Nitricity’s latest project—a FOAK organic fertilizer plant in California—is demonstrative of how Trellis Climate aggregates philanthropic capital for catalytic investments, making it easier and more effective for charitable asset owners to step up. Trellis Climate’s investment into Nitricity not only supports a pioneering climate solution but also exemplifies the key design elements that we’re building into Trellis itself.  We see these attributes as critical to addressing the FOAK capital gap in a systemic way, as these are missing in a field where more and more actors are noticing and working to alleviate the FOAK financing gap.

We’re thrilled to announce that Trellis Climate, our project finance program, has been named a Bezos Earth Fund Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize winner!

The winning proposal, "Increasing funding for first-of-a-kind carbon dioxide removal projects by deploying novel insurance products," tackles one of the toughest challenges in scaling climate infrastructure: bridging the commercialization valley of death.

We’re thrilled to share that Lara Pierpoint, Managing Director of Trellis Climate, has been recognized in the 2024 Fin-Erth Women in Climate List!

Lara was nominated by Samia Qader, host ofthe Climate Tech 360 podcast, for her outstanding work in unlocking climate solutions. This recognition highlights her contributions alongside 100 other incredible women from around the globe who are driving meaningful progress in climate and sustainability.

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.

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.