Grantham Foundation

What they do

Grantham Foundation seeks to protect and improve the health of global environmental issues and supports individuals and organizations. It also supports communication and collaboration in environmental protection, with an emphasis on climate change. The foundation focuses on communications to enable the general public to understand that climate change represents the world’s primary environmental threat today and that mitigating and adapting to a changing climate will lead to a more sustainable and prosperous future. Grantham Foundation was founded in 1997 by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

What they look for

The Grantham Foundation explicitly targets sectors and technologies that are underfunded relative to their potential impact on climate change, looking for "the ideas that the world needs, but that others can't help move forward." Their core thesis is "Neglected Climate Opportunities," focusing on areas like Carbon Removal (CDR), Geoengineering & Climate Intervention, Energy Systems Redesign (geothermal, nuclear fusion, long-duration storage), and Nature-Based Solutions. They provide catalytic, patient capital, often as the first check, for complex hardware or science projects with high risk tolerance but massive potential emissions reduction.

Stage

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sectors

Climate, Deeptech, Food and agriculture

Based

Boston, US