# Buoyant Ventures

> Buoyant Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago backing Software and Energy. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 74%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buoyantventures
- Website: https://www.buoyant.vc/

Buoyant Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and Energy. Buoyant Ventures operates as an early-stage venture fund investing in digital solutions to climate risk. The firm was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 37% |
| Energy | 3 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 16% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |
| SaaS | 2 | 11% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 37% |
| Seed | 5 | 26% |
| Series B | 3 | 16% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 63% |
| Canada | 2 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allison Myers | Co-Founder & General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-myers-2182 |
| Amy Francetic | Managing General Partner and Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-francetic |
| Alex Behar | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-behar |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SkyFi® | SkyFi provides a self-service Earth intelligence platform that lets users access and order satellite imagery, run geospatial analytics, and obtain open and commercial Earth observation data. The platform integrates imagery from optical, SAR, hyperspectral, and other sensors and offers tools like object detection and commodity measurement to turnraw data into usable insights for various operational needs. SkyFi also provides data through APIs and web/mobile interfaces, enabling satellite tasking, archive search, and maritime tracking services. The company’s products span commercial imagery ordering, free open data, analytics modules, and partner-powered access to specialized constellations and vessel tracking feeds. | $12.7M | Series A | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Hammerhead AI | Hammerhead AI enables AI factory operators to maximize revenue using Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents for power-aware orchestration. | $10M | Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Gravity | Gravity Climate provides a software platform designed for carbon management, specifically tailored for industrial businesses and their supply chain partners. The platform helps companies measure, manage, and reduce their carbon emissions, facilitating a clear and actionable climate strategy. Gravity Climate's tools support decarbonizationefforts by streamlining carbon accounting processes and offering insights to advance industrial sustainability goals. | $13M | Series A | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| Sunairio | Sunairio is a developer of a weather intelligence platform for renewable energy prediction. Its platform offers simulations that account for correlations between multiple locations and weather features and leverages the complete NOAA sub-hourly historical archive. | $6.4M |  | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Sunairio | Sunairio is a developer of a weather intelligence platform for renewable energy prediction. Its platform offers simulations that account for correlations between multiple locations and weather features and leverages the complete NOAA sub-hourly historical archive. | $6.4M |  | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Raptor Maps | Raptor Maps is the leading provider of lifecycle management software for the solar industry. We support portfolio owners, asset managers, O&M providers, EPC contractors, and independent engineers with software solutions that enable organization and asset efficiency. Raptor Maps enable solar companies to increase performance, reduce costs, andstandardize & compare solar PV assets across a portfolio. | $35M | Series C | Dec 10, 2024 |  |
| Ocient | Ocient is a startup building a near-real-time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets. Ocient was founded by the talent behind the largest software startup exit in Chicago’s history. Ocient is a well-funded company, with an engineering team comprised of brilliant computer scientists hailing from the world’s topuniversities and organizations. | $49.4M | Series B | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| HData | HData combines centralized data, powerful AI, and purpose-built features to enhance regulatory intelligence for energy professionals. As the system of action for utilities, regulators, advocates, and service providers across the energy sector, HData helps modernize regulatory information processes, reduce the time-intensive burdens of regulatoryworkflows, and accelerate action with comprehensive regulatory insights. Learn how to streamline regulatory research and analysis at hdata.com. | $10M | Series A | Mar 04, 2024 |  |
| ElectroTempo | ElectroTempo is a software firm helping customers de-risk their electric vehicle investments. It has built its analytics from deep subject matter expertise in transportation and utility infrastructure planning. Its data-driven projections allow customers to assess the costs, benefits, and risks associated with EV adoption and infrastructure needsaccurately, rapidly, and at any scale. | $5M | Seed | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| Shifted Energy | Shifted Energy enable electric water heaters to consume excess renewable energy and provide grid services.Their solution preheats water to consume excess renewables while algorithms optimize hot water availability for participants. Their solution also provides fast demand response as well as value add solutions for participants such as leakdetection, maintenence alerts, and automatic powerdown when units are not occupied. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 06, 2023 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blue Bear Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-bear-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Congruent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/congruent-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Constellation Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/constellation-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Data Point Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-point-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Insurtech Gateway](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insurtech-gateway) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Buoyant Ventures invest in?

Buoyant Ventures invests primarily in Software, Energy and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 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 Buoyant Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Buoyant Ventures?

The team at Buoyant Ventures includes Allison Myers (Co-Founder & General Partner), Amy Francetic (Managing General Partner and Founder) and Alex Behar (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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