# Victor Pascucci

> Victor Pascucci is a seed investor at Energy Capital Ventures® backing Energy and Software. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Energy Capital Ventures®](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-capital-ventures)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 59%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorpascucci
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/victorpascucci3
- Website: https://x.com/victorpascucci3

Victor Pascucci is a seed investor at Energy Capital Ventures® in Chicago focused on Energy and Software. Victor Pascucci is the Co-Founder, Managing General Partner at Energy Capital Ventures. He attended The University of Toledo.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 3 | 11% |
| Software | 3 | 11% |
| InsurTech | 3 | 11% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 11% |
| FinTech | 2 | 7% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 22% |
| Series A | 6 | 22% |
| Series B | 5 | 19% |
| Series C | 4 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 11% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 67% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sapphire Technologies | Sapphire Technologies develops, manufactures, and sells energy recovery systems for both natural gas and hydrogen industrial and commercial applications. The company's systems are designed to convert waste energy from pressure reduction processes into electric power without disrupting operations. We help companies maximize plant efficiencies,improve productivity, reduce carbon emissions, offset electrical costs, and generate cashflow by recovering this wasted pressure energy. | $18M | Series C | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Capture6 | Capture6 develops and commercializes highly scalable approaches to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The company is pioneering an approach that can be deployed today by repurposing existing industrial scale technologies. | $27.5M | Series A | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| CarbonQuest | CarbonQuest provides advanced technologies and solutions that enable acceleration of global carbon reduction. The company is based in New York, USA. | $20M |  | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| Graphitic Energy | Graphitic Energy develops methane pyrolysis technology that converts natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon. The process operates without releasing direct carbon dioxide emissions. The company focuses on improving energy efficiency and cleaner production methods. Its research includes finding practical uses for the solid carbon byproduct inindustrial applications. The work combines chemical and process engineering to support lower-emission energy systems. Graphitic Energy focuses its operations on the technical development and application of fuel technologies that are carbon-neutral. | $6M | Series A | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Vertus Energy | Vertus Energy operates as a climate tech startup. Vertus Energy is accelerating the world’s transition to green energy. Its BRIO™ technology turbocharges the production of green fuel from waste and generates a more powerful biofuel, producing 60% more energy from the same amount of waste while also processing three times the amount of waste thanany other system on the market. | $9.4M | Seed | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Eclipse Energy | Eclipse Energy is a climate technology company that develops low-carbon energy solutions. | $3M | Series A | Feb 09, 2024 |  |
| Furno | Furno is a climate technology company that produces zero-emission ordinary Portland cement. Its technology combines oxyfuel combustion and a novel design to develop plants, providing the cement industry with agile, scalable, carbon-neutral, energy-efficient, and less capital-intensive cement technology. | $6.5M | Seed | Feb 02, 2024 |  |
| Osmoses | Osmoses engages in decarbonizing gas separations to eliminate one gigaton of carbon emissions per year. | $11M | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Sapphire Technologies | Sapphire Technologies develops, manufactures, and sells energy recovery systems for both natural gas and hydrogen industrial and commercial applications. The company's systems are designed to convert waste energy from pressure reduction processes into electric power without disrupting operations. We help companies maximize plant efficiencies,improve productivity, reduce carbon emissions, offset electrical costs, and generate cashflow by recovering this wasted pressure energy. | $10M | Series B | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| Highwood Emissions Management | Highwood Emissions Management is an emissions management software and services firm. It leverages data, analytics, knowledge and to collaborate, develop, and educate the way to a world where emissions management systems are effective and inexpensive. | $3M | Seed | Jun 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nelstone Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nelstone-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cooper and Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooper-and-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Digital Garage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-ga) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Energy Capital Ventures®

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

The only early stage venture capital fund focused on the ESG imperatives and digital transformation of the natural gas industry. In addition to the unique focus that advocates for innovation in green molecules (tm), the firm further differentiates with its customized engagement and deep integration with its strategic limited partners, all of whomare publicly traded utilities. This model enables the firm to be a platform of innovation bridging the technology of the start-up ecosystem with the scale of the natural gas industry.

3 contacts available at Energy Capital Ventures®.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Victor Pascucci | Managing General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victor-pascucci |
| Rick Vitón | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-l-vitn |
| Stefano Galiasso | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefano-galiasso-b69f |

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## FAQ

### What does Victor Pascucci invest in?

Victor Pascucci invests primarily in Energy, Software and InsurTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 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 Victor Pascucci last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Victor Pascucci closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 27 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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