Burnt Island Ventures Funds I and II and Opportunity Fund

Date: 2021, 2023, 2024

Asset Class: Venture Capital

Description:  Burnt Island Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm built to support the best founders and technologies emerging in the water sector that transform water management, access and security globally.

Why We Invest: They say if climate change were a shark, water would be its teeth. We are already feeling the effects of climate change in the form of water stress, flooding, and fires; and lack of access to clean water and sanitation is human right billions are without. Innovation is needed in this underinvested sector. Burnt Island Ventures is one of the few water tech venture funds. Our original investment was in a first time fund founded and run by Tom Ferguson, who ran ImagineH2O, the #1 accelerator for water entrepreneurs globally. There Tom developed a deep understanding of the early stage water tech sector. Burnt Island Ventures Opportunity Fund invests at the growth stage in the sector, another underinvested segment, which offers less risk than the earlier stage investments.