# Leonardo Banchik

> Leonardo Banchik is a seed investor at Voyager Ventures backing Energy and Power Grid. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Voyager Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyager-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leobanchik/
- Website: https://www.globalfounderscapital.com/

Leonardo Banchik is a seed investor at Voyager Ventures in San Francisco focused on Energy and Power Grid. Leo Banchik is an Investment Director @ Voyager VC. Previously he was a Partner @ Global Founders Capital focused on climate tech. Before GFC, he led climate tech investing work @ McKinsey Sustainability and earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 3 | 23% |
| Power Grid | 3 | 23% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 23% |
| Hardware | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| India | 1 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Moment Energy | Moment is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage. We create battery units that can be used in a variety of applications. Moment is currently focused on storing energy for off-grid, end of grid customers, and plans on powering remote communities in the future. | $40M | Series B | May 05, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Alta Resource Technologies | Alta Resource Technologies is on a mission to reinvent mining by harnessing advanced biochemistry to cost-effectively source the critical raw materials needed to power next-generation technology and bolster economic security. Our groundbreaking technology platform leverages customizable proteins to separate high-purity rare earth elements and otheressential minerals with unprecedented selectivity while dramatically reducing the environmental impact of mining. | $4.4M | Seed | May 05, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $4.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| Moment Energy | Moment is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage. We create battery units that can be used in a variety of applications. Moment is currently focused on storing energy for off-grid, end of grid customers, and plans on powering remote communities in the future. | $15M | Series A | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Alta Resource Technologies | Alta Resource Technologies is on a mission to reinvent mining by harnessing advanced biochemistry to cost-effectively source the critical raw materials needed to power next-generation technology and bolster economic security. Our groundbreaking technology platform leverages customizable proteins to separate high-purity rare earth elements and otheressential minerals with unprecedented selectivity while dramatically reducing the environmental impact of mining. | $5.1M | Seed | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| Cache Energy | Cache Energy is developing energy storage technology that is non-toxic, non-flammable, and a fire retardant for easy transportation. | $4M | Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Equilibrium Energy | Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications. | $33M | Series A | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Arbor Energy | Arbor Energy presents systems that convert organic waste and traditional fuels into electricity while capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The company designs modular power stations built around a supercritical CO₂ turbine and oxy-combustion technology to deliver baseload electricity with zero operating emissions. Arbor Energy’s approachemphasizes fuel flexibility, allowing the use of natural gas, syngas, or organic waste, and aims to support both reliable energy production and carbon-removal efforts. The company also highlights a background rooted in aerospace engineering and applies those technical skills to power generation. Through its integrated technology, Arbor Energy offers a pathway for stakeholders to engage in power production and carbon management under one platform. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 05, 2023 |  |
| StepChange | StepChange offers an integrated solution to large corporate enterprises and financial institutions to improve their ESG metrics, manage climate risk, and reduce emissions across their supply chains, in-house operations, and financial portfolios. StepChange has one of the largest India-specific carbon accounting databases, with over 75,000emission factors for various products and services, and has enabled leading enterprises to account for over 250 million tCO2e in aggregate, equivalent to over 7.5% of India's emissions. | $4M | Seed | May 16, 2023 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/in-q-tel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Overture Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/overture-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Climate Pledge Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-pledge-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Engine Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/engine-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fika Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fika-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Voyager Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Founded in 2021, Voyager (US) is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California and New York, New York. The firm invests in the Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A financing rounds of decarbonization and climate technology companies operating in mobility, energy, materials, food, the built environment, analytics, industrial systems, and carbonremoval.

5 contacts available at Voyager Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jake Kent | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-kent-5bce |
| Leonardo Banchik | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonardo-banchik |
| Matthew Blain | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-blain-d597 |
| Melissa Luxemberg | Executive Assistant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melissa-luxemberg-c92f |
| Nare Janvelyan | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nare-janvelyan-4837 |

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## FAQ

### What does Leonardo Banchik invest in?

Leonardo Banchik invests primarily in Energy, Power Grid and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed 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 Leonardo Banchik last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Leonardo Banchik closed in May 2026. 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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