# Stuart Porter

> Stuart Porter is a seed investor at Denham Capital backing Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Denham Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denham-capital)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Stuart Porter is a seed investor at Denham Capital in Boston focused on Software and Machine Learning. Stuart Denham Porter is based out of Boston, Massachusetts and is the Founder, Managing Partner, CEO and CIO of Denham Capital. Stuart previously worked at Sowood Capital Management as a Founding Partner. Stuart Denham Porter attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Stuart Porter: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/stuart-porter?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 60% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 40% |
| Internet of Things | 2 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| Energy | 1 | 20% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| sensemetrics | sensemetrics is a leading innovator in the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) market. The company offers the only market-proven cloud-based enterprise-level software platform that transforms industrial sensor data into real-time situational awareness, enabling active risk management and safety solutions instantly. The result is reducedinfrastructure cost, improved asset utilization, higher operational efficiency and increased safety. Fortune 500 companies and the world’s largest government agencies rely on sensemetrics’ IIoT platform to power smarter decision making in their organizations, enabling seamless collaboration and integration with existing systems and IT architecture. sensemetrics is leading the way to establish a safer future. For more information, visit http://www.sensemetrics.com. | $10M | Series A | Dec 11, 2018 |  |
| Clinc | Clinc is a conversational AI platform that enables enterprises to build "human-in-the-room" level, next-gen, virtual assistants. In contrast to a speech-to-text word matching algorithm, Clinc analyzes dozens of factors from the user’s input including wording, sentiment, intent, tone of voice, time of day, location, and relationships, anduses those factors to deliver an answer that represents a composite of knowledge extracted from its trained brain.Clinc's underlying technology is based on state-of-the-art machine learning and deep neural networks (DNN)-as-a-service developed by computer science professors at the University of Michigan. Clinc is a standalone “trained brain” that has been given an initial deep knowledge of the financial and banking industry. Its machine learning capabilities enable it to expand its knowledge with every query and to then draw from that knowledge for each subsequent customer query.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | $6.3M | Series A | Feb 22, 2017 |  |
| PingThings | PingThings brings real-time big-data technology and an innovative solution to machine-learning for physical systems together to transform the management of the state of the electric utility grid and high-value industrial assets such as GSU transformers and step-down transformers. PingThings' PredictiveGrid technology is designed from theground up with sensor analytics in mind, focusing on storing and manipulating time-series data and modeling complex relationships between synchrophasors' high-resolution signals. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 30, 2016 |  |
| SportAD | SportAD is an innovative creator of games for the global betting & fantasy markets, founded by veterans of the iGaming and digital media sectors. Our games feature "player v. player (PvP)" matchups of star athletes by sport, for both pre-match and in-game markets, where users pick and wager which athlete will have the better measuredperformance on game day. | $1M | Seed | Jun 01, 2015 |  |
| AirJoule Technologies | AirJoule Technologies develops a climate-solution technology that harvests the untapped supply of renewable energy in the atmosphere to condition air in the spaces. It occupies and provides a new source of clean energy and liquid water. | $20M | Post-IPO Equity |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Denham Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denham-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Double M Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-m-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drive-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mooring Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mooring-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Raptor Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raptorgroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Denham Capital

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Denham Capital Management LP is a private equity firm specializing in investments across all stages of the corporate, asset, metals and minerals project life cycle from development projects to mature, middle market, buyouts, and operating businesses and from private to public, and domestic to international. The firm typically invests in energy,commodities, and resources with a focus on oil and gas, mining, and power and renewables. Within oil and gas sector, the firm invests in a wide range of business types, strategies, and geographies including upstream exploration and production, midstream infrastructure development, and niche oilfield service and equipment companies.

5 contacts available at Denham Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Scott Mackin | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-mackin-2 |
| Stuart Porter | Founder, Managing Partner, CEO and CIO | — |
| Alixe Ryan | Director, Investor Relations and Fundraising | — |
| Bert Koth | Managing Director and Partner, Denham Mining Fund | — |
| Carl Tricoli | Founder and Managing Partner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Stuart Porter invest in?

Stuart Porter invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Internet of Things startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### How do I contact Stuart Porter?

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### When did Stuart Porter last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stuart Porter closed in Dec 2018. 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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