Sam Gabbita
Ventures Director @ Climate Investment
Sam Gabbita is a Series C investor at Climate Investment focused on Energy and Aerospace. Sam joined Element in 2006. He has experience in private equity and investment banking, with a focus on industrial, energy, and telecommunications companies.Prior to joining Element, Sam worked as an Associate at Lazard Freres focused on financial restructuring of companies in the energy, transportation, cable and automotive industries. He alsospent three years as an Associate with Nautic Partners, a private equity firm, where he focused on growth, buyout and venture investments in the telecommunications and information technology sectors. Sam also worked as a Financial Analyst in Investment Banking for Salomon Brothers.Sam earned his BA in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Sam Gabbita invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 2 (50%)
- Aerospace 2 (50%)
- Oil and Gas 2 (50%)
- Data Visualization 2 (50%)
- Space Travel 1 (25%)
Investments
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| Kairos Aerospace provides large-scale, aerial monitoring of methane emissions. The company completed the first-ever basin-wide aerial survey for methane detection in its 2019 survey of the Permian Basin. Kairos Aerospace’s mission is to improve operational excellence for the oil and gas industry with cost-effective, efficient methane reductions atscale. | $26M / Series C / Aug 17, 2021 | ||
| Insight M develops aerial monitoring technology for methane detection for the energy industry. It supports physical science expertise with data analytics to survey large areas, create digital maps in optical and infrared wavelengths, and scan various pipelines and acres of territory to identify major sources of gas loss.The company completed thefirst-ever basin-wide aerial survey for methane detection in its 2019 survey of the Permian Basin. Kairos Aerospace’s mission is to improve operational excellence for the oil and gas industry with cost-effective, efficient methane reductions at scale. | $26M / Series C / Aug 17, 2021 | ||
| Kairos Aerospace provides large-scale, aerial monitoring of methane emissions. The company completed the first-ever basin-wide aerial survey for methane detection in its 2019 survey of the Permian Basin. Kairos Aerospace’s mission is to improve operational excellence for the oil and gas industry with cost-effective, efficient methane reductions atscale. | $9.3M / Series C / Jan 01, 2020 | ||
| Insight M develops aerial monitoring technology for methane detection for the energy industry. It supports physical science expertise with data analytics to survey large areas, create digital maps in optical and infrared wavelengths, and scan various pipelines and acres of territory to identify major sources of gas loss.The company completed thefirst-ever basin-wide aerial survey for methane detection in its 2019 survey of the Permian Basin. Kairos Aerospace’s mission is to improve operational excellence for the oil and gas industry with cost-effective, efficient methane reductions at scale. | Series C |
Co-Investors
About Climate Investment
Climate Investment (CI) is an independently managed specialist investor focused on driving industrial decarbonization. It invests in companies aiming to drive high GHG impact in energy-intensive sectors, targeting opportunities that may deliver scaled, quantified carbon reduction alongside attractive risk-adjusted returns. The firm seeks to accelerate impact by investing and collaborating widely. It provides venture to growth capital to companies, and supports them across their business lifecycle, with the objective of delivering both measurable GHG impact and financial success. The firm has made over 40 investments across energy, industry, buildings and transportation. CI’s portfolio companies offer solutions that avoid, reduce, recycle or store emitted methane or carbon dioxide. The firm reports its portfolio’s quantified GHG impact annually against a methodology it has co-developed with other investors to encourage adoption of common metrics. In the period 2019-2024 its portfolio companies collectively realized 133 million tonnes of CO2e1 of GHG reduction. Climate Investment was founded by members of the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative. They have invested in Climate Investment funds and deployed many of its portfolio innovations, supporting their early commercial development.
Climate Investment Contacts
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Aruna Ramsamy
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Curtis Schickner
Principal, Climate Investments
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Daniel Palmer
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Rick Cutright
Technology Principal
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What does Sam Gabbita invest in?
Sam Gabbita invests primarily in Energy, Aerospace and Oil and Gas startups, most often at Series C stage. Most of the 4 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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