# Ken Hayes

> Ken Hayes is a non-equity assistance investor at Cleantech Open backing SaaS and Solar. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cleantech Open](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cleantech-open)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kbhayes
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/KenHayesLA
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kbhayes

Ken Hayes is a non-equity assistance investor at Cleantech Open in Los Angeles focused on SaaS and Solar. Ken Hayes is the Executive Director at Cleantech Open.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Solar | 1 | 33% |
| Advice | 1 | 33% |
| Energy | 1 | 33% |
| Battery | 1 | 33% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Non-equity Assistance | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cleonmaye | Cleonmaye operates as a consulting and research and development firm. The company focuses on advancing research in various fields and provides management consulting services. Cleonmaye is involved in energy efficiency projects and aims to assist clients in achieving their goals through strategic consulting and innovative solutions. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Blip Energy | Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| AnyMeeting | AnyMeeting offers a full-featured web conferencing product designed and priced for small business, including a completely free ad-supported option. They provide all the features a small business needs – including 6-way video conferencing, conference calling, built-in VoIP, screen sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, recording, mobile,social media integration, webinar ticketing, and more – in one, easy-to-use package. Their software is completely web based and runs inside a web browser. That means no annoying downloads required for your attendees, unlike with many of their competitors. Attendees can join with just a single click on the meeting link. It’s lighting fast and super easy.AnyMeeting costs less than major competitors, starting at just $18/month for meetings with up to 25 attendees, and $78/month for webinars with up to 200 attendees. Of course, there's always the completely free ad-supported option that allows you to host meetings or webinars with up to 200 attendees. | $2.6M | Angel | Dec 15, 2013 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aslanoba Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aslanoba-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Keiretsu Forum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keiretsu-forum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sand Hill Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sand-hill-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TCA Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tech-coast-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cleantech Open

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

The Cleantech Open is a non-profit organization that runs an accelerator for cleantech startups. It provides infrastructure and processes to develop and motivate entrepreneurs and early-stage companies creating clean and environmentally-sustainable technologies. The company offers support, education, resources, and mentoring services to helpentrepreneurs gain access to potential customers and funding sources, high profile events, and press and publicity.

5 contacts available at Cleantech Open.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rex Northen | Senior Trainer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rex-northen |
| Andrew Tanner | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-tanner |
| Beth Zonis | Senior Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beth-zonis-12c6 |
| Bob Goodman | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-goodman-5e57 |
| David Fogel | Lead Generalist Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-fogel |

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## FAQ

### What does Ken Hayes invest in?

Ken Hayes invests primarily in SaaS, Solar and Advice startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Angel stage. Most of the 3 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 Ken Hayes last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ken Hayes closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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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