EnCap Investments
VC Fund
Houston, United States
EnCap Investments is a venture capital and private equity firm that specializes in seed, start-ups, emerging growth, and early venture investments. It invests in upstream and midstream oil and gas companies. Within midstream assets, it prefers to invest in natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing facilities, energy infrastructure, natural gasgathering, treating, compression, processing and storage operations; oil gathering, and transportation.EnCap Investments was founded by David B. Miller and Gary R Petersen in 1088; and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
Last updated:
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Industries EnCap Investments invests in
Stages EnCap Investments invests in
Countries EnCap Investments invests in
Contacts
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Jason DeLorenzo
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Brad Thieleman
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David B. Miller
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Gary R Petersen
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 6 (67%)
- Oil and Gas 5 (56%)
- Energy Efficiency 2 (22%)
- Energy Management 2 (22%)
- Natural Resources 2 (22%)
Stage
- Private Equity 5 (56%)
- Seed 1 (11%)
- Debt Financing 1 (11%)
- Post-IPO Equity 1 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Jason DeLorenzo
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Brad Thieleman
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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David B. Miller
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Gary R Petersen
Managing Partner/Co-Founder
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Managing Partner/Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Verde Operating Company
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Verde Operating Company is an independent oil and gas company. The company buys and runs oil and gas fields. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 24, 2026 | |
X2 Resources
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X2 Resources is a oil and gas company that targets multibillion-dollar opportunities across premier basins. | Seed / Apr 24, 2025 | |
Linea Energy
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Linea Energy's objective is to accelerate renewable energy transition through ruthlessly efficient development and innovation. | Debt Financing / Jan 08, 2025 | |
Novo
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Novo creates value uses drilling, exploration, and completion methods to provide value. Their business is dedicated to the purchase and development of assets. As a management team, their collection of subsurface, business, and accountants collaborated to add value to the liquids-rich STACK play. | Private Equity / Apr 23, 2024 | |
Bleutec Industries
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Bleutec Industries produce binary marine installation Solution to the Offshore wind industry. | Private Equity / Nov 30, 2022 | |
Sabalo Energy
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Sabalo Energy is a privately held company that invests in the energy sector through exploration, development, and production. Sabalo is headquartered in Corpus Christi, Texas with a team of the best professionals in the business. Sabalo takes great pride in its excellent reputation and continues to develop strong bonds with a core group ofservice companies, E&P companies, and financial partners. | $300M / Private Equity / Sep 22, 2021 | |
Grenadier Energy Partners
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Grenadier Energy Partners is an exploration and production company in the energy sector. During the phases of drilling, completion, and production for its wells, new technology is used to profitably develop long-lived oil and natural gas assets. | $350M / Private Equity / Jul 21, 2021 | |
Plains All American Pipeline
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Plains All American Pipeline is engaged in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil, as well as in the processing, transportation, fractionation, storage and marketing of natural gas liquids ("NGL"). We own and operate a diversified portfolio of strategically located assets that play a vital role in themovement of U.S. and Canadian energy supplies. On average we handle over 3.5 million barrels per day of crude oil and NGL through our extensive network of assets located in key North American producing basins, major market hubs and transportation gateways. The company is headquartered in Houston. | $1.5B / Post-IPO Equity / Jan 13, 2016 | |
Ameredev
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Ameredev is an oil and gas exploration and production company. The company focuses on acquiring and developing properties prioritizing responsible operations and value creation for stakeholders. | Private Equity |
Co-Investors
Carnelian Energy Capital Management
1 deal together
Chartwell Investments
1 deal together
EnCap Flatrock Midstream
1 deal together
Energy & Minerals Group
1 deal together
First Citizens Bank
1 deal together
First Reserve Corporation
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does EnCap Investments invest in?
EnCap Investments invests primarily in Energy, Oil and Gas and Energy Efficiency startups, most often at Private Equity and Seed stage. Most of the 9 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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Who are the partners at EnCap Investments?
The team at EnCap Investments includes Jason DeLorenzo (Managing Partner), Brad Thieleman (Partner) and David B. Miller (Co-Founder and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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