# Aruna Ramsamy

> Aruna Ramsamy is a Series D investor at Climate Investment backing Energy and Battery. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Climate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ogci-climate-investments)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aruna-ramsamy-646a072

Aruna Ramsamy is a Series D investor at Climate Investment focused on Energy and Battery. Aruna has over 15 years of experience in corporate finance and impact investing. She joined OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI) as Ventures Principal in 2018 to invest in technologies that can significantly lower the carbon footprints of the energy and industrial sectors and their value chains. Prior to OGCI, Aruna spent 7 years at the Soros EconomicDevelopment Fund, based in New York, Johannesburg and West Africa, underwriting early stage and growth equity investments in key sectors of the economy with sustainability and job creation as priorities. Aruna started her career in investment banking, first at Credit Suisse, in the Global Energy Group where she focused on the utilities and power sector, then in the Leveraged Finance Origination and Restructuring Group. She was an investment banking associate at Moelis & Company advising on mergers and acquisitions and restructuring transactions. Aruna has a BCom with First Class Honors in Economics and Finance from McGill University and an MBA from INSEAD.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 1 | 100% |
| Battery | 1 | 100% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 100% |
| Energy Storage | 1 | 100% |
| Renewable Energy | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ascend Elements | Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. It uses hydro process recycling and direct recycling that takes old cathode material down to the atomic level to create new cathode materials. It also helps clients to have maximum return on assets to economically driverecycling and low-cost battery materials.The company was founded in 2015. | $162M | Series D | Feb 20, 2024 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AXIAL Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agave-partners-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clearvision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearvision-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Irongrey](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irongrey) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pario Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pario-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Climate Investment

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

OGCI Climate Investments focuses on delivering the transition to lower carbon emission energy sources. The leaders of the ten major oil and gas companies are committed to the direction set out by the Paris Agreement on climate change. They support its agenda for global action and the need for urgency. Through their collaboration in Oil and GasClimate Initiative (OGCI), they can be a catalyst for change in their industry and more widely.OGCI aims to increase the ambition, speed and scale of the initiatives they undertake as individual companies to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of their core oil and gas business – and to explore new businesses and technologies.

5 contacts available at Climate Investment.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aruna Ramsamy | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aruna-ramsamy |
| Curtis Schickner | Principal, Climate Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curtis-schickner |
| Daniel Palmer | Deployment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-palmer |
| Pratima Rangarajan | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pratima-rangarajan |
| Rick Cutright | Technology Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-cutright |

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## FAQ

### What does Aruna Ramsamy invest in?

Aruna Ramsamy invests primarily in Energy, Battery and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series D stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Aruna Ramsamy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aruna Ramsamy closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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