# Peter W Davidson

> Peter W Davidson is a Series A investor at Aligned Climate Capital backing Software. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aligned Climate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aligned-climate-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 78%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-davidson-4b652318
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/pwdavidson
- Website: https://x.com/pwdavidson

Peter W Davidson is a Series A investor at Aligned Climate Capital in New York focused on Software and Renewable Energy. Peter W. Davidson is Co-founder and CEO of the Aligned Intermediary (AI), an investment advisory group created to help large scale, long-term investors (LTIs) channel significant amounts of institutional capital into resource innovation investments – clean energy, water, waste – across the planet. To date, four LTIs have signed letters of intent todeploy a billion dollars of capital through AI-identified transactions.Prior to AI, Davidson was the Executive Director of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) at the U.S. Department of Energy. Appointed to that position by President Obama in May 2013, he oversaw the program’s more than $30 billion portfolio of loans and loan guarantees, making it the largest project finance organization in the U.S. government. Among the many clean energy projects supported by his office were the first new nuclear power facility to be built in the U.S. in 30 years and the nation’s first-ever commercial-scale offshore wind facility.Before LPO, Davidson was the Executive Director of New York State’s economic development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation. Before entering government service, Davidson founded and/or managed six media companies serving the rapidly-growing Hispanic market, including ownership of el Diario/La Prensa, New York City’s largest Spanish-language newspaper, as well as three Univision-affiliated TV stations.Since 2001, Davidson has also been chairman of the JM Kaplan Fund, a family foundation with over $150 million in assets. Under his leadership, he has redirected the foundation’s grantmaking focus towards environmental conservation, urban green space and sustainable transportation.Earlier in his career, Davidson was an executive in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley & Co. He holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. For the past 25 years, Davidson has lived in Brooklyn, NY, where he also serves on a number of boards of local Brooklyn institutions.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 44% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 33% |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Solar | 2 | 22% |
| Energy | 2 | 22% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 44% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 78% |
| Canada | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BetterFleet | Evenergi is a software-as-a-service company and eMobility consultancy, driving towards a sustainable future. | $11M | Series A | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| CarbonQuest | CarbonQuest provides advanced technologies and solutions that enable acceleration of global carbon reduction. The company is based in New York, USA. | $20M |  | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| BetterFleet | Evenergi is a software-as-a-service company and eMobility consultancy, driving towards a sustainable future. | $5M | Series A | Nov 15, 2023 |  |
| Astraea | Astraea has built the world’s most advanced machine learning platform for Earth-observing satellite data and geospatial information. Our EarthAI platform provides instant access to more than 20 petabytes and 20 years of satellite imagery and other sources of geospatial data as well as powerful machine learning & cloud based computecapabilities to rapidly and cost-effectively prototype GeoAI applications in any sector or industry. Once developed, these GeoAI applications can be seamlessly scaled and automated thru EarthAI Pulse. A few examples of EarthAI derived applications include a US-wide up-to-the minute survey of ALL utility scale solar installations using free Sentinel 2 satellite data; a multi-state, multi-year assessment of the health and heat stress effects on long leaf pine forest assets for a global non-profit; a multi-city industrial real-estate acquisition target list evaluation for a global real estate investment group; a satellite-based carbon accounting application for a global ERP vendor and many, many more. The power/potential of geospatial AI is almost unlimited. Astraea's EarthAI makes it real. | $6.5M | Series A | Jul 21, 2022 |  |
| UtilityAPI | UtilityAPI is a mission-driven software company that enables standardized data transactions for the new energy economy. Hundreds of companies use this everyday for quote generation, feasibility analyses, and asset management, measurement, and verification. UtilityAPI is based in oakland, California. | $10M | Series A | May 17, 2022 |  |
| SWTCH | SWTCH provides electric vehicle charging solutions for multifamily, commercial, and workplace properties across North America. The company utilizes technology available to help building owners and operators deploy EV charging by tapping into their existing grid infrastructure. Its energy management solution, SWTCH Control, provides visibility intobuilding electrical loads and available capacity for EV charging. It also allows building owners to install and manage EV chargers with existing electrical infrastructure, future-proofing properties while avoiding costly infrastructure upgrades. | $10M | Series A | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Pulsora | Pulsora is an enterprise environmental, social, and governance software as a service platform. pulsESG is based in San Francisco, California. | $8.5M | Seed | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| CleanFiber | CleanFiber is a construction manufacturing company that makes building insulation from recycled corrugated cardboard. They are preparing to launch their first facility and they have customer commitments. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Buffalo, New York. | $11.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Summit Ridge Energy | Summit Ridge Energy is a owner of community solar assets. SRE's in-house development capabilities stem from decades of combined industry experience working with local communities to permit and energize renewable energy projects. Summit Ridge Energy was established in 2017 by Steve Raeder in Arlington, Virginia. |  | Seed | Jun 28, 2017 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Riverbend Energy Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverbend-oil-gas-d39c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [43North](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/43-north) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Active Impact Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-impact-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Builders VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/builders) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carbon Drawdown Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carbon-drawdown-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CAV Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cav-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aligned Climate Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

Aligned invests in the people, companies, and real assets that are decarbonizing the global economy and its infrastructure. We believe this is an opportunity to generate strong financial returns, while also achieving meaningful environmental and social impact.Our team works at the intersection of finance, technology, and public policy. Webelieve that each of these disciplines is critical to understanding this market, anticipating trends, and investing successfully. Aligned’s investment strategies are informed by this ethos and guided by a vision that the success of our firm, our investors, our partners, and the planet are all Aligned.

2 contacts available at Aligned Climate Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brendan Bell | Chief Operating Officer & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brendan-bell-4ba4 |
| Peter W Davidson | CEO and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-w-davidson |

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## FAQ

### What does Peter W Davidson invest in?

Peter W Davidson invests primarily in Software, Renewable Energy and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 W Davidson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Peter W Davidson closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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