Emily Kirsch
Founder, Managing Partner & CEO @ Powerhouse Ventures
Oakland, United States
Emily Kirsch is a seed investor at Powerhouse Ventures in Oakland focused on Software and Energy. Emily Kirsch is the Founder and CEO at Powerhouse and Managing Partner at Powerhouse Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 37
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Emily Kirsch invests in
Stages Emily Kirsch invests in
Countries Emily Kirsch invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (32%)
- Energy 9 (24%)
- SaaS 6 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (16%)
- Solar 5 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (57%)
- Series A 7 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Convertible Note 1 (3%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 20 (54%)
- United Kingdom 2 (5%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- France 1 (3%)
- The Netherlands 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability. | $28M / Series A / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| CVector connects live control data from industrial sites to dynamic market signals, allowing AI-powered energy techno-economic models, real-time optimization, and virtual operators to enable disruptive operational and commercial decisions. | $5M / Seed / Jan 26, 2026 | ||
| CapeZero is a software-as-a-service company providing financial technology solutions to counterparties evaluating investment, financing, and sale options for clean energy projects. Almost every renewable energy project benefits from receiving a “structured tax credit investment” (i.e. tax equity, transferability, and direct pay). CapeZero’smodeling and deal analysis software provides developers, investors, and advisors with a platform to efficiently navigate structured tax credit investments. CapeZero enables stakeholders to make real-time, profit-optimizing decisions and build a clean energy future together. | $2.6M / Seed / Jan 23, 2025 | ||
| AmpUp is an electric vehicle charging company that enables drivers, hosts, and fleets to charge stress-free. | $15M / Series A / Sep 26, 2024 | ||
| Sesame Sustainability is a SAAS company that offers industrial decarbonization platform for modeling, optimization, and analysis. | $2.4M / Seed / Jun 11, 2024 | ||
| ThinkLabs AI is a specialist AI development and deployment firm. Its mission is to empower critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability. | $5M / Seed / May 23, 2024 | ||
| Granular is a start-up providing market solutions for 24/7 clean energy. | Seed / Oct 02, 2023 | ||
| Granular Energy is the platform of the future for managing and trading clean energy. | $7.9M / Seed / Oct 02, 2023 | ||
| Axiom Cloud uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling and refrigeration industry. Their first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install and configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaS fees for one or more cloud-basedsoftware apps that run on the IoT platform.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Oakland, California, United States. | $7.4M / Series A / Jan 18, 2023 | ||
| $1T will be spent annually on energy efficiency upgrades in commercial properties in the next 10 years. Energy managers are struggling to identify cost-effective projects and failing to meet regulatory commitments. Audette unlocks clean investment for large building portfolios by connecting to and analyzing digital utility and building data andproviding the insights needed to uncover millions in potential reductions in operating costs and carbon output. | $9.3M / Seed / Nov 03, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Powerhouse Ventures
Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage startups building innovative software to rapidly decarbonize our global energy and mobility systems.
Powerhouse Ventures Contacts
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Emily Kirsch
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What does Emily Kirsch invest in?
Emily Kirsch invests primarily in Software, Energy and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Emily Kirsch last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Emily Kirsch closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 37 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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