Daniel Carter
Investment Director @ Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures
Houston, United States
Daniel Carter is a Series B investor at Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in Houston focused on Energy and Industrial. Daniel Carter is Investment Director at Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, serving Saudi Aramco’s corporate venturing activities. He has financed energy companies --venture and mature-- since the 1990's with a proven track record of exits and IPOs. Previously, Daniel was Principal at Conduit Ventures and prior to that Vice President at SalomonSmith Barney/Citigroup. Daniel is on the Investor Advisory Board of DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a Council Member of NASA & Nike’s Launch.org and Board member of London Business School Energy Club and holds degrees from Columbia University, London Business School, Georgetown University and University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
Last updated:
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Industries Daniel Carter invests in
Stages Daniel Carter invests in
Countries Daniel Carter invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 2 (22%)
- Industrial 2 (22%)
- Oil and Gas 2 (22%)
- Manufacturing 2 (22%)
- Chemical 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (22%)
- Series C 2 (22%)
- Series D 2 (22%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
Investments
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Data Gumbo
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Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $4M / Series C / Aug 10, 2022 | |
Clarke Valve
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Clarke Valve is a developer of energy-saving shutter valves designed to work in a variety of industrial and aerospace applications. The company's technology can be easily scaled or customized to meet many challenging requirements and is currently deployed in a diverse spectrum of markets, including oil and gas, aerospace, chemical, powerplants, and water management. Its valves offer a combination of zero pressure drop, zero flow restriction, full pluggability, precise flow control, negligible turbulence, low cavitation, low water hammer, low noise, ultra-thin footprint, low power consumption, plug and play adaptability and long-term reliability, that enable power plants, oil and gas facilities, and chemical plants to efficiently use these valves in various challenging applications.Clarke Valve was established in 2011 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. | $5M / Series D / Jul 26, 2022 | |
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Data Gumbo
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Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $7.7M / Series B / Aug 04, 2021 | |
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Data Gumbo
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Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $4M / Series B / Sep 24, 2020 | |
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Data Gumbo
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Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $6M / Series A / May 07, 2019 | |
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Clarke Valve
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Clarke Valve is a developer of energy-saving shutter valves designed to work in a variety of industrial and aerospace applications. The company's technology can be easily scaled or customized to meet many challenging requirements and is currently deployed in a diverse spectrum of markets, including oil and gas, aerospace, chemical, powerplants, and water management. Its valves offer a combination of zero pressure drop, zero flow restriction, full pluggability, precise flow control, negligible turbulence, low cavitation, low water hammer, low noise, ultra-thin footprint, low power consumption, plug and play adaptability and long-term reliability, that enable power plants, oil and gas facilities, and chemical plants to efficiently use these valves in various challenging applications.Clarke Valve was established in 2011 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. | $5.5M / Series B / Sep 25, 2018 | |
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Clarke Valve
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Clarke Valve is a developer of energy-saving shutter valves designed to work in a variety of industrial and aerospace applications. The company's technology can be easily scaled or customized to meet many challenging requirements and is currently deployed in a diverse spectrum of markets, including oil and gas, aerospace, chemical, powerplants, and water management. Its valves offer a combination of zero pressure drop, zero flow restriction, full pluggability, precise flow control, negligible turbulence, low cavitation, low water hammer, low noise, ultra-thin footprint, low power consumption, plug and play adaptability and long-term reliability, that enable power plants, oil and gas facilities, and chemical plants to efficiently use these valves in various challenging applications.Clarke Valve was established in 2011 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. | $10M / Series B / Feb 07, 2018 | |
Zahroof Valves
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Zahroof Valves Inc. is a privately owned Texas Corporation, with its HQ in Houston, TX. We manufacture and sell Zahroof Performance Valves (ZPV) based on the patent-protected Modular Reed Valve (MRV) technology. ZPVs deliver major value to customers including 5-15% reduction in compressor power, improved reliability with 2x service interval,improved productivity, lowered inventory, ease of service and lowest cost of ownership. | Series C / Jul 05, 2016 | |
Rive Technology
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Rive is a clean energy company, commercializing advanced catalyst technology for petroleum refining to dramatically increase the yield of transportation fuels produced per barrel of crude oil. The proprietary technology, invented at MIT, makes traditional zeolite catalysts more accessible to large hydrocarbon molecules, allowing increasedproduction of gasoline and diesel fuel. Rive's new catalyst will fit readily into existing refineries and enable refiners to increase throughput and profitability with minimal capital investment. | $20M / Series D / Aug 01, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Aramco Oil Company. It's mission is to invest globally into start-up and high growth companies with technologies of strategic importance to Saudi Aramco, and to accelerate their development and deployment in Saudi Aramco’s operations. Based out of Dhahran (Saudi Arabia),SAEV also operates through regional offices in North America and Europe. SAEV's Objectives are: - Enhance reserve identification, management and production - Increase energy production - Improve operational efficiency - Increase value in downstream processes - Optimize energy & water consumption in Saudi ArabiaSAEV's investment Focus Areas are: - Upstream Oil & Gas - Downstream & Petrochemicals - Sustainability - Digitalization and IR4.0 - New Drivers of Hydrocarbon Demand
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures Contacts
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Arne Frøiland
Investment Director
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Bruce Niven
Chief Investment Officer
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Daniel Carter
Investment Director
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Hans Middelthon
Managing Director of SAEV Europe Venture Capital
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Jim Sledzik
Managing Director, North America
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FAQ
What does Daniel Carter invest in?
Daniel Carter invests primarily in Energy, Industrial and Oil and Gas startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 9 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 Daniel Carter last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Carter closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 9 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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