Ponderosa Ventures has 3 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 2 investments in the last 12 months. It is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, US, founded in 2021. Its most recent investment on record is Crew Carbon's $25M Series A round in May 2026, alongside Sony Innovation Fund, New York Ventures, Kibo Invest and 6 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Climate and energy (2) and Robotics and hardware (1). It has co-invested with Echo River Capital, Counteract and Connecticut Innovations, most often Echo River Capital (2 rounds).

About Ponderosa Ventures

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

What Ponderosa Ventures invests in

• Climate and energy · 2 · 67%
• Robotics and hardware · 1 · 33%
• Health and bio · 1 · 33%

Ponderosa Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
CCrew Carbon	Series A · $25M	May 18, 2026	Sony Innovation Fund, New York Ventures, Kibo Invest +6
CCoolant	Seed · $4.3M	Oct 23, 2025	Wicklow Capital, General Catalyst (lead)
CCrew Carbon	Seed · $5.3M	Oct 30, 2024	Yale Ventures, Onto Ventures, Newlab +6

How Ponderosa Ventures invests

Share is of the 3 rounds on Recent Funding that name Ponderosa Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Ponderosa Ventures portfolio companies

• CCrew Carbon$25MSeries A · May 2026
• CCoolant$4.3MSeed · Oct 2025
• TTerradotbacker

Most frequent co-investors

• EEcho River Capital2 shared rounds · last May 18, 2026
• CCounteract2 shared rounds · last May 18, 2026
• CConnecticut Innovations2 shared rounds · last May 18, 2026
• SSony Innovation Fund1 shared round · last May 18, 2026
• NNew York Ventures1 shared round · last May 18, 2026
• KKibo Invest1 shared round · last May 18, 2026
• IIdemitsu CVC1 shared round · last May 18, 2026
• BBurnt Island Ventures1 shared round · last May 18, 2026
• BBuilders Vision1 shared round · last May 18, 2026
• WWicklow Capital1 shared round · last Oct 23, 2025
• GGeneral Catalyst1 shared round · last Oct 23, 2025
• CCarbon Drawdown Initiative1 shared round · last Oct 30, 2024

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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Climate and energy).

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