Starshot Capital

Starshot sources primarily through Work on Climate, a technical climate community founded by Brewer and Levac-Levey that claims to be the largest in the world. Venture Partner Zoe Samuel also co-created Alphabet's internal climate community Anthropocene, now over 4,000 members. This dual-community model gives the firm access to founder referrals, technical due-diligence capacity, and early looks at startups spinning out of large technology companies.

Work on Climate is a separate volunteer-run community, not a legal subsidiary of Starshot. Jeremy Brewer chairs its board and Sam Levac-Levey is a founding member and former Vice Chair. Starshot does not own Work on Climate, but the community functions as an informal origination and screening layer for the firm's investment pipeline.

Based on available disclosures, Starshot appears to invest exclusively in direct early-stage equity deals. The firm's team composition — predominantly operators, not fund-picking allocators — and its portfolio of named portfolio companies like Rumin8, Phaidra, and Ecolectro suggest a direct-investment posture. No fund-of-fund commitments have been publicly identified.

Starshot targets early-stage startups, specifically at the Seed and Series A stages. Its portfolio includes companies like Rumin8, which raised a seed round for livestock methane reduction, and Phaidra, an AI-for-industrial-controls company that partnered with NVIDIA while still scaling its initial deployments. The firm's operator-heavy background aligns with the hands-on requirements of pre-revenue and early-commercialization companies.

Managing Partner Jeremy Brewer leads investment decisions. He previously ran investment vehicles for Google and Facebook alumni and did venture capital work for a large Canadian family office. Founding Partner Sam Levac-Levey and Partner Jeff Seabright sit alongside him on the investment committee, with Principal Nicholas Gould handling due diligence on hydrogen and industrial-technology deals.

Starshot invests exclusively in decarbonization. Within that mandate, the firm covers agricultural methane (Rumin8), industrial AI and energy efficiency (Phaidra), green hydrogen (Ecolectro), grid modernization, and soil-carbon measurement (Miraterra). The firm has not disclosed investments in consumer climate apps, carbon offsets, or compliance-heavy regulatory technology.

Starshot's model relies on co-investment rather than proprietary deal sourcing. The firm's communities (Work on Climate, Anthropocene) surface deals that often syndicate with other early-stage climate investors. Portfolio company Ecolectro, for example, was also covered by TechCrunch in the context of a broader climate fundraise, indicating Starshot participates in competitive rounds rather than leading them exclusively.