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Since 2023, Pale Blue Dot has backed 1 African startup across 3 disclosed funding rounds totaling $8M, most heavily in Kenya and AI & Analytics.
Pale blue dot is a seed stage venture capital firm focused on climate technology, based in Malmö, Sweden. The firm invests in software and hardware businesses that work on climate, with a stated mission to support solutions to what it describes as our most urgent challenge. According to its own materials, Pale blue dot backs companies at pre seed and seed stages, and concentrates on early stage climate technology across Europe and the United States. The firm’s portfolio includes companies in multiple markets, and publicly available investment data also shows activity in Kenya, where it has participated in several pre seed and seed rounds in the AI and analytics sector, including funding for Amini AI. This reflects a willingness to back African climate and data infrastructure solutions at the earliest stages. Pale blue dot’s published investment approach highlights climate as its core theme and emphasizes scalable, technology driven solutions. Within this focus, it invests in businesses that seek to reduce or reverse the effects of climate change, and its portfolio spans both software and hardware models that address decarbonization and efficiency in existing systems.
Data updated · Jul 29, 2026
Pale Blue Dot has backed 1 African startup across 3 disclosed funding rounds tracked on Liners, totaling $8M since 2023.
Mostly Seed: 2 of its 3 tracked rounds are at that stage, followed by Pre-Seed (1).
Pale Blue Dot's tracked rounds are concentrated in Kenya (3).
Its tracked rounds lean toward AI & Analytics (3).
Pale Blue Dot most often shares rounds with Superorganism (3 shared deals), Salesforce Ventures (1 shared deal), Female Founders Fund (1 shared deal).
Pale blue dot is a seed stage venture capital firm that invests in software and hardware businesses working within climate. Its focus is on climate technology solutions that reduce or reverse the effects of climate change at the earliest stages of company development.
Pale blue dot is based in Malmö, Sweden. From this base, it invests in climate technology startups primarily across Europe and the United States, with additional activity in markets such as Kenya.