WE INVEST IN FOUNDERS IMPACTING HISTORY

We believe in Khosla's Instigator Hypothesis: individuals scaling world-changing technology will solve the largest problems in the world. For example, 12-15 entrepreneurs creating the right companies is all it will take to solve the climate crisis.

We are a research-driven venture capital firm that invests as early as possible into the “best ideas in impact.” Too much of venture capital has gone into “backyard problems” rather than the grand global challenges.

We exist to fund and support founders working on the hardest problems in the world.

We are the earliest investors in mission-driven founders until their companies are attractive to top-tier VCs. In our Fund I, we have a 68% rate of follow-on investment by top-tier firms and a 100% follow-on rate overall.

AS OF Q2 2024

Our investments

Totus Medicines

Platform to rapidly design covalent drugs and cure new illnesses.

We invested Pre-Seed

Last round Series B led by DCVC Bio

Limelight Steel

Harnessing light to power zero-emissions steel manufacturing.

We invested Pre-Seed

Last round Seed led by Khosla

Charm Industrial

Converts waste biomass into fast pyrolysis, high carbon bio-oil.

We invested Series A

Last round Series B led by General Catalyst

Voyage Foods

Future-proofing your favorite food and drink.

We invested Seed

Last round Series A led by Horizons

Prometheus Fuels

Removes CO2 and turns it into carbon-zero gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.

We invested Pre-Seed

Last round Unicorn Series B led by Maersk

Andela

Build remote engineering teams with the world’s top talent.

We invested Seed

Last round Unicorn Series B led by Softbank

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WE AIM TO BE THE MOST COLLABORATIVE FUND IN THE WORLD.

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Our team invests worldwide from NYC

We partner early. We are comfortable with the rough imperfections of start-ups. As a solo GP with 41+ venture partners, we are highly responsive but also have the broad-based experience to fully support world-changing entrepreneurs.

Sarah Cone

Founder & Managing Partner

Alex Petrescu

COO & Venture Partner

Plus 41 global venture partners that help founders bend the trajectory of success

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Jason Pontin

GP, DCVC

Sarah’s superpower is plunging obsessively into the data on the most difficult social impact problems, and coming up with novel and creative ways to solve them building venture-backable, future billion-dollar companies.

Jason was formerly a Venture Partner at SIC.

Peter Levine

GP, Andreessen Horowitz

When studying social impact models for our family foundation, we kept hearing Social Impact Capital's work was the gold standard.

Peter is a part of the SIC network.

Carson Kahn

CPO & Co-Founder, Spindle AI

I’m consistently impressed with the intellectual rigor of the talent that Sarah Cone and her network attract. Their recruiting superpower is a perpetual motion machine: rare, compounding, and uniquely formidable.

Carson Kahn is an SIC Venture Partner, and a repeat founder.

Peter Thiel

Founder, Thiel Capital

If there’s going to be a future at all, we have to build it, and Social Impact Capital is on the forefront of financing it ... Sarah Cone is a terrific investor that I’ve been happy to work with ... Sarah just really, really does the work ... She excels at identifying breakthrough technologies and mission-oriented companies that will go on to build the 21st century future that has been held at bay for 20 years ... Sarah is tracking the early stages of building a top-tier VC firm.

Peter is an LP in SIC Fund I.

We’d love to learn more about you.

WE INVEST IN FOUNDERS IMPACTING HISTORY

We are the earliest investors in mission-driven founders until their companies are attractive to top-tier VCs. In our Fund I, we have a 68% rate of follow-on investment by top-tier firms and a 100% follow-on rate overall.

Our investments

Totus Medicines

Limelight Steel

Charm Industrial

Voyage Foods

Prometheus Fuels

Andela

WE AIM TO BE THE MOST COLLABORATIVE FUND IN THE WORLD.

Our team invests worldwide from NYC

Sarah Cone

Alex Petrescu

Plus 41 global venture partners that help founders bend the trajectory of success

Social Proof

Jason Pontin

Sarah’s superpower is plunging obsessively into the data on the most difficult social impact problems, and coming up with novel and creative ways to solve them building venture-backable, future billion-dollar companies.

Peter Levine

When studying social impact models for our family foundation, we kept hearing Social Impact Capital's work was the gold standard.

Carson Kahn

I’m consistently impressed with the intellectual rigor of the talent that Sarah Cone and her network attract. Their recruiting superpower is a perpetual motion machine: rare, compounding, and uniquely formidable.

Peter Thiel

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