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We’re honored that Juniper has been selected as 1 of 100 (out of 900+ venture funds that applied) to attend the RAISE Global Summit in San Francisco later this month. This annual gathering brings together a curated community of forward-thinking GPs and LPs. We’re grateful to be selected to be part of this by a LP selection committee including Cambridge Associates, Screendoor, Plexo Capital, Top Tier Capital Partners, Next Legacy Partners, Illumen Capital, First Close Partners, Fairview Capital, Bank of America, and many more. Thank you Joanna Drake, Benjamin Black, and the RAISE Global team for creating this welcoming on-ramp for venture capitalists building their firms. This is a huge milestone for us, and we can’t wait to collaborate with some of the best GPs and LPs in our industry. See you at RAISE Global, let me know if you’d like to meet! #RAISEGlobalSummit #VentureCapital

In 2022, we launched a venture fund focused on synthetic biology enabled climate solutions. Today, we’re announcing the rebranding of that fund from Climate Capital Bio to Juniper! ?? Juniper is THE Climate Biotech fund. We’re focused on investing in breakthrough science ready to be commercialized to solve the world’s toughest sustainability problems. Check out our new website at www.junipervc.com. So why the change? Climate Capital has a great brand but is known as a generalist within climate. Here at Juniper, we’re specialists. Our new brand, Juniper, is specifically focused on the intersection of biotech and sustainability. With the Juniper brand, we are building a destination for deeptech founders in the climate space and a purpose built firm that can best serve them. At Juniper, we work with other early stage investors to share our technical due diligence and create coalitions of investors to catalyze more funding in climate biotech, in addition to making our own investments. Our goal is to give founders working on solutions that could revolutionize (and decarbonize) trillions in market share more opportunities to find aligned investors to help them build their businesses at the earliest stages. This change is catalyzed by a $3M SSBCI grant we won from the US Department of Commerce to build a non-profit incubator, Juniper Zero. Juniper Zero prepares climate biotech scientists and first time founders to become extraordinary entrepreneurs by providing access to educational resources, mentors, capital networks and help them win non-dilutive funding, entirely for free. Building on our track record as scientists, founders, and our experience investing in 30 early stage climate biotech companies together, Juniper Fund I is now raised and we have invested in 15 companies who are working on everything from scaling up bio-manufacturing, mining for critical minerals with microbes, feeding a growing population in a changing climate, to decarbonizing chemical synthesis. We named our firm Juniper because the Juniper genus is one of the most diverse and hardy in nature: the trees thrive in an extremely wide range of habitats, are amazingly resilient, and are renowned for their longevity. Here at Juniper, our life’s work is to support founders as they grow world-changing companies that are built to last.

New York Climate Week is around the corner, and Juniper Zero's first cohort is ready! Check out some of the companies below that will be pitching and showcasing their products at our Demo Day and SynBio Showcase ? ALKEMIO ? - Refining and delivering ultra-pure REE oxides. Anabaena ? - Using abandoned oil and gas infrastructure as bioreactors for hydrogen production using nitrogen fixing bacteria. Cyanotype Bio ?? - Unlocking the 97% of yet to be discovered bioactives and their infinite patterns found in the Plant Kingdom. Cyklos Materials ? - Infinitely recyclable, novel specialty polymers Integrated Dynamics ?? - Rapidly decomposing waste into H2/CO2 and reforming it into value chemicals. Ivu Bio ?? - Extending the brief shelf life of biology. Oleo Sustainable Palm Oil Solutions ?? - Transforming biomass waste into sustainable bio-oil. Optimized Foods ?? - Encapsulating fats, flavors, and other ingredient compounds in an edible mycelium matrix. Perendi Labs ?? - Liquid Hydrogen bio-batteries using bacteria to catalyze conversion of hydrogen to formic acid. Quantiscope ?? - Developing enterprise applications for quantitative intelligence of microscopic images. Rhea's Factory ?? - Breaking down plastic waste into their original building blocks that can be reused infinitely. The Pennycress Company ?? - Engineering cover crops that can be used in anything from seed oil to sustainable aviation fuels. WeNeW Carbology ?? - Equipping farms to produce pure, drop-in diesel from crop residues right in the farmyard X-Seed Plants ?? - Producing resilient hybrid crops in the face of rapidly changing global growing conditions. Register to attend Demo Day: https://lu.ma/6aaszxf2 Won't be in town? Sign up to view Juniper Zero's Investor Lobby: https://lnkd.in/gyTE8y_t

Calling all climate + biotech founders: the Juniper Zero application window is closing soon! Get your apps in by the end of the weekend for consideration to join our first cohort. Our 10 minute screening application: https://lnkd.in/eUAqR2kD We're also accepting Mentor forms through the end of the month. If you'd like to lend your expertise to help growing startups at the climate biotech intersection, please fill out this form: https://lnkd.in/eBkG97HJ Learn more about the program on our website: https://juniperzero.org/

Biology is the most powerful tool for climate impact, able to scale carbon negative solutions from nanometers to kilometers. We're ushering climate solutions out of the lab and into the bio-economy by supporting early stage founders in the areas they need it most: 1. Access to Capital - intros to angel investors and VCs. 2. Access to Networks - connections to peers, mentors, talent, industry, and other strategic partners. 3. Capacity Building - entrepreneurial training in both hard and soft skills, from building TEAs to pitch practice. Here are a few ways to get involved with the incubator: Are you a founder? Apply through our quick?10-minute screening?application: https://lnkd.in/g5kkjFwA (or send it to someone who would be a good fit!) Interested in becoming a mentor? We'd love to connect you with founders who could benefit from your particular expertise. Please fill out this?mentor form: https://lnkd.in/grDmET68 Are you an investor? Join our?Investor Partner Network: https://lnkd.in/gkWSTaFh