# Firelake Capital Management

> Firelake Capital Management is a VC fund backing Solar and Energy. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Nov 2014
- Lead investor: 7%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Jan 2007
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.firelakecapital.com

Firelake Capital Management is a fund with a "hybrid" portfolio of private and public investments in information technology, energy technology, and material science. The public holdings focus on technological innovation and scalability for self-funding. The private companies develop "Edge technologies" to meet futurefundamental needs.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4M–$13M |
| Series B | $6.5M–$34M |
| Series C | $6.4M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Solar | 6 | 13% |
| Energy | 6 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 11% |
| Electronics | 4 | 9% |
| Nanotechnology | 4 | 9% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 24% |
| Series C | 11 | 24% |
| Series B | 8 | 18% |
| Series D | 4 | 9% |
| Series E | 2 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fred Kittler | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-kittler |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BluWrap | BluWrap provides naturally extended shelf-life technology that has revolutionized fresh protein supply chains worldwide. | $12.6M |  | Nov 05, 2014 |  |
| BrightVolt | BrightVolt is an innovative manufacturer of solid-state thin & flexible lithium polymer batteries and power-efficient thin & flexible microelectronics for IoT clients. It specializes in the fields of battery, electronics, and manufacturing. BrightVolt got recapitalization in November 13, 2013. | $4M | Series A | Nov 12, 2013 |  |
| QBotix | A solar panel that tracks the sun throughout the day produces up to 30% more electricity than one that does not. Solar project developers install single-axis tracking for most utility-scale sites, balancing upfront costs versus electricity revenues to maximize rates of return. QBotix disrupts today's cost curve of fixed-tilt, single-axistracking, and dual-axis tracking with an innovative tracking solution that offers dual-axis tracking at single-axis price. This reduces the levelized cost of energy by 10-20% while providing the added benefit of higher reliability and system intelligence. |  | Series A | Jul 11, 2013 |  |
| Scifiniti | Scifiniti is an early stage company working to create a drop-in replacement for crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. Rather than casting an ingot of polysilicon and then sawing it into wafers (to be processed into solar cells), Scifiniti's approach skips these steps and creates a wafer directly (although we can't say how) with a highquality crystal structure suitable for solar cells. | $10M | Series B | Jul 01, 2013 |  |
| HydroPoint Data Systems | HydroPoint Data Systems develops various irrigation system controllers for residential and commercial landscape applications. HydroPoint is the proven leader in 360° smart water management solutions. HydroPoint's WeatherTRAK solution delivers a multitude of financial and environmental benefits by reducing the greatest area of waste in urbanwater use: landscape irrigation. Landscapes consume 58% of urban water and are overwatered by 30-to-300%.It was founded in 2002 and is based in Petaluma, California. | $750K |  | Dec 14, 2012 |  |
| QBotix | A solar panel that tracks the sun throughout the day produces up to 30% more electricity than one that does not. Solar project developers install single-axis tracking for most utility-scale sites, balancing upfront costs versus electricity revenues to maximize rates of return. QBotix disrupts today's cost curve of fixed-tilt, single-axistracking, and dual-axis tracking with an innovative tracking solution that offers dual-axis tracking at single-axis price. This reduces the levelized cost of energy by 10-20% while providing the added benefit of higher reliability and system intelligence. | $6.5M | Series A | Sep 04, 2012 |  |
| EOS Climate, Inc. | EOS Climate is a producer of high-quality, verified emission reductions (VERs) generated from the destruction of ozone depleting substances (ODS), which are also extremely potent greenhouse gases. While ODS such as CFCs are no longer manufactured, they are still emitted by leaky, old air conditioning units and refrigeration equipment. As greenhousegases (GHGs), ODS are up to 11,000 times more powerful than carbon-dioxide and represent a ticking time bomb for our global climate system. Current inventories of ODS are equivalent to approximately 2.5 times the total annual GHG emissions of the United States. | $5M | Series A | Mar 30, 2012 |  |
| MiaSolé | MiaSole is a pioneer in the development of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) thin film photovoltaic products. Their goal is to enable grid parity solar energy by 2012 through high volume manufacturing of low cost solar modules. | $55M | Debt Financing | Mar 07, 2012 |  |
| Ruckus Wireless | Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.(NYSE: RKUS) is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor “Smart Wi-Fi” products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has over48,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses Wi-Fi capacity and coverage challenges caused by the ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks due to accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference, providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. | $21.7M | Series G | Feb 27, 2012 |  |
| ZeaChem | ZeaChem will change the world by creating high margin and sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based fuels and chemicals. Able to use wood chips, wheat straw, corn stover, or grasses to make a range of drop-in products for the $1T+ chemicals and fuels markets, ZeaChem can profit today without any subsidies and is competitive with $50 per barreloil. ZeaChem’s advantage centers around its fermentation process which converts 100% of the carbon in the sugars into end products, delivering unmatched yields | $19M | Series C | Feb 14, 2012 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Threshold](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/threshold) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Birchmere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/birchmere-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Medley Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/medley-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mohr Davidow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohr-davidow-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Trident Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trident-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Firelake Capital Management invest in?

Firelake Capital Management invests primarily in Solar, Energy and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Firelake Capital Management's check size?

Firelake Capital Management typically joins rounds of $4M–$13M at Series A, $6.5M–$34M at Series B and $6.4M–$42M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Firelake Capital Management participates in.

### How do I contact Firelake Capital Management?

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### Who are the partners at Firelake Capital Management?

The team at Firelake Capital Management includes Fred Kittler (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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