Richard MacKellar
Managing Director @ Chrysalix Venture Capital
Vancouver, Canada
Richard MacKellar is a Series B investor at Chrysalix Venture Capital in Vancouver focused on Energy and Analytics. As an engineer, Mr. MacKellar started his career with NEI Parsons, a division of Rolls Royce that designed turbines and generators for power generation. For the past sixteen years, Mr. MacKellar has been running venture backed startup companies. Most recently, as President and CEO, he successfully sold BrightSide Technologies to DolbyLaboratories for an annualized return for investors of 45-60%. Prior to this, he was President/CEO of NxtPhase, raising $57 million in venture capital and building relationships with GE, Honeywell and Mitsubishi as well as the three largest Canadian utilities and three of the larger U.S. utilities. Mr. MacKellar holds a metallurgy degree from Sheffield University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Richard MacKellar invests in
Stages Richard MacKellar invests in
Countries Richard MacKellar invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 2 (13%)
- Analytics 2 (13%)
- Industrial 2 (13%)
- Solar 1 (7%)
- Mining 1 (7%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (20%)
- Series C 3 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (20%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 3 (20%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
- Iceland 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sortores easily and enhance mineral planning.MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $42M / Series E / Dec 07, 2022 | ||
| DTE introduces breakthrough real-time process control analytics for metals production and processing towards Industry 4.0, through our robotic hardware and software solutions, automating current manual sampling processes for improved quality, cost, efficiency and safety. | $5.5M / Series A / Sep 04, 2020 | ||
| MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sortores easily and enhance mineral planning.MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $18M / Series D / Aug 08, 2018 | ||
| Enbala provides the advanced technology needed to ensure the operational stability of the world’s power grids by harnessing the power of distributed energy. Enbala’s real-time energy-balancing platform provides a highly flexible approach for creating controllable and dispatchable energy resources from flexible loads, energy storage and renewableenergy sources. The platform underpins Enbala’s award-winning and industry-leading DERMS and VPP technology and dynamically optimizes and dispatches distributed energy resources to respond to the real-time needs of the power system. The platform gives energy retailers and utilities the flexibility to operate in real-time and to better manage the escalating complexities of increasingly variable energy assets and evolving market opportunities. | $5.5M / Series B / Aug 01, 2017 | ||
| Enbala provides the advanced technology needed to ensure the operational stability of the world’s power grids by harnessing the power of distributed energy. Enbala’s real-time energy-balancing platform provides a highly flexible approach for creating controllable and dispatchable energy resources from flexible loads, energy storage and renewableenergy sources. The platform underpins Enbala’s award-winning and industry-leading DERMS and VPP technology and dynamically optimizes and dispatches distributed energy resources to respond to the real-time needs of the power system. The platform gives energy retailers and utilities the flexibility to operate in real-time and to better manage the escalating complexities of increasingly variable energy assets and evolving market opportunities. | $12M / Series B / Feb 24, 2017 | ||
| MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sortores easily and enhance mineral planning.MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $19M / Series C / Feb 23, 2017 | ||
| NanoSteel is an advanced materials company specializing in the design and commercialization of patented steels with exceptional mechanical properties derived from their nano-scale microstructure. The Company's primary focus is proprietary alloys for use as sheet steel in automotive light-weighting applications. It has developed multiplegenerations of ferrous materials innovations including metallic coatings, additive manufacturing powders, and sheet steel protected by over 300 patents filed and granted worldwide. NanoSteel’s nanostructured steel designs are providing next-generation performance across a wide range of global industrial markets. The company alloys are proven in oil & gas, mining, cement, concrete, and power industries. The recent advanced high strength steel (AHSS) sheet material is poised to redefine how steel is used in the automotive industry. | $2.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 14, 2016 | ||
| MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sortores easily and enhance mineral planning.MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $12M / Series B / Oct 01, 2016 | ||
| MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sortores easily and enhance mineral planning.MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $2.2M / Convertible Note / Feb 04, 2016 | ||
| MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sortores easily and enhance mineral planning.MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $6.4M / Series B / Jun 03, 2015 | ||
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Co-Investors
Chrysalix is an early-stage industrial innovation venture capital firm that connects market-driven problems to breakthrough solutions. It invests in and supports compelling technologies and entrepreneurial management teams that address the changing demands of the global industry and actively work with their clients and support them with deep industry and technical knowledge, management and board assistance, organized networking with industrial and financial partners, management of intellectual property, and direct access to capital. In 2001, Wal van Lierop established the firm in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Chrysalix Venture Capital Contacts
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Alfred Lam
Partner
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Charles Haythornthwaite
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Fred van Beuningen
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Richard MacKellar
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Wal Van Lierop
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What does Richard MacKellar invest in?
Richard MacKellar invests primarily in Energy, Analytics and Industrial startups, most often at Series B and Series C 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.
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