# Brock Smith

> Brock Smith is a Series B investor at Evergy Ventures backing Energy and Solar. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Evergy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evergy-ventures)
- Location: Lincoln, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brock-smith-301a7b68/

Brock Smith is a Series B investor at Evergy Ventures in Lincoln focused on Energy and Solar. Brock Smith is the Managing Director at Evergy Ventures. He attended University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 4 | 80% |
| Solar | 2 | 40% |
| CleanTech | 2 | 40% |
| Energy Management | 2 | 40% |
| Mining | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yotta Energy | 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 | https://yottaenergy.com |
| WattBuy | At WattBuy, we’re focused on an ambitious vision: making cleaner, more affordable electricity accessible to every household. We’re looking to bring on team members to help us reach that goal. Based in NYC, DC, and Seattle, WattBuy is a team of product leaders and engineers from Google and Amazon who share a love of using technology to tackleinequality and positively impact the climate. | $11.2M | Series A | Oct 12, 2021 | https://wattbuy.com |
| Palmetto | Palmetto Clean Technology builds and operates clean energy projects for residential, commercial, and utility customers. It designs and installs solar systems on residential homes, offers customer service support, and financing solutions. Palmetto Clean Technology's products include software technology solutions for home and business thatinclude Palmetto Home where homeowners receive real time energy consumption on in-home devices and solar production on their smart phones, Palmetto Fleet where home management professionals receive real time energy monitoring and solar production insights, and Alchemy, a software solution that empowers solar sales professionals to transform the customer experience and streamline the sales, design, and proposal processes. Christopher Kemper founded Palmetto Clean Technology on February 2, 2010. It has its headquarters in Charleston in South Carolina with additional offices in San Francisco in California, Sea Girt in New Jersey, Charlotte in North Carolina, the District of Columbia, and Greenville in South Carolina. | $29M | Series B | Aug 03, 2020 | http://www.palmetto.com/ |
| Innowatts | Innowatts is a data analytics and energy transition leader who uses energy usage data, insights and best-in-class machine learning to help energy retailers and utilities from around the world manage their grids, profitability, customer relationships and sustainability goals in a digitalizing, decarbonizing, and electrifying world. To date, theInnowatts eUtility™ technology platform has leveraged data from more than 34 million meters to help energy providers ensure grid reliability, anticipate trends, secure profitability, and promote sustainability — advancing and creating a more personalized energy experience for their customers. For more information, please visit www.innowatts.com. | $18.2M | Series B | May 14, 2019 | http://www.innowatts.com |
| MultiMechanics | MultiMechanics provides virtual testing software that empowers engineers to solve the world's most complex material engineering challenges. Our flagship product, MultiMech, enables innovation in complex materials and is used by leading companies in several industries, including aerospace, automotive, and consumer products, to save millions ofdollars in product development costs. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 27, 2017 | http://multimechanics.com/ |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Doral Energy-Tech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doral-energy-tech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MCJ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mcj) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shell-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amazon Alexa Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon-alexa-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anzu Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anzu-partner) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ArcTern Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arctern-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Evergy Ventures

VC Fund · Kansas City, United States

Evergy Ventures is the venture capital arm of Evergy specializing in investments in growth capital and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in the energy sector focusing on opportunities in the customer energy solutions, energy infrastructure industries, energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security, and renewablesservices, but is open to attractive investments outside of these sectors within the energy value chain. Evergy Ventures prefers to make investments using equity and debt instruments. It prefers to invest in North America with a special focus on Midwest based companies. Evergy Ventures began operation in 2015. It has its headquarters in Kansas City in Missouri.

4 contacts available at Evergy Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dennis Odell | Vice-President and ClimateTech Venture Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-odell |
| Ashwin Shashindranath | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashwin-shashindranath |
| Brock Smith | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brock-smith |
| Lana Jennings | Manager of Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lana-jennings |

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## FAQ

### What does Brock Smith invest in?

Brock Smith invests primarily in Energy, Solar and CleanTech startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Brock Smith?

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### When did Brock Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brock Smith closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 5 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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