# Dipender Saluja

> Dipender Saluja is a Series A investor at Capricorn Investment Group backing Energy. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Capricorn Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capricorn-investment-group)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsaluja/

Dipender Saluja is a Series A investor at Capricorn Investment Group in Palo Alto focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. Dipender Saluja is Partner and Managing Director at Capricorn Investment Group. Dipender oversees investments in energy technology, clean tech, and IT. Prior to Capricorn, Dipender was Chief of Staff at Cadence, a global market leader in electronic design, where he built and managed businesses that worked closely with the leading electronicscompanies around the world. Dipender is also President and CEO of Automatiks Inc, a Capricorn portfolio company developing electronic connectivity platforms for electric & hybrid vehicles, storage and smart grids. He is an electrical & computer engineer by training, and attended UND, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 3 | 13% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 13% |
| Battery | 2 | 9% |
| Data Center | 2 | 9% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 26% |
| Series B | 5 | 22% |
| Series D | 3 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 48% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Helion Energy | Operator of a patented plasma accelerator technology designed to address the growing need for clean energy. The company's technology specializes in designing fusion generators based on magneto-inertial fusion with a fifty-megawatt module and energy regeneration, thereby enabling customers to use low-cost, clean, and safe energy. | $465M | Series G | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| OpenLight | OpenLight is a manufacturing industry. | $50M | Series A | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Heron Power | Heron Power is an energy technology startup focused on developing power electronics for the modern electrical grid. They aim to facilitate the expansion of electricity generation by innovating foundational technologies. | $140M | Series B | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Redwood Materials | Redwood Materials creates a circular supply chain to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicles and sustainable energy storage systems they power. It offers recycling of end-of-life batteries and production scrap, refining of critical elements, and deployment of large-scale energy-storagesystems using second-life battery packs. | $425M | Series E | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| OpenLight | OpenLight is a manufacturing industry. | $34M | Series A | Aug 26, 2025 |  |
| Heron Power | Heron Power is an energy technology startup focused on developing power electronics for the modern electrical grid. They aim to facilitate the expansion of electricity generation by innovating foundational technologies. | $38M | Series A | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Summit Nanotech | Summit Nanotech Corporation is a cleantech organization transforming how the world accesses lithium for the global energy transition. Through a patented and sustainable direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology, Summit Nanotech works with mining companies and lithium asset owners in Chile and Argentina to conserve natural resources and optimizeoperations.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. | $25.5M |  | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Helion Energy | Operator of a patented plasma accelerator technology designed to address the growing need for clean energy. The company's technology specializes in designing fusion generators based on magneto-inertial fusion with a fifty-megawatt module and energy regeneration, thereby enabling customers to use low-cost, clean, and safe energy. | $425M | Series F | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Redwood Materials | Redwood Materials creates a circular supply chain to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicles and sustainable energy storage systems they power. It offers recycling of end-of-life batteries and production scrap, refining of critical elements, and deployment of large-scale energy-storagesystems using second-life battery packs. | $1B | Series D | Aug 29, 2023 |  |
| Summit Nanotech | Summit Nanotech Corporation is a cleantech organization transforming how the world accesses lithium for the global energy transition. Through a patented and sustainable direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology, Summit Nanotech works with mining companies and lithium asset owners in Chile and Argentina to conserve natural resources and optimizeoperations.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. | $50.3M | Series A | Jan 17, 2023 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SoftBank Vision Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank-vision-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Xora Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xora-innovation) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mithril Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mithril-capital-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Redline Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redline-capital-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Capricorn Investment Group

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Capricorn Investment Group was created in 2000 to demonstrate the promise that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. Today Capricorn manages the assets for Jeff Skoll, the Skoll Foundation, and others who strive for extraordinary investment results by leveraging market forces to accelerate large-scaleimpact. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real assets markets across the globe. Capricorn has offices in Palo Alto, California, and New York, New York.

5 contacts available at Capricorn Investment Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dipender Saluja | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dipender-saluja |
| Jeffrey S. Skoll | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-s-skoll |
| Jim Lyons | Chief Technologist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-lyons |
| Jy Bhardwaj | Entrepreneur in Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jy-bhardwaj |
| Clarey Castner | Client Relations Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clarey-castner |

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## FAQ

### What does Dipender Saluja invest in?

Dipender Saluja invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 23 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 Dipender Saluja last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dipender Saluja closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 23 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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