# Curtis Schickner

> Curtis Schickner is a Series A investor at Climate Investment backing Manufacturing. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Climate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ogci-climate-investments)
- Location: Baltimore, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-schickner-32353534/

Curtis Schickner is a Series A investor at Climate Investment in Baltimore focused on Manufacturing and Advanced Materials. Curtis Schickner is the Principal, Climate Investments at OGCI CLIMATE INVESTMENTS LLP. Curtis Schickner attended University of Maryland Baltimore County.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 60% |
| Advanced Materials | 2 | 40% |
| Mechanical Engineering | 2 | 40% |
| Aerospace | 1 | 20% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 20% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boston Materials | Boston Materials manufactures Z-axis Carbon Fiber products that can revolutionize the $130B+ lightweight materials market and unlock significant GHG emissions reductions across industries. Boston Materials products add new conductivity, stiffness, and durability benefits to existing composite materials, like carbon fiber, and sheet metals. Thecompany's products are made using 100 percent reclaimed carbon fiber enabling up to 80 percent GHG emissions savings compared to standard composite materials and metals. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Freshr Technologies | Impactful Health R&D is a developer of compostable active packaging materials designed to prolong the shelf life of fresh foods, starting with fresh fish as an entry market. The company's active packaging materials are made of naturally-derived resources and helps in preserving the texture of a fish by maintaining its water content andtargeting bacteria, enabling fish processing companies to reduce wastage of fish. | $3.4M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Boston Materials | Boston Materials manufactures Z-axis Carbon Fiber products that can revolutionize the $130B+ lightweight materials market and unlock significant GHG emissions reductions across industries. Boston Materials products add new conductivity, stiffness, and durability benefits to existing composite materials, like carbon fiber, and sheet metals. Thecompany's products are made using 100 percent reclaimed carbon fiber enabling up to 80 percent GHG emissions savings compared to standard composite materials and metals. | $13.5M | Series A | Nov 07, 2024 |  |
| Vartega | Vartega is a technology development company specializing in the carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic recycling process. Vartega develops alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass-market applications.Vartega's patented carbon fiber recycling process scales rapidly to fill a gap in thecomposites supply chain. The company’s carbon fiber is available in semi-continuous, chopped, and milled forms. It is ideally suited for use in thermoplastics, non-wovens, and molding compounds. | $11.2M | Series A | Jan 03, 2024 |  |
| Lingrove | Lingrove manufactures high-performance natural fiber composites from plant-based fibers and resins using a proprietary process and adaptable platform. Its line of veneer and panel products is called Ekoa, which is sold B2B to manufacturers in the commercial interiors, transportation, and construction space. Inspired by nature’s greatest material,old-growth wood, Lingrove seeks to reduce deforestation and embodied carbon of buildings. | $10.5M | Series B | Nov 20, 2023 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accelr8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelr8) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital-s-climate-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blue Tide Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-tide-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bunge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bunge-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Circular Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/circular-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Collaborative Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collaborative-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Climate Investment

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

OGCI Climate Investments focuses on delivering the transition to lower carbon emission energy sources. The leaders of the ten major oil and gas companies are committed to the direction set out by the Paris Agreement on climate change. They support its agenda for global action and the need for urgency. Through their collaboration in Oil and GasClimate Initiative (OGCI), they can be a catalyst for change in their industry and more widely.OGCI aims to increase the ambition, speed and scale of the initiatives they undertake as individual companies to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of their core oil and gas business – and to explore new businesses and technologies.

5 contacts available at Climate Investment.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aruna Ramsamy | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aruna-ramsamy |
| Curtis Schickner | Principal, Climate Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curtis-schickner |
| Daniel Palmer | Deployment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-palmer |
| Pratima Rangarajan | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pratima-rangarajan |
| Rick Cutright | Technology Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-cutright |

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## FAQ

### What does Curtis Schickner invest in?

Curtis Schickner invests primarily in Manufacturing, Advanced Materials and Mechanical Engineering startups, most often at Series A 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.

### When did Curtis Schickner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Curtis Schickner closed in Dec 2025. 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?

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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