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:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
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 11 (50%)
- Energy 8 (36%)
- Solar 5 (23%)
- SaaS 4 (18%)
- CleanTech 4 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (50%)
- Series A 5 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
- Convertible Note 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 15 (68%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
- The Netherlands 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| 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. | $2.5M / Seed / Nov 10, 2021 | ||
| $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. | $796.6K / Seed / Sep 02, 2021 | ||
| AmpUp is an electric vehicle charging company that enables drivers, hosts, and fleets to charge stress-free. | Aug 16, 2021 | ||
| Dollaride is a mobility company that develops clean transportation projects in urban cities. The company provides mobility software and financial services that increase clean energy/transportation adoption in underserved markets. Backed by world-class investors, venture capital firms, government agencies, and community partners, Dollaride isforging a new path to the green economy for small transportation fleet owners. Dollaride was inspired by NYC commuter vans (aka "dollar vans"). Originating in the 1980s, a robust network of commuter van drivers now provides local transportation services to over 120,000 New Yorkers daily. Dollaride service connects fleet owners, drivers, and passengers through the first digital platform for NYC's informal transit network. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Jul 28, 2021 | ||
| Nithio Holdings is an energy finance company focused on the off-grid sector in Africa. Nithio is an energy finance platform that provides services to distributed energy service companies, capital providers, governments, and other stakeholders in the distributed solar energy sector in Africa. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Washington,District of Columbia. | $30M / Series A / Apr 15, 2021 | ||
| 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. | $1.1M / Seed / Jan 26, 2021 | ||
| Pearl Street Technologies develops next-generation software for the electric utility industry. | Pre-Seed / Jan 12, 2021 | ||
| We provide car dealers and private party buyers with vehicle reports for used electric cars. Understanding the battery health and typical ranges of electric cars as they age is more complicated. And it's more important than knowing the odometer reading. | $3.5M / Seed / Dec 08, 2020 | ||
| At WattBuy, we’re focused on an ambitious vision: making cleaner, more affordable electricity accessible to every household. We’re looking to bring on team members to help us reach that goal. Based in NYC, DC, and Seattle, WattBuy is a team of product leaders and engineers from Google and Amazon who share a love of using technology to tackleinequality and positively impact the climate. | $3.3M / Series A / Nov 18, 2020 | ||
| Terabase Energy is a digital solutions company whose products and services reduce costs and accelerate deployment in large-scale solar. The company's proprietary software is used by more than 400 engineering, procurement, and construction firms, developers, and independent power producers in 28 countries. | $6M / Series A / Sep 09, 2020 | ||
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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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What does Emily Kirsch invest in?
Emily Kirsch invests primarily in Software, Energy and Solar startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 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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The most recent investment recorded for Emily Kirsch closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 22 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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