Urban Us

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

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Undisclosed

Stage

02.04.2020

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1

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General

About Company
Third Sphere is an early-stage fund that invests in rapid, scalable climate action to achieve outsized impact and returns.

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Also Known As

Urban.Us, Urban Us Public Benefit Corp

founded date

01.11.2013

Number of employees

Company Type

Non-profit

Last funding type

Undisclosed

IPO status

Private

Description

Third Sphere, formerly known as Urban Us, is a $100M Pre-Seed and Seed stage fund that invests in startups with a track record of unlocking GHG reduction and resilience through strategies like electrification. The fund focuses on ownership in pre-seed/seed stage teams and markets where they can help unlock institutional funding and multiple opportunities to expand ownership before Series A. Third Sphere has a proprietary curated network with over 12k people, enabling 1k annual 1:1 introductions, along with access to asset finance backed by Encina (KKR & Oaktree). The team is ranked in the 99th percentile of climatetech investors on NFX Signal, and Techcrunch named them one of the top 10 VCs founders love the most. Third Sphere invests at the earliest stages, usually pre-customer, and offers traditional venture as well as credit finance, along with coaching and connections to over 12,000 customers, investors focused on re-imagining our planet. Their platform helps connect portfolio founders with leading founders, investors, and customers in climatetech, increasing the portfolio's chances of achieving rapid impact at scale.
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