Elemental Impact
Elemental Impact is a Honolulu-based nonprofit investor that deploys catalytic capital to early-stage climate technology startups, helping them scale and commercialize solutions with deep environmental and community impact. Its portfolio of 160 companies has catalyzed over $11.8 billion in additional funding, and its flagship Data Center Innovation Initiative (DCII) partners with Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to use AI data centers as real-world test beds for technologies such as advanced cooling, energy storage, and low-carbon materials.
“Elemental Impact will invest $500K–$5M in up to 10 startups through 2027.”
Source→“"We see data centers as really important customers for entrepreneurs to commercialize technologies that we've been working on for a long time." — Dawn Lippert, CEO, Elemental Impact”
Source→“The initiative aims to use data centers as real-world proving grounds for advanced cooling, energy storage and low-carbon building materials.”
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