Element Partners
VC Fund
Radnor, United States
Element Partners is a VC fund in Radnor focused on Energy and Manufacturing. Element Partners invests exclusively in established high growth companies in the energy and clean technology markets. They specifically focus on companies with innovative solutions to global energy, resource, and environmental problems. Element strives to become a long-term partner with passionate business leaders who have built pioneering companies. They have a long history of providing their companies with the financial resources, industry contacts, and strategic insights necessary to maximize growth and shareholder return. Since 1995, Element’s team has successfully managed over $1.2 billion in capital commitments spanning six investment partnerships. All of these partnerships have been focused on investing in and profitably growing energy, industrial, and environmental related businesses. Over the course of more than fourteen years, the principals of Element have collectively invested in over 100 clean technology companies making Element one of the earliest and most experienced alternative energy and clean technology investors.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
- Fund size:
- $30M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Element Partners invests in
Stages Element Partners invests in
Countries Element Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $2M–$33M
- Series B
- $600k–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 12 (30%)
- Manufacturing 10 (25%)
- Renewable Energy 7 (18%)
- Oil and Gas 5 (13%)
- Water Purification 4 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 10 (25%)
- Funding Round 10 (25%)
- Series B 8 (20%)
- Private Equity 5 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (8%)
Country
- United States 27 (68%)
- China 1 (3%)
- Norway 1 (3%)
- Belgium 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sam Gabbita
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Anup Jacob
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
David Lincoln
Founder and Managing Partner
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Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
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Ed Rendell
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Harry Shimp
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circle Pharma is an early-stage biotechnology company applying proprietary computational design algorithms and innovative chemistry to develop cell-permeable macrocycle peptide therapeutics against important clinical targets. It does this through an iterative, rational design process that deploys large virtual libraries of conformationally diversemacrocycle scaffolds selected for inherent permeability. The company was founded by Matt Jacobson and Scott Lokey in 2012 and is headed by David J. Earp. | $2M / Series A / Apr 25, 2017 | ||
| Leff Electric distributes electrical products that include energy-saving appliances and services, lamps, lighting fixtures, ballasts, distribution equipment, conduit, connectors, wire, enclosures, and more for manufacturers. They offer electrical products and services for the commercial, industrial, and residential markets. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 24, 2015 | ||
| AquaVenture Holdings is a water purification company that specializes in the service industry. Through its Quench and Seven Seas Water businesses, AVH provides water solutions, utilizing state-of-the-art purification and desalination technologies. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 01, 2015 | ||
| AquaVenture Holdings is a water purification company that specializes in the service industry. Through its Quench and Seven Seas Water businesses, AVH provides water solutions, utilizing state-of-the-art purification and desalination technologies. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. | $50M / Oct 20, 2014 | ||
| Quench USA, Inc. offers Water-as-a-Service(TM) solutions by providing bottleless filtered water coolers and other products that use filtered water as an input, such as ice machines, sparkling water dispensers, and coffee brewers, to customers across the United States. Our point-of-use (POU) systems purify a building's existing water supply toprovide reliable and convenient filtered water to a broad mix of end-markets, including government, education, medical, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and other large commercial customers, including more than half of the Fortune 500. Headquartered outside of Philadelphia, Quench recently became an independent operating company of AquaVenture Holdings(TM). | $38.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 14, 2014 | ||
| Detechtion specializes in compression optimization technologies and fleet management services. It provides monitoring and optimization services for active compression horsepower in North America. Detechtion offers Enalysis, a Web-enabled compressor optimization, fleet management, and maintenance tracking program for natural gas producers,gatherers, and transporters. Brian Taylor founded it in 1998, with its headquarters in Calgary in Canada and additional offices in Houston, Brisbane, and Pittsburgh. | Nov 20, 2013 | ||
| Turbine Air Systems designs and manufactures modular cooling and energy systems for the power generation industry, the district, commercial and industrial process cooling industries, and the industrial sector. The company specializes in high-efficiency standard product designs optimized for low life cycle cost performance. Their productcapabilities include chilled water systems, air-cooled systems, clean heat and power on-site energy systems, and industrial waste heat solutions. | $12M / Sep 24, 2013 | ||
| Hayward Gordon is a manufacturer of pumps, mixers, mixing systems, software management, and IT solutions. It offers water treatment pumps, mixers for mining, sulphur pumps, engineered metering, and injection systems, strainers and filters, mixers for petroleum, and anaerobic digestion. | Sep 12, 2013 | ||
| Edeniq, Inc. is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber through its Intellulose technology. Edeniq’s Intellulose requires zero capital investment and is easily integrated into existing ethanol production facilities. Edeniq was established in 2008 and isheadquartered in Visalia, Calif. with a field office in Omaha, Neb. More information can be found at www.edeniq.com. | $32M / May 09, 2012 | ||
| Environmental Drilling Solutions provides solids control services using its proprietary, patent-pending mobile and skid-mounted equipment. EDS also provides rig vacuum systems, storage tanks, pressure washers, and other related equipment and services. | Private Equity / Apr 23, 2012 | ||
| See all 40 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Element Partners invest in?
Element Partners invests primarily in Energy, Manufacturing and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Element Partners invest in?
Element Partners typically joins rounds of $2M–$33M at Series A and $600k–$60M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Element Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Element Partners took part in.
How do I contact Element Partners?
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Who are the partners at Element Partners?
The team at Element Partners includes Sam Gabbita (Principal), Anup Jacob (Managing Director) and David Lincoln (Founder and Managing Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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