Lisa Coca
Managing Director @ Intel
San Francisco, United States
Lisa Coca is a Series A investor at Intel in San Francisco focused on Energy and Manufacturing. Lisa is a Managing Director of Investing, based in Menlo Park, CA. She joined the business in 2012. Lisa invests in enterprise software start-ups that drive corporate productivity and operational efficiency. She was also the architect of GE Ventures' EDGE program which leverages the global scale, expertise and resources of GE to providestart-up partners with programs and tools to help them grow and scale their enterprise. Prior to joining GE Ventures, her professional career spanned a number of other disciplines including finance, sales & marketing, strategy, and business development at major financial institutions such as GE Capital, Bankers Trust, and Deutsche Bank. Lisa currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Zinc and BizWorld. She also holds board observer positions for Ascendify, Octiv, Tamr and NYSHEX. She is a member of the Executive Committee for Bay Area Women's Philanthropy and is a member of the NVCA Corporate Venture Advisory Board. Lisa graduated with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in Los Altos with her husband and three children.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
Last updated:
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Industries Lisa Coca invests in
Stages Lisa Coca invests in
Countries Lisa Coca invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 4 (18%)
- Manufacturing 4 (18%)
- CleanTech 3 (14%)
- Energy Storage 3 (14%)
- Renewable Energy 3 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (50%)
- Seed 4 (18%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 12 (55%)
- United Kingdom 3 (14%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
- Australia 1 (5%)
Investments
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Avalanche Energy is a fusion energy startup that develops micro-fusion reactors for distributed energy and mobility. The company's modular reactor architecture can be stacked for limitless power applications and energy density, allowing it to offer clean energy while also decarbonizing the planet. It provides quick iterations of design, build,test, and fix cycles, allowing for speedier development and the rapid scaling required by the world. | $29M / Feb 03, 2026 | |
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Tereform is a company that operates in the chemical engineering, manufacturing, and recycling industries. The company's mission is to enable textile-to-textile recycling, addressing the issue of textile waste. Tereform combines various technologies and processes to achieve this goal. The company is particularly focused on promoting circularitywithin the fashion and textile industries, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of these sectors. | $1.2M / Seed / Feb 18, 2025 | |
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Ecolectro is bringing scalable, low-cost, clean green hydrogen energy to the very near future. Our electrolyzers integrate patented polymers into durable, high performance stacks. Our scientists and engineers design and build units with our exceptional membranes and electrodes, delivering high production rates and efficiency of pure hydrogenwithout the need for platinum, iridium and titanium. We continue to push the limits of electrolysis technology with an emphasis on research and willingness to challenge assumptions. | $10.5M / Series A / Nov 14, 2024 | |
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Oxylus Energy provides new carbon utilization technology for the generation of e-fuels It strives to make CO2 capture and conversion competitive, scalable, and circular for a decarbonized future. | $4.5M / Seed / Sep 03, 2024 | |
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Renewabl is a unique platform that enables the rapid and secure achievement of decarbonisation targets by directly matching clean energy certificates from real wind and solar farms on a 24/7 basis. | Seed / Jul 25, 2024 | |
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Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future. | $31M / Series A / Jun 27, 2024 | |
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BurnBot is a collaborator, bringing the best in forestry and fire technology to scale wildfire mitigation and vegetation management services systematically. | $20M / Series A / Apr 02, 2024 | |
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AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. | $44M / Series B / Nov 09, 2023 | |
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Yard Stick measures soil carbon. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have heldsoil carbon efforts back - until now.By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change. | $10.6M / Series A / Aug 17, 2023 | |
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Avalanche Energy is a fusion energy startup that develops micro-fusion reactors for distributed energy and mobility. The company's modular reactor architecture can be stacked for limitless power applications and energy density, allowing it to offer clean energy while also decarbonizing the planet. It provides quick iterations of design, build,test, and fix cycles, allowing for speedier development and the rapid scaling required by the world. | $40M / Series A / Apr 24, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About Intel
Intel is building on its unrivaled history of innovation to power the future of computing and communications. Intel's ambitions? A world that runs on Intel. Intel is doing this by helping its customers find the technologies and solutions that allow them to transform their businesses and gain market advantage.And it all starts with data.Intel is on a journey from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. Intel's unmatched depth of experience and scope of vision allows it to dream big, to create a world where Intel powers the future of computing and communications—including powerful processors and accelerators that unlock the full potential of data. Intel continuously delivers advances in performance, power, and connectivity across a diversity of data-centric workloads, so its customers can harness the raw power of data.Intel's innovations span architecture, memory, software, and security to help develop transformative products and experiences for its customers. Collectively, Intel's 107,000 employees worldwide are enabling amazing experiences in 5G, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and much more.
Intel Contacts
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Brent Young
Vice President, Intel Corporation; Managing Director, China Corporate Strategy Office
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Cristina Rodriguez
Vice President, General Manager, Network & Edge Group
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Lance Weaver
Vice President and General Manager, Data Center & Cloud Strategy, Intel Data Platforms Group
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Lip-Bu Tan
Chief Executive Officer
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Nick McKeown
SVP and GM of Network and Edge Group
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FAQ
What does Lisa Coca invest in?
Lisa Coca invests primarily in Energy, Manufacturing and CleanTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 Lisa Coca last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Lisa Coca closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 22 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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