Voyager Ventures, an early-stage climate-focused VC fund, raised $100 million for its inaugural fund, its founders tell Megan.

Why it matters: More private money is flowing into climate, and limited partners and institutions are looking to get in at the earliest stages.

Driving the news: Voyager's $100 million Fund I comes with a heavy dose of Silicon Valley and corporate leadership in its LP base.

• General partners at NEA, Insight Venture Partners and USV have all contributed to the fund.
• Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt, Lyft CEO Logan Green, Shopify founders Fiona McKean and Tobi Lütke are investors, and Lowercarbon Capital's Chris Sacca is also an LP.

Between the lines: Voyager will invest in pre-seed, seed and Series A stage companies. It also has a follow-on fund that can participate in larger Series A or Series B deals.

• For LPs, Voyager is essentially conducting due diligence on their behalf. Voyager founder Sierra Peterson tells Megan there isn't a formal partnership in place between her fund and her investors' funds.
• "We have credibility with the GPs, and we can bring many of those GPs into the deals we find most compelling," Peterson says.

Details: Voyager is intentionally looking at early stage companies that have academic or lab-based backgrounds but haven't yet commercialized their fundamental technologies.

• The strategy de-risks one of the biggest areas of concern for early-stage technical investors by validating the scientific portion of the company's value proposition.
• With backgrounds in economics and technology, respectively, Peterson and her co-founder Sarah Sclarsic are relying on nearly three decades of experience to bring "unsexy" climate technologies to market, fast.
• The fund has made five investments to date, including one in a stealth energy management software company in the Netherlands that Peterson says has helped reduce Europeans' energy consumption in recent weeks.

The bottom line: Look for deep-pocketed institutions and individuals to continue investing in early-stage specialist climate funds as the sector continues to gain mainstream momentum.