# Jeffrey Harris

> Jeffrey Harris is a Series B investor at The National Venture Capital Association backing Energy. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The National Venture Capital Association](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/national-venture-capital-association)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-harris-94620922/

Jeffrey Harris is a Series B investor at The National Venture Capital Association in New York focused on Energy and Software. Jeffrey Harris has more than 35 years of experience investing in and working with companies in the software, consumer/industrial, telecommunications and energy industries. Within energy, he has worked extensively advising companies involved in exploration and production, oilfield services, power generation, and clean tech. Before affiliatingwith Quantum Energy Partners in 2012, he spent 29 years at Warburg Pincus. Jeffrey has served on the Board of Directors of more than forty companies including thirteen publicly-listed corporations. Today, Jeffrey is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the Cranbrook Educational Community, and Friends of The High Line in New York. From 2005 through 2017, he was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. In 2001, Jeffrey became the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association where he had been a Board member for six years. Jeffrey received a BS in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| SaaS | 2 | 15% |
| Analytics | 2 | 15% |
| AgTech | 1 | 8% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 38% |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 38% |
| Canada | 2 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 15% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orennia | Orennia provides trusted commercial analytics to help inform investment and capital allocation decisions for renewable and zero-carbon energy. Orennia's insights, curated by highly experienced industry experts, help investors in the renewable power sector accelerate their time-to-value and make confident investment decisions. | $25M | Series B | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Risilience | Risilience provides an analytics and SaaS platform for corporate businesses to assess their climate change risks and manage their transformation to reach net zero emissions. | $26M | Series B | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Figbytes | FigBytes provides solutions that simplify the strategy challenge. We offer versions for simplifying Core Business Strategy and Sustainability Strategy. | $10M | Series B | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| BeZero Carbon | BeZero Carbon is here to build markets and environmental assets, starting with the Voluntary Carbon Market. | $50M | Series B | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| Carbon Direct Capital | Carbon Direct Capital provides selective investment in growth-stage carbon management companies to drive climate impact and financial returns. It specializes in investing with a science-focused approach that maximizes climate impact and financial returns. |  |  | Aug 24, 2022 |  |
| Carbon Direct | Carbon Direct is a provider of a carbon management platform that helps clients meet their climate goals by reducing and removing carbon from the atmosphere. It allows organizations to turn industry-leading carbon science into climate action through its end-to-end carbon management platform, creating quality criteria for carbon credits, reducingsupply chain emissions, procuring low-carbon fuels and materials, and facilitating large-scale carbon credit and removal procurement. | $60M |  | Aug 24, 2022 |  |
| Carbon Direct | Carbon Direct is a provider of a carbon management platform that helps clients meet their climate goals by reducing and removing carbon from the atmosphere. It allows organizations to turn industry-leading carbon science into climate action through its end-to-end carbon management platform, creating quality criteria for carbon credits, reducingsupply chain emissions, procuring low-carbon fuels and materials, and facilitating large-scale carbon credit and removal procurement. | $60M | Series A | Aug 24, 2022 |  |
| Orennia | Orennia provides trusted commercial analytics to help inform investment and capital allocation decisions for renewable and zero-carbon energy. Orennia's insights, curated by highly experienced industry experts, help investors in the renewable power sector accelerate their time-to-value and make confident investment decisions. |  | Series A | May 21, 2021 |  |
| Figbytes | FigBytes provides solutions that simplify the strategy challenge. We offer versions for simplifying Core Business Strategy and Sustainability Strategy. |  | Series A | Apr 27, 2021 |  |
| Project Canary | The Project Canary solution is more than just sensors in the field, it is a comprehensive environmental information platform. This platform provides operators the actionable and reliable data they need to demonstrate responsible resource development, minimize risk, and prove they are a good neighbor. | $10M | Series A | Apr 06, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Quantum Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quantum-energy-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Decarbonization Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/decarbonization-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bedrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bedrock-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Contrarian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/contrarian-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EDF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edf-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The National Venture Capital Association

VC Fund · Washington, United States

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), comprised of more than 450 member firms, is the premier trade association that represents the U.S. venture capital industry. NVCA's mission is to foster greater understanding of the importance of venture capital to the U.S. economy, and support entrepreneurial activity and innovation. The NVCArepresents the public policy interests of the venture capital community, strives to maintain high professional standards, provides reliable industry data, sponsors professional development, and facilitates interaction among its members.

5 contacts available at The National Venture Capital Association.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jeff Farrah | General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-farrah |
| Jeffrey Harris | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-harris-2 |
| Bobby Franklin | President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-franklin-2 |
| Gavin Christensen | Chair - Elect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gavin-christensen |
| George Hoyem | Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-hoyem |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeffrey Harris invest in?

Jeffrey Harris invests primarily in Energy, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Jeffrey Harris last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeffrey Harris closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 13 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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