Acclimate Ventures partners with early-stage founders

building the core technologies
driving AI performance, efficiency, and scale

Our Focus

US & UK deep tech ventures

Early stage investing in US & UK based deep tech climate ventures

Teams dedicated to solving customer problems

Leaders and teams obsessed with solving customer problems

Transformational solutions on a global scale

Transformational solutions on a global scale

Bringing Long-Term Value

Lessons from Tech

Pushing the boundaries of innovation in product and business model

Strategies & Playbooks

Opening routes to market and growth opportunities in the US and UK / Europe

Customer Discovery

Driving pilot income and converting first commercial customers

Access to Growth Capital

Connecting startups to follow-on capital and corporate partnerships for scale

Testimonials

Hear From Founders

Founder & CEO, Luminous

Jay M. Wong

Mark’s collective knowledge in tech will enable us to ship, iterate, and scale at speed. His extensive network and access to growth capital will provide long term value as we grow Luminous’ operations.
CEO and Co-Founder, Vaire Computing

Rodolfo Rosini

Mark is my sounding board and brings an army knife of product insight, operations, and access to growth capital that makes him extremely useful to Vaire Computing.
Co-founder and CEO of Plumerai

Roeland Nusselder

Mark provides valuable advice every time. He’s constantly enabling us to move faster and has been amazingly generous with his extensive Silicon Valley rolodex.
CEO and Co-Founder of Lume Health

Vicki Powell

Mark’s experience in Silicon Valley, offers of connections, and optimistic perspective on building hardware startups has been energizing for our founding team.
CEO and Co-Founder at Stayf

Max Zhurilo

I met Mark at Oxford University, where his deep knowledge and experience in startups helped me tremendously during Stayf’s early days. Mark later became one of our first investors, providing invaluable advice and confidence that we were on the right track
Hammerhead AI
Flexible data center infrastructure
Enfabrica
High Performance networking silicon for AI
Amperesand
Solid state transformers
Plumerai
Edge AI for smart home cameras
Gruve
Inference as a service
Ferveret
Liquid cooling for data centers
GridCARE
AI for grid interconnection readiness
Exowatt
Modular renewable energy for data centers
Conductor Quantum
AI for ubiquitous quantum computing
Vaire Computing
Near-zero energy computing
INVESTED ALONGSIDE

About Mark

Mark pivoted into deep tech investing after relocating from Silicon Valley to Oxford in 2022. His extensive experience building and scaling technology businesses inside Apple and Samsung have been a useful asset to partnering startups. Mark’s conviction is that rapid growth in data centers and AI compute are creating transformative business opportunities at a global scale.



Mark’s efforts supporting innovation extend beyond investing into philanthropy, policy engagement, and scientific research — using coordinated approaches to tackle energy bottlenecks and AI infrastructure challenges while helping us all acclimate to our changing world.

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