Backing bold founders who are changing how the world is moved, powered, and built through climate tech innovation.
Org Type: Ag, Food & Natural Capital
Virta Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Russell Sprole focused on early-stage climate tech investments. Virta backs bold founders developing innovative solutions for rapid decarbonization across transportation, energy, and built environment sectors. The firm targets equity-light business models that can scale quickly and pioneering technologies addressing critical climate challenges, with a vision to be a catalyst for transformative climate impact through strategic early-stage investments.
Contribution
Provides curated early-stage climate tech investment opportunities, deep technical and market due diligence on climate solutions, portfolio support and network access for founder teams, focus on scalable, equity-light models that can achieve rapid deployment, and impact measurement on greenhouse gas emissions avoided and climate resilience built.
Focus Areas
Climate tech and rapid decarbonization, clean energy and renewable power, sustainable transportation and mobility, green building and construction tech, equity-light and capital-efficient business models, breakthrough technologies addressing critical climate challenges, and carbon reduction and climate resilience.
Geographical Location
Global opportunity set with focus on ventures that can scale internationally. Primary investments in North America and Europe with openness to breakthrough innovations from other regions that demonstrate strong climate impact potential and path to scale.
Alignment with SIR
Virta Ventures’ commitment to backing bold climate solutions aligns with Social Impact Rewards’ goal of channeling capital to transformative impact. This partnership demonstrates that early-stage venture investing can drive the rapid decarbonization needed to address climate change while generating strong returns for impact investors willing to back innovative founders.
Contact
For partnership enquiries via Social Impact Rewards, contact hello@sirgiving.org and mention “Virta Ventures”. For fund and investment inquiries, visit virtaventures.co.
Website & links
Website: virtaventures.co