# Shawn Xu

> Shawn Xu is a seed investor at Lowercarbon Capital (San Francisco) backing Software and Blockchain. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lowercarbon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercarbon-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnxxu/
- X (Twitter): http://www.twitter.com/shawnxu
- Website: https://x.com/shawnxu

Shawn Xu is a seed investor at Lowercarbon Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Blockchain. Shawn Xu is the Chief of Staff at Lowercarbon Capital.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 22% |
| Apps | 1 | 11% |
| FinTech | 1 | 11% |
| Internet | 1 | 11% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 78% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 56% |
| Norway | 1 | 11% |
| Sweden | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloover | Cloover is a new financial solution that makes it possible for anyone to become self-sufficient in clean energy - on decent terms. | $22M | Series A | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Earthmover | Earthmover is an early-stage startup developing a cloud-based platform for array data analytics. | $7.2M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Nevoya | Nevoya's focus on zero-emission freight transport is a significant step toward sustainability in the logistics industry. Nevoya is an electric truckload carriers can help reduce the carbon footprint of shipping while also potentially lowering operational costs in the long run. | $9.3M | Seed | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Matter Intelligence | Matter Intelligence is a remote sensing company that makes sensors that use hyperspectral imaging, which captures hundreds of small spectral bands of light to discern between different material qualities. | $12M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Cloover | Cloover is a new financial solution that makes it possible for anyone to become self-sufficient in clean energy - on decent terms. | $5.5M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Morf Health | Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it. | $3M | Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Mad Realities | Mad Realities is reimagining entertainment for the modern world, powered by ownership incentives of the new internet. | $6M | Seed | Apr 25, 2022 |  |
| Presail | Presail is a Management platform for community-driven funding. Presail makes it easy for companies and investors to manage investments in web 3.0. Create deals, manage cap-tables & distribute assets - all in one app | $1.6M | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Presail | Presail is a Management platform for community-driven funding. Presail makes it easy for companies and investors to manage investments in web 3.0. Create deals, manage cap-tables & distribute assets - all in one app | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BNVT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9900) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Triton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kraken-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [QED Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qed-investors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Skyfall Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skyfall-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Weekend Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/weekend-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Lowercarbon Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

Lowercarbon Capital funds research and invests in technologies to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. The world has ignored the scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs who are pursuing solutions to lower emissions, remove carbon, actively cool the planet, and save human, animal, and plant life.

4 contacts available at Lowercarbon Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ryan Orbuch | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-orbuch |
| Shawn Xu | Chief of Staff | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shawn-xu-2 |
| Alex Laplaza | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-laplaza-d08b |
| Kristin Ellis | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kristin-ellis-c93f |

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## FAQ

### What does Shawn Xu invest in?

Shawn Xu invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-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.

### What is Shawn Xu's check size?

Shawn Xu typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$12M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shawn Xu participates in.

### When did Shawn Xu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shawn Xu closed in Jan 2026. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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