Activate Capital Partners
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Activate Capital Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Energy. Activate Capital is a growth equity partner to companies building smart, sustainable systems across the energy, transportation, and industrial technology markets. The firm aims to generate financial returns while contributing to this vision of the future by investing in entrepreneurial management teams in high growth companies using technology tomake the world more efficient, intelligent, and sustainable. The partners have collectively invested over $1 billion across their target sectors, resulting in 30 successful exits through IPO and M&A.
- Total investments:
- 49
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 51%
- Fund size:
- $186M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Activate Capital Partners invests in
Stages Activate Capital Partners invests in
Countries Activate Capital Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (20%)
- Energy 7 (14%)
- Renewable Energy 5 (10%)
- Information Technology 5 (10%)
- Logistics 4 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 13 (27%)
- Series C 10 (20%)
- Series D 7 (14%)
- Series A 4 (8%)
- Series E 4 (8%)
Country
- United States 25 (51%)
- Canada 2 (4%)
- Germany 1 (2%)
- Australia 1 (2%)
- The Netherlands 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anna Nitschke
COO
|
COO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Anup Jacob
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
David Lincoln
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Eric Meyer
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Jon Guerster
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rune Energy is a developer of a computation technology intended to monetize underutilized and surplus clean power. | $40M / Series A / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Light is a platform that offers embedded and branded electricity plans for the customers of power brands. | $46M / Series A / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Lunar Energy's mission is to transition homes to 100% clean energy. Founded in 2020, Lunar Energy is designing and engineering the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants. The fast-growing, global company is delivering an ecosystem of all-electric productsto make our electricity greener, our air cleaner, and our energy more safe, secure, and reliable for all. | $102M / Series D / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| Jetson Home offers Jetson Air, a smart central heat pump system designed for residential whole-home heating and cooling.Jetson Air replaces gas furnaces by integrating with existing ductwork for efficient all-electric operation, delivering both heating and cooling in one unit. It performs reliably in cold climates down to -22°F (-30°C), withone-day installations that cut costs by 30-50% versus traditional HVAC replacements. | $50M / Series A / Jan 20, 2026 | ||
| Infravision provides custom engineering solutions to deliver world-leading power line stringing methods across maintenance, repair, and new construction projects. They install line hardware on overhead earth wires and conductors using unmanned aircraft. They are working around the world to bring certified stringing solutions with their TX system. | $91M / Series B / Nov 03, 2025 | ||
| Xnrgy Climate Systems is an engineering and manufacturing company that provides air treatment systems for data centers, and industrial institutional buildings. They provide air systems and air handlers incorporating energy recovery technologies, cooling, heating coils, fans, and humidification systems. | Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurer focusing on the homeowner's insurance market. Kin Insurance enhances homeowners insurance convenience and affordability by removing external agents. The tech platform offers a seamless user experience, personalized coverage options, and efficient claims service. Kin utilizes extensiveproperty data for precise pricing and improved underwriting results. | $50M / Series E / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Xnrgy Climate Systems is an engineering and manufacturing company that provides air treatment systems for data centers, and industrial institutional buildings. They provide air systems and air handlers incorporating energy recovery technologies, cooling, heating coils, fans, and humidification systems. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 21, 2025 | ||
| Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems company that designs, builds, and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations to deliver critical data and enable real-time compute and decision-making in space. Its proprietary technology stack, Halo™, integrates advanced spacecraft platforms, robust payload integration and management, and apowerful software-defined orchestration layer to enable high-performance capabilities at unprecedented speed – from concept to orbit. With state-of-the-art production facilities in Silicon Valley and a growing track record of commercial and national security customers, Muon Space is redefining how critical Earth intelligence is delivered from space. | $44.5M / Series B / Jun 12, 2025 | ||
| Swimlane is a developer of a security orchestration and response platform used to deliver security automation to organizations. It improves the ease with which security teams can overcome process and data fatigue, as well as chronic staffing shortages. Swimlane unlocks the potential of automation beyond the SOC by delivering a low-code platformthat serves as the system of record for the entire security organization and enables anyone within the organization to contribute their knowledge and expertise to the protection of the organization. | $45M / Private Equity / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| See all 49 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Activate Capital Partners invest in?
Activate Capital Partners invests primarily in Software, Energy and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Activate Capital Partners?
The team at Activate Capital Partners includes Anna Nitschke (COO), Anup Jacob (Managing Partner) and David Lincoln (Managing Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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