Brian Walsh
Head; Managing Partner & Founder @ WIND Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Brian Walsh is a venture - series unknown investor at WIND Ventures in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Energy and Software. Brian Walsh serves as Managing Partner & Founder at Wind Ventures in San Francisco. WIND Ventures is the strategic venture capital group for Copec - a leading energy, mobility and retail corporation with dominant market shares throughout Latin America and the United States. Brian has two decades of cleantech / climatetech venture capitalexperience, both in private and strategic firms. As part of his tenure, Brian has started and led a technology startup as its Founding CEO and spent several years at McKinsey&Company as the Firm’s global expert on how corporations-to-startup engagement can be ‘done well’. Brian holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BS in Physics from Tufts University.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
Last updated:
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Industries Brian Walsh invests in
Stages Brian Walsh invests in
Countries Brian Walsh invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 3 (25%)
- Software 3 (25%)
- Renewable Energy 3 (25%)
- Solar 2 (17%)
- Battery 2 (17%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (33%)
- Series A 3 (25%)
- Series B 3 (25%)
- Funding Round 2 (17%)
Country
- United States 4 (33%)
- Canada 2 (17%)
- Spain 1 (8%)
- Germany 1 (8%)
- Colombia 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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ACCURE Battery Intelligence
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Accure is a battery analytics company. The software and AI-driven solution assist manufacturers and operators in monitoring the overall health and safety conditions of a battery system throughout its lifecycle. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 06, 2026 | |
Artemis
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Powered by AI, Mona Lee is the fastest, most efficient way for homeowners to go solar. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Mona Lee’s AI-powered self-serve platform transforms the solar buying experience by eliminating non-stop solicitation calls, lengthy design and evaluation processes, and back-and-forth price negotiations that can take up toweeks. With Mona Lee, customers go from quote to scheduling their installation in minutes. Feel free to visit our website to read customer testimonials and Mona Lee solar reviews.Mona Lee was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clean energy. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and is proud to serve homeowners nationwide. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 04, 2026 | |
Moment Energy
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Moment is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage. We create battery units that can be used in a variety of applications. Moment is currently focused on storing energy for off-grid, end of grid customers, and plans on powering remote communities in the future. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 04, 2025 | |
75F
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75F is a U.S.-based building intelligence company making smart building automation affordable and easy to deploy. 75F leverages IoT, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning for data-driven, proactive building intelligence and controls for HVAC, lighting and energy optimization. 75F's mission is to improve occupant productivity through enhancedcomfort and indoor air quality – while saving energy and the environment. 75F is currently headquartered in Burnsville, Minnesota. | $45M / Series B / Feb 06, 2025 | |
Yotta Energy
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Yotta is developing a modular energy storage device The SolarLEAF™ - a battery storage device that integrates with photovoltaic (PV). It has been designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency. The SolarLEAFs biggest value is reducing the soft costs of designing, installing, and maintaining an energy storagesystem compared to traditional centralized systems. | $8M / Sep 19, 2023 | |
ClearFlame Engines
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ClearFlame decarbonizes heavy-duty engines while reducing operating costs, to protect the future from the challenge of diesel fuel. The company's technology enables heavy-duty engine manufacturers to produce engines at a lower cost, while simultaneously providing their customers with higher performance and fuel cost savings.Founded in 2016by BJ Johnson and Julie Blumreiter, ClearFlame Engines is headquartered in Woodridge, Illinois. | $30M / Series B / Mar 09, 2023 | |
Busbud
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Busbud is a mobile app and platform that connects passengers to bus operators. It enables its users to search, compare, and book city-to-city bus tickets for any location and from any location. It is a comprehensive source of city-to-city bus schedules and tickets around the world, gathering schedules for over 10463 cities in 89 countries, in 10languages, and 15 currencies. The app offers a search tool allowing travelers to discover and plan their next bus trip.Busbud was founded by Michael Gradek, LP Maurice, and Frederic Thouin in October 2011. It is headquartered in Montreal City in Québec, Canada. | $11M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 22, 2022 | |
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Yotta Energy
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Yotta is developing a modular energy storage device The SolarLEAF™ - a battery storage device that integrates with photovoltaic (PV). It has been designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency. The SolarLEAFs biggest value is reducing the soft costs of designing, installing, and maintaining an energy storagesystem compared to traditional centralized systems. | $13M / Series A / Nov 02, 2021 | |
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75F
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75F is a U.S.-based building intelligence company making smart building automation affordable and easy to deploy. 75F leverages IoT, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning for data-driven, proactive building intelligence and controls for HVAC, lighting and energy optimization. 75F's mission is to improve occupant productivity through enhancedcomfort and indoor air quality – while saving energy and the environment. 75F is currently headquartered in Burnsville, Minnesota. | $4.8M / Series A / Mar 16, 2021 | |
Wallbox
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Wallbox is a global company, dedicated to changing the way the world uses energy in the electric vehicle industry. Wallbox creates smart charging systems that combine innovative technology with outstanding design and manage the communication between vehicle, grid, building and charger.Wallbox offers a complete portfolio of charging and energymanagement solutions for residential and semi-public use in more than 60 countries, and soon will begin commercializing public charging solutions as well. Founded in 2015, with headquarters in Barcelona, Wallbox’s mission is to facilitate the adoption of electric vehicles today to make more sustainable use of energy tomorrow. The company employs over 500 people in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. | Feb 01, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About WIND Ventures
WIND Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm specializing in the new mobility, energy, and retail sectors for startups and scaleups. The firm leverages COPEC's significant resources to accelerate startups and scaleups in realizing new growth. It also invests in entrepreneurs working to build tomorrow’s energy, mobility, and retailcompanies. WIND Ventures aims to build a sizeable investment portfolio of strategic startups and scale-ups where COPEC's significant resources accelerate the exploration or realization of new growth. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
WIND Ventures Contacts
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Bob Ma
Venture and Growth Equity Investor
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Brian Walsh
Head; Managing Partner & Founder
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Mark Dryden
Investor
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FAQ
What does Brian Walsh invest in?
Brian Walsh invests primarily in Energy, Software and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 Brian Walsh last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brian Walsh closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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