# John McIntyre

> John McIntyre is a seed investor at American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact backing Energy. See 4 investments, check sizes…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amfam-institute-impact-fund)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Feb 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgmcintyre
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/JGMc
- Website: https://x.com/JGMc

John McIntyre is a seed investor at American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact in Palo Alto focused on Energy and CleanTech. John McIntyre Managing Director AmFam Institute Social Impact Fund.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 2 | 50% |
| CleanTech | 2 | 50% |
| Clean Energy | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Solar | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BlocPower | BlocPower is an energy technology startup that develops healthier, greener, and smarter buildings.It leverages advanced technologies, innovative electrification equipment, and structured finance to provide green heating and cooling to urban buildings. The company also connects government agencies, utilities, building owners, and smart equipmentproviders to identify unhealthy, energy-wasting buildings to retrofit. Its proprietary machine learning platform then determines which retrofits will produce the most energy savings at scale and uses the cloud and IoT to gather data and remotely monitor energy consumption. Since its founding, BlocPower has completed energy projects in nearly 1,000 buildings and delivered results ahead of schedule and under budget. It utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects, and its customers are saving 20–40% on their energy bills each year. The company is backed by top investors, including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, AccelR8, the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, Elemental Excelerator, CityRock Venture Partners, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and Salesforce Ventures.Donnel Baird and Morris Cox co-founded the company in Brooklyn, New York in 2014. | $8M | Series A | Feb 22, 2021 |  |
| BlocPower | BlocPower is an energy technology startup that develops healthier, greener, and smarter buildings.It leverages advanced technologies, innovative electrification equipment, and structured finance to provide green heating and cooling to urban buildings. The company also connects government agencies, utilities, building owners, and smart equipmentproviders to identify unhealthy, energy-wasting buildings to retrofit. Its proprietary machine learning platform then determines which retrofits will produce the most energy savings at scale and uses the cloud and IoT to gather data and remotely monitor energy consumption. Since its founding, BlocPower has completed energy projects in nearly 1,000 buildings and delivered results ahead of schedule and under budget. It utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects, and its customers are saving 20–40% on their energy bills each year. The company is backed by top investors, including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, AccelR8, the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, Elemental Excelerator, CityRock Venture Partners, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and Salesforce Ventures.Donnel Baird and Morris Cox co-founded the company in Brooklyn, New York in 2014. | $11.8M | Series A | Oct 06, 2020 |  |
| Solstice | Solstice provides turnkey customer solutions for shared solar. It also offers subscriber aggregation and management services to solar developers, utilities, and other providers of shared solar energy. Employing community organizing techniques and the nation's first online marketplace and customer management platform for shared solar, Solsticeleverages network effects to aggregate consumer demand and put more solar in the ground.Solstice's goal is to use community solar to help these groups meet one another and to unlock the possibility of solar power for these households. Solstice was founded on the belief that every American household can be powered by affordable renewable energy. By deploying community solar, Solstice works for greater energy equity and a future in which clean energy works for every American household, regardless of income level, credit score, or any other factor. It has received the MassChallenge Silver Award, Kia Revisionaries Award, and Gold Stevie Award.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $3.1M | Convertible Note | Jul 01, 2020 |  |
| Tylr Mobile | There's massive opportunity to improve how we work on the go. Think about when the plane landed on your last business trip: you turned on your phone and opened your inbox. If you’re a salesperson, what did you see? Emails about cookies in the kitchen, birthday messages, and messages from facilities, all mixed in with critical emails from yourmost important prospects. What don’t you see? The fact that one of these prospects now has 5 open support tickets. And what can you do? Not much, expect apologize for not being able to respond until you’re back at your desk.There’s got to be a better way. That’s what we’re building at Tylr Mobile-- a role-specific mobile work app that connects your familiar tools for managing your mobile work with your business data and processes to make you more productive on the go. | $500K | Seed |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accelr8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelr8) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CityRock Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cityrock-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elemental Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elemental-excelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elemental Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-excelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Next Wave Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-wave-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact

VC Fund · Madison, United States

AmFam Institute Impact Fund is a venture fund arm of American Family Insurance.

2 contacts available at American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John McIntyre | social Impact Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-mcintyre-2 |
| Rob Kornblum | Principal & Portfolio Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-kornblum |

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## FAQ

### What does John McIntyre invest in?

John McIntyre invests primarily in Energy, CleanTech and Clean Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 John McIntyre last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John McIntyre closed in Feb 2021. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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