Vincent Lui

Vincent Lui is associated in the provided stub with Rhapsody Ventures. The public Rhapsody Ventures site describes the firm as making “early bets at the intersection of Web3, AI and Climate Tech,” with focus areas including climate data, digital climate assets, climate resilience, FOAK/blended capital for scale-up, and sustainable financing innovation.

The public LinkedIn company page linked from Rhapsody Ventures redirects to CarbonN Venture Partners. CarbonN describes itself as a Silicon Valley venture capital firm “led by two seasoned deep-tech investors” and focused on reversing the effects of climate change by accelerating commercialization and scale-up of breakthrough technologies toward a negative-emission economy. I could not verify a public, source-backed personal biography, education history, headshot, or direct LinkedIn profile for Vincent Lui from accessible sources.

CarbonN’s public site states that it invests at Seed / Pre-Series A with initial tickets from $250K to $1M, and may selectively provide follow-on capital for First-of-a-Kind projects through project equity or term loans.

• Invests in “breakthrough negative emission solutions to solve the most pressing climate problems within this generation.”
• Focuses on Seed / Pre-Series A startups, with initial ticket sizes of $250K to $1M.
• Looks for deep-tech climate solutions augmented or catalyzed by data and finance innovations.
• Core areas include Critical Minerals Sustainability, Industrial Decarbonization, and Climate Resilience.
• Industrial decarbonization focus includes CCUS, CDR, waste-heat recovery, green steel, and zero-carbon cement.
• Climate resilience focus includes wildfire early warning and detection, regenerative agriculture, carbon accounting, sustainable finance, and digital MRV.
• Critical minerals focus includes extraction, refining, and recycling technologies for batteries, e-waste, tailings, solar, and wind, plus applied AI and robotics.
• The firm says it assesses a startup’s climate impact potential analytically and quantitatively, including metrics such as Mt CO2e removed and Mt of waste prevented.