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Aligned Climate Capital Closes Second Venture Fund at $85M with Investments from Ford Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation

Mar 11, 2025•over 1 year ago

Contract Type

partnership

Description

Aligned Climate Capital (Aligned) has completed the final close of its second venture fund, Aligned Climate Fund 2 LP (ACF2), at $85 million. The fund, which is twice the size of Aligned’s first fund, focuses on scaling proven clean energy and decarbonization solutions with investments from the Ford Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, along with other leading pensions, corporations, endowments, foundations, and family offices.

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Company

Aligned

About

Aligned was founded by Sam Cassatt, former Chief Strategy Officer at ConsenSys and a notable investor and early Ethereum adopter. In addition, Aligned received investment from individual investors including prominent entrepreneur and investor Steve Wiggins, Gryphon Digital Mining executive Chris Ensey, ConsenSys alum and DARMA Capital founder Andrew Keys, and Ron Patiro, who led PayPal's Experimentation Program. Liquidity ProvisioningDeFi protocols require liquidity to operate, which Aligned provides for bootstrapping various protocols. With its early mover advantage and world-class team, Aligned is enabling rapid adaptivity and scalability in the DeFi space. Aligned is committed to enabling on-chain liquidity provisioning and to date has supported the deployment of 15,000 ETH (nearly $40 million) across the DeFi ecosystem.

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