# Brandon Middaugh

> Brandon Middaugh is a Series B investor at Microsoft backing Renewable Energy and Energy. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Microsoft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microsoft)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonmiddaugh/

Brandon Middaugh is a Series B investor at Microsoft in Seattle focused on Renewable Energy and Energy. Brandon Middaugh is the Sr. Director for Climate Innovation Fund at Microsoft. Brandon holds an MBA degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business and environmental science degrees from Yale University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Renewable Energy | 8 | 24% |
| Energy | 6 | 18% |
| CleanTech | 6 | 18% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 15% |
| Software | 3 | 9% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 21% |
| Series A | 5 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 15% |
| Series C | 4 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 12% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 52% |
| Spain | 2 | 6% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fortera | Fortera develops a process for recreating the natural material that provides significant economic savings. It Founded in 2017 and is based in Campbell, California. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Group14 Technologies | Founded to enable the electrification of everything - from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation - Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Our novel composite materials and our industrial process to make them reliably answer thecost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future. | $463M | Series D | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| VEIR | VEIR is a company developing a new approach to using high-temperature superconductors for electricity transmission. Its passive evaporative cryogenic cooling delivers 20 times the cooling power per kilogram of nitrogen flow compared to mechanical subcooling. | $75M | Series B | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Cyclic Materials | Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. |  |  | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| Cyclic Materials | Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. |  | Series B | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| LanzaJet | LanzaJet producer of aviation fuel that captures waste gas emissions and uses bacteria to turn it into useable ethanol fuel. |  |  | Apr 22, 2024 |  |
| Konexa | Konexa is an energy company that engages in the development and long-term management of integrated utility projects and renewable assets. The company provides transforming energy systems. It pioneering an integrated utility model that accelerates access to power for leveraging and disruptive technologies. Konexa is based in London, United Kingdom. | $18M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| LanzaJet | LanzaJet producer of aviation fuel that captures waste gas emissions and uses bacteria to turn it into useable ethanol fuel. | $100M | Corporate Round | Feb 28, 2024 |  |
| Dimensional Energy | Dimensional Energy has created and licenses a platform technology that converts carbon emissions into high-performance hydrocarbons that readily replace fossil fuels in thousands of products and deliver more than 90% carbon intensity (CI) reductions. Our goal is to unlock use of renewable carbon for the evolving energy transition with full-stacktechnology and service offerings that support successful synthetic hydrocarbon production. Dimensional Energy addresses the need for cost-effective and replicable carbon-utilization technology attuned to specific site opportunities and constraints. With two operating facilities, tens of thousands of hours of operating history, and our first commercial sales complete, we are building a pipeline of financially viable projects leveraging waste CO2 | $20M | Series A | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Boston Metal | Boston Metal is a provider of industrial-scale, metals production solutions utilizing its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) process. MOE provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower cost, and greener solution for the production of a wide array of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks. Boston Metal was spun-out of MIT in2012 with an investment from Ingo Wender and has since scaled the technology 1,000x and produced thousands of kilograms of metal. Boston Metal’s headquarters and industrial development center are located in Woburn, MA. | $122M | Series C | Sep 06, 2023 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Innovacom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovacom) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Citizen Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citizen-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Climate Pledge Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-pledge-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [National Grid Partners (NGP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/national-grid-partners-ngp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [2150](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2150) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Microsoft

VC Fund · Redmond, United States

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

5 contacts available at Microsoft.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aparna Chennapragada | Corporate VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aparna-chennapragada |
| Bay Gross | Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-gross |
| Bobby George | Creative Strategist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-george |
| Brandon Dixon | Product and Intel Strategy Leader | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-dixon |
| Brandon Middaugh | Sr. Director, Climate Innovation Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-middaugh |

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## FAQ

### What does Brandon Middaugh invest in?

Brandon Middaugh invests primarily in Renewable Energy, Energy and CleanTech startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 33 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 Brandon Middaugh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brandon Middaugh closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 33 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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