# Michael Schroepfer

> Michael Schroepfer is a Series A investor at Gigascale Capital backing Finance and E-Commerce. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Gigascale Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gigascale-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schrep
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/schrep
- Website: https://x.com/schrep

Michael Schroepfer is a Series A investor at Gigascale Capital in San Francisco focused on Finance and E-Commerce. Mike has spent 25 years building technology companies as a founder, CTO of Facebook/Meta, and head of engineering at Mozilla. He’s scaled teams from 0 to 30,000+ and built real world stuff like datacenters (powered by 8GW of renewable energy!), consumer hardware, and drove long term R&D in AI, AR, and VR. He’s using these skills to fundscience, policy, and companies needed to fight the climate crisis.Mike holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $3M–$5.5M |
| Series A | $8M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |
| Restaurants | 2 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 13% |
| Waste Management | 2 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 33% |
| Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 20% |
| Series B | 3 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 53% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| France | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Red Metals | Red Metals is a next-generation copper manufacturing startup building America's first domestic high-conductivity copper rod production facility in Charleston, South Carolina. | $10M | Seed | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Cocoon | Cocoon provides environmental consulting services to businesses and develops solutions to analyze and eradicate industrial waste. | $15M | Series A | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Vor Systems | Vor Systems is an AI-enabled transaction platform designed to accelerate and streamline the financing and development of complex energy assets. It provides secure, AI-assisted tools for energy M&A, data room management, and due diligence. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Terraton | Terraton is a biochar platform that provides equipment, design, and financing to agribusiness operators. | $11.5M | Seed | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems | Commonwealth Fusion Systems develops fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to create compact tokamak reactors. It is building SPARC, a demonstration device designed to achieve net energy gain from fusion and laying the groundwork for ARC, a grid-connected fusion power plant targeting early 2030s operation. Thecompany partners with MIT and manufactures its HTS magnets and related components, applying peer-reviewed science in its firewalling of plasma and reactor engineering. It has introduced innovations like the PIT VIPER superconducting cable to support pulsed-power magnet systems and accelerate readiness for commercial fusion. | $863M | Series B | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| HomeBoost | HomeBoost operates as a home energy platform. | $4M | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Cocoon | Cocoon is a climate technology platform that develops sustainable technology to manage industrial waste through carbon capture. | $5.5M | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Cocoon | Cocoon provides environmental consulting services to businesses and develops solutions to analyze and eradicate industrial waste. | $5.3M | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Dioxycle | Dioxycle is develop electrolyser solutions for carbon dioxide emissions. | $17M | Series A | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| GitStart | GitStart develops an online freelancer hiring platform to help businesses pass on their backlog work.GitStart automatically manages hundreds of remote developers and partners with their client’s engineering teams, accelerating their software development. GitStart is the secret sauce for companies to ramp up their software development capacity,on-demand.GitStart's mission is to build a strong tech community by bringing the most talented software developers into their platform and grow their clients’ businesses while acting as a career springboard for their community members. | $5M | Seed | May 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Celsius Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celsius-industries) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Future Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Wireframe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wireframevc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Carbon13](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carbon13) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Gigascale Capital

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Gigascale Capital backs climate companies that make the clean option a no-brainer choice. Our team, led by tech founders and climate veterans Mike Schroepfer, Victoria Beasley, and Evaline Tsai, brings a diverse operational experience. This includes pioneering some of the first solar PV cells and scaling organizations from a mere 5 to 35,000employees.We typically invest in companies from Pre-Seed to Series A, embrace scientific and technical challenges, and actively support fast-growing operations. Areas of interest include decarbonizing food & agriculture, industry, energy, transportation, materials, and the built environment.

3 contacts available at Gigascale Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Evaline Tsai | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evaline-tsai |
| Michael Schroepfer | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-schroepfer |
| Victoria Beasley | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victoria-beasley |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Schroepfer invest in?

Michael Schroepfer invests primarily in Finance, E-Commerce and Restaurants startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Michael Schroepfer's check size?

Michael Schroepfer typically joins rounds of $4M–$12M at Seed, $3M–$5.5M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Schroepfer participates in.

### When did Michael Schroepfer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Schroepfer closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 15 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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