# Our Sphere

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/our-sphere

- Industry: Financial Services
- Headquarters: Walnut, US
- Website: www.oursphere.org
- Total disclosed funding: $2M
- Latest round: Seed (Sep 1, 2021)
- Investors on record: 1

## About

Founded in 2021 and based in California, US, Our Sphere Inc. offers a 401(k) plan or a pension account for employees that aims to eliminate institutional investments in the fossil fuel sector and help to decrease the effect of climate change. The company was founded by its CEO, Alex Wright-Gladstein. Ms. Wright-Gladstein was also the co-founder and the was founding CEO of Ayar Labs, a company that makes data centers and supercomputers faster by using light to move data between chips. In September 2021, Our Sphere Inc. raised its latest Seed funding from Pale Blue Dot and an individual investor.

The company offers an employer-sponsored defined-contribution pension account or a 401(k) that manages the institutional investing of employees and eliminates institutional investments in the fossil fuel sector. It aims to decrease the effect of climate change on our planet by refusing to invest in fossil fuel companies until global, binding legislation is in place that limits warming to 1.5°C (450 ppm of CO2 equivalent). The company uses the As You Sow website in order to identify which company they will exclude from its investment.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Sep 1, 2021, $2M — Pale Blue Dot

## Investors

- Pale Blue Dot (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/pale-blue-dot) — Seed