# Peter Grubstein

> Peter Grubstein is a funding round investor at NGEN Partners backing Farming and FinTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NGEN Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ngen-ventures)
- Location: Santa Barbara, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2016
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-grubstein-b1ab211a
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mobilepundits

Peter Grubstein is a founder and Managing Director of NGEN Partners. Peter has over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, operating executive, venture and financial investor. He founded NGEN in 2001 out of a deep conviction that resource scarcity and energy efficiency would be drivers of technology innovation in the 21st century; and thatthose innovations could be built into successful portfolio companies addressing environmental challenges that we face today. He has grown the firm from one of the earliest to invest in clean technologies, to a three-fund family with over $500 million under management.Prior to NGEN, Mr. Grubstein made diverse private investments, ranging from leveraged buyouts and leveraged recapitalizations to early venture investments in materials science. Peter has had successful investment exits in Renaissance Lighting, Textronics, U.S. Labs, AnaServe, Carolina Steel, Premiere Video and Kenfil. He gained early career experience as an executive in a global manufacturing firm, working in Germany as well as the United States.Mr. Grubstein is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Renewable Funding, eIQ Energy and Hycrete. He maintains a close relationship with the Materials Science Department at UC Santa Barbara, and was instrumental in bringing Nobel Prize winner Alan J. Heeger and other noted scientists as Venture Partners to NGEN.Grubstein is a graduate of Yale University and the Phillips Exeter Academy. He is an avid outdoorsman, and maintains homes in California and Connecticut.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Farming | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 13% |
| Hydroponics | 1 | 13% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BrightFarms | BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York. | $30.2M | Series C | Sep 21, 2016 |  |
| Renew Financial | Renew Financial provides financing solutions that help efficiency and renewable energy contractors grow their businesses while promoting energy independence. Its aim is to develop advanced financing designed to transform America’s economy to clean energy. The company’s financing products include PACE financing model and the Warehouse for EnergyEfficiency Loans, which opens the residential energy efficiency finance market to large institutional investors.Founded in 2008 by Cisco DeVries, Renew Financial has a partnership with SolarCity targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses utilizing PACE. | $70M | Series D | Feb 11, 2016 |  |
| BrightFarms | BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York. | $15.8M | Series B | Nov 06, 2015 |  |
| BrightFarms | BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York. | $2.7M | Series B | Jun 03, 2014 |  |
| Renew Financial | Renew Financial provides financing solutions that help efficiency and renewable energy contractors grow their businesses while promoting energy independence. Its aim is to develop advanced financing designed to transform America’s economy to clean energy. The company’s financing products include PACE financing model and the Warehouse for EnergyEfficiency Loans, which opens the residential energy efficiency finance market to large institutional investors.Founded in 2008 by Cisco DeVries, Renew Financial has a partnership with SolarCity targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses utilizing PACE. | $20M |  | Apr 24, 2014 |  |
| BrightFarms | BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York. | $4.9M | Series B | Jan 29, 2014 |  |
| BrightFarms | BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time,distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York. | $4.3M | Series A | Dec 13, 2011 |  |
| eIQ Energy | Clean power generation should be straightforward - erect solar panels in a sunny location, or turbines in a windy spot, and produce electricity. But realizing the full potential of these endeavors can be a complicated task, affected by a wide range of real-world challenges during design, installation and operation of the system.eIQ Energy has aclear, singular mission: make clean energy more effective, affordable and viable. We do this with power management technology that boosts output and simplifies the planning, construction and operation of clean energy systems.The eIQ Energy team combines sophisticated knowledge of power supply design, semiconductors, and energy management with across-the-board entrepreneurial skills. As individuals, and as a company, we understand that technology is the price of entry, but that commitment and integrity are what will enable us to make a lasting difference for our customers. | $10M |  | Aug 31, 2009 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ECP Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emil-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [WP Global Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wp-global-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Angeleno Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angeleno-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Claremont Creek Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claremont-creek-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prelude Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prelude-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Apollo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apollo-global-management-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NGEN Partners

VC Fund · New York, United States

NGEN Partners is an active venture investor committed to backing world class entrepreneurs seeking to change industries through innovation, creativity and the promotion of environmentally sustainable products and services.Founded in 2001, NGEN Partners invests in companies that positively improve the environment and human wellness. We seekentrepreneurs with unique business models and differentiated products and services, capable of rapid growth and sustained profitability. We invest in and alongside these entrepreneurs, helping them grow and sustain category leaders. We invest throughout North America, and have offices in California and New York.

5 contacts available at NGEN Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Grubstein | Managing Director & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-grubstein |
| Dan Engel | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-engel |
| Richard Jahn | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-jahn |
| Rosemary L. Ripley | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rosemary-l-ripley |
| Shay Murphy | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shay-murphy-6c47 |

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## FAQ

### What does Peter Grubstein invest in?

Peter Grubstein invests primarily in Farming, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Peter Grubstein last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Peter Grubstein closed in Sep 2016. Shizune tracks 8 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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