One collective grew into a system of vehicles.
Cool Climate Collective began as a climate syndicate. It is now the founding node of Emrgnce — a fund foundry that turns domain expertise into investment vehicles. Around it sits a connected system: specialist funds, a research institute, media, and structured instruments, each aimed at moving capital toward the binding constraints of the transition.
Emrgnce — the fund behind your fund.
Emrgnce is a GP-creation platform. It seeds domain-specific investment vehicles led by operators who know their field from the inside, and gives them the structure, capital, and back-office to launch. Proximity Inversion, applied to fund management itself: the people closest to a domain should be the ones deploying capital into it.
Emrgnce
Fund foundry · GP creationTurns domain expertise into investment vehicles — the platform beneath Cool Climate Collective, Fifth Wave, and the funds to come.
Cool Climate Collective
Founding node · Climate syndicate & fundEarly-stage climate investing across electrons, atoms, flows, and signals. The original vehicle and the pattern for the rest.
Specialist funds, each upstream of a different future.
Fifth Wave Fund
Maritime deep tech · SeedA maritime deep-tech seed fund structured as a joint venture with lomarlabs. Built around three futures and five bottlenecks in the decarbonization of shipping — from propulsion to port infrastructure.
Cool Climate Collective
Climate · Pre-seed & seedThe flagship climate vehicle. Syndicate plus fund, $100k–$350k first checks, 35+ companies. See the portfolio →
The intelligence layer.
Before capital moves, the ecosystem maps where it should go. These initiatives generate the theses, constraint maps, and public writing that feed every fund.
Bottlenecks Institute
Research armBackcasts from desired outcomes to the binding constraints that gate them, sector by sector. bottlenecksinstitute.com →
foundations_
Research initiativeCombines scientific and market experts with AI-enhanced tooling to study systemic climate risk. See the research →
Climate on the Edge
Media · PodcastLong-form conversations from the frontier of climate technology and finance. Listen →
Cool Climate on Substack
WritingAphoristic essays and dispatches on causal AI, circulation, energy sovereignty, and place-based resilience. Read →
Initiatives that fill strategic gaps.
Beyond investing, the ecosystem incubates and supports concepts that unblock the transition where markets under-serve it.
Climate Patents
Portfolio support · IPHelping climate founders protect and leverage their intellectual property. climatepatents.co →
Local Resilience
Small business × climate techConnecting small-business capacity with climate technology to build resilience where people actually live.
Have a concept that belongs in the ecosystem? Bring it to us →