Jim Sledzik
Partner and President, Houston Office @ EV Private Equity
Houston, United States
Jim Sledzik is a funding round investor at EV Private Equity in Houston focused on Energy and Oil and Gas. Jim Sledzik - Managing Director, North America @ Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Jim Sledzik invests in
Stages Jim Sledzik invests in
Countries Jim Sledzik invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 3 (25%)
- Oil and Gas 3 (25%)
- Software 2 (17%)
- Security 1 (8%)
- Wireless 1 (8%)
Stage
- Funding Round 5 (42%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (17%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 6 (50%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Boston Metal is a provider of industrial-scale, metals production solutions utilizing its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) process. MOE provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower cost, and greener solution for the production of a wide array of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks. Boston Metal was spun-out of MIT in2012 with an investment from Ingo Wender and has since scaled the technology 1,000x and produced thousands of kilograms of metal. Boston Metal’s headquarters and industrial development center are located in Woburn, MA. | $122M / Series C / Sep 06, 2023 | ||
| Seeq is founded on the premise that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily deriving business insight from their industrial process data. It aims to provide software and services that convert industrial process data into information, enable discovery, increase collaboration, and ultimately drive better business decisions that lead toseamless execution, increased earnings, and continuous improvement.Seeq is an official partner of OSIsoft and recently sponsored its European and US user conferences, as well as US regional seminars. Seeq is also a sponsor of recent Emerson Exchange user conferences.Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. | $24.2M / Series B / Dec 23, 2019 | ||
| Ingrain is a provider of digital rock characterization services for the upstream oil and gas industry. With specialized expertise in shale and complex conventional rock formations, Ingrain's advanced technology services determine a full suite of petrophysical and multi-scale pore system properties to provide unique reservoir insight andhelp geoscientists and reservoir engineers find and develop their most productive rock. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 07, 2015 | ||
| Reach Production Solutions delivers long-lasting production enhancement to multiphase wells. It specializes in multiphase wells, it has found a solution to costly good interventions when it comes to artificial lift or fact hit fluid recovery. Reach installs on the surface – meaning it’s quick, easy, and even more effective than traditionalartificial lift techniques.It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Houston, Texas. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 15, 2014 | ||
| Wireless Seismic provides wireless seismic recording systems with real-time data acquisition to the exploration and production industry. It brings to seismic contractors the industry's only scalable wireless seismic recording system with real-time seismic data return.The RT2 is a revolutionary cable-free and real-time seismic dataacquisition system that scales to tens of thousands of channels. It delivers, at scale, the flexibility and reduced operating costs inherent in cable-less systems, along with the well-understood advantages of real-time cabled systems, including data security and data visibility. Seismic contractors no longer need to sacrifice real-time data return and risk compromising the quality and the security of their data to get access to a high channel-count, cable-less system.It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Stafford, Texas. | $12.5M / Jun 04, 2013 | ||
| Reach Production Solutions delivers long-lasting production enhancement to multiphase wells. It specializes in multiphase wells, it has found a solution to costly good interventions when it comes to artificial lift or fact hit fluid recovery. Reach installs on the surface – meaning it’s quick, easy, and even more effective than traditionalartificial lift techniques.It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Houston, Texas. | Dec 01, 2011 | ||
| Wireless Seismic provides wireless seismic recording systems with real-time data acquisition to the exploration and production industry. It brings to seismic contractors the industry's only scalable wireless seismic recording system with real-time seismic data return.The RT2 is a revolutionary cable-free and real-time seismic dataacquisition system that scales to tens of thousands of channels. It delivers, at scale, the flexibility and reduced operating costs inherent in cable-less systems, along with the well-understood advantages of real-time cabled systems, including data security and data visibility. Seismic contractors no longer need to sacrifice real-time data return and risk compromising the quality and the security of their data to get access to a high channel-count, cable-less system.It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Stafford, Texas. | $19.5M / Dec 21, 2010 | ||
| Stingray Geophysical provides reliable, cost-effective seismic Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (seismic PRM) solutions to the global oil and gas industry, enabling companies to improve their production and increase hydrocarbon reserves while reducing risk and cost. | $4.6M / May 27, 2010 | ||
| Oxane is commercializing nanotechnology-enhanced propping agents (“proppants”) that address “Holy Grail” oil and gas technical challenges. OxFrac is a hydraulic fracturing proppant that combines superior proppant transport (“low weight”) with ceramic conductivity (“high strength”).OxFrac's value proposition is multifaceted and can besummarized as "more oil, more gas, more quickly." Modeling suggests that OxFrac should improve initial production by 50%, shallow production decline by as much as 15%, and improve total recovery by as much as 30%. These value components are compounded when it is considered that OxFrac should also afford the meaningful cost and environmental benefits. Oxane is focused on providing benefits to its investors, customers, and all other stakeholders. | Dec 01, 2008 | ||
| Ingrain is a provider of digital rock characterization services for the upstream oil and gas industry. With specialized expertise in shale and complex conventional rock formations, Ingrain's advanced technology services determine a full suite of petrophysical and multi-scale pore system properties to provide unique reservoir insight andhelp geoscientists and reservoir engineers find and develop their most productive rock. | Jul 01, 2008 | ||
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Co-Investors
About EV Private Equity
Established in 2002, Energy Ventures has seen more than 4,000 deals, made thirty-seven investments and successfully exited eighteen companies. Energy Ventures currently manages four funds with a total committed capital of $775 million. The company is headquartered in Stavanger, Norway, with offices in Aberdeen and Houston. The company'sprofessionals have extensive industry, investment, transaction and stewardship experience as well as a wide-ranging network in the oil and gas industry.
EV Private Equity Contacts
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Kelsey Steadman
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What does Jim Sledzik invest in?
Jim Sledzik invests primarily in Energy, Oil and Gas and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 12 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 Jim Sledzik closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 12 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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