# Laurie Menoud

> Laurie Menoud is a seed investor at BASF (San Francisco) backing Energy and Aerospace. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BASF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basf)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 86%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauriemenoud/

Laurie Menoud is a seed investor at BASF in San Francisco focused on Energy and Aerospace. Laurie is responsible for equity investments in early-stage companies with a focus on 3D Printing, Agtech, Future of Mobility, Material Informatics, Nutrition, and any digital technologies driving the sale of new chemicals and materials.Biotechnologist by training, she spent her career working in innovation by supporting R&D commercializationstrategy and startup acquisition at Solvay, and leading creation of a dozen of new ventures at SRI International, with an emphasis on robotics, computer vision and speech technologies.She is passionate about entrepreneurship, bringing her experience working at startups and corporate innovation groups to successfully commercialize innovation.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 2 | 14% |
| Aerospace | 2 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 14% |
| Energy Storage | 2 | 14% |
| Solar | 1 | 7% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Series A | 4 | 29% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 21% |
| France | 2 | 14% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |
| Argentina | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Addis Energy | Addis Energy is on a mission to alter the way we feed and fuel our society, harnessing the Earth's potential for clean ammonia production. | $8.3M | Seed | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| STELLARIA | Stellaria is reimagining sustainable rapid neutron nuclear energy. | $26.7M | Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Puna Bio | Puna Bio develops biological inputs for agriculture that increase yields, reduce carbon emissions, and restore degraded soil. | $20.3M | Series A | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Simplifyber | Simplifyber is changing the way clothes are created, transforming the world's $1.5 trillion Apparel Industry and 250-year old factory system into sustainable, additive manufacturing. By assembling clothes with chemistry rather than with sewing machines, the Simplifyber process eliminates much of the waste, carbon emissions, and water pollutionthat have led to fashion’s devastating environmental and social impact in recent years. Efficient, plant-based and closed-loop, Simplifyber is revolutionizing the way the world manufactures clothing with its proprietary technology and cutting-edge techniques. | $12M | Series A | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Adden Energy | Adden Energy is a developer of stable, lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. With demonstrated charge times as low as 3 minutes and capacity retention for over 10,000 cycles in a lab-scale cell, Adden Energy develops cutting-edge technologies to enable mass adoption of EVs around the world and contribute greatly to a cleaner future. | $15M | Series A | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Relectrify | Relectrify develops and supplies advanced battery control solutions, which increase the lifetime and reduce the cost of battery storage systems. The company's cell-level battery management and inverter technology is used in battery storage globally including for homes, industry and the grid, and is suitable for both second-life and newbatteries. | $17M | Series B | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Relectrify | Relectrify develops and supplies advanced battery control solutions, which increase the lifetime and reduce the cost of battery storage systems. The company's cell-level battery management and inverter technology is used in battery storage globally including for homes, industry and the grid, and is suitable for both second-life and newbatteries. | $17M | Series B | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Temo | TEMO manufactures a variety of portable, easy-to-install electric motors for various types of small craft, including dinghies, sailing boats, and rowboats. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 18, 2024 |  |
| Inlyte Energy | Inlyte Energy is a company that creates batteries for grid storage. Inlyte Energy's grid battery uses the most abundant commodities - iron and salt - to create an energy storage solution with the unique combination of high efficiency, long lifetime, competitive energy density, and exceptional safety. | $8M | Seed | Oct 26, 2023 |  |
| Puna Bio | Puna Bio develops biological inputs for agriculture that increase yields, reduce carbon emissions, and restore degraded soil. | $3.7M | Seed | Sep 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anglo American](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anglo-american) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [At One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Builders VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/builders) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Clean Energy Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clean-energy-finance-corp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Creative Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Doral Energy-Tech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doral-energy-tech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About BASF

VC Fund · Ludwigshafen Am Rhein-oggersheim, Germany

BASF operates as a chemical company worldwide. The company conducts its operations through six business segments, including chemicals, plastics, performance products, functional solutions, agricultural solutions, and oil and gas. Chemicals segment, the company offers products for customers in the chemical, electronic, construction, textile,automotive, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries; and provides other BASF segments with chemicals for the production of higher-value products. The company's portfolio ranges from basic chemicals, glues and electronic chemicals for the semiconductor and flat panel display industry, to solvents and plasticizers, as well as starting materials for detergents, plastics, textile fibers, paints, coatings and pharmaceuticals. The Chemicals segment consists of the Inorganics, Petrochemicals and Intermediates divisions. Inorganics: The company's basic products are ammonia, methanol, sodium hydroxide, chlorine, as well as sulfuric and nitric acid. It serves electronic chemicals market in Asia and Europe. Petrochemicals division, the petrochemicals division offers a range of products, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, and benzene are produced in steam crackers from naphtha or natural gas. In further processing stages, the company produces alcohols, solvents and plasticizers for the chemicals and plastics industries. Alkylene oxides and glycols are starting materials for the detergents, automotive, packaging and textile industries. Intermediates: With its 600 products, the company's Intermediates division develops, produces, and markets a range of intermediates of all producers worldwide.Performance Polymers, the company offers performance polymers, such as engineering plastics, polyamide and polyamide intermediates, as well as foams and specialty plastics for various applications. Polyurethanes: The company offers Polyurethanes, such as basic products, customer-specific systems and specialties for automotive, construction and furniture industries, as well as household appliances. Performance Products The Performance Products segment consists of the Acrylics & Dispersions, Care Chemicals and Performance Chemicals divisions.The company's product lines include amines, diols, polyalcohols, acids and specialties. They serve as starting materials for products such as coatings, plastics, pharmaceuticals, textile fibers, crop protection products, as well as detergents and cleaners. Plastics segment The Plastics segment offers a range of products, system solutions and services. The company offers engineering plastics for the automotive and electric industries, as well as for use in household appliances, sport and leisure. The company's styrenic foams are used as insulating materials in the construction industry and in the packaging industry. The company's polyurethanes are versatile: as soft foams, they are to be found in car seats and mattresses, and as rigid foams they serve as insulation in refrigerators. This segment produces plastics. The Performance Polymers and Polyurethanes divisions offer its customers energy-efficient products, system solutions and services. The company's customers are primarily in the automotive, electric/electronics, textile, packaging and construction industries.

5 contacts available at BASF.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cinthia González | HR Director BASF Spain and Portugal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cinthia-gonz%C3%A1lez |
| Dirk Elvermann | President Corporate Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dirk-elvermann |
| Henrik Fälsch | Data Monetization Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henrik-falsch |
| Marcelo Lu | SVP Care Chemicals North America, BASF Corporation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcelo-lu |
| Michael Heinz | Chairman & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-heinz-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Laurie Menoud invest in?

Laurie Menoud invests primarily in Energy, Aerospace and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Laurie Menoud last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Laurie Menoud closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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