# Stephen Pike

> Stephen Pike is a grant investor at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center backing Energy. See 94 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Massachusetts Clean Energy Center](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massachusetts-clean-energy-center)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 94
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 93%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-pike-484bab19/

Stephen Pike is a grant investor at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in Boston focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. Stephen Pike is the CEO of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. He attended Boston University School of Law.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 17 | 18% |
| Renewable Energy | 15 | 16% |
| Education | 10 | 11% |
| Software | 9 | 10% |
| Solar | 7 | 7% |

101 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 76 | 81% |
| Seed | 1 | 1% |
| Series B | 1 | 1% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 75 | 80% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Via Separations | Via Separations is enabling industrial decarbonization with its novel chemistries that allow manufacturing facilities to slash their energy consumption while making more product. Targeting the 12% of US energy consumption that is wasted each year separating chemicals, Via reduces the load of the process by 90%, electrifies the mostenergy-intensive step in chemical production, and generates additional revenue for the customer. Today, Via is deploying its technology in pilot trials at pulp & paper facilities to eliminate 100 million metric tons of CO2 by 2050. Via’s innovation is a highly selective and robust membrane filter that replaces the energy-inefficient heat-based separations in industrial processes. Spun out of MIT’s Department of Material Science & Engineering, Via has scaled up the technology by more than 10 million times and demonstrated working prototypes at a commercial scale. | $38M | Series B | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Team Solar | Team Solar increases the rate of adoption of energy saving projects such as solar. We capitalize projects for companies that would have financial barriers to do so on their own. We raise the capital for these projects from investors. Our investors get long sustainable cash flow from a completely positive, ethical, sustainable, and repeatablesource. | $120K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Yard Stick | Yard Stick measures soil carbon. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have heldsoil carbon efforts back - until now.By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change. | $65K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Ithaca Clean Energy | Ithaca builds AI-driven Data Analytics Platforms to assist energy investors, developers, and operators to take better-optimized decisions. | $65K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | WPI has a lot to offer - extraordinary students, world-renowned faculty members at the top of their fields, state-of-the-art research facilities, and a community teeming with activity. You have a lot to offer too - you're ambitious, you want to be challenged, you want to succeed, and you want to make a difference in the world. You know whereyou want to go; WPI can help you get there. | $65K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| NewGrid | NewGrid is a software firm in the utilities industry, focused on the development and commercialization of topology optimization technologies. NewGrid’s software supports power operations and operations planning decision making including outage scheduling and coordination, seasonal contingency planning, remedial action plan and operating guide (Op.Guide) development, and congestion management. Our team is made of engineers, researchers, software developers and economists with years of experience in power systems and markets analysis and design. NewGrid’s founders are thought-leaders in the applications of topology optimization technology to power system operations. With DOE ARPA-E support, they led the first team to ever produce security-constrained topology re-configurations on large-scale RTO systems automatically, with short calculation times acceptable to system operators. | $250K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Harvard University | Harvard University is devoted to teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Harvard faculty are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. For students who are excited to investigate the biggest issues of the 21st century, Harvard offers anunparalleled student experience and a generous financial aid program, with over $160 million awarded to more than 60% of our undergraduate students. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education. Harvard University is an ivy league school. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000-degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. | $65K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Kwiksulate | Kwiksulate is a self contained foam insulation system that allows a user to dispense spray foam.The product consists of a handheld dispensor which takes a magazine containing foam precurosors which are dispensed by the user according to their need . Said foam precursors are packed within flexible bags and when disposed of take less space thanexisting technologies. Furthermore the basic architecture of the system has broad applications in other fields to reduce waste and expenditures. | $65K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Northeastern University | Northeastern University is an experiential and research university that offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through doctorate programs in nine colleges and schools, along with select advanced degrees at graduate campuses in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Seattle.Northeastern University wasestablished in 1898 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | $65K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university that offers academic, master's, and doctoral programs. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system. University of Massachusetts Amherst has an annual enrollment of approximately 1,300 faculty members and more than 30,000 students. | $65K | Grant | Aug 24, 2021 |  |

10 of 94 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MassVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [2040 Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2040-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Embark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/embark-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NGP Energy Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ngp-energy-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Prime Impact Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prime-impact-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Safar Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/safar-partners-7ab4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

VC Fund · Boston, United States

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is dedicated to accelerating the success of clean energy development and implementation—while creating high-quality jobs and long-term economic growth in Massachusetts. MassCEC is the first state agency in the nation dedicated solely to facilitating the development of the clean energy industry. We areled by people who bring knowledge, experience and an entrepreneurial attitude to help clean energy companies take full advantage of all the state’s unique assets, to help accelerate the development of renewable energy generation projects, and to help develop a workforce that is ready to roll up its sleeves to ensure Massachusetts’ place as a national and global clean energy hub.

5 contacts available at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alicia Barton McDevitt | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicia-barton-mcdevitt |
| Jennifer Applebaum | Managing Director of Workforce Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-applebaum |
| Stephen Pike | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-pike |
| Emily Reichert | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-reichert |
| Galen Nelson | Chief Program Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galen-nelson-9494 |

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## FAQ

### What does Stephen Pike invest in?

Stephen Pike invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Education startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 94 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Stephen Pike last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stephen Pike closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 94 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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