Mazarine Climate

Name

Mazarine Climate

Legal name

Mazarine Climate

Website

https://mazarineclimate.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Climate Tech Venture Capital

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Other Investment Pools and Funds (5259), All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399)

SIC

Investors, Nec (6799), Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Energy & Sustainability / Climate Growth Equity (FSANACAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sustainable Private Markets (Impact PE/VC, Private Credit, Infrastructure) (FSAAALAG)

Keywords

• Venture capital investing
• Climate adaptation technology
• Hydroclimatic risk data
• Seed-stage climate startups
• Climate tech venture capital

Headquarters

HQ city

United States

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Fund Management / Venture Returns: Mazarine Climate operates as a specialist venture capital fund on the adaptation side of climate-tech, generating returns through equity investments in early-stage companies building the data, sensing, and decision layer for hydroclimatic risk. Revenue is derived from carried interest and management fees on its VC fund.
2. Portfolio Company Equity Returns: Four active portfolio companies at seed stage: TDRI Solutions (linear assets, New Zealand), Bluesonde (coastal infrastructure/water quality, US), AquaMetrics (surface water monitoring, UK), and Sereno (parametric insurance, France). Investment criteria include minimum $300K in booked top-line revenue in the last calendar year.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Mazarine Climate is a specialist venture capital firm that invests pre-seed and seed capital in early-stage companies building AI-native data stack technologies for hydroclimatic risk management. Investments cover sensors, satellites, monitoring networks, AI, digital twins, and decision software serving enterprise buyers in four sectors: Linear Assets, Coastal Infrastructure, F.I.R.E. (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate), and Power Generation. The firm's thesis targets non-discretionary enterprise opex spend under regulatory and balance-sheet pressure, with a $110B addressable market by 2030 growing at 16.5% CAGR.

Product overview

Mazarine Climate is a specialist venture capital firm on the adaptation side of climate-tech, providing investment services rather than a traditional product platform. The firm backs early-stage AI-native companies across four focus sectors (Linear Assets, Coastal Infrastructure, F.I.R.E., and Power Generation) that address hydroclimatic risk through the Industry 4.0 toolbox — sensors, satellites, monitoring networks, AI, digital twins, and decision software. The portfolio consists of four seed-stage companies: TDRI Solutions (moisture sensing for roads), Bluesonde (water-quality sensing for algal blooms), AquaMetrics (water-level monitoring), and Sereno (parametric insurance).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Investment Thesis & Sector Focus Services Specialist venture capital investment services focused on hydroclimatic risk across four sectors (Linear Assets, Coastal Infrastructure, F.I.R.E. — Finance, Insurance, Real Estate — and Power Generation), backed by an AI-native data stack thesis spanning sensing, analytics, and decision automation; offered to early-stage founders, LPs, family offices, and co-investors sharing the hydroclimatic risk worldview.
• Mazarine Climate Fund (Seed-stage venture capital fund for hydroclimatic risk) The fund vehicle providing pre-seed and seed capital to early-stage companies building the AI-native data stack for hydroclimatic risk; targets enterprise buyers in F.I.R.E., linear assets, coastal infrastructure, and power generation. Subscription-based exposure for LPs, family offices, and co-investors.

Quantifiable outcome

• $110B total addressable market for hydroclimatic risk technology by 2030, growing at 16.5% CAGR from $45B in 2024
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• World Water-Tech Innovation Summit (organizers)coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 27 January 2025Mazarine Climate participated as a panelist/investor at the World Water-Tech Innovation Summit alongside other water-tech investors (Aqualateral, Burnt Island Ventures, Emerald Technology Ventures, The European Water-Tech Accelerator, and Xylem Innovation Labs), sharing trends and insights on water-tech investment for 2025 at this leading industry event.
• MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2021Mazarine Climate's investment thesis is backed by independent academic research from the MIT Joint Program (Report 350, April 2021) titled 'Hydroclimatic analysis of climate change risks to global corporate assets in support of deep-dive valuation' by Strzepek, Schlosser & Goudreau. The research provides academic validation that 61% of global facilities face Medium or High climate risk by 2030, rising to 90% by 2050 — the core market timing thesis for the fund.
• Convective CapitalminorOthersConvective Capital is referenced as a peer specialist VC operating in the adjacent pyroclimatic risk space (~7% of insured nat-cat losses), serving as a comparison point in Mazarine Climate's five-families-of-climate-risk framework.
• UpRoot CapitalminorOthersUpRoot Capital is referenced as a peer specialist VC operating in the adjacent bioclimatic risk space (<1% of insured nat-cat losses), serving as a comparison point in Mazarine Climate's five-families-of-climate-risk framework.
• Other Water-Tech Investors and AcceleratorsminorOthersMazarine Climate references a broader ecosystem of water-tech investors and accelerators including Aqualateral, Burnt Island Ventures, Emerald Technology Ventures, The European Water-Tech Accelerator, and Xylem Innovation Labs as co-participants in the water-tech investment landscape and potential co-investors.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Burnt Island Ventures: Early-stage venture capital firm focused on water-tech and water infrastructure startups. Direct peer in stage, sector focus, and climate adaptation orientation; co-participant with Mazarine in water-tech investor panels and ecosystem events.
• Aqualateral: Water-tech focused investor and accelerator referenced alongside Mazarine Climate in industry panels. Direct peer in water-tech investing mandate, with comparable early-stage, domain-specialist orientation.
• Convective Capital: Specialist VC focused on wildfire (pyroclimatic) risk technology. Explicitly referenced by Mazarine as a sister fund in its "five families of climate risk" framework — directly comparable as a domain-specialist climate adaptation investor targeting a distinct but adjacent risk family.
• Emerald Technology Ventures: Global cleantech and water-tech venture capital firm investing across industrial water, energy, and sustainability. Direct peer in water/climate-tech mandate; co-participant with Mazarine at the World Water-Tech Innovation Summit.

Broad incumbents

• Breakthrough Energy Ventures: Bill Gates-backed climate-tech fund with multi-billion AUM investing across mitigation and adaptation. Broad incumbent that can and does fund hydroclimatic risk-adjacent companies at series stages beyond Mazarine's seed scope.
• Xylem Innovation Labs: Corporate venture and innovation arm of Xylem, a global water technology leader. Broad incumbent with overlap on water/hydroclimatic risk sensing and analytics; relevant as a strategic investor and potential acquirer for Mazarine's portfolio companies.
• Lowercarbon Capital: Climate-tech venture fund backing companies across energy, industry, and adaptation. Broad incumbent that overlaps on climate adaptation investing; meaningfully larger AUM than Mazarine and operates as a potential co-investor or competitor for top-tier adaptation deals.
• DCVC (Data Collective): Deep-tech venture firm with a significant climate-tech portfolio including Earth observation, sensing, and applied AI for environmental intelligence. Broad incumbent comparable to Mazarine on the data/AI/sensing layer of the climate risk stack.
• Khosla Ventures: Major venture firm with deep climate-tech portfolio including water and adaptation technologies. Broad incumbent with far larger fund size and capacity to lead priced rounds in hydroclimatic risk categories Mazarine seeds.

Emerging players

• Prelude Ventures: Early-stage climate-tech venture firm investing in companies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Emerging player with comparable stage focus on climate adaptation, though broader than Mazarine's hydroclimatic-only mandate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments2 records

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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