Spark Studios
a climate tech venture studio
We are investors & business co-founders
We build and invest in early-stage climate tech startups, partnering with founding scientists or entrepreneurs as both business co-founders and investors.
We deeply engage with large industrial players
We engage industry partners to understand their decarbonization & innovation needs, provide access to relevant early-stage technologies and start-ups, and pursue joint commercialization.
We accelerate tech from leading universities
We have on-going collaborations with leading research projects and related spin-out startups from top US academic and government institutions including UC Irvine, UCLA, Caltech, and Stanford.
We partner with three kinds of stakeholders
Industry partners
We partner with leading energy and industrial corporates. We start by identifying their pressing decarbonization & innovation needs, and finding relevant technologies and early-stage startups. They become our strategic and financial partners.
Researchers & startups
We partner with top US universities for access to cutting-edge technologies and regularly evaluate early-stage startups in our focus areas. We become their business co-founders, investors, and help commercialize the technology.
Entrepreneurs in residence
We often take on the role of a business co-founders with the researchers being the technical co-founders. We look out for executives and entrepreneurs to play business leadership roles in these startups.
