Shilpi Kumar
Partner @ Third Sphere
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Shilpi Kumar is a seed investor at Third Sphere in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Energy and Shipping. Shilpi is Venture Partner with Urban Us (https://urban.us), and investment platform focused on urbantech and climate solutions. She specializes in customer development and product strategy for early-stage companies, with experience as both a consultant and early employee. She previously led go-to-market and early sales efforts atFilament, a startup focused on deploying secure wireless networks for connected physical assets. Shilpi has a background as an investor, focused on hardware, industrial IoT, and robotics. She is passionate about leveraging technology to upgrade cities and fight climate change. Before Urban Us, Shilpi worked with with VTF, First Round Capital, and Village Global. Shilpi graduated from Duke University with a degree in Neuroscience and Economics.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Shilpi Kumar invests in
Stages Shilpi Kumar invests in
Countries Shilpi Kumar invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 1 (20%)
- Shipping 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
- CleanTech 1 (20%)
- Logistics 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (40%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (40%)
Investments
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| Earth Force is a Vegetation Management System platform. | $8.6M / Seed / Nov 29, 2022 | ||
| Phuc Labs implements robotics to automate the method of identifying, separating, and reclaiming particles from water. | Pre-Seed / Sep 20, 2021 | ||
| Limeloop is operates a packaging and shipping platform. | Seed / Jul 01, 2021 | ||
| Singularity is a Harvard spinoff building real-time carbon tracking and decision-making solutions to help climate regulators, sustainability directors, and cleantech product directors meet ambitious targets with confidence and transparency through a combination of data and artificial intelligence.The company was founded in 2018 by Wenbo Shi andis based in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. | Pre-Seed / Jan 29, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Third Sphere
Third Sphere is Pre-Seed and Seed stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns. Fund strategy: Climate action - Track record of over 100 portfolio companies that unlock GHG reduction and resilience via strategies like electrification that don’t ask for premiums, just better products and services such as Cove Tool (building design), OneWheel (consumer EV), and Gradient (home hvac). First-in Capital - focus on ownership in pre-seed/seed stage teams and markets where we can help unlock institutional funding and multiple opportunities to expand ownership before Series A. Earned access - GPs (Shaun, Stonly, and Shilpi) have 9 years together with public reputation and ranks including; top 1% of investors on NFX for climatetech; #1 ranked early stage fund by Climate 50; named in the top 10 of VCs who founders love the most by Techcrunch Repeatable differentiation - Proprietary curated network with over 12k people, enabling 1k annual 1:1 introductions, along with access to asset finance.
Third Sphere Contacts
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Shaun Abrahamson
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Shilpi Kumar
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Yana Andrea Klimova
Chief Financial Officer
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Zeev Krieger
Partner
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Anthony Millin
Venture Partner
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What does Shilpi Kumar invest in?
Shilpi Kumar invests primarily in Energy, Shipping and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 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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The most recent investment recorded for Shilpi Kumar closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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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