Anthropocene Ventures fills a gap in pre-seed and seed funding for deep-tech climate hardware startups, focusing on overlooked but system-critical areas like water, built environment, and alternative materials rather than mainstream renewable energy sectors. The fund combines a large team of domain experts from government and academia with GPs who have deep operational experience taking physics-heavy products from concept to commercialization, particularly targeting the current window where exponential technologies have compressed development timelines from 20-30 years to under a decade.