropic partners and co-investors, mission governance, Prime Coalition’s investment strategies, success stories, and catalytic capital in action.

Prime’s research on early climate infrastructure capital gaps and the role of philanthropy in bridging them, is featured in this MIT Sloan School of Management’s list of ways that investors can create meaningful systems change.

Matthew Nordan, General Partner at Azolla Ventures, was quoted in an MIT Technology Review's article about the resurgence of interest and investment in climate tech startups.

Amy Duffuor, Azolla Partners’ General Partner, Lara Pierpoint, Trellis Climates’ Managing Director, and members of our Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) were featured in CTCV’s 2024 climate tech predictions. 

In this video, Matthew Nordan, General Partner of Azolla Venture, sheds light on the impact of catalytic capital and how it can support vital solutions to critical global problems such as climate change.

Prime Coalition's Keri Browder was one of the contributors to the final Oxford Climate Tech Initiative report. The report's findings aligned with Prime's investment vehicles' impetus for launching.

In an op-ed in Inside Philanthropy, Sarah Kearney, Executive Director of Prime, explores the coming wave of catalytic capital and how nonprofits can maximize impact, applying lessons from Prime's 10-year journey.

Harvard Business School published a case study on Prime's CRANE tool, which estimates the future climate impact of climate solution

Rho Impact, Prime's partner in developing the CRANE tool, has successfully completed a pre-seed funding round of $1.125M.

In an article in the Climate Capital Network's second annual Climate Finance Report, Lara Pierpoint, Director of Prime's Early Climate Infrastructure program, Emily Lewis O’Brien, Senior Lead, and Lee Scott, Portfolio Manger, discuss what it will take to deploy innovations at scale.

Prime's Executive Director, Sarah Kearney, spoke with Marcus Baram of Crain Currency in a Q&A session regarding the future of impact investing.

Lara Pierpoint, Director of Prime’s Early Climate Infrastructure (ECI) Program, spoke on a virtual panel on “Funding First-of-a-Kind” at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit.

Anna Goldstein, Prime’s Director of Impact, spoke to Cathleen O’Grady of Science about the recently formed Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA) in the United Kingdom.

Amy Duffuor, General Partner at Azolla Ventures, is profiled as one of Fortune’s 13 seed stage climate tech VCs to watch (paywall).

Azolla Ventures and Prime Coalition’s climate fund is covered by Amy Cortese of ImpactAlpha.

ImpactAlpha features Azolla Ventures’ General Partner, Amy Duffuor, who shares her journey towards impact-first investing and discusses the new blended climate fund by Prime Coalition and Azolla Ventures.

Sarah Kearney, Executive Director, and Matthew Nordan, Azolla Ventures's General Partner, discussed blended financial vehicles with Pitchbook.

Axios reporter Ben Geman spoke to Azolla Ventures' General Partner, Johana Wolfson, and provided a comprehensive breakdown of our newly fund.

Sarah Kearney, Executive Director, and Amy Duffuor, Azolla Ventures' General Partner, spoke with Michelle Ma at Bloomberg about our newly launched fund.

Matthew Nordan, Azolla Ventures’ General Partner, and Sarah Kearney, Executive Director, discuss our new climate fund and inspiring bolder risks with Tim De Chant from TechCrunch.