# Emily Kirsch

> Emily Kirsch is a seed investor at Powerhouse (Oakland) backing Software and Energy. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Powerhouse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/powerhouse-solar)
- Location: Oakland, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirschemily
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/emilykirsch
- Website: https://x.com/emilykirsch

Emily Kirsch is a seed investor at Powerhouse in Oakland focused on Software and Energy. Emily Kirsch is the Founder and CEO at Powerhouse and Managing Partner at Powerhouse Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 30% |
| Energy | 7 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 17% |
| SaaS | 4 | 13% |
| Solar | 4 | 13% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 53% |
| Series A | 7 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 53% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ThinkLabs AI | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Sesame Sustainability is a SAAS company that offers industrial decarbonization platform for modeling, optimization, and analysis. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| ThinkLabs AI | 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 | Granular is a start-up providing market solutions for 24/7 clean energy. |  | Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Granular Energy | Granular Energy is the platform of the future for managing and trading clean energy.​ | $7.9M | Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Axiom Cloud | 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 |  |
| Audette | $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 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Active Impact Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-impact-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [MCJ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mcj) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Avesta Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avesta-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blackhorn Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackhorn-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Climate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Powerhouse

VC Fund · Oakland, United States

Powerhouse is an innovation firm that works with leading global corporations to help them find, partner with, invest in, and acquire the most innovative startups in clean energy, mobility, and climate.

4 contacts available at Powerhouse.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Emily Kirsch | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-kirsch-2 |
| Emily Kirsch | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-kirsch |
| Ben Tarbell | Powerhouse Ventures Investor and Investment Advisory Committe Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-tarbell |
| Liz Ramsay Dalton | Vice President of Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liz-ramsay-dalton |

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## FAQ

### What does Emily Kirsch invest in?

Emily Kirsch invests primarily in Software, Energy and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 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 Emily Kirsch last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Emily Kirsch closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 30 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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