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Powering the global energy transition
We are a specialist venture capital firm investing in companies building advanced technologies essential to the electrification and decarbonization of the global energy system.
ABOUT
Bridging science, industry, and investment
Volta was founded in 2016 by a team from Argonne National Laboratory with a vision to improve how capital is deployed into the energy transition. The firm is uniquely positioned to identify, evaluate, and scale technologies developed by leading entrepreneurs. By integrating deep technical, industry, and financial expertise with a broad global network, Volta applies a differentiated approach to sourcing and underwriting investments—aimed at delivering strong venture returns for investors while creating strategic value for partners.
STRATEGIES
A innovative model for investing in technologies
Our methodology combines technical and financial expertise to identify companies developing innovative technologies with differentiated business models. We look to partner with passionate founders seeking to scale their business from early or mid-stage venture. We invest across all venture stages, with a core focus on Series A to Series C. It all comes back to energy for Volta as we invest across the supply chain in software, hard-tech and other business models suited for venture capital.
Technical Office
Deep domain expertise across the supply chain of electrification drives rigorous diligence on technology.
Investment Office
Extensive private and public market investing experience drives process for underwriting and investing in quality businesses.
Areas of Focus
VOLTA AS A PARTNER
We seek to provide help to our companies over and above just writing a check.
Tech development, business development, fundraising, leveraging the Volta network – we are here as partners from investment through exit.
STRATEGIC SERVICES
We support both corporate and financial strategic partners via consulting and strategic investor programs.
Corporates
Aligned with your interests
Investment strategy drives the process for sourcing, underwriting and investing in leading edge technology and businesses transforming energy supply chains.
Actionable techno-economic theses
Our team’s unique expertise enables us to develop techno-economic analyses to inform corporate strategy.
Advantaged access
We access information and deal flow that corporates are often unable to see if they are a potential customer and/or competitor of the business. Volta can also handle the time-consuming endeavor of managing investments on behalf of corporates.
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Financials
Aligned with your interests
We seek to identify, invest and partner with transformative companies and founders that are capable of producing venture returns for our LPs.
Actionable techno-economic theses
Our team's unique expertise enables us to develop techno-economically-informed investment theses across technology and market categories.
Dive deeper
Volta's technical diligence process is much deeper than what most investors can execute with in-house resources. Our broad technical expertise across clean tech helps us better understand and manage investment risk and provide much more hands-on support for our portfolio companies.
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CONTACT
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Whether you’re investing or innovating, we’d love to hear from you.
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