# Doug Foshee

> Doug Foshee is a Series A investor at Sallyport Investments backing Artificial Intelligence. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sallyport Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sallyport-investments)
- Location: Houston, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-foshee-45405ab6

Doug Foshee is a Series A investor at Sallyport Investments in Houston focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Doug Foshee is the Owner of Sallyport Investments. He previously worked at El Paso corp as a CEO. Doug Foshee attended Texas State University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Energy | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Persefoni AI | Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides userswith a single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions. | $101M | Series B | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Persefoni AI | Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides userswith a single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions. | $13.5M | Series A | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| Validere | Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete emissions data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value. Modernize your carbon tracking and reporting with an emissions management platform built by industry experts. | $15M | Series A | Mar 12, 2020 |  |
| Validere | Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete emissions data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value. Modernize your carbon tracking and reporting with an emissions management platform built by industry experts. | $7M | Seed | Oct 30, 2018 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NGP Energy Technology Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ngp-energy-technology-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bain & Company Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clearvision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearvision-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Électricité de France](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EDF Pulse Croissance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edf-pulse-croissance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sallyport Investments

VC Fund

Founded in 2012, Sallyport Investments is a single-family office based in Houston, TX. Sallyport provides capital and leadership to companies, with a primary focus in the energy, energy transition, and financial services industries. Sallyport endeavors to be a value-adding partner to the companies in which it invests, working side-by-side with itsmanagement teams to create great businesses and long-term value.

2 contacts available at Sallyport Investments.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Doug Foshee | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-foshee |
| Kyle Bethancourt | Managing Director and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyle-bethancourt-ef97 |

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## FAQ

### What does Doug Foshee invest in?

Doug Foshee invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Energy startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Doug Foshee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Doug Foshee closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 4 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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