United States · 
What does Prelude Ventures invest in?
Prelude Ventures invests most often at Series A and Series B (68% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Solar, Smart Grid and Biodiversity.
Prelude Ventures highlights
- 01
6 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Series A and Series B: 68% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 1 rounds, median undisclosed
What they do
Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $25M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- SolarSmart GridBiodiversity
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first30 appearances
- 2026
5 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- May
- Mar
- Feb
- 2025
3 rounds
- Dec
- Aug
- Mar
- 2024
2 rounds
- Nov
- Jan
- 2022
1 round
- Apr
- 2019
6 rounds
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- 2017
3 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Feb
- 2016
1 round
- Jul
- 2015
3 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- 2014
4 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- Apr
- Apr
- 2013
1 round
- Jan
- 2011
1 round
- Sept
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
DWDavis WarnockDirectoriFiling they signed
GWGreg WarnockDirectoriFiling they signed
ZSZach SivertsonDirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 13 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
10 of 14 we have independently watched raise
ClearMetalCoverCressFervo EnergyGreenLight BiosciencesPlanetPowerhiveQuantumScapeSense PhotonicsUnspunZymergenEnergySavvyPLANT PVRaxiumSolarBridge Technologies
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.