SNØCAP is a venture capital firm that believes in the power of scientific innovation to solve the climate crisis. We are three engineers who have spent our careers assembling one of the best ecosystems for deep tech entrepreneurs in the world. We work best with early stage founders, and we invest in the sort of business that:
  • 📈 Create product(s) that are immediately cheaper, or dramatically more effective, than the products they are replacing.
  • 📉 Lower the cost of doing business for their customers, which are typically other businesses.
  • 🌱 Reduce the immediate and downstream pollution their customers emit as a result of adopting their products.
  • 🧠 Are in the process of commercializing intellectual property (IP) that they own or license.
  • 📚 Developed their IP through years of academic research or indigenous learnings.
  • 📦 Have exhibited corporate interest, ranging from written support through to direct sponsorship and purchase orders.
  • 🧪 Will benefit from the help of engineers and scientists to predict the market value of their technology.
  • 🌍 Could immediately leverage an ecosystem of academic partners, cheap field trials, and/or grant application support.
  • 💰 Are raising their first round of capital, outside of grants and other non-dilutive capital.
If this sounds like your startup, or one you know, you can submit the company for consideration here. Our team reviews new opportunities every week!
Shrina Kurani, MP

Mechanical engineer and sustainability scientist with a decade of experience building, investing in, and advocating for frontier climate tech. She invested in early stage, mission driven companies with Better Ventures and built out Republic’s business lines as VP, democratizing access to capital. Shrina ran for United States Congress championing strong climate policy.

Nate Salpeter, GP

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineer with 13 years experience in the climate tech space, including 5 years at Bill Gates’ TerraPower. He is the co-founder of Sweet Farm, a New York based non-profit incubating food, agriculture, and climate tech startups. He invests and personally advises in emerging sectors, including being the first investor in and an advisor to TurtleTree Labs

Jonathan Azoff, GP

Software engineering leader with twenty years of experience across a wide array of sectors (social, gaming, real estate, fitness, logistics, fintech) and two notable exits in the past ten years (Zillow, Disney). He’s the inventor of Goat-2-Meeting (2M+ ARR), the primary architect behind Omni (25M+ XRP raise). He managed several teams at Carta (7B valuation), where he led tool development for the VC back office.

Abigail Albright

Abby is a seasoned investor and product leader with over a decade of experience. She has expertise in leading product management, business development, and go-to-market strategies for early-stage startups and global franchises alike. As an investor, Abby has supported seed-series B focused venture funds with $2B+in AUM, backed 35+ startups as a generalist angel investor, and co-founded an early-stage spatial computing fund. Startups she has supported have raised over $500M in subsequent funding. Abby holds an MBA from The Wharton School at UPenn and a BA in Neuroscience from UC Berkeley.

Kate Kingen

Kate is a category expert, seasoned senior leader, and finance executive with over a decade of experience. She has led growth companies in the food and DTC consumer industries, managed major governmental organizations, and advised on transactions totaling over $21bn in deal value as an investment banker.

Kelci Zile

Kelci Zile is the Chief Development Officer of Sound Future (a nonprofit that leverages the power of live events as a testbed climate solutions), sits on the University of Washington Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship board, is the Director of Venture Community for EnVest, and previously led sustainability investments for Madrona Venture Labs. Before investing, she led sustainability for AWS Marketplace and served on the Amazon Sustainability Ambassadors Global Board where she co-led an Amazon-wide internal education series. Her expertise includes the circular economy, supply chain emissions reduction, net-zero planning, and nature-based solutions.

HonMun Yip

Hon Mun has over thirty years of investment, operations, and board level experience with PE funds, family offices and start-ups. For more than a decade and a half, he was based in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Seoul and China performing Post M&A integration, turning-around and growing businesses for Private Equity Funds and family-owned Asia businesses. He ventured into ESG and Sustainability businesses when he was the CEO of a Singapore-China government Joint Venture pioneering in sustainable farming and food security in North East China. He served as the EVP for Turtletree Lab, COO for an Impact Philanthropy fund and an active investor in the alternative protein space.



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