ArcTern Ventures
ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in Toronto, San Francisco, and Oslo investing globally in breakthrough technology companies, solving climate change and sustainability — we call it #earthtech.
reThought has cracked the code on flood insurance
reThought has cracked the code on flood insurance
Climate change-driven flooding is increasing, yet flood insurance coverage remains low — reThought plans to change this
The Climate-tech Cavalry are here! … Now it’s time to reform the WTO as global climate hawk.
The Climate-tech Cavalry are here! … Now it’s time to reform the WTO as global climate hawk.
ArcTern closed Fund 1 back in 2012, just as many of our peers shed their climate-tech affiliation. For a while, the sector was a lonely…
The path to net-zero starts with understanding your carbon footprint
The path to net-zero starts with understanding your carbon footprint
I’m thrilled to announce our recent investment in Emitwise, a leading player in the rapidly evolving automated carbon accounting sector.
2021 may be the year of the gods
2021 may be the year of the gods
2020 may be called the year of the plague. That year, the covid pandemic caused 1.6 million deaths and infected another 500 million people…
Is your cereal really gluten-free?
Is your cereal really gluten-free?
Smart manufacturing and supply chain traceability is finally coming of age — but why aren’t more brands embracing the change?
Getting to the green economy with ArcTern
Getting to the green economy with ArcTern
We are at the beginning of one of the most disruptive decades in our lifetime. Climate chaos is altering our landscapes and driving…
Tomorrow’s chemistry, today: Bringing materials science into the 21st century
Tomorrow’s chemistry, today: Bringing materials science into the 21st century
Why ArcTern invested in Kebotix’s Series A
Fish farms — sustainable food or environmental catastrophe?
Fish farms — sustainable food or environmental catastrophe?
We have a fishy problem and no clear solution
Span’s smart electrical panel is the missing piece to the solar-plus-storage equation
Span’s smart electrical panel is the missing piece to the solar-plus-storage equation
Why ArcTern Ventures led Span.IO’s $10M Series A round
The Launch of a Generalist Cleantech VC
The Launch of a Generalist Cleantech VC
Today, my co-founder, Tom Rand and I announced we’ve raised $200 million for our second cleantech fund at ArcTern Ventures, a fund we…
The Downfall of Fast Fashion and Indestructable Pantyhose
The Downfall of Fast Fashion and Indestructable Pantyhose
Fashion industry responsible for 10% of global emissions
Canada needs an “Own the Podium” cleantech strategy
Canada needs an “Own the Podium” cleantech strategy
As MaRS Cleantech and ArcTern begins to engage with the new federal government, several key themes emerge. The first is to ensure we get…
Morgan Solar: Next-generation solar is born
Morgan Solar: Next-generation solar is born
Hard to believe solar energy can be disrupted yet again, particularly after the precipitous fall in solar panel pricing over the last…
Oil and gas incumbents: the upside of cleantech collaboration
Oil and gas incumbents: the upside of cleantech collaboration
The global transition a low-carbon economy is now inevitable. There will be winners and losers. Under pressure from institutional…
Polar Sapphire: Driving down LED costs
Polar Sapphire: Driving down LED costs
Polar Sapphire’s proprietary process produces the world’s lowest cost, highest purity alumina. High purity alumina faces growing demand…
Woodland Biofuels: Cellulosic ethanol cheaper than gasoline
Woodland Biofuels: Cellulosic ethanol cheaper than gasoline
We don’t take regulatory or policy risk — no subsidies, price on carbon, or regulatory change. That’s a tough order for biofuels — most…
Circuit Meter: Breaking the price barrier on submetering and analytics
Circuit Meter: Breaking the price barrier on submetering and analytics
If you can’t measure it, you can’t control it. Commercial buildings consume a lot of energy — nearly 40% of total consumption -but very…
SEI: Deep visibility for the distribution grid
SEI: Deep visibility for the distribution grid
Today’s distribution grid — those nearly uncountable wires, loads, substations, relays, transformers — is ‘dark’: there’s little to no…
Hydrostor: Finally, economic grid-scale storage
Hydrostor: Finally, economic grid-scale storage
Low cost energy storage is critical to expanded global renewable deployment. It’s the ‘memory’ of the emerging smartgrid, eliminating…
Selling Lifeboats on the Titanic
Selling Lifeboats on the Titanic
Speaking at a cleantech event recently, I bemoaned the lack of urgency in capital movement to the sector. Carbon builds, capital barely…