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Total Funding: $20M
Total Funding: $37M
Total Funding: $150K
Total Funding: $6.1M
Total Funding: $2.2M
Total Funding:
Total Funding: $2.2M
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Total Funding:
Total Funding: $5M
2013
2013
Third Sphere works for founders transforming global systems. We’ve made over 100 investments in notable firms like Cove Tool, OneWheel and Bowery Farming. We’re usually a pre-customer investor and offer traditional venture as well as credit finance, along with coaching and connections to over 12,000 customers, investors focused on re-imagining our planet. Our team is ranked in the 99th percentile of climatetech investors on NFX Signal, and Techcrunch named us one of the top 10 VCs founders love the most.
2022
2022
2020
2020
2016
2016
2017 - 2021
2017 - 2021
The Third Sphere team ran the leading accelerator for startups upgrading cities for climate change founded by BMW MINI. This included selection and coaching of all teams from cohort 3 to 10. We reorganized around partner-led weekly advisory sessions versus a mentor-led model. Produced all workshops and educational materials including playbooks for customer discovery, traction and growth. We increased graduation rates to over 85% - successful fundraising completed after the program. Prior cohorts were at 35%. Many programs celebrate 50% graduation rates.
2019 - 2021
2019 - 2021
2016 - 2018
2016 - 2018
2007 - 2014
2007 - 2014
Pre-seed tech investment including: ZocDoc, Public, CrowdTwist (acquired by Oracle), Bluebottle (acquired by Nestle), Refinery29 (acquired by Vice), TrialPay (acquired by Visa), Modria (acquired by Tyler), Jovoto (acquired by Talent House), Sense Networks (acquired by Yellow Pages), Retrofit (acquired by Livongo), Mealku (acquired by Morsum), Care at Hand (acquired Mindoula), Everest, Holstee, Stylyt, Minbox, Soma, Spuni as well as multiple seed funds.
2007 - 2013
2007 - 2013
Mutopo worked with organizations to organize internal and external communities (then more commonly referred to as crowds) to find and evaluate ideas and talent. Some of the best known work focused on problems like energy efficient real estate (www.lifeedited.org), paper waste reduction (www.thebetacup.com with Starbucks) and affordable housing (www.300house.com).
2012 - 2013
2012 - 2013
How do you work with 1000's of people to get the best ideas? Part II never became a book, but rather events, blog posts and playbooks as part of Urban Us.