# Gigascale Capital

> Gigascale Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Energy and Sustainability. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gigascale/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gigascale
- Website: https://gigascale.com/

Gigascale Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Energy and Sustainability. Gigascale Capital backs climate companies that make the clean option a no-brainer choice. Our team, led by tech founders and climate veterans Mike Schroepfer, Victoria Beasley, and Evaline Tsai, brings a diverse operational experience. This includes pioneering some of the first solar PV cells and scaling organizations from a mere 5 to 35,000employees.We typically invest in companies from Pre-Seed to Series A, embrace scientific and technical challenges, and actively support fast-growing operations. Areas of interest include decarbonizing food & agriculture, industry, energy, transportation, materials, and the built environment.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 3 | 11% |
| Sustainability | 3 | 11% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 11% |
| Waste Management | 3 | 11% |
| Energy Efficiency | 3 | 11% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 14% |
| Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 39% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| France | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Evaline Tsai | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evaline-tsai |
| Michael Schroepfer | Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-schroepfer |
| Victoria Beasley | Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victoria-beasley |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Red Metals | Red Metals is a next-generation copper manufacturing startup building America's first domestic high-conductivity copper rod production facility in Charleston, South Carolina. | $10M | Seed | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Red Metals | Red Metals is a next-generation copper manufacturing startup building America's first domestic high-conductivity copper rod production facility in Charleston, South Carolina. | $10M | Seed | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Fractile | Fractile is building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. | $220M | Series B | May 13, 2026 |  |
| Panthalassa | Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land. | $140M | Series B | May 04, 2026 |  |
| Cocoon | Cocoon provides environmental consulting services to businesses and develops solutions to analyze and eradicate industrial waste. | $15M | Series A | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Rhoda AI | Rhoda is building a new class of robot foundation model designed to bring general intelligence into the physical world. By combining internet-scale video pretraining with closed-loop video predictive control, Rhoda aims to enable robots that can adapt, generalize, and operate autonomously across real-world environments. The company works withleading industrial partners across manufacturing and logistics. | $450M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Vor Systems | Vor Systems is an AI-enabled transaction platform designed to accelerate and streamline the financing and development of complex energy assets. It provides secure, AI-assisted tools for energy M&A, data room management, and due diligence. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Heron Power | Heron Power is an energy technology startup focused on developing power electronics for the modern electrical grid. They aim to facilitate the expansion of electricity generation by innovating foundational technologies. | $140M | Series B | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Alva Energy | Alva Energy specializes in nuclear plant upgrades called "uprates" to boost clean power output from existing U.S. reactors. It standardizes complex retrofits into repeatable, turnkey projects for faster and cheaper deployment. | $33M | Series A | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Arbor Energy | Arbor Energy presents systems that convert organic waste and traditional fuels into electricity while capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The company designs modular power stations built around a supercritical CO₂ turbine and oxy-combustion technology to deliver baseload electricity with zero operating emissions. Arbor Energy’s approachemphasizes fuel flexibility, allowing the use of natural gas, syngas, or organic waste, and aims to support both reliable energy production and carbon-removal efforts. The company also highlights a background rooted in aerospace engineering and applies those technical skills to power generation. Through its integrated technology, Arbor Energy offers a pathway for stakeholders to engage in power production and carbon management under one platform. | $55M | Series A | Oct 21, 2025 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Lowercarbon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercarbon-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Future Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [MCJ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mcj) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Celsius Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celsius-industries) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Energy Impact Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-impact-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Gigascale Capital invest in?

Gigascale Capital invests primarily in Energy, Sustainability and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series A and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Gigascale Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Gigascale Capital?

The team at Gigascale Capital includes Evaline Tsai (Principal), Michael Schroepfer (Partner) and Victoria Beasley (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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