Clear Creek Investments, LLC is an investment firm based in Solana Beach, California. Since its founding in January 2021, the firm has focused on providing long-term, patient capital to companies that address environmental and resource challenges. Emphasizing sustainability and resilience, the team blends financial and operational expertise gathered from global companies to support portfolio growth with practical guidance and measurable progress for entrepreneurs and investors.
The firm invests across multiple stages, from seed rounds through later growth financings, with a particular interest in food production, water management, and energy transition projects. Clear Creek Investments looks for technology driven by automation, electrification, data-driven insights, digital applications, and plant-based solutions. In each deal, the team draws on a network of executives from industries such as manufacturing and automotive to help startups navigate critical development phases and overcome funding gaps often known as the valley of death. This partnership approach aims to create lasting value by aligning capital with strategic support.
Clean technology is a central focus, especially in battery and energy storage. In February 2022, the firm led a $30 million Series A financing for Ion Storage Systems, a developer of solid-state lithium metal batteries. Afterwards, a managing partner joined Ion’s board as it established a 10 MWh-per-year cell line in Maryland. More recently, in January 2025, the firm joined a seed round for Purple Elephant Ventures. These investments reflect Clear Creek’s commitment to utility-scale renewables, data center power solutions, and advanced material sciences, and ongoing research into emerging trends such as grid-scale storage, renewable integration, and next-generation materials.
