# Piva Capital

> Piva Capital is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Renewable Energy. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 39%
- Fund size: $250M
- Last fund: Dec 2019
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pivavc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/pivavc
- Website: http://www.piva.vc

Piva Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Manufacturing and Renewable Energy. Piva is a venture capital firm investing in visionary entrepreneurs and emerging technology companies that bring new software and hardware solutions to the world’s industrial and energy markets. It is investing its first $250M Fund I in disruptive energy and industrial companies across North America and Europe.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Piva Capital. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Piva Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/piva?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 21% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 12% |
| Solar | 3 | 9% |
| Energy | 3 | 9% |
| Software | 3 | 9% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 11 | 33% |
| Series A | 7 | 21% |
| Series C | 4 | 12% |
| Series D | 3 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 58% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Julia Reichelstein | Investor | 0 | — |
| Adzmel Adznan | Co-Founding Partner | 6 | — |
| Ricardo Angel | Founder ,CEO & Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ricardo-angel |
| Robert Siegel | Venture Partner | 21 | — |
| Tony Di Bona | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-di-bona |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xage Security | Xage Security blocks cyberattacks, secures local and remote access, and protects all assets across the enterprise. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Lunar Energy | Lunar Energy's mission is to transition homes to 100% clean energy. Founded in 2020, Lunar Energy is designing and engineering the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants. The fast-growing, global company is delivering an ecosystem of all-electric productsto make our electricity greener, our air cleaner, and our energy more safe, secure, and reliable for all. | $102M | Series D | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Planted | Planted Solar focuses on driving the transition of clean energy. | $12M | Series A | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| Boston Metal | Boston Metal is a provider of industrial-scale, metals production solutions utilizing its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) process. MOE provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower cost, and greener solution for the production of a wide array of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks. Boston Metal was spun-out of MIT in2012 with an investment from Ingo Wender and has since scaled the technology 1,000x and produced thousands of kilograms of metal. Boston Metal’s headquarters and industrial development center are located in Woburn, MA. | $51M | Convertible Note | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| Oobli | Joywell Foods is developing the first healthy, protein sweeteners. Derived from exotic plants, protein sweeteners are rare compounds that provide an amazing taste without the calories. These proteins, produced through fermentation, have no glycemic impact and do not affect the gut microbiome. The company has received regulatory approvals, includingFDA "no questions" letters and GRAS status for multiple proteins | $18M | Series B | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| VEIR | VEIR is a company developing a new approach to using high-temperature superconductors for electricity transmission. Its passive evaporative cryogenic cooling delivers 20 times the cooling power per kilogram of nitrogen flow compared to mechanical subcooling. | $75M | Series B | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| OneRail | OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment. | $42M | Series C | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Plantible Foods | Plantible Foods is a B2B food technology company producing sustainable plant-based protein to optimize the food industry. The company develops a proprietary and vertically integrated agricultural manufacturing platform to allow food companies to innovate while optimizing costs and delivering products with improved taste, texture, health, andenvironmental footprint. | $30M | Series B | Nov 15, 2024 |  |
| Pyka | Pyka is a robotics company on a mission to build the most useful autonomous aircraft on Earth. At the core of every Pyka aircraft is a vertically integrated aircraft-first robotics stack: proprietary flight control software, avionics, high-power density electric motors, motor controllers, batteries, and carbon fiber composite airframes, developedentirely in-house and manufactured in the United States of America. Learn more at www.flypyka.com. | $40M | Series B | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| INERATEC | INERATEC provides sustainable fuels, gas-to-liquid, power-to-gas and power-to-liquid application products. | $128.4M | Series B | Jan 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Prelude Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prelude-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Aliment Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aliment-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Piva Capital invest in?

Piva Capital invests primarily in Manufacturing, Renewable Energy and Solar startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Piva Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Piva Capital?

The team at Piva Capital includes Julia Reichelstein (Investor), Adzmel Adznan (Co-Founding Partner) and Ricardo Angel (Founder ,CEO & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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