Matt Logan
Partner at Earthshot Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
An early stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs making a dent in climate change. If you're raising, we'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out through our website here: www.earthshot.vc
Principal
2021 - 2023
We are a venture fund investing in entrepreneurs solving the toughest climate challenges.
Investor
2024
Creating the world’s most powerful and energy efficient servers for transformer inference by burning the transformer architecture directly into chips.
Etched.ai is an AI chip startup that develops Sohu, a chip designed specifically for running transformer models.
Raised $125,360,000.00 from Dolik Ventures, Lightscape Partners, Mei Z., Oceans, Fundomo, Fontinalis Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Amjad Masad, Thomas Dohmke and Peter Thiel.
Investor
2023
The lowest cost proven technology for permanent carbon dioxide removal.
Vaulted Deep provides proven technology solutions for permanent carbon removal to promote local environmental and community health.
Raised $40,300,000.00 from Prelude Ventures, Fall Line Capital, Lowercarbon Capital, WovenEarth Ventures, Earthshot Ventures and Rethink Impact.
Investor
2022
Soil microbiome genome analysis to optimize crop protection and fertility.
Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms.
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Valor Capital Group, Ospraie Ag Sciences, Founders Fund, LAUNCH, Earthshot Ventures, Continental Grain Company, The Production Board (TPB) and iSelect Fund.
Investor
2022
Computer vision based SaaS for aquaculture, leading to higher yields and healthier fish.
Investor
2022
Creating the world’s most delightful all-electric rental car and ride hail experience.
Halo.Car is to hasten the world's switch to electric cars by providing incredibly convenient electric carsharing.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from T-Mobile Ventures, Founders, Inc., Boost VC, Earthshot Ventures and At One Ventures.
Investor
2022
Discovering materials critical for the electric vehicle and renewable energy revolution.
KoBold Metals is an AI-powered critical mineral startup that discovers essential materials for electric vehicles and renewable energy.
Raised $898,955,627.00 from Bond, Equinor Ventures, Earthshot Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Andreessen Horowitz, July Fund, BHP Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Mitsubishi Corporation and John Zimmer.
Investor
2021
Digitizing the lighting industry by bringing each lightbulb into the cloud.
Shimmer is an end-to-end software platform that automates the design, development and deployment of large-scale lighting programs
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Earthshot Ventures and VoLo Earth Ventures.
Investor
2021
Dramatically reducing the cost and environmental impact of harvesting lithium.
Investor
2021
The leading carbon management platform for consumer brands.
Planet FWD is a carbon management platform for consumer products that helps brands calculate their carbon footprint.
Raised $15,200,000.00 from Emerson Collective, January Ventures, Earthshot Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Rethink Food, Cleo Capital, City Light Capital, BBG Ventures, Acre Venture Partners and Concrete Rose Capital.