# Big Sky Partners

> Big Sky Partners is a VC fund in Sausalito backing Energy and Sports. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sausalito, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://bigskyvc.com

Big Sky Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high tech startups and emerging growth companies. The firm specializes in seed and A series technology financing, while applying a multi-sector investment strategy with a particular focus on the cleantech and alternative energy sectors.Founded by Michael Schwab, Big SkyPartners is headquartered in Sausalito, California.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 2 | 14% |
| Sports | 2 | 14% |
| FinTech | 2 | 14% |
| Outdoors | 2 | 14% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 14% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 21% |
| Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 2 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 79% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Ferrara | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-ferrara |
| Michael Schwab | Founder, Managing Partner and CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-schwab |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SENDY | Buy, Sell and Rent Adventure Sports equipment anywhere in North America. | $1.9M | Seed | Nov 28, 2024 |  |
| Natural Selection Tour | Natural Selection Tour provides outdoor events and experiences designed to inspire a deeper connection to mother nature. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| The Familie | The Familie is a marketing agency that offers brand-building and creative storytelling services to the sports, music, and art sectors. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California. | $3.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Ethic | Ethic is a developer of a data-driven technology platform designed to offer simplified financial planning services and portfolios. Their platform leverages investment consulting technology that creates sustainable portfolios that are optimized to reduce tracking error for the underlying passive index against well-established benchmarks, enablingfamily offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to provide customized sustainability insights and optimized passive portfolio construction for their clients. | $50M | Series C | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Naked Energy | Naked Energy has developed an innovative hybrid solar technology generating combined heat and power.The versatile, modular design of Virtu® places crystalline photovoltaic cells in an evacuated solar thermal collector. For any given area more of the sun’s energy is converted into heat and electricity (80% of the 1000W/m2 available) thanksto the patented heat transfer mechanism.Thermal and electrical outputs are optimized irrespective of geographic or climatic conditions. With the isothermally cooled PV cells protected from the environment, Virtu® is especially suited to harsh high-insolation markets.Naked Energy is in the final stages of preparing for commercial launch to address global applications for domestic, commercial and industrial customers. Virtu® is both disruptive and scalable. |  | Series B | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Petra | Petra is a Robotics company that focuses solely on underground utilities. Petra enables undergrounding critical utilities by boring utility tunnels through previously impenetrable geologies. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| SENDY | Buy, Sell and Rent Adventure Sports equipment anywhere in North America. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| UnicornDAO | UnicornDAO is a Russian NFT project platform that creates content in the Web3 space using Web3-based tools, with the goal of empowering female and LGBTQ NFT creators. | $4.5M | Seed | May 20, 2022 |  |
| NYDIG | NYDIG is a technology and financial services firm dedicated to Bitcoin for institutions, private clients, and banks. The firm offers asset management, derivatives, financing, custody, and execution services. NYDIG's platform satisfies the highest regulatory, audit, and governance standards. | $200M | Private Equity | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| TAE Life Sciences | TAE Life Sciences is developing a novel biological-targeting radiation therapy based on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) to improve the lives of patients with rapidly spreading, invasive and recurrent cancers that do not respond to other cancer therapies. TLS is the only company with a comprehensive target drug and neutron technology productportfolio to enable next-generation combination cancer therapy as a first-line treatment for patients globally. | $30M | Series B | Jun 02, 2020 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greenhouse Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenhouse-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Noventi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noventi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sierra Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anchor Capital GP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anchor-capital-ae68) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Applied Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/applied-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Artis Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artis) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Big Sky Partners invest in?

Big Sky Partners invests primarily in Energy, Sports and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Big Sky Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Big Sky Partners?

The team at Big Sky Partners includes David Ferrara (Team Member) and Michael Schwab (Founder, Managing Partner and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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