Female-Led VC VitaminºC Closes First €18M For Debut Climate Fund

The fund is supported by European entrepreneurial families and guided by experienced ClimateTech founders and experts, including Jasmine Kent, CTO and co-founder of Dufour Aerospace & Daedalean (both exited), and climate policy specialist Florian Egli (TUM Munich, EU Environment Agency Committee).

Founded in 2026 by Nathalie Moral (Zurich) and Sophie Lamparter (San Francisco), VitaminºC invests in climate mitigation and human adaptation solutions. Moral, an early investor in ClimateTech unicorn Climeworks and co-founder of Clima Now, has held roles at PwC, Bain & Company, and LGT Venture Philanthropy, and received the Female Innovation Forum Recognition Award in 2022.

Lamparter brings 15 years of experience helping European DeepTech companies scale in the US. She started as a science and technology diplomat at Swissnex San Francisco, built MindMaze’s first US team as it grew from university spinout to unicorn, and co-founded DART Ventures to support European founders entering the US market. She has been named one of Switzerland’s 100 Digital Shapers (2018, 2020, 2022) and served as an expert to the European Commission.

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VitaminºC positions itself as a strategic bridge between Europe and Silicon Valley, combining European impact investing with US scaling expertise to help build global ClimateTech companies.

According to VitaminºC, global ClimateTech funding has slowed, valuations have reset, and many generalist funds have deprioritized the sector creating what the firm sees as a key opportunity. As ClimateTech moves from a niche focus to essential economic infrastructure, VitaminºC is investing at attractive valuations with strong fundamentals.

Sophie Lamparter, Founding Partner, said, “Europe’s deep tech is world-class, but many startups hit a scale cap and struggle to expand globally. We introduce founders to their first US customers, hires and investors. And as US climate policy faces uncertainty, American founders are increasingly looking to Europe’s stable regulatory environment. The bridge works both ways, and we are the boots on the ground in both eco-systems.”

The firm focuses on critical climate levers, including energy, food and agriculture, carbon removal, and human adaptation. It targets pre-Seed and Seed-stage investments of €0.5–€1.5 million ($0.6–1.7 million), requiring each investment to have the potential to eliminate or reduce at least 100,000 tons of CO₂ or improve the resilience of 100,000 people within five years.

Beyond funding, VitaminºC actively links portfolio companies with academic institutions for impact validation, provides non-dilutive grants to generate scientific evidence and pilots blended capital models that combine venture and philanthropy to accelerate the global climate transition.

“We’re here to rewire climate venture capital. The first generation of climate technologies, such as wind and solar, is now cheaper than fossil fuels. Around 30% of the technologies needed to cut emissions faster are still pre-commercial. The biggest economic buildout of our generation is just getting started and we’re investing when others are pulling back,” said Nathalie Moral, Founding Partner.