Jason Blumberg
Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Earth Foundry
Chicago, United States
Jason Blumberg is a seed investor at Earth Foundry in Chicago focused on Energy and Software. Jason Blumberg is based out of Chicago, Illinois, and is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Earth Foundry and also the Board Member of NxLite. Jason previously worked at ISEIF as an Executive Director. Jason Blumberg attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Jason Blumberg has been awarded 1 VC of the Year.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
Last updated:
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Industries Jason Blumberg invests in
Stages Jason Blumberg invests in
Countries Jason Blumberg invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 5 (25%)
- Software 4 (20%)
- Renewable Energy 3 (15%)
- Solar 2 (10%)
- Analytics 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (25%)
- Series A 1 (5%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Convertible Note 1 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (5%)
Investments
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| Sistine Solar is a renewable energy company that designs custom solar panels. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 18, 2019 | ||
| OpenEE offers a SaaS open-source platform that uses smart meter data to calculate and analyze energy efficiency savings in real-time. | Seed / Dec 16, 2016 | ||
| RedWave Energy, Inc. is a venture capital financed cleantech firm founded in January 2011. RedWave is currently in the first phase of developing unique technology to generate renewable energy from the previously untapped infrared (IR) and near IR spectrum. Initial development is focused on energy capture from relatively low quality waste heat.Subsequent phases of development will lead to harvesting electricity in the visible range. Initial phases of development at the THz range will also enable powerful explosive detection and high speed communications capabilities. This development is made possible by exclusively licensed nano antenna technology from Idaho National Labs and associated high speed diode technology from the University of Colorado. MicroContinuum, a sophisticated technology development company has been retained to enable the fabrication of nano scale antennas and terahertz electronics for energy capture and THz wave detection. | $5.5M / Series B / Jul 21, 2016 | ||
| InVekTek produces an industrial software that prevents unwanted motion, allowing machines to run faster, smoother and more efficiently. | Seed / May 30, 2016 | ||
| Digital H2O is a software and Big Data technology company that develops an online oilfield water management analytics platform to change how energy companies manage scarce water resources.It offers Water Asset Intelligence, which helps oil and gas producers and service companies optimize their water logistics and identify new marketopportunities. It offers visibility into water volumes and transport logistics, comprehensive asset awareness, oilfield water planning, and analysis tools, and data visualization. | Convertible Note / Mar 09, 2015 | ||
| EDCS Power designs and builds equipment that improves end to end power efficiency in data centers. EDCS captures the energy savings of direct current (DC) over alternating current (AC) while addressing space and scalability costs traditionally associated with DC systems. EDCS’s patent-pending, modular AC to DC converter racks deliver more powermore efficiently to IT server equipment. EDCS improves system reliability and increases operator safety. EDCS’s proprietary technology is the only direct current solution that can be implemented at the rack, row, or entire building level. | $1.4M / Series A / Nov 13, 2014 | ||
| SiNode Systems is a materials venture based out of Northwestern University that is commercializing a novel silicon based anode technology developed by research team led by Professor Harold Kung. SiNode aims to change the status quo of the industry by developing high performance anodes for Li-ion batteries. | Seed / Mar 13, 2014 | ||
| Digital H2O is a software and Big Data technology company that develops an online oilfield water management analytics platform to change how energy companies manage scarce water resources.It offers Water Asset Intelligence, which helps oil and gas producers and service companies optimize their water logistics and identify new marketopportunities. It offers visibility into water volumes and transport logistics, comprehensive asset awareness, oilfield water planning, and analysis tools, and data visualization. | $1.3M / Convertible Note / Mar 09, 2014 | ||
| GlidePath:tm: has the depth of experience and understanding spanning the breadth of skills required to develop financeable power projects regardless of the technology, a skill unique amongst most smaller developers. With hard-earned practical knowledge of the energy markets, GlidePath:tm: is able to identify and realize opportunities others cannot. | Seed / Feb 26, 2014 | ||
| Root3 Technologies Inc. provides software that reduces energy costs 10-30% in onsite energy plants for universities, hospitals, manufacturing facilities and airports. Root3’s no-install, patent-pending technology uses data to optimize decision-making for energy plant managers, enabling them to meet energy demands with the least fuel consumptionpossible. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, IL and San Francisco, CA. | Seed / Apr 18, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Earth Foundry
Earth Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy innovators, and we work with the world’s leading energy companies to build and scale new ventures. Our approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market.
Earth Foundry Contacts
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Bob Greenlee
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Jason Blumberg
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Judy Li
Vice President
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Matt VanHoeven
CFO (part-time)
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What does Jason Blumberg invest in?
Jason Blumberg invests primarily in Energy, Software and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 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 Jason Blumberg closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 20 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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