Prime Impact Fund

Catalytic Investing

Jan 5

Written By Anjali Deshmukh

Prime Impact Fund (PIF) is a $50 million, 100% catalytic capital fund launched in 2018. Prime Coalition governs PIF and works with its investment team, tightly tethering our nonprofit structure and charitable purposes to PIF’s corporate form to ensure and maintain the primacy of mission, impact, and additionality.

In Q4 2021, Prime Impact Fund made its 16th and final investment and now actively manages a full portfolio of companies across a wide variety of sectors, each with significant gigaton-scale emissions reduction potential.

Portfolio

Avalanche Energy

Avalanche Energy

Designing, testing, and building fusion batteries that you can hold in your hand.

C-Motive Technologies

C-Motive Technologies

Reinventing the electric motor for high torque at low speeds, which could enable bigger wind turbines and ultra-efficient vehicles.

Charm Industrial

Charm Industrial

Converts waste biomass into bio-oil that’s injected underground.

Clean Crop Technologies

Clean Crop Technologies

Technology to degrade pathogens, toxins, and pests responsible for food waste.

Gradient

A new air conditioning system delivering high efficiency and low greenhouse gas emissions.

Leading Edge

Technology for the production of a silicon wafer at half the cost and half the CO₂ emissions.

Lilac Solutions

Lilac Solutions

Enabling low-cost and environmentally-friendly lithium to power electric vehicles and energy storage.

MicroByre

Synthetic biology platform to domesticate wild-type bacteria.

Noon Energy

Developing a low-cost battery technology for long-duration energy storage.

Ovipost

Helping make insects an affordable, sustainable, high-protein ingredient for in the agricultural supply chain.

Sublime Systems

Sublime Systems

Developing technology to decarbonize cement-making.

Tynt Technologies

Tynt Technologies

Dynamic windows that can switch from clear to black, delivering energy savings at affordable cost.

Verdox

Capturing carbon directly from air at low concentrations and cost.

Vesta

Advancing coastal carbon capture by accelerating the natural weathering process of olivine rock.

Via Separations

Via Separations

Membrane-driven industrial separations, to reduce energy consumption.

Zanskar

Zanskar is using machine learning and imaging tools to enable enhanced geothermal exploration.

Anjali Deshmukh

Azolla Fund I

Impact Services (Pilot)