Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # SUNNA VENTURES Leveraging local knowledge for global impact ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://sunna.vc/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Closing the Gap: Why Climate Risk Transfer Is the Next Frontier of Financial Innovation](https://sunna.vc/closing-the-gap-why-climate-risk-transfer-is-the-next-frontier-of-financial-innovation/) - [Finding What's Already There: Why We Invested in Atana](https://sunna.vc/finding-whats-already-there-why-we-invested-in-atana/) - [Currents: Unlocking the Bottlenecks](https://sunna.vc/currents-unlocking-the-bottlenecks/) - [Solving Excess Inventory: Why We Invested in BackChannel](https://sunna.vc/solving-excess-inventory-why-we-invested-in-backchannel/) - [Unlocking Affordable Geothermal: Why We Invested in Dig Energy](https://sunna.vc/unlocking-affordable-geothermal-why-we-invested-in-dig-energy/) - [Currents #4 – A Year of Building](https://sunna.vc/currents-4-a-year-of-building/) - [Backing the Future of the Grid: Why We Invested in Magnefy](https://sunna.vc/backing-the-future-of-the-grid-why-we-invested-in-magnefy/) - [The Grid: The Invisible Infrastructure Defining the Energy Transition](https://sunna.vc/the-grid-the-invisible-infrastructure-defining-the-energy-transition/) - [Bridging technology from Mars rovers to tractors: Why we invested in Terrablaster](https://sunna.vc/bridging-technology-from-mars-rovers-to-tractors-why-we-invested-in-terrablaster/) - [Currents #3 – Building Bold, Scaling Deep](https://sunna.vc/currents-3-building-bold-scaling-deep/) - [Turning Flares into Compute: Why We Backed Unblock](https://sunna.vc/turning-flares-into-compute-why-we-backed-unblock/) - [Smarter, Leaner, Cleaner: Automation Goes Heavy](https://sunna.vc/smarter-leaner-cleaner-automation-goes-heavy/) - [Currents #2 – Powering the Future, Reshaping the Present](https://sunna.vc/currents-2-powering-the-future-reshaping-the-present/) - [Climate Risk & Resilience: The Billion-Dollar Challenge and Opportunity](https://sunna.vc/climate-risk-resilience-the-billion-dollar-challenge-and-opportunity/) - [US Elections and Climate Tech](https://sunna.vc/us-elections-and-climate-tech/) - [We are very excited and proud to announce Sunna Ventures!](https://sunna.vc/we-are-very-excited-and-proud-to-announce-sunna-ventures/) - [Currents #1, the Sunna Newsletter](https://sunna.vc/currents-1-the-sunna-newsletter/) - [Critical Minerals, the Key to Energy Transition](https://sunna.vc/critical-minerals-the-key-to-energy-transition/) - [Latin America’s clean energy sector emerging as global leader](https://sunna.vc/latin-americas-clean-energy-sector-emerging-as-global-leader/) - [Latin America Energy Outlook - International Energy Agency](https://sunna.vc/latin-america-energy-outlook-international-energy-agency/) ## Pages - [Home](https://sunna.vc/) - [News](https://sunna.vc/news/) - [About Us](https://sunna.vc/about-us/) - [Portfolio](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/) - [Privacy Policy](https://sunna.vc/privacy-policy/) - Who we are Suggested text: Our website address is: https://sunna.vc. Comments Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a ## Portfolios - [Adaptive Insurance](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/adaptive-insurance/) - Adaptive is a climate-focused MGA specializing in parametric insurance for grid-related weather risk. The company integrates its proprietary platform—which leverages real-time utility monitoring and weather analytics—to trigger automated, rapid payouts for commercial power outages. - [Atana Elements](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/atana-elements/) - Atana is a critical minerals exploration company specializing in flowing mineral systems, including lithium brines, hydrogen, helium, and emerging extraction methods for copper and uranium. The company integrates advanced geoscience, AI and machine learning, and operational expertise from the oil and gas and technology sectors to identify and de-risk large-scale mineral resources in jurisdictions that - [Backchannel](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/backchannel/) - Backchannel Marketplace is a B2B platform that connects brands with excess inventory to small and medium retailers, enabling them to buy and sell surplus products efficiently through a data-driven marketplace. - [Dig Energy](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/dig-energy/) - Dig Energy is a geothermal technology company that reduces the cost of shallow drilling with a proprietary self-casing, waterjet-based drill system that replaces traditional rotary rigs. The company focuses on the thermal energy market—heating and cooling for commercial and industrial facilities—leveraging stable shallow ground temperatures to deliver localized, low-carbon geothermal solutions with simple, low-skill operation - [1849 bio](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/1849-bio/) - 1849 bio builds microbes that help miners extract value from difficult-to-extract ores. Biomining is the most cost effective and sustainable scaled metal extraction process but cannot be applied to most ores, leaving over $1T of metal trapped in unprofitable ore. 1849 unlocks value from these resources by developing advanced biotech tools to optimize microbes that - [Bia](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/bia-2/) - Bia Energy is a pioneering company at the forefront of the energy industry. Bia seamlessly merges smart metering infrastructure data with energy retailing, offering a customer-centric, data-driven platform that empowers users to take control of their energy consumption and costs. With Bia rapidly becoming the standard in Colombia's energy sector and beyond, transforming the region's - [Magnefy](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/magnefy/) - Magnefy develops an AI-powered magnetic sensing platform for real-time predictive maintenance of critical power infrastructure. Its non-invasive edge devices capture high-frequency, low-noise data to detect potential failures early, enabling data centers, utilities, and manufacturers to boost equipment reliability, minimize unplanned downtime, and strengthen energy system resilience. - [TerraBlaster](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/terrablaster-2/) - Develops advanced farming technology aimed at supporting more sustainable and profitable agriculture. The company’s innovative sensors and AI deliver real-time, plant-level soil insights, giving farmers a deeper understanding of their land. With this data, they can make smarter decisions to improve soil health, maximize crop yields, and increase overall farm efficiency - [Gravis Robotics](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/gravis-robotics/) - Gravis develops robotic excavators that enable secure remote operation of heavy machinery on construction sites. The platform includes advanced teleoperation features such as autonomous movement, self-stabilization, and augmented vision, making it easier and safer to operate in challenging terrain and hazardous environments. This improves operator safety, increases productivity, and helps address low equipment utilization. - [Unblock Computing](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/unblock-global/) - Unblock Computing eliminates gas flaring by co-locating high energy-intensive computing applications with gas that otherwise would be wasted and transferring it into value for other uses, helping oil companies to reduce carbon footprints and the complexity and cost to be a good environmental steward. - [Solara](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/solara-2/) - Solara is a B2B climate-fintech. Solara simplifies the solar energy adoption process for businesses in emerging economies by offering a 30% cheaper solar subscription. Through advanced technologies and financial products, Solara promotes an efficient change towards a sustainable, prosperous and carbon-free future, contributing to economic and environmental development. - [Andes](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/andes-2/) - Andes develops microorganism biotechnology designed to accelerate crop growth and reduce the need for synthetic nitrogen to increase carbon capture. The company's technology combines microbial technology with seeds to reduce input costs and environmental footprints, and results in high permanence carbon offsets from bio-mineralization by microbes, enabling farmers to boost agricultural output and income. - [Spora](https://sunna.vc/portfolio/spora-2/) - Spora is the first company to discover fungal strains from pristine ecosystems, using bio and nanotechnology to create innovative mycelium materials. As a leading fabric house, we empower select brand partners to access cutting-edge technologies and craft unique collections unlike anything seen before; while always promoting a culture of giving back to the earth through ## Teams - [Luisa Sucre](https://sunna.vc/team/luisa-sucre/) - Luisa is a General Partner at Sunna Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies advancing the energy transition and industrial decarbonization across the U.S. and Latin America. With over a decade of experience, Luisa has invested across diverse industries and stages in roles at Collaborative Fund, Revolution Growth, SoftBank, and GCM Grosvenor. She - [Luis Daniel
Arbulú](https://sunna.vc/team/luis-daniel-arbulu-2/) - Luis Daniel is a General Partner at Sunna Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies advancing the energy transition and industrial decarbonization across the U.S. and Latin America. Previously he was a managing director at Salkantay Ventures and Samsung Next Ventures. He also launched and led the first climate investment efforts at Google. - [José Tomás
Joglar](https://sunna.vc/team/jose-tomas-joglar/) - José Tomás is an Associate at Sunna Ventures. Previously, he worked at a management consulting firm on strategic and operational excellence projects in various industries, including aquaculture, telecoms, and finance. He also participated in creating a small startup focused on water management in agriculture. José Tomás studied Industrial Engineering in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de - [José Antonio
Pérez](https://sunna.vc/team/jose-antonio-perez/) - José Antonio is a member of the Investment Committee at Sunna Ventures. Today, he serves as the Principal at the Chilean family office WildSur Inversiones, where he previously led the alternative assets area. Before that, he worked in the real estate sector, covering areas such as M&A and private equity funds. José Antonio studied Business - [Oscar Leria
Luksic](https://sunna.vc/team/oscar-leria-luksic/) - Oscar is a member of the Investment Committee at Sunna Ventures and Executive Director of WildSur, a Chile-based family office with a global investment focus. He previously worked in the renewable energy and materials sectors, helping shape WildSur’s decarbonization investment thesis. Oscar is also a Trustee for TNC Chile and a Council Member for Fundación ## Categories - [News](https://sunna.vc/category/news/)