# Persefoni AI

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

- Industry: Environmental Services
- Headquarters: Mesa, US
- Website: www.persefoni.com
- Total disclosed funding: $194M
- Latest round: Series C (Mar 28, 2025)
- Investors on record: 17

## About

Based in Arizona, US, and founded in 2020 by its CEO Kentaro Kawamori and co-founders Kim Stroh and Jason Offerman, Persefoni AI Inc., trading under the name Persefoni, operates as a CleanTech company that utilises artificial intelligence to provide a software-as-a-service-based climate management and accounting platform to help businesses assess, manage, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In August 2023, Persefoni AI Inc. raised USD 50 million in Series C funding led by TPG, with participation from Alumni Ventures Group, Bain & Company, Clearvision Ventures, EDF Group, ENEOS Innovation Partners, NGP, Parkway Venture Capital, Prelude Ventures, and Rice Investment Group. 

Persefoni AI Inc. offers technologies that give users a single source to figure out the carbon journey for their entire business, allowing them to manage carbon transactions and inventories. The company's core carbon accounting and management platform contains PersefoniGPT, an artificial intelligence that uses functionality, anomaly detection, natural language data matching, and automated data error resolution models to simplify enterprise data management, ranging from measuring carbon footprints to decarbonizing.

Persefoni AI Inc. plans to use the August 2023 funding to further develop its artificial intelligence technology and support its customers.

## Funding rounds

- Series C, Mar 28, 2025, $23M — TPG, NGP Energy Technology Partners, Prelude Ventures, Clearvision Ventures, Rice Investment Group
- Series C, Aug 18, 2023, $53M — TPG, NGP, EDF Group, Prelude Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Clearvision Ventures, Bain & Company, Rice Investment Group, Parkway, ENEOS Innovation Partners
- Series B, Oct 28, 2021, $101M — TPG, NGP, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, EDF Group, The Ferrante Group, Prelude Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Clearvision Ventures, Bain & Company, Sallyport Investments, Parkway, New Valley Ventures
- Series A, Apr 8, 2021, $13M — NGP, Rice Investment Group, Sallyport
- Seed, Aug 18, 2020, $3.5M — Carnrite Ventures, Rice Investment Group

## Investors

- Carnrite Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/carnrite-ventures) — Seed
- Rice Investment Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/rice-investment-group) — Seed, Series A, Series C
- NGP (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/ngp) — Series A, Series B, Series C
- Sallyport (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sallyport) — Series A
- TPG (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/tpg) — Series B, Series C
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation — Series B
- EDF Group — Series B, Series C
- The Ferrante Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/the-ferrante-group) — Series B
- Prelude Ventures — Series B, Series C
- Alumni Ventures Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/alumni-ventures-group) — Series B, Series C
- Clearvision Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/clearvision-ventures) — Series B, Series C
- Bain & Company — Series B, Series C
- Sallyport Investments — Series B
- Parkway (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/parkway) — Series B, Series C
- New Valley Ventures — Series B
- ENEOS Innovation Partners — Series C
- NGP Energy Technology Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/ngp-energy-technology-partners) — Series C